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Idea of targeting pot tax for housing starts to gain ground Some councilmembers push plan to help expand affordable program

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building owner already has about 360 people who have said they’re interested.

“I think we’ll literally draw it out of a hat,” Arnold said. (He didn’t know what kind of hat they’d use, he said.)

In order to buy one of the condos, buyers will have to prove that they make between 50 and 95 percent of the city’s area median income — a maximum of about $60,000 for a single person or $76,950 for a family of three.

If you’re hoping to apply, you’ll need to submit a letter from a lender

by June 15. So, you probably want to get moving.

City Councilwoman Kendra Black wants Denver to use much more of its marijuana money to get housing built, and she’s not alone.

“The money is there — and, if for some reason people quit buying marijuana, we can revisit it then,” Black told her colleagues at a meeting on May 16.

The city is already planning to use weed taxes to Black pay for a significant expansion of its affordable housing program. Mayor Michael Hancock wants to boost the marijuana sales tax from 3.5 percent to 5.5 percent, generating about $8 million per year.

Black wants to go a step further. She wants to guarantee that another $7 million per year comes from weed dollars.

That wouldn’t actually be an expansion of the mayor’s plan. Hancock proposed that $7 million would come from Denver’s general fund, and Black is simply making it more specific. So, this is somewhat a question of rearranging money.

But spending blazers’ bucks would probably be a popular idea, Black recognized.

“It’s a big political win. It is a community win,” she said. “Their market is growing. I think it’s fair.”

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Condos below market value draw attention Lottery will determine who gets chance to own units overlooking Union Station

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The rarest kind of residence is about to hit the market in Denver: less-expensive condos around the newly redeveloped Union Station area.

And you only have to win a lottery to buy one.

The condos in question are on prime real estate as part of a new building, The Coloradan, overlooking the city’s main transit hub. There

are 33 of them in total, and they’re set aside for people making certain incomes.

“Short and simple, I would say, it’s the right thing to do. When we set out to build The Coloradan, we viewed it as an inclusive community,” said Brad Arnold, the building’s vice president of sales and marketing.

Demand is likely to be very high, so the building’s owner and management will hold “unbiased, random” lotteries on June 19 to determine who gets the first chance to buy the units.

These kinds of lotteries can attract hundreds of even thousands of buyers. In San Francisco, an apartment building recently got 6,580 applications for just 95 apartments. The

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Student stress can spike in May Transition time heightens anxiety for some, experts say

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Remember the feeling of freedom on the last day of school? Not every student feels it.

Children’s mental health care providers see a spike in visits from teens in May, said Emily Laux, a licensed clinical psychologist at Children’s Hospital in Denver. She said while correlation doesn’t necessarily equal causation, she sees the transition from the school year to summer as a shock to the system of some kids.

“Times of big transition carry additional stress,” Laux said. “For most kids the transition to summer is something that’s fun and exciting, but for others they’re losing connection to where they’ve spent the last eight months. For those who aren’t driving yet or aren’t as independent, they might feel disconnected from friends or activities or teachers who are important to them.”

End-of-the-year academic pressures can weigh on kids too, Laux said, particularly in an age of increasing demands on children’s time and school performance.

“There’s an adult element that

Children’s mental health care providers say students’ mental health can take a dive in May, as end-of-the-school-year stresses weigh on them.

DAVID GILBERT society in general needs to look at: What are we expecting of kids and is it reasonable?” Laux said. “Might there be negative impacts of a highperforming, high-pressure society?”

Symptoms of stress End-of-the-school-year stresses can manifest many different ways, Laux said.

“We often see a reduction in distress tolerance,” Laux said. “We see an increase in worry and anxiety, or maybe a refusal to attend school, increased isolation, or even self-harm.”

Younger kids might lash out more

by throwing tantrums, while older kids are more likely to internalize their distress, Laux said.

Kids experiencing end-of-the-year stress would do well to engage their support networks, Laux said, and might benefit from adult guidance in breaking down what might feel like insurmountable problems like heavy workloads.

Structured activities can be a blessing or a curse, she said.

“Keep activities that bring pleasure and joy,” Laux said. “For instance, softball might be incredibly important, if it adds something to a kid’s

week and gives them an outlet and (a way to) stay connected. But think about reducing some unnecessary ones. Kids tend to be involved in a lot of activities. It’s worth taking a look at which of those are necessary and important and which can be let go.”

Parents are vital for responding to end-of-the-year stress, Laux said.

“Keep channels of communication as open as possible,” Laux said. “Be open and available so your kids can come to you. You can put feelers out: you might say, ‘I remember in high school that wrapping up high school can be stressful. How are you managing that?’ Even if they don’t respond in the moment, it plants a seed that you’ll hear them out. If kid says they’re in crisis, be mindful of your own reaction in that situation. A kid disclosing that going to be hypervigilant for your response. Be supportive, empathetic, but pragmatic.”

Time frame not firm Stress spikes among kids can happen even earlier than the end of the school year, said Christine Casey Perry, the district mental health resource coordinator for Littleton Public Schools.

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Here’s what’s for sale: • The one-bedrooms are about 730 square feet. They’ll go for $230,751.

They’ve got flexible closet space, and an “integrated kitchen and living space to be transformed into your private urban oasis.”

• The two-bedrooms cap out at 878 square feet. They’ll go for $285,936.

The buyers will have to pay fullprice homeowners’ dues, which will work out to at least $400 monthly.

Optional parking spots start at $195 monthly.

“We had a lot of talks about that internally,” Arnold said. “Is it truly

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Councilman Jolon Clark was ready to jump on board. The change could actually protect the housing program by making its funding more specific, he said.

“I’d like to see a very compelling case for why we can’t take that marijuana revenue and make that … transfer in perpetuity, protected in a better way,” he added.

Councilwoman At-large Robin Kniech said that there could be some

affordable with those (HOA) costs? We felt like it was.”

Charging lower HOA costs, he said, could have resulted in accusations of imbalance at homeowners meetings.

Instead, the HOA fees are charged per square foot.

The affordable units are significantly smaller and cheaper than comparable homes in the rest of the building.

The full-price two-bedrooms start at 1,200 square feet and $725,000, running up to $1.2 million.

The affordable units have different interior finishes, too, which the developer says are just “as thoughtfully designed” Owners will not be allowed to resell the buildings at full market prices. Instead, the homes’ sale value can only grow 3.5 percent annually for 15 years.

There are some additional restrictions

for 10 years after that.

After 25 years, the units can be resold for full price.

When the building opens later this year, they will be the only affordable condos in the Union Station area, according to developer East West Partners.

This is also one of the last few projects scheduled for the redevelopment area.

“We really are the last major piece of the puzzle,” Arnold said.

The affordable units make up about 10 percent of the 334-unit building, and The Coloradan is unusual for having them at all. The developer built them under the city’s old inclusionary housing rules — the same kind of program that created all those houses in northeast Denver that have given the city so much trouble.

Many developers simply chose to pay a fee rather than build affordable units — which is why the law only resulted in a few dozen affordable units in the downtown area before this.

Most recently, the Solis Townhomes property opened in March 2018 with 11 affordable units in the Cole neighborhood, according to the city’s Office of Economic Development.

The city has since created a new model for affordable housing. Instead, developers pay into the city’s central housing fund.

However, the city is trying out new models to encourage affordable units in dense areas like 38th and Blake.

legal strategies to get it done.

The councilmembers at the May 16 committee meeting also talked about the fact that the money sources for Denver’s affordable housing fund are set to expire eventually.

That money comes from two sources: an extra tax on property and a “linkage fee” on developers’ projects.

Right now, both expire at the end of 2026, unless the city council takes action.

But the Hancock administration’s proposal for new money would extend the property tax to 2039 in order to secure new financing, while allowing the developer fee to keep the same 2026 sunset.

Councilwoman At-large Debbie Ortega suggested that the “sunset” be removed altogether, keeping the funding in effect unless elected leaders actively decide to end it.

“It would say, you’re on the hook in perpetuity, and the development community gets off the hook in nine years,” Kniech said.

“If we don’t repeal this section altogether, we will be creating an inequity.”

But others suggested that keeping the expiration would force future councilmembers to pay attention to the housing program.

“I think the more ticking timebombs that we create for this council

and future councils … the better,” Councilman Rafael Espinoza said. He added that he’s willing to ask developers to pay more.

On the other hand, Councilman Paul Kashmann said that the affordable housing fund should be permanently protected.

“If we remove the sunset, then it forces a discussion of whatever changes that we want to make,” he said.

They didn’t take any official action at the meeting.

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May is a breeze for Ashlynn Moore, a junior at Littleton High School.

“This is the least stressful part of the school year,” Moore said. “All I have to worry about is finals. I don’t worry about much else.”

Moore said her stress peaked in April, when her anxiety over performing well on the SATs left her sleepdeprived for days on end.

“I was obsessed with getting a good score because that’s what colleges care about,” Moore said. “I had to retake the test because I did so poorly. I lost focus because I was so tired, and I was trying to make that up with energy drinks.”

Moore’s experience isn’t uncommon, Laux said, nor is her coping method: hanging out with friends.

“Peers tend to become teens’ primary support group.,” Laux said.

Running beneath student stress is the undercurrent of social mediainduced anxieties, Perry said.

“Social media is a rough beast to battle with,” Perry said. “It can give outsized impressions of issues: It can make it look like everyone’s life is perfect, and on the flip side, it can make it look like everyone’s on drugs.”

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Suicide interventions — which mean only that a mental health provider was worried enough to ask a student if they were considering suicide, not that the student made a suicide attempt — are up sharply at Littleton schools this year, jumping from roughly 200 at this time last year to roughly 300 this year.

Again, Perry said, correlation doesn’t necessarily equal causation, and the spike might simply be due to more kids being comfortable seeking mental health care.

Still, Perry said young folks today have more on their minds.

“This is a more anxious and stressed-out generation,” Perry said.

“The impacts of being interconnected digitally but not in real life is having impacts on students.”

Schools are stepping up their game when it comes to addressing mental health issues, Perry said. Littleton, for instance, now plays host to a studentled effort called Sources of Strength, which reaches out to kids showing signs of struggling, and works to promote a culture of support and resilience, Perry said.

The focus on mental health issues can obscure the reality that the majority of kids are getting by just fine, Perry said.

“There’s a narrative that all kids are struggling,” Perry said. “There’s been some increase, but the majority of kids are doing OK. When we look at our surveys, our students scored really high feeling safe and comfortable at school.”

Moore, the high school junior, said she’s looking forward to the end of the school year. “I’m good now,” Moore said. “The SATs are done.”

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New research shows 1 in 7 U.S. adults have tried electronic cigarettes.

That’s an increase but it’s offset by a small decline in the number currently using the devices.

About 3 percent of adults were current users in 2016, down from almost 4 percent in 2014, the study found.

Adults who said they have tried vaping at least once reached just over 15 percent in 2016, versus 12.6 percent in 2014. That means an estimated 33 million U.S. adults have tried e-cigarettes, said University of Iowa researcher Dr. Wei Bao, the lead author.

The decline in e-cigarette use among current smokers and increased use among former smokers suggests that some adults are using them to quit smoking tobacco. But a rise in use among adults who never smoked tobacco is concerning, Bao said.

The study was published May 15 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that turn liquid often containing

nicotine into an inhalable vapor. They have been sold in the United States for about a decade.

The devices have been touted as a way to help smokers quit traditional tobacco products but solid evidence of that is lacking, and uncertainty over their long-term health effects has raised concerns about their use, especially by teens. Under federal law, sales are banned to those under 18.

Previous data show recent use among U.S. teens declined in 2016 after rising in previous years. In 2016, 11 percent of U.S. high school students and 4 percent of middle schoolers said they’d used the devices during the previous month.

In the new study, researchers analyzed annual U.S. government in-person surveys for 2014 through 2016 that asked Americans aged 18 and older questions about health-related habits.

About 100,000 adults were involved.

Current use included adults who use e-cigarettes daily or just some days; ever-use included those who frequently used the devices in the past and adults who have only tried them once.

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Session delivers bills on transportation, pension reform State lawmakers also tackled health care, affordable housing

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In a work season buoyed up by unforeseen revenue, Colorado lawmakers passed a deal to put more money toward the state’s deep transportation needs, gave the green light to a lastminute compromise on its publicretirement system and made progress on curtailing the opioid epidemic.

As conservative lawmakers note, the Legislature passed heavy spending lifts without a tax hike — enabled by favorable forecasts to the tune of a $1.3 billion increase in state revenue from last fiscal year. Strong economic growth and changes in federal tax policy set the state up to take in more revenue.

But Democrats and Republicans still battled on how to split that pie, and compromises left both sides without their ideal path forward.

Meanwhile, developments were less noteworthy on affordable housing, as prices continue a years-long spike.

The regular session — the 120-day term when bills can be passed — ended May 9. Here’s a look at some of what was accomplished.

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“Transportation was a — if not the — priority for Republicans this session,” said state House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, R-Castle Rock.

Roads and bridges had been “neglected by the Democrats for 13 years,” he added.

For the Democrats’ part, state House Speaker Crisanta Duran supported an unsuccessful bill last year to ask voters to raise sales and use taxes by 0.62 percentage points to raise about $375 million per year for the Colorado Department of Transportation, with other revenue going to counties and municipalities.

Senate President Kevin Grantham, R-Cañon City, supported that bill along with Duran, D-Denver.

This time around, lawmakers passed a $645 million boost over the next two years in a bill that would also ask voters in 2019 to approve about $2.3 billion in bond funding for transportation. That option would put Colorado on the hook for up to $3.25 billion in borrowing costs over 20 years.

But before that, outside groups may ask voters in 2018 to approve either another spending requirement without taxes, or allow a sales-tax increase.

“The Legislature will have no choice, I think, but to spend more on transportation and spend less on other things” if the first option passed, said Chris Holbert, state Senate majority leader. Holbert, R-Parker, was skeptical of the tax increase passing, “given the voter reaction to prior tax increases.”

Senate Bill 18-001, the deal lawmakers passed, headed to the governor’s desk May 17.

Small steps on housing Housing affordability, on the other hand, didn’t see a grand bargain that would move the needle much.

“There was more lip service than anything else,” said Eric Sondermann, a Colorado independent political analyst.

Democrats unsuccessfully tried to pass a tax on shopping bags to fund affordable-housing assistance, while Republicans focus on what they say are regulations that make construction unaffordable.

“House Republicans are optimistic that the construction-litigation reform

law passed in 2017 will spur more affordable home construction, but we need to give the market time to adjust before enacting more legislation,” said Cole Wist, state House assistant minority leader, R-Centennial.

Lawmakers passed a bill that extends the state’s ability to allocate affordable-housing tax credits through the year 2024. It would have expired at the end of 2019, according to the Legislature’s website.

It was a welcome move, but Coloradans need more support, state Rep. Faith Winter said.

“I’m excited that we were able to (extend) affordable-housing tax credits so that more affordable-housing projects can get off the ground,” said Winter, DWestminster. “However, the response from the Legislature was woefully inadequate in addressing the affordablehousing crisis in Colorado.”

The Legislature passed what state Rep. Chris Kennedy called a “renters’ rights bill” that would require landlords to provide a copy of a lease to each tenant, as well as receipts for cash rent payments, he said.

Senate Bill 18-007, the bill that extended tax credits, headed to the governor’s desk May 11.

PERA gets fix Senate Republicans passed in March what they called “sweeping new changes” to the state’s public-employee pension fund, which lawmakers say is at least $30 billion underfunded. The bill eventually passed both chambers of the Legislature on the session’s final day.

The program manages about $44 billion for more than 560,000 current and former public employees — teachers, police, and other local- and state-government employees — or about 1 in 10 Coloradans.

Doing nothing would have threatened the state’s credit rating and put all beneficiaries at long-term risk, state Sen. Jack Tate, R-Centennial, has said in the past. The Public Employees’ Retirement Association program, or PERA, has been an increasingly dire issue for years.

Senate Bill 18-200, “which was my legislation, accomplished this task of ‘stopping digging the hole while trying to fill it’ with an approach of shared sacrifice, solid financial fundamentals and better governance,” Tate said.

It adjusts the program to keep it on track to pay off its unfunded debt within 30 years, putting $225 million annually toward paying down that debt.

A bill that drew ire from the state teachers’ union, it eliminates costof-living raises for two years, and afterward, annual raises will continue at 1.5 percent, cut from the current 2 percent. That rate could automatically adjust to help keep the system financially in check, said state Sen. Kevin Priola, a Republican who represents the south part of Thornton.

The bill has a “ratchet effect” built in so that employer and employee contributions increase automatically if challenging conditions — increased life expectancy, financial-market issues or others — occur, to “keep things

from spinning out of control,” according to Sondermann.

“The bill was certainly half a loaf, but I don’t think anyone really expected more than half a loaf,” said Sondermann, who co-heads a group called Secure Futures Colorado, which has pushed for reform of the program.

The deal was painful, but passing it was the right thing to do, Kennedy said.

“Retirees in 30 years are going to feel the benefit because their pensions will be there for them,” Kennedy said. “In the shorter term, employees are going to notice a dent in their paychecks, and retirees are going to see smaller cost-of-living adjustments, unfortunately.”

Opioids, health costs Before the session began, lawmakers put together six bills to address opioid abuse, including to allow for supervised-injection facilities — where people with substance-use disorders could safely inject and be referred to treatment — and to expand access to residential, or live-in, substance-abuse treatment.

Lawmakers rejected the injectionfacility bill, but a bill to limit the amount of opioids that can be initially prescribed passed, Priola said.

“I did run an (electronic) prescribe bill that didn’t make it,” which “would have helped reduce doctor-shopping and forged prescriptions,” Priola said.

A bill to add inpatient and residential substance-use treatment as a Medicaid benefit — House Bill 18-1136 — passed May 7.

“These measures are the direct result of the hard work by (state) Rep. Brittany Pettersen,” said Winter, referring to the Lakewood Democrat who has pushed to address the opioid crisis and widely talked about her mother’s struggle with a substanceuse disorder.

Also passed was a measure to implement more education to medical providers about prescribing opioid drugs. Pettersen said the package of bills passed has “put Colorado on the map as a national leader.”

“This is the most important work I have ever had the opportunity to be a part of and might be the most important work in my lifetime,” Pettersen said. “Our package of bills will begin to close the barriers we face in addressing this public-health crisis. We are going to save thousands of lives.”

Elsewhere on health care, lawmakers passed bills to increase price transparency for free-standing emergency departments — which patients often confuse with urgent-care facilities, only to be charged emergency-room fees that can cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars more.

Senate Bill 18-146 requires FSEDs to provide individuals with information on cost of treatment, the individual’s right to reject treatment and ability to ask questions about costs and options. The bill also requires an FSED to post a sign that states, “This is an emergency-medical facility that treats emergency-medical conditions” and indicate whether the facility contains an urgent-care clinic.

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Superior Donuts: playing through June 9 at The John Hand Theater, Colorado Free University, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Go to www.FirehouseTheaterCompany.com.

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Little Shop of Horrors: May 25 to Jun 16 at The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver.

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“A Hymn to the Goddess: An Egyptian Tale”: playing through June 17 at the BiTSY Stage, 1137 S. Huron St., Denver. Show times at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Additional shows at 7:30 p.m. May 23-24. Admission is free; donations are accepted. Reservations required. Contact www.bitsystage.com.

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Agnes of God: May 30 to July 8 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Summoned to a convent, Dr. Martha Livingstone is charged with assessing the sanity of a novice nun accused of murdering her newborn. Who killed the infant and who fathered the tiny victim? Livingstone’s questions force all three women to re-examine the meaning of faith and the power of love leading to a dramatic, compelling climax.

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Art at Anythink: 10-11:45 a.m.

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Basic art and design class taught by local artist Sally Gould. Registration required.

“Escape/Run, Hide, Fight”: on display through May 31 at 2400 Curtis St., Denver.

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Carnival Games: 3-4 p.m. Saturday, May 26 at Anythink Perl Mack, 7611 Hilltop Circle, Denver. Contact 303-405-3576 or go to anythinklibraries.org.

All ages.

Colorado Remembers Military Heroes: 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, May 26 at Colorado Freedom Memorial, 756 Telluride St., Aurora. Info: https://www.auroragov.org/cms/one. aspx?pageId=2037810 Native American Storytelling: 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 29 at Anythink Perl Mack, 7611 Hilltop Circle, Denver. Contact 303-405-3576 or go to anythinklibraries.org. Learn about customs and cultures and make a personalized Kachina doll. For grades K-5.

Reptiles with Canyon Critters: 5-6 p.m.

Thursday. May 31 at Anythink Perl Mack, 7611 Hilltop Circle, Denver. Contact 303405-3576 or go to anythinklibraries.org. For

tweens and teens. Registration required.

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Life may not be predictable, but graduation speeches are

he invitations have gone out, and once again I didn’t receive one.

I wasn’t asked by a single high school, college, or university in the QUIET United States to give their commencement DESPERATION speech, even though I promised not to use the words “doom” and “apocalypse.”

I have a doozy too.

I’ve been told you have to start with a joke. I have one about Ted Nugent. “What’s the difference beCraig Marshall tween Ted Nugent Smith and a laundry bag full of frozen underwear?”

I figure I haven’t been invited because I am a no-name who can’t be trusted.

One school told me they were worried I might tell students the truth.

I am not losing sleep because I haven’t been invited. I’m not a big believer in ceremonies in the first place, but The People seem to love them.

And if no one in your family has earned a high school or college degree before, it’s undoubtedly very meaningful.

My elementary school in Fullerton, California, had a ceremony for those of us who had mastered sixth grade. I remember sitting there with a frown on my face.

Graduation ceremonies in films are often depicted with derision. The speaker is boring and the students are disinterested.

Speakers often try too hard to say something profound.

“Nothing in life is guaranteed. You have to earn it.” That kind of thing.

Some speakers sermonize.

“You are all sinners in the hands of an angry God.” That kind of thing. I would walk out.

After the Nugent joke, I would read a few quotes: Lewis Carroll, Dorothy

Parker, Groucho Marx.

I would do a loud and obnoxious promotion for Flex-Seal, just like the ones on television.

And I would close with some young women singing “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” — a cappella. There wouldn’t be a dry eye in the joint.

All seriousness aside, I have a small request. If you or your kid is graduating, don’t send an announcement to an edge-acquaintance who hasn’t heard from you in four years.

It’s an insult.

It just might look like you are beggaring a gift.

I’m not sure why we give gifts to the students anyhow. Instead of their teachers.

The word “commencement” means “to begin,” not “to conclude.”

Although for some, it is the end of the line.

High school and college years are lovely contrivances, not the Real World.

I didn’t want to leave my alma mater.

It was paradise. The campus itself is an island of accomplished educators, bright, international students, and exquisite architecture and landscaping.

There are islands like it in (Boulder) Colorado, (Ann Arbor) Michigan, and (Tempe) Arizona. What’s better than learning? What’s better than learning around dedicated faculty and dedicated students?

Throw in some burned-out educators and delinquent students, to provide a frame of reference for reality, and a day will come when a memory trace will make you stop for a moment and reminisce about your school.

Sometimes all it takes is a song.

These lyrics came out the year I graduated: “Half my life is books, written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.”

Dream on, Class of 2018.

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

He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

The courage of encouragement helps us brave life’s problems

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uilding upon last week’s column about yesterday’s achievements becoming our successes of tomorrow, I wanted to share more about the power of encouragement and the WINNING courage to become WORDS an encourager, a life lifter, and a true difference maker in this world.

Last week I shared how someone early in my life had encouraged me and motivated me in one certain area of my life many years ago.

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But you see, that was not always the way it was for me. And unfortunately, that is not the way it is for many of us in this world, too many of us. Instead of having people in our lives who give

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What we need is the courage to become an encourager and break the cycle of negativity and pessimism in the world. Can you imagine living in a community, working in an office, or being a part of a congregation where everyone lifted one another up all the time? Can you imagine living in a family where hopes and dreams are the topics of conversations instead of yells and screams? Why don’t we or why can’t we shift gears from the negative to the positive? It’s because we lack the courage to act differently, say things differently, and hope things

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And I can tell you this, someone you know right now, right this very minute, can use a dose of hope and encouragement. And what they really need is for you to have the courage to do it and to be the one to lift them up.

I have the honor and privilege to call Dr. Denis Waitley a coach, a mentor, and above all, a friend. Twenty years ago, Denis told me that I was the most proactive person he had ever met in his life. And that he saw that trait as one of the key reasons I was meeting with success. Well, do you know that here I am 20 years later, and I intentionally focus on being proactive in all that I do? And it serves me extremely well.

But Denis encouraged me back then and it made a huge difference in my life. Who has had the courage to encourage you? What was the outcome?

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admire you.” “You are on your way to the top.” “I see you going places.”

“You hare handling this tough situation really well, keep it up.” “I love you.” “Your work on this project was extraordinary — I cannot wait to see what you will do next.” Try these, say them with sincerity, don’t be afraid, come up with others of your own, but have the courage to encourage and be a difference maker in someone’s life.

You can do this, I believe in you. You are going to be a difference maker in this world, I can just see it now.

So how about you? Are you providing others with hope and encouragement? Are you a life lifter and difference maker? Do you have people in your life that are lifting you up? As always, I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can have the courage to encourage others, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the president of the Zig Ziglar Corporate Training Solutions Team, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

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Tribute, ceremonies among Memorial Day events

Fort Logan, Englewood, Littleton will be sites of solemn rites

BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@OURCOLORADONEWS.COM

Memorial Day will be observed with a tribute to fallen veterans at Fisher Auditorium on the Englewood High School campus on May 27 and with ceremonies May 28 in Littleton and Fort Logan National Cemetery to honor their service and the sacrifices of all members of the military, past and present.

The tradition that established the Memorial Day events stated that they were for the “honor of all veterans laid to rest in this sacred national cemetery, to all the prisoners of war and those missing in action who never returned, to all who have served and those who, even now, guards the gates of freedom worldwide.”

This is the fourth year for the Veterans’ Tribute in Englewood organized

by Kay Howard. Howard headed the project that placed a veterans’ memorial at Englewood High School as well as the tribute. The tribute will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. May 27 in Fisher Auditorium located on the Englewood High School campus, 3800 S. Logan St. The guest speaker at the event is retired Air Force Col. Douglas Hole, who also was a major benefactor during the fundraising effort for the memorial at the high school. Also during the event, the Gold Star family of Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Falkel will be

Young volunteers placed an American flag at each headstone as a Memorial Day tribute last year. That will be done again this year in preparation for the May 28 Memorial Day ceremonies at Fort Logan.

FILE PHOTO presented a traditionally folded flag by members of the Honor Bell team.

Falkel, who lived in Highlands Ranch, was serving as a member of the 3rd Special Forces when he suffered fatal injuries in combat Aug. 8, 2005 in Afghanistan. Gold Star families are families of members of the military services killed in action.

On May 28, the first ceremony of the day starts at 8 a.m. in the Veterans’ Circle located in the Littleton Cemetery at 6155 S. Prince St. A second, mirror-image service will be held at 10 a.m. at the Littleton World War II Memorial in Ketring Park, 6000 S. Gallup St. Both ceremonies in Littleton, sponsored by the Pat Hannon Post Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4666 and the George C. Evans American Legion Post 103, follow the same program with the El Jebel Pipe Band will playing “Amazing Grace” and the

All Veterans Honor Guard firing the traditional 21-gun salute.

The ceremonies will include reading of the poem “In Flanders Field” and the poem, “My Plea.” The poem “My Plea” was written by Marine Lance Cpl. Patrick Hannon, the first Littleton resident to die in the Vietnam War. At 11 a.m., Fort Logan National Cemetery will hold the annual Memorial Day observance that is sponsored by the Associated Veterans of Colorado. Featured speaker this year is Command Sgt. Maj. Bill Woods, command sergeant major of the Colorado National Guard. Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman and Colorado Lt. Gov. Donna Lynn plan to attend and could speak.

A group representing the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Retired Enlisted Association Auxiliary and the Gold Star Wives will place a

ceremonial wreath at a symbolic grave marker, the honor guard will raise their rifles, fire the 21-gun salute and the bugle will play “Taps,” sending the echo across the rows and rows of gleaming white markers standing in arrow-straight rows.

In case the weather is bad, the services will be held at Verle Huffman VFW Post 9644 at 2680 W. Hampden Ave. in Sheridan.

After the Fort Logan ceremonies, VFW Post 9644 and its Ladies Auxiliary will host a luncheon at the facility that is two blocks east of Federal on Hampden Avenue.

Preparations for the ceremonies at Fort Logan begin May 29 when volunteers, most of them young people from a variety of scouting organizations, place a small American flag adjacent to each of the more than 54,000 headstones at the national cemetery, and the same day, flags will be placed on the graves of veterans buried at Littleton Cemetery.

The first official Memorial Day celebration was held when Civil War Union General John Alexander Logan, who is the individual Fort Logan is named for, was commander of the Union veterans group the Grand Army of the Republic, and issued an order that asked all members to decorate the graves of American veterans on May 30, 1868 to honor those who died serving their country.

After World War I, Decoration Day became an official holiday and later, the name was changed to Memorial Day. In 1971, Congress passed the holiday act that, among other things, made Memorial Day the last Monday in May.

First Avenue Hotel could be site of affordable apartments If proposals go through, Denver building could come back to life with public loan, tax breaks

BY ANDREW KENNEY AKENNEY@DENVERITE.COM

The old First Avenue Hotel on Broadway could see new life, five years after its last tenants were forced to abandon the historic building.

The future of the building has been up in the air since 2012, when city inspectors ordered everyone out of the building, saying the building was unsafe. Its last major tenants — El Diablo and Sketch Food & Wine — shut their doors in 2013.

Now, the city is nearly ready to help restore and expand the property at 101 Broadway.

New proposals would have the city give a low-interest loan for $2.5 million and another $2.5 million of tax breaks for a redevelopment project to be led

by Zocalo Community Development.

The plan includes more than 100 below-market apartment units.

The 34,000-square-foot hotel dates to 1908, according to city records.

“It’s a beautiful historic building that

has sat in disrepair, and vacant for way too long,” said Councilman Jolon Clark, noting that Broadway was an ideal location because of its 24-hour bus service and dedicated bus lanes.

The hotel’s upper residential floors were shut down for unsafe conditions in 1978. The ground floor was restored in the 1980s before falling back into disrepair.

In 2008, Jesse Morreale bought the property and set up restaurants on the ground floor, before city inspectors forced the building to empty out again during a long legal battle between 2012 and 2013.

It was auctioned off in bankruptcy court in 2015 for about $6.6 million, as BusinessDen reported.

“It’s the single most challenging project we’ve ever worked on,” said David Zucker, chief executive of Zocalo. That reflects the challenge of renovating and expanding a historic building, but it’s also simply difficult to fund lower-cost units, he said.

“It is a poetic injustice that projects for the community are tougher to do.

It is not fair,” he said. “But that’s the way it is.”

“It includes restoration of the fourstory Denver historic landmark building — the former First Avenue Hotel — and there’s also construction of a

five-story addition immediately to the west,” said Tracy Huggins, director of the Denver Urban Renewal Authority.

Zocalo plans to build 106 “workforce housing units” — a mix of studios and bedrooms with income restrictions.

They’ll also have about 10,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

The apartments would be 400 square feet on average, according to Zucker, and they’ll be reserved for people making less than 60 percent of the area median income — about $38,000 for a single person.

The units could go for around $900 per month, as Zocalo previously told Denverite.

The city loan for the project would come from the Office of Economic

Development. The other $2.5 million would be through a tax-increment financing district to be created on the site- basically, a refund of the project’s taxes over several years.

All that will have to be approved by the Denver City Council in the months ahead, including a public hearing on June 25.

The project’s total cost is about $38 million, according to Zucker. The project wouldn’t be possible without the help of DURA, the mayor’s office and city agencies, he added.

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Hudson Gardens

A water lily blooms in The Hudson Gardens’ greenhouse, where water plants wait for weather warm enough to go outside.

springs back to life Workers preparing sprawling grounds of Littleton venue for busy event season

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Nary a soul strolled the grounds of The Hudson Gardens & Event Center on the first day of May, save a few maintenance crewmembers, who were busily prepping the 30-acre botanic gardens on South Santa Fe Drive and South Vinewood Street for spring to begin in earnest.

“Things are just starting to bloom,” said Lauren Kersey, Hudson’s marketing and communications specialist. “We don’t have the annual flowers in the ground yet, but the crabapples and redbuds look marvelous. The bees are just going crazy.”

Indeed, at the gardens’ apiary, beehives buzzed with excited swarms making sojourns to feast on blooming trees. Nearby, facilities maintenance manager Nathan Frank surveyed the sprawling grounds.

“It’s exciting watching it all come together,” Frank said.

“Even just seeing the hillsides get mowed makes it feel like spring is really back.”

The quiet calm of the gardens on May Day belied the hustle and bustle to come.

“Hudson plays host to 300 weddings a year, mostly in the summer months,” said rental sales manager Angela Wilkinson.

And, of course, there’s the famous concert series.

Tickets went on sale April 23 but are quickly selling out, Kersey said. This year’s roster kicks off on June 10 with Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot!, with 38 Special, Chris Isaak, Third Eye Blind and Kenny Loggins yet to come

The Hudson Gardens marketing and communications director Lauren Kersey pantomimes how gardeners hack up papyrus plants to go in water installations.

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Crabapples bloom at The Hudson Gardens.

(Sheryl Crow, on July 15, sold out almost as soon as tickets went on sale).

Coming crowds aside, The Hudson Gardens is an oasis in the city,

Kersey said.

“People come from far around to see us,” Kersey said. “I haven’t encountered anything else quite like this place.”

Butterfly Pavilion looks at survival tricks

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hen most people come across creatures like a spider or a centipede, they probably don’t pause to appreciate the tools that enabled these animals to survive for millions of years.

But spend a little time at the ButterCOMING y Pavilion’s new ATTRACTIONS flsurvival exhibit, and one will be able to learn all about the adaptability of these surprising animals.

The Butterfly Pavilion, 6252 W. 104th Ave. in Westminster, unveiled its new “Survival” exhibit in March, and it will be Clarke Reader on display for about a year.

“These animals have developed some amazing survival methods over countless years,” said pavilion entomologist Mario Padilla. “Instead of being stuck in a box, we want to give visitors a chance to see how our animals move, feed and interact with their environment.”

The exhibit provides an intimate look at how a variety of invertebrates have developed survival skills in a variety of areas, focusing on moving, hiding, feeding and fighting, all in pursuit of a simple goal — staying alive.

The interactive exhibit shows how creatures like bees, beetles, spiders and more use camouflage, venom and other skills to eat, evade predators and attract mates. Visitors will get to use a dragonfly launch pad, fight in a simulated beetle battle, and get hands-on with Rosie the Tarantula.

“We think it’s really important to provide those hands-on experiences to visitors,” Padilla explained. “We work to ensure there’s a touch component to all of our exhibits.”

As is the case with everything the Butterfly Pavilion does, the hope is that visitors will come away with a greater appreciation for animals that so many people are afraid of or don’t understand.

“It’s taken millions of years for these animals to become what we recognize now,” Padilla said. “Not only do we hope our visitors appreciate these insects, but they also will want to do what they can to protect them.”

For tickets and additional information visit www.Butterflies.org/Survival.

Tackling the housing crisis through art Housing is an issue that people all over the metro area are affected by, especially with rising rents and a growing homeless population.

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Colorado students receive awards for investing smarts Stock Market Game winners apply research, critical thinking, analytical skills Staff report

Colorado students are learning firsthand about the value of long-term investing while playing a game.

The SIFMA Foundation’s online Stock Market Game helps boost students’ math, economics and personal finance knowledge, and students across Colorado were awarded for their top-performing portfolios.

Teams of one to four students begin the simulation with $100,000 imaginary cash to buy stocks, bonds, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. Students place

orders in real time, pay a broker’s fee on each transaction and keep track of their portfolio and cash. They also compete with peers in their classroom and with teams of other students in schools across the state to increase their portfolio value.

“We live in an increasingly complex financial world, but many teens don’t receive the education they need to successfully manage their finances,” Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, president of the Charles Schwab Foundation, said in a news release from the SIFMA Foundation. “Financial education programs like the Stock Market Game help prepare students to make responsible financial decisions that will serve them throughout their lives.”

Stock Market Game lessons are designed to help students learn the fundamentals of long-term saving and investing. Students enhance their knowledge in core curriculum

subjects including math, language arts, economics and social studies.

They also develop life skills such as financial preparedness, teamwork and business knowledge.

“During the 2017-18 school year, as we celebrate our 40th anniversary, the Stock Market Game continues to make learning about the capital markets fun and engaging, drawing students in and enabling them to learn about otherwise complex but important economic concepts such as inflation, price indexes, cycles and trends,” Melanie Mortimer, SIFMA Foundation president, said in the release. “We are proud and thrilled for all of our student teams who reached the top spots in the Colorado SMG competition.”

The winning teams, teachers and schools were recognized May 7 at the annual SIFMA Foundation Stock Market Game awards ceremony hosted by the Charles Schwab Foundation at the

Schwab Events Center in Lone Tree.

Winners in Colorado Community Newspapers’ coverage areas of the fall, spring and year-long competitions are: • Peabody Elementary School, Centennial, first place in the elementary division, fall session • Rocky Heights Middle School, Highlands Ranch, first place and second place in the middle school division, fall session • Sage Canyon Elementary School, Castle Rock, first place in the middle school division, spring session • Green Mountain High School, Lakewood, second place in the high school division, spring session • Mullen High School, Denver, first place in the high school division, yearlong session • DSST Charter School, Denver, second place in the high school division, year-long session

Foundation encourages girls to seek transportation, construction jobs HOYA Foundation hopes to open doors during career events Staff report

Two upcoming Career Days for Girls events are part of a nationwide effort to encourage young women to pursue careers in transportation and construction.

Presented by the HOYA Foundation, the career days are offered June 25-29 and July 16-20, and are free for qualified candidates.

Participants will travel to five companies to learn about the careers offered in the transportation and construction

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Golden’s Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., is tackling the issue with the help of artists in its new summer exhibition — “Finding Home.”

The exhibit features installations by three Denver artists whose artwork occupies three different rooms at the museum.

On display through July 8, the conceptual exhibition was created with the intent of starting a community dialogue about the ever-present and often tragic situation involving affordable housing in the region. The museum partnered with local governments to add depth and insight into the housing issue.

For more information, head to www. foothillsartcenter.org.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Taylor Swift at Sports Authority Field Colorado is a hot stop for touring musicians during the summer, which means concert goers are spoiled for choice when it comes to their evening plans. This week alone, you couldn’t

industries. The girls will be at each location from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the host company will provide lunch.

“It is so exciting to see young women light up as they realize there are so many possibilities for their career,” Keller Hayes, from the HOYA Foundation, said in a news release. “One of last year’s graduates got to have shadowing days at RTD, Iron Horse Architects, Denver International Airport, P&H Equipment and Gilmore Construction. She also got one-on-one assistance with scholarship applications through Land Acquisitions. All of this was a direct result of her participation in Career Days for Girls.”

This year’s participating compa-

nies are Adolfson & Peterson, CDOT, Denver International Airport, Fiore & Sons, Gilmore Construction, Iron Horse Architects, Martin Marietta, P&H Equipment, RTD and Wagner Equipment.

Transportation and construction careers include jobs such as heavy equipment operator, architect, engineer, driver, surveyor, project supervisor, marketing, human resources and so many more.

“I would recommend Career Days for Girls to anyone. It was a great experience to see how many jobs are out there,” Sarai Aragon, participant in Career Days for Girls 2017, said in the release.

To qualify for the free program, candidates must be girls between the ages of 13 and 20. All candidates will need their own transportation to the host companies, and parental consent is required for girls under 18. The deadline to apply is May 25.

“I really didn’t know what I wanted to do. And this just helped me open up to what was possible. Definitely do it — even if your mom makes you,” said Isabella Villano, a participant in Career Days for Girls 2017.

At the conclusion of the week, girls will be asked to write a short essay reflecting on the experience. Visit www. constructiongirl.org for the online application.

go wrong with James Taylor at Fiddler’s Green on May 27, The Wonder Years with Tigers Jaw and Tiny Moving Parts at the Ogden on May 30, or Gang of Youths at the Globe Hall on the same day.

But for my money, the best way to kick off the summer concert season is with one of pop’s reigning queens — Taylor Swift, who will be stopping

by Sports Authority Field At Mile High, 1701 Bryant St., at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 25.

As if it wasn’t enough to have Swift, is who is undeniably a pop master of the highest order, she is bringing along Charli XCX and Camila Cabello.

Last year, Charli XCX released two of pop’s best albums, by adding electronics and Swedish pop to her already insightful writing.

And this year Cabello stepped out of Fifth Harmony’s shadow, and her solo debut is one of my favorite albums of the year.

The concert is a guaranteed good time for all ages. Tickets are still available, so go to www.ticketmaster.com.

ondly only to Bob Dylan.

If his take on Irish folk wasn’t beautiful enough, his addition of jazz and soul sounds into everything he does adds a whole new layer of depth to his sound.

Unfortunately, he’s getting up there in years, and hasn’t really toured in a decade or more. And when he does, it costs an arm and a leg to score a ticket.

Thankfully, the Hi-Dive at 7 S. Broadway in Denver, is providing an alternative option with its Denver Plays Van Morrison concert at 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 26.

The music of Van the Man will be performed that night by members of numerous local bands, including King Cardinal, Strange Americans, The Guestlist, Bud Bronson and the Good Timers, Sawmill Joe, Kid Reverie, Bison Bone, Bluebook, Robby Peoples, David Burchfield, Hunter James, and more.

Anyone who loves “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Have I Told You Lately?” and “Astral Weeks” won’t want to miss the show.

To grab tickets, go to www.hi-dive. com/event/1689350-denver-plays-vanmorrison-denver.

Run to the Trails In Motion Film Festival The warm spring and summer weather is perfect for all the trail runners in the metro area. But for those who want a taste of the trail running world without all the sweat and, you know, exercise, Golden is the place to go.

The 2018 Ledlenser Trails In Motion Film Festival will be making a stop at the American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., from 6 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30.

The festival will feature eight films that tell some very inspiring stories, like that of Adam Campbell, who recovered from a life-threatening rock climbing fall and 10 months later completed in the Hardrock 100.

Some of the featured athletes will be on hand to speak and answer questions after their films.

For tickets, visit www.trailsinmotion.com/films-on-tour/item/472golden-co.

The Mile High City plays Van the Man For me, Van Morrison is at the very top of the rock troubadour pile, sec-

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Chatfield litigants scurry to speed appeal as construction advances Audubon Society seeks to stop reservoir expansion before trees removed

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The little yellow bird clutched in Meredith McBurney’s hand didn’t seem to mind that it couldn’t fly away.

“This isn’t her first rodeo,” McBurney said of the yellow warbler with its tiny legs gingerly pinched between her fingers at a field research station near the South Platte River at the south end of Chatfield State Park.

“She comes back here every year. We banded her in 2016. She winters in Central America, but she returns to where she was hatched.”

McBurney, a biologist with the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, said she’s concerned about the looming and somewhat uncertain effects of the Chatfield Storage Reallocation Project, which will see the high-water mark of the reservoir raised by 12 feet, and require the removal of trees in the “inundation zone” — prime bird habitat, she said.

“Conserving birds is tough because they need good habitat everywhere they spend time,” McBurney said.

“If birds come back to a place they’ve been going year after year and their habitat is gone, depending on the species, their survival rate goes way down.”

The Audubon Society of Greater Denver, which operates a bird research and education center in the park, recently filed a motion to expedite their appeal of a lawsuit against the reallocation project, saying that by the time judges hear arguments in the case — perhaps this fall —irreparable harm will have been done to vital wildlife habitat along the creeks that enter the reservoir.

MORE INFO ON CHATFIELD PROJECT Read more about the Chatfield Storage Reallocation Project at chatfieldreallocation.org.

Read more about the Audubon Society of Greater Denver’s efforts against the project at savechatfield.org.

Construction well underway “The health of wildlife is an indicator of the overall health of the ecosystem, including its health for people,” said Polly Reetz, Audubon Denver’s Conservation Chair.

“We’ve never said the water they want to capture isn’t needed. But why screw up a state park when you’ve got other options?”

Reetz and her husband, Gene, have been instrumental in filing and pursuing Audubon’s lawsuit against the project, a $130 million effort to add an additional 20,600 acre-feet of water storage capacity to the reservoir, to be used by eight municipal water providers and agricultural organizations across the metro area and northeastern Colorado.

Construction, which started last winter, is expected to wrap up in about a year.

The project, which will increase the maximum allowable fluctuation of the reservoir’s depth from 9 feet to 21, does not mean that the reservoir will routinely be at its new high-water mark, and will likely only reach that point in years of significant spring runoff.

If you build it Chatfield Reservoir, built in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which leases the surrounding land to Colorado’s state-park system.

Audubon’s lawsuit claims that the Corps, which was tasked with preparing an Environmental Impact Statement to gauge the project’s compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, failed to properly consider alternatives that would meet the water providers’ goal of increasing water

availability to the swiftly growing Front Range.

Audubon contends that the Corps rejected possibilities including making use of upstream gravel pits for water storage, buying water storage in nearby Rueter-Hess Reservoir, or examining the impact of enhanced water conservation among water users.

The Corps rebutted, saying that the gravel pit storage idea was excessively complicated for the amount of water that could have been stored, RueterHess’s water is all bought up already, and that increased water conservation efforts are a great idea but don’t meet the project’s goals of increasing water storage capacity.

A judge ruled in favor of the Corps in December 2017, and Audubon announced their intent to appeal the decision in early 2018.

Audubon pushed back against the Corps’ rebuttals in a recent legal brief, saying the Corps’ explanations don’t hold water in light of other evidence, and that some documents say the project’s goal is increasing water availability, not storage capacity, meaning that conservation could satisfy the needs of the water users.

The Colorado Court of Appeals is currently slated to hear oral arguments in the case in the fall, by which time Audubon says irreversible damage may already have occurred.

A judge last year denied Audubon’s request for an injunction against further construction while litigation is ongoing.

Down by the river In the meantime, the Reetzes say damage is already being done. They say new haul roads now traverse the park, including one slated to cut through the parking lot in front of the Audubon Center.

Not quite, said Scott Roush, the manager of Chatfield State Park.

“We did not and won’t create a new haul road by the Audubon Center,”

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Roush said. “There’s a Denver Water Board road down there we have permission to use. All the construction crews are doing is bringing trucks through the parking lot, which technically doesn’t fully belong to the Audubon Center. Their lease specifies that they share the lot with other users.”

The Reetzes counter that the truck traffic will hinder the movement of the numerous school buses that drop off field trip students at the center.

Access to the route is crucial to performing mitigation along the South Platte ahead of the project’s completion, said Tom Browning, the general manager of the Chatfield Reservoir Mitigation Company, an umbrella agency representing the project’s various stakeholders.

“CRMC will restore the maintenance road to its original condition as a result of any damage caused by the construction equipment,” Browning said.

The river mitigation largely consists of removing beloved trees, Polly Reetz said.

Roush countered that many of the trees slated to be removed are already dead, dying, or hazardous. Roush added that crews will plant upward of 100,000 new trees uphill from the new inundation zone.

“We were also able to save a lot more trees than we initially thought we could,” Roush said.

“The earlier plans called for a lot of clear-cutting, but we’ve since found that many of the more mature trees will be able to withstand occasional inundation.”

The park’s recreational facilities are in the process of being moved, which Gene Reetz fears means they’ll be taken from shady groves and placed on hot open prairie.

“There will be areas where trees will be moved that could look different,” Roush responded. “When we move some of the picnic areas it’ll take some time for the trees to establish, but they are planting trees in those areas.”

‘A magical experience’ Gene said the bottom line is that he hopes Chatfield can remain the environmentally significant place it is.

“You have such a diversity of habitat here,” Gene said. “You have grasslands, rabbitbrush, riparian areas with hundred-year-old cottonwoods.

Lots of wildlife. There aren’t too many places that have that diversity of habitat.”

The value of Chatfield’s environment goes beyond its importance to wildlife, Gene said.

“It’s so close to Denver,” Gene said.

“It’s where a family can come for a day for $8. A lot of families can’t go to Rocky Mountain National Park or Yellowstone.

“It’s so important to have nature close to home. When you see kids come out here and play in the creek or catch a frog, it’s a magical experience for them.”

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May 24, 2018

Who will referee billion-dollar sports betting industry?

BY WAYNE PARRY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for states to legalize sports betting, the race is on to see who will referee the multibillion-dollar business of gambling on pro and college games.

The NFL, NBA and others want Congress to set uniform, nationwide rules on sports gambling for all states, saying the integrity of athletics is at stake. And an influential Republican on Capitol Hill, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, quickly announced plans to push for such legislation.

But states are already moving quickly to enact their own laws, with some legislators wanting fans to be able to place wagers by the time football season starts this fall. And there are serious doubts Congress wants to get involved.

“Sports are played on a national and sometimes international stage, crossing state borders and involving residents of numerous municipalities,” said Rummy Pandit, a gambling analyst with New Jersey’s Stockton University. “From that standpoint, federal regulation of sports betting makes sense. But the federal government has not historically been involved in the day-to-day regulation and oversight of gaming.”

For years, the major sports leagues argued that gambling on games would lead to match-fixing and point-shaving. Now that they lost the court battle with the May 14 landmark ruling,

many suspect that they are now pushing for federal legislation not for highminded reasons, but because they see it as the easiest way to get a cut of the proceeds.

Negotiating a piece of the action with Congress would be more efficient than trying to work out deals one by one with dozens of states.

If it passed a nationwide bill, Congress could require casinos, tracks or state governments to share some of their revenue with the sports leagues — or pay them what the leagues like to call “integrity fees,” designed to cover the costs of policing betting.

The leagues have been making headway in negotiations on integrity fees with individual states, including Kansas, Connecticut, Indiana and New York, said Daniel Wallach, a sports law expert from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The leagues also have come down on their fee demands in several states, lowering them from 1 percent to 0.25 percent, he said.

Wallach said the leagues, in seeking to be paid for sports betting, might also be able to make a compelling court case that they have intellectual property rights in the data that is used in wagering.

On the other side of the negotiating table, the gambling industry might want to work out a grand compromise on giving a cut to the sports leagues, rather than “battle it out, state to state to state, winning some, losing some,” Wallach said.

But state opposition remains strong.

Within hours after the ruling, New Jersey lawmakers introduced a new bill to regulate sports betting that would drop the integrity fee that was in an earlier version.

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Jim Justice allowed a sports betting bill to become law without his signature and later announced he had reached a deal for casinos to pay a fee to pro sports leagues. But casino operators denied there was a deal.

On May 14, the high court struck down a federal law that limited sports betting to four states that met a 1991 deadline to legalize it: Nevada, Delaware, Montana and Oregon. It came on a court challenge from New Jersey. As a result of the ruling, states are now free to adopt laws regulating sports betting.

Hours after the ruling, the NFL called on Congress to “enact a core regulatory framework’’ for legalized betting, citing “the potential harms posed by sports betting to the integrity of sporting contests and the public confidence in these events.”

The NFL reasoned, too, that it would be easier to comply with one nationwide set of regulations than with 20 or 30 individual ones.

The NBA likewise called for national regulation of sports betting.

“The rapid rise of the internet means that sports betting across state lines is now just a click away. We cannot allow this practice to proliferate amid uneven enforcement and a patchwork race to the regulatory bottom. At stake here is the very integrity of sports.”

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Hatch, one of the authors of the federal law that was thrown out by the Supreme Court, sided with the leagues.

“The rapid rise of the internet means that sports betting across state lines is now just a click away,’’ he said. “We cannot allow this practice to proliferate amid uneven enforcement and a patchwork race to the regulatory bottom. At stake here is the very integrity of sports.”

It’s unclear how eager Hatch’s colleagues are to wade into this debate.

Lawmakers are spending more time in their home states as election season heats up. The legislative calendar is winding down. And some lawmakers with libertarian views favor letting states deal with the issue.

Also, Congress has been unable in recent years to pass federal laws regulating online poker, fantasy sports or internet gambling.

David Schwartz, director of the Center for Gambling Studies at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, predicted states will be reluctant to give up control over a potentially lucrative new source of tax revenue.

Sara Slane, a senior vice president at the American Gaming Association, said she believes Congress is going to have a hard time catching up with states that are moving quickly to legalize and regulate sports betting.

She said that many federal lawmakers already view sports betting as a states’ rights issue and that it will be difficult for Congress to roll back those efforts once betting operations are up and running.

“I do see this as somewhat dead in the water,” she said of federal legislation. “This is going to largely unfold on the state level.”

Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, was noncommittal May 15.

“I am deeply concerned about the social ills that can arise from gambling.

At the same time, I have deep respect for the federalism principles that underlie today’s Supreme Court decision,” he said. He said his committee “will continue to examine the issue with an eye to striking the appropriate balance.”

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Kelly has chance to win Broncos’ backup quarterback job The 2017 seventh-round draft pick will compete with Paxton Lynch

BY ARNIE STAPLETON ASSOCIATED PRESS

Not even the signing of free agent Case Keenum could keep the Broncos from staging yet another quarterback competition this offseason.

This time it’s a battle for the backup job.

After bypassing a quarterback in a draft that was deep on passing prospects, general manager John Elway declared that Paxton Lynch and Chad Kelly would duke it out for the No. 2 job.

That served as a vote of confidence in Lynch, his 2016 first-round pick who hasn’t been able to win the starting job, and a golden opportunity for Kelly, “Mr. Irrelevant” in 2017 as the last player picked in the draft.

“With Paxton, we still think he is young. We are not kicking him to the curb. He can still develop. When we drafted him two years ago, we knew it was going to take some time,’’ Elway

said. “Paxton is going to compete with Chad for that backup spot. We are not going to bring another one in for OTAs.’’ That marked the first time Elway had publicly mentioned Kelly as having a chance to win a roster spot a year after missing his entire rookie season while recovering from wrist and knee surgeries.

“I thought of it as, OK, perfect, I can get more reps,” Kelly said recently after serving as the only quarterback during a 90-minute walkthrough that capped the Broncos’ three-day rookie orientation. “I just look at it as another opportunity to get better each and every day and each and every rep.”

Kelly’s offseason work habits have resulted in a reshaped body.

Kelly said “eating a lot of spinach and chicken paid off instead of fried food. ... I came here and knew I needed to move around and get back to my old playing weight back in early college and high school. So, I’m kind of feeling I can move around and so some things with my legs but also be powerful in throwing the ball.”

Kelly has impressed both on and off the field.

“Well, I’ve been proud of Chad

“You’ve definitely got to wear gloves. He’ll be spinning that bad boy pretty tough.”

Jake Butt Broncos tight end, on quarterback Chad Kelly overall,” coach Vance Joseph said. “I mean, he’s been here every day. He’s worked his butt off. And he’s changed his body. Last year he was a little tubby kid. He is really lean now. He’s eating right. He’s working hard. He’s definitely put the work in.

“And he’s throwing the ball really well right now.”

So much so that bare hands are a bad idea for receivers, suggested tight end Jake Butt.

“He can rip that thing now,” said Butt, who also sat out his rookie

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In April, they said Lynch would have to beat out Kelly for the backup job.

“I think Paxton’s done a good job, also,” Joseph said. “I think for Paxton and for our football team, it’s been a weight off all of our backs to have a starting quarterback and have everyone’s role defined from Day 1.”

He said that allows Lynch to “relax and get better each day and not worry about a competition.”

Joseph suggested Lynch could learn how to handle adversity from Keenum.

“Case has been through some ups and downs throughout his career. So, he can learn from Case on how to handle those things,” Joseph said. “And it takes time to be an NFL quarterback.

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