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Test scores looking better for kids in Denver Public Schools Students of color, youngsters facing struggles lead growth in performance

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Hundreds of people turned out at the Capitol in Denver on Aug. 20 to rally for peace.

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Hundreds rally for peace at Capitol

BY ANTONIO HERNANDEZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The Rev. Timothy Tyler of Denver’s Shorter Community AME Church speaks to the crowd at the Capitol during the Aug. 20 peace rally. Tyler addressed lawmakers at the Capitol warning officials that the people will not allow laws “that will cause people’s lives to be in jeopardy.”

Hundreds descended on the state Capitol in Denver on Aug. 20 to rally for peace and oppose war in North Korea, the use of nuclear weapons, racial violence and terrorism in the United States.

“We’re here to speak truth to power in Denver,” said the Rev. Timothy Tyler of Denver’s Shorter Community African Methodist Episcopal Church.

The rally was organized by Denver-based activist Queen Phoenix and the Community for Unity, who describe themselves as “a peaceful community of neighbors focused on administrative, environmental, social and educational reform.”

Speakers included attorney Angela Bibens, an activist at the protests in Standing Rock, North Dakota; Jeanette Vizquerra, recently named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2017 for her activism surrounding immigration; and various poets and activists.

Denver students made more academic progress on state English and math tests last year than ever before, and the overall percentage of third- through ninth-graders who scored at grade level moved to within a few points of the statewide average, test results released Aug. 17 show.

It’s a significant feat for the state’s largest school district, which 10 years ago lagged far behind.

Notably, the diverse district’s academic growth was driven by low-income students, students of color, students with disabilities and English language learners. Students in those groups made progress at a faster rate than students not in those groups, shrinking the growth gaps between traditionally underserved students and their more privileged peers.

Superintendent Tom Boasberg called the results “wonderful.” He said that while the district’s gaps “are still large and concerning, it’s nice to see them moving in the right direction.”

Overall, more Denver Public Schools students met or exceeded state expectations on most tests in most grades. Among the biggest increases was the percent of third-graders at grade level in literacy. In 2015-16, 32 percent of DPS third-graders met that bar. In 2016-17, SEE TESTS, P5

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‘People of disparate party views can disagree and still work together. Our country will be stronger when we’ll be able to listen to people we disagree with.’

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New chamber board director has habit of breaking glass ceilings Burgess will be first black member to hold lead position

She said she sees herself providing an inviting space for other women and minority business leaders, showing them that they should take a look at the chamber if they haven’t already.

Burgess heads up Burgess Services, a Denver construction management firm her father Clyde Burgess started in 1974. She previously worked on the business side of radio stations including for 107.5 FM when the Lakewood-based station was owned by ABC. Burgess said she wants to see all of the chamber’s members be successful, but she especially wants other small business leaders to know they have “someone there having a voice for them.”

The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce officially turns 150 on Nov. 13. The chamber’s members span the state and include 3,000 businesses and their 300,000 employees.

BY ADRIAN D. GARCIA AGARCIA@DENVERITE.COM

Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce will celebrate its 150th anniversary this fall with an African-American person heading up its board of directors for the first time.

Small business owner Denise Burgess is set to grab the gavel Sept. 6 during the chamber’s annual meeting. Burgess will work with outgoing chair Todd Munson and others on the board of directors to guide the chamber through the 2018 legislative session and beyond.

The board will be tasked with addressing the gap in transportation funding, ways to train students and others for the workforce, issues around housing affordability and the challenges Colorado’s tight labor market is creating for businesses.

Burgess is no stranger to shattering glass ceilings.

Denise Burgess, 2017-18 chair of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.

In 2009, she became the first woman to lead Denver Urban Renewal Authority’s board of commissioners.

In addition to the board of directors, she’ll be working with the chamber’s president and CEO Kelly Brough,

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who became the first woman to hold the role in 2009.

“It’s always bigger than you,” Burgess said recently.

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City council fine-tunes bond package that voters will weigh $937 million proposal would not lead to increase in tax rate

BY ERICA MELTZER EMELTZER@DENVERITE.COM

Denver City Council on Aug. 14 took months of work by community activists, volunteer committee members and city officials and turned it over to the voters of the city of Denver.

They’ll decide on Nov. 7 whether to approve $937 million in borrowing over the next 10 years to pay for library renovations, new rec centers, improvements at major Denver institutions and especially transportation infrastructure. Roughly half of the total bond program will go toward road maintenance, sidewalk connections, intersection improvements and transit infrastructure.

The council voted unanimously in favor of an overarching ordinance that describes all the projects and seven separate spending packages that will each appear on the November

ballot.

• Transportation and mobility: $431 million • Cultural facilities, such as the Denver Art Museum, Denver Botanic Gardens and Denver Zoo: $116.9 million • Denver Health: $75 million • Public safety: $77 million • Library system: $69.3 million • Parks and rec: $151.6 million • Public facilities system: $16.5 million The city is not asking for an increase in the tax rate — expect this to be a major selling point in the campaign for the bond — but property owners will be paying more for debt service than in the past because their property generally is worth more.

City councilmembers say this bond program does a lot to correct longstanding inequalities in infrastructure and amenities around Denver, but housing help to make sure today’s residents can enjoy tomorrow’s improvements didn’t make the cut.

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Senator gets chided by constituents at town hall Cory Gardner caps off day of three town halls in Lakewood, his first in more than a year

BY CLARKE READER CREADER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s constituents had a lot of questions for him at his first Denver metro area town hall in more than a year on Aug. 14 at Colorado Christian University’s event center in Lakewood.

But it was difficult for most to hear the Republican from Yuma over the boos and profanities he received over and over from the more than 300 attendees who filled the center.

“People of disparate party views can disagree and still work together,” Gardner said at one point, following a particularly raucous response to one answer. “Our country will be stronger when we’ll be able to listen to people we disagree with.”

The town hall in Lakewood was the final meeting in a series of three the senator held that day — the others were in Colorado Springs and Greeley.

The town halls followed months of the Cardboard Cory Gardner campaign, where constituents, frustrated

by Gardners lack of face-to-face meet-

Sen. Cory Gardner faced a raucous crowd during his town hall at Colorado Christian University on Aug. 15. Many of the senator’s responses to questions were met with boos and curse words.

CLARKE READER ings with residents, made six cardboard cutouts of the senator and took them to impromptu town halls.

“It’s amazing he’s finally hosting a town hall, and I want to see what he has to say,” said Denver resident Amanda Mininger, before the town hall started. “He represents us, and he should be able to speak to us in person.”

Gardner faced questions and criticism from constituents on a variety

of topics, ranging from relations with North Korea, Republicans’ efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, and his support of President Donald Trump.

One thing Gardner received unanimous support for was his condemnation of the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who incited violence in Virginia on Aug. 12, leaving one person dead and 19 injured.

“There is no moral equivalency

between the two sides,” Gardner said at the beginning of the town hall, referencing the white supremacists and their counter protesters. “We have to fight racism and bigotry in our country. Any and all white supremacists should go back to their caves.”

Several attendees received standing ovations for asking questions about Gardner not supporting hate groups, SEE GARDNER, P6

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Barbara “Bobbi” Marshall poses at the checkout counter at HOPE’s Attic thrift store July 28. Marshall, 75, came to the store and HOPE pantry first as a customer and pantry client, became a volunteer and then earned the title of store manager. ELLIS ARNOLD

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Late one afternoon in October, a man knocked at the door of HOPE food pantry. His two children stood next to him.

“I’m sorry to bother you,” he told Bart Sayyah. “I have a job, but we don’t have any food in our pantry to feed our kids. Can you help me?”

Sayyah, executive director of Helping Our People Excel, a nonprofit that runs a food pantry and thrift store in Englewood, put down his satchel and took the family inside.

The man walked away with four boxes filled with more than $300 worth of food, a Halloween costume for his son and winter clothing for both the children.

“When I saw the man, it just pierced my heart,” Sayyah, 53, said. “I saw myself in him. He was mid-30s, educated, soft-spoken, gentle. And to see the look in his eye, what it must have taken him to say, ‘I don’t have any food at home to feed my kids’ — it just floored me. How someone who has a job, has an education, is struggling.”

A growing need HOPE food pantry sits at 3940 S. Broadway and opened in January 2015, but its story goes back to 2001.

A businesswoman, whom Sayyah said would prefer to remain unnamed, was running a home health-care business in Lakewood for people with longterm disabilities and began to notice a significant need for food in clients’ homes, Sayyah said. So she decided to start a food pantry.

The organization grew from a storefront to an 800-square-foot pantry at

FOOD INSECURITY IN COLORADO • Nearly 1 in 8 Coloradans (12.1 percent) struggle with hunger, not always having enough money to buy food.

• Almost 1 in 9 Coloradans (11.5 percent) struggle financially, living below the federal poverty line. That includes more than 1 in 7 children (14.7 percent).

• Nearly 1 in 5 Colorado children (19 percent) may not always know when or where they will get their next meal.

Source: Hunger Free Colorado, www.hungerfreecolorado.org

MORE INFORMATION Barbara “Bobbi” Marshall, store manager at HOPE’s Attic thrift store, likes that HOPE food pantry doesn’t have restrictions on whom it serves.

“Other places, you can only come once a month, or you have to live in their area,” Marshall said. “Here, you have a picture ID, I don’t care where you’re working, or where you live — we’ll help you.”

The pantry is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Mondays and Fridays, and clients can come once per week. The thrift store is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Proceeds from the thrift store help fund the food pantry.

Contact HOPE at 303-762-7986 or go to hope-online.org for more information. the location of the woman’s business.

HOPE became a registered nonprofit in Colorado in 2007 and a tax-exempt nonprofit in 2009, Sayyah said. The location in Lakewood closed in May 2016, making way for the Englewood SEE PANTRY, P6

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TESTS FROM PAGE 1

it jumped to 38 percent, a 6 percent increase. The statewide average was 40 percent.

Boasberg credited the district’s focus on early literacy, and its monetary investment in new curriculum and more training for early childhood teachers and paraprofessionals. A tax increase approved by voters in November includes $6.8 million to continue those efforts.

“We’ve never had growth like that in third-grade reading,” Boasberg said.

Denver students also continued to outpace their peers across Colorado in academic growth. The state uses “median growth percentile” scores to gauge how much students learn each year.

A growth score higher than 50 means students are learning at a faster rate than peers who started the year at the same academic level as them. A growth score lower than 50 means students are learning at a slower rate than their academic peers.

Denver’s overall growth score in literacy last year was 57, up from 56 the year before. In math, the overall growth score was 53, up from 51.

“It all starts with our teachers and our school leaders,” Boasberg said of the improvements.

The district has expanded to nearly all schools an initiative that allows successful teachers to teach part-time and coach their colleagues part-time, and Boasberg said the latest scores are proof that helping teachers improve helps students, too.

Mixed results from reform Denver is nationally known for its education reform efforts, which include granting charter school-like autonomy to district-run schools, and replacing persistently lowperforming schools with schools officials deem more likely to succeed.

The school board this past school year voted to close three long struggling elementary schools, including Amesse Elementary in far northeast Denver. Board members chose as a replacement a program proposed by leaders of nearby McGlone Academy. The district has held up McGlone as a rare example of a successful turnaround school.

But this year, McGlone’s scores faltered. On most tests, fewer students met expectations last year than the year before. Growth scores fell, too, to 41 in literacy and 37 in math.

Amesse posted higher growth scores: 58 in literacy and 49 in math.

Boasberg said he remains confident in McGlone’s leaders. McGlone principal Sara Gips Goodall said she’s excited by the growth at Amesse. She pointed to other measures of success at McGlone, including low student suspensions and high teacher retention.

“McGlone, over multiple years, has had very strong growth,” Boas-

‘It all starts with our teachers and our school leaders.’

Tom Boasberg, Denver Public Schools superintendent

berg said. “This year, their growth wasn’t as strong. Part of that was all of the time and effort that the school put into planning for and working with the community around the Amesse turnaround.”

He added that, “I think you have extraordinary teachers and leadership at McGlone who have an exceptional track record, and I’m confident they’ll have strong growth this year.”

Boasberg and other officials held a celebratory press conference Aug. 17 at the Manual High School campus, which is also home to McAuliffe Manual Middle School, a replication of the successful McAuliffe International School. Both are innovation schools, which means they’re run by the district but enjoy flexibilities with scheduling, teacher hiring and firing, and more.

McAuliffe International has for years posted high test scores and had above-average growth. The school is not as diverse as the district as a whole — just 18 percent of students qualify for subsidized lunches, a measure of poverty, and 37 percent are students of color.

McAuliffe Manual opened last year with sixth grade in an effort to bring high-performing middle schools to northeast Denver, a neighborhood that historically lacked them. Nearly six in 10 students qualified for subsidized lunches, and seven in 10 were students of color.

While McAuliffe Manual trailed McAuliffe International in the percentage of students at grade level, its growth scores were nearly as high: 72 in both literacy and math, compared to 75 in literacy and 74 in math at McAuliffe International.

There was more good news for three previously low-performing elementary schools — Goldrick, Harrington and Schmitt — in the midst of school turnaround. New principals spent the 2015-16 school year soliciting opinions and crafting plans to improve academic performance at the schools while other leaders handled day-to-day operations — a strategy known as “year zero.”

In 2016-17, the first year the new principals and their improvement plans were in place, growth scores at all three schools shot up by as much as 24 points.

Another turnaround school also showed remarkable progress. The University Prep Steele Street charter school, which replaced struggling Pioneer Charter School last year, boasted growth scores of 84 in literacy and 91 in math. The math growth was the highest in the state.

The test scores at four schools

that are part of another DPS experiment, an “innovation zone” that gives the schools even more autonomy than regular innovation schools, were a mixed bag.

Two of the schools, Creativity Challenge Community and Denver Green School, posted increasingly strong scores on most tests and showed high academic growth.

But two other schools, Ashley Elementary and Cole Arts and Science Academy, saw low growth and slipping scores. The median growth percentile in math at Ashley was 32, well below the district average.

At Cole, where just 5 percent of fifth-graders scored at grade level, it was 17.

Boasberg said the scores at those two schools are concerning. But he said he appreciates what the innovation zone, called the Luminary Learning Network, is doing.

District officials have talked about inviting other innovation schools to form similar zones.

“They have some very strong leadership at the zone,” Boasberg said, “and we recognize that for any one school, you are going to have some ups and downs.” He cautioned against reading too much into the scores of Ashley and Cole.

Jessica Roberts, executive director of the Luminary Learning Network, said it’s become clear that Ashley and Cole, which serve a more at-risk population, need a different type of support than the other two schools. Zone leaders are working to help them figure out how to use their increased autonomy — and freed-up funding — to boost student achievement, she said.

“We have confidence in these school leaders,” Roberts said, “and we will provide additional support in coaching hours and oversight over how their resources are used.”

Narrowing gaps About two-thirds of Denver’s 92,000 students qualify for subsidized lunches, a proxy for poverty, and about 77 percent are non-white.

More than a third are English language learners.

The district has in the past struggled to close wide gaps between how much students in those groups learn each year and how much students not in those groups learn.

White students, non-low-income students and non-English language learners have historically posted higher proficiency scores and higher growth scores, which continues to be the case. But their growth scores last year remained relatively flat.

Meanwhile, the growth scores for students of color, low-income students and English language learners increased by several points for every group in each subject.

In literacy, Latino students had a growth score of 54 and black students had a score of 53. White students had a score of 64, meaning the gaps were 10 points and 9 points, respectively. Those are smaller than in 2015-16, when the gap for both black and Latino students was 13 points.

The gaps in math last year were bigger than the gaps in literacy.

Black and Latino students had a growth score of 50 in math, while white students had a score of 63, a 13-point gap.

However, that gap also shrunk from the year before, when it was 16 points.

The smallest gap last year was between English language learners and native speakers in literacy.

State statistics, which include “exited” English language learners who no longer need services in the count of English language learners, show no gap at all.

But DPS statistics, which break exited English language learners into their own category, show a 3-point gap between English language learners and non-English language learners.

The district has in recent years provided more training for educators who teach English language learners, worked harder to ensure all eligible students get those classes and made efforts to encourage bilingualism and biliteracy, Boasberg said.

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GARDNER FROM PAGE 3

but supporting a president who does not explicitly condemn them and has White House officials like Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, who have been tied to white nationalist groups.

“I’m glad to see you giving real responses to questions, but how can you still support a president who puts people like that in power?” asked Den-

ver resident Jonathan Rose.

In response, Gardner reiterated that hate groups are unacceptable, but said it wasn’t his place to ask the president to remove members of his staff.

Many voiced concerns about cuts to Medicare and the price of insurance if the ACA were to be repealed. One attendee was even ejected from the town hall because he wouldn’t stop screaming, “You’re taking our health care” over other peoples’ questions and Gardner’s answers.

But a couple conservative constituents also chided Gardner for his health care approach from the other side.

“I know the majority of people in this room are here to say the ACA should continue, but I want to remind you of who put you in your seat,” said one woman. “I want to know when you’re going to repeal and replace?”

Gardner also heard from constituents who wanted to ensure he would protect the state and world’s environmental health and sustainability.

“We have an incredible outdoor legacy, and I want to do right for my children,” Gardner said. “I do believe the (Environmental Protection Agency) has overreached at times. We shouldn’t be doing something if the cost outweighs the benefits.”

By the end of the hour-and-a-half town hall, the audience allowed Gard-

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pantry where HOPE’s Attic thrift store was a new addition.

HOPE now serves about 150 to 175 households a week, double what it served when he became executive director in August 2016, Sayyah said.

Since last September, the pantry has been giving out food two days a week.

It has served more than 2,200 unique households from January through June this year.

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A small group of supporters of President Donald Trump were stationed outside the Colorado Christian University event center, following a town hall with Sen. Cory Gardner on Aug. 15.

CLARKE READER ner to speak more completely, even if they didn’t like what they heard. And some issues weren’t brought up at all, like education.

“I wanted to ask what he was going to do to protect our Title I students,” said Angela Anderson, a Jeffco resi-

dent, referencing the many students who are on the free and reduced lunch program. “I also wanted to ask how we could work on educating our students about the damage that racism does to a society. So many don’t understand racism exists in ways for all of us.”

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tion, especially in severe weather.”

Sayyah said 85 percent of people the pantry serves have shelter, whether that’s an apartment, house or motel room. But he said the clients are struggling to maintain it.

Sayyah said even people who are making about $33,000 per year come in to the pantry, especially if they have children.

“There are many people in our society who are not beyond the reach of this kind of safety net,” said Sayyah, a Castle Rock resident who said he’s seen clients from places like Highlands Ranch, where hunger is not typically thought to be an issue.

Faces of food insecurity With the continuous increase in the Denver metro area’s population in recent years, HOPE’s staff said it’s seen a change in the amount and demopgraphics of the people it serves.

Sayyah and Catherine McHenry, operations director, added that the pantry sees many working people and working families. Sayyah said the clients used to be largely homeless, transient or disabled people or seniors with limited income. Now, there are more people who say they are working, he said. Most of the working seem to have a roof of some sort — a house they’re sharing, an apartment or a motel.

“Anecdotally, we’ve seen an increase in the homeless population,” Sayyah said. “We’ve seen a decrease in available affordable housing ... that increase in rent is causing people to have less budget for actual food, and they’re making decisions not between medicine and food, but food and a roof.”

McHenry, 60, an Aurora resident, is one of the handful of staff that’s worked with the organization since its 2001 beginnings. She said she’s noticed differences ever since 2012 when recreational marijuana became legal.

McHenry said she doesn’t judge the decision to legalize pot, but noted that more people struggle financially because of it as utilities and food costs have increased with the population growth.

“I don’t know how some people are making it ... there’s a real aversion for communities to coalesce and do something,” Sayyah said. “There’s a tendency to shove that (problem) toward downtown Denver, the shelters down there. And they’re not adequate enough to handle that entire popula-

Giving what you get That kind of help was a turnaround for Barbara “Bobbi” Marshall, 75, store manager of HOPE’s Attic. She’s a food pantry client at HOPE who decided to volunteer and became part of what she calls “a second family.”

“I was a recluse for a long time,” said Marshall, who has been on government housing assistance. After working with the staff and customers at HOPE, people don’t bother her anymore. “I just do my thing,” she said.

Marshall, who described herself as empathetic and “a hugger,” said she tries to help people who feel embarrassed about coming to a food pantry.

It’s often an emotional scene.

“We’ve had people break down and cry,” Sayyah said. “I’ve broken down and cried when some people have walked through the door. It’s a challenge.”

The pantry is open 11 a m. to 2 p.m.

Mondays and Fridays, but its service often goes beyond that.

“We have an unwritten motto here,” Sayyah said. “If someone knocks on our door, and someone’s here, and they need food, we’re open... We always feed them.”

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Confidence is biggest lesson at school for the blind

It’s Almost Here!

Students learn life skills in encouraging environment

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Tucked away on a quiet residential street in Littleton above the railroad tracks, the Colorado Center for the Blind goes unnoticed by many. But the school, housed in an old YMCA, is world-famous among blind people, who strive for years to attend the center’s intensive nine-month program that builds confidence along with life skills.

The center offers an array of classes, from using technology to reading braille to self-defense and woodworking. But the most important thing the center teaches is self-assurance.

“We want our students to feel good about being blind,” said Julie Deden, the center’s executive director. “People think it would be so terrible to be blind, but we don’t think anything of it.”

The center, at 2233 W. Shepperd Ave., received a perfect score in May after an inspection by the National Blindness Certification Board.

Joining the school was a dream come true for Jayaram Lamichhane, a 21-year-old from Nepal. He’s been at the school for four months.

“It’s frustrating to be blind in Nepal,” Lamichhane said. “Your parents treat you badly. Society doesn’t want to talk to you, because according to Hindu mythology, if you are blind, you committed some crime in your previous life, like a curse or a sin. Then, there is no infrastructure or support.

I used to say I wish I had been born without legs instead. Here, you and me talking, I don’t feel blind anymore.

I feel confident now, like I can do whatever you can. Now I’m happy to be blind.”

Getting around The Independence Training Program is the cornerstone of the school’s offerings — an immersive nine-month program focused on home management, technology, braille literacy, and “cane travel” — the use of a long white cane to walk around.

Cane travel is the most visible of the center’s activities, with students roaming Littleton and the greater Denver area practicing wayfinding and public transit. Students who still retain partial sight often wear “sleepshades,” eye masks that totally occlude light, in order to prepare them for a possible future of total blindness.

“Our goal is for people to go anywhere in the world they want to go,” said David Nietfeld, a cane travel instructor. “We start off with the basics, sending people around the center, using stairs and doors. Then we go to the bus station. Then we go to taking buses and trains and crossing different kinds of intersections, including

Chaz Davis, 23, makes curry chicken wraps for fellow students to prepare for a celebration of his graduation. Davis will start his master’s degree studies at DU in the fall.

DAVID GILBERT Santa Fe. We often know the city better than sighted people, because we memorize the street grid. People using GPS can’t even paint a picture in their mind where they’re going.”

An advanced lesson is called a “drop project,” where students are driven in circles and dropped in a mystery spot in the city, given a flip phone, and instructed to find their way back to the center.

The final project is to travel solo to four different cities in the metro area in a day using public transit, and visiting a place of interest in each city.

Tech skills A computer for the blind looks odd — there’s no monitor or mouse. But for the center’s students, it’s an essential life tool.

“We do everything from keyboarding to programming, but mostly it’s stuff in between,” said Chris Parsons, a technology teacher. Her classes cover word processing, email, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and beyond. “I’ve had students who wanted to make websites. I had another who wanted to make an audio game.

“I had no idea how to make an audio game, but I said let’s figure it out.”

Reading and writing In the 1960s, almost half of blind children learned braille — “reading” raised dots on a page with their fingers — but today it’s only one in 10, said Dan Burke, the center’s public relations specialist.

“A blind person who can’t read braille is illiterate,” Burke said. “It’s become a crisis. We’re working hard on changing it.”

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hree little words — “back to school” — have the impact of hundreds, including, “Oh, no.”

I think I was supposed to dread it, but inwardly I looked forward to strapping on my button-down shirts and khakis and returning to the classroom.

My educational path was a lesson in American geography. I attended eight schools in four states. My father was either transferred or promoted. At least, that’s what he said. Maybe we were one step ahead of the feds.

A new school year always meant my mother and father would give me a couple of new shirts, and something else: a three-ring binder with a blank, blue canvas cover.

Craig Marshall Smith

August 24, 2017

Budding artists will draw or paint on anything that is blank. My new binder was my annual opportunity to show off.

Late summers were spent considering the new school year’s drawing. I understood that pencil drawings smeared, and markers didn’t exist. That left me with ball-point pens.

The majority of my drawings featured animals, like wolverines and bruins.

The animals didn’t stop there: I studied with Miss Bird and Mrs. Hare. Miss Bird was 100 years old (that’s what we all thought), and a caricature of mean-natured, elderly schoolmarm.

Mrs. Hare was as meek as her name. She was in her first year of teaching, and in her

first year of marriage. Double jeopardy. I hope she was more successful at home.

Back then, schools provided just about everything we needed — except for binders and Pee Chees.

Things have changed.

One Jefferson County school asked every student to bring five dozen pencils, because of the school’s low supply.

Costs overall have rocketed. One article (The Denver Post) stated, “In the last decade, the price of supplies and extracurricular activities increased by 88 percent for elementary school students, 81 percent for middle school SEE SMITH, P13

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I listen intently as I attempt to find themes and connections in what is shared before reflecting back what I think I’ve heard.

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he contrarian point of view here could have been “Enabling Meanness,” but really, who really wants to focus on WINNING being mean WORDS instead of being kind anyway?

I guess perhaps we can accept the fact that some people have a mean streak, or Michael Norton they are mean-spirited, or maybe they have just become a self-proclaimed meanie over time.

As I wrote this column the question I found myself asking was: Why do some folks choose to be mean instead of being kind? Why do some people look so hard for the bad that they completely miss the smallest bit of good and kindness right under their noses?

Is it because we have fostered a culture of meanness at home or at work? Do we enable and permit people to be mean to us and to others for the sake of maintaining a very unhealthy relationship? Or have we lost

our nerve and just accept any behavior so we don’t rock the boat, even if it is mean behavior?

Now here’s the deal, we can choose to enable meanness or we can empower kindness.

You see, we get to choose, don’t we? Sometimes we have to accept sadness just like sometimes we know that bad things do happen to even the best of people. Yet even with that said, we never have to accept being treated meanly by anyone, especially when we can choose to empower kindness and receive kindness.

Kindness is and should be a two-way street. Most times we do get back what we give out, not 100 percent of the time, but my experience tells me most times. When we say hello, we usually get a hello back.

When we smile, most times we get a smile back. When we are courteous to others we are typically greeted with courtesy in return. Again, not always, there are times where we try our best to be polite and kind only to be met with the unpleasantness and wrath of someone who chose to be mean that day.

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

‘August: Osage County’: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; and 2:30 p.m. Sundays from Sept. 1 to Oct. 15 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Additional show at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept.

18. After the Weston family patriarch disappears family tensions heat up and boil over in the ruthless August heat. Go to www.vintagetheatre.com or call 303-856-7830.

MUSIC

Hudson Gardens Concert: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27, The B-52s at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Tickets on sale at www. altitudetickets.com. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. For information, call 303-797-8565 or go to www. hudsongardens.org. Parking is free. Lineup includes: Sunday, Sept. 3, YES featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.

Piano Concert: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28 at the North Highland Presbyterian Church Events Center, just north of 29th Avenue on Julian Street, Denver. Daniel Souvigny will perform a variety of ballads and jazz, ragtime and stride, blues and classical music as part of the continuing “Man Here Plays Fine Piano” series.

Civic Youth Orchestra Auditions: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

2, at Avanti Music Academy, 2030 E. County Line Road, Ste. U, Highlands Ranch. Audition materials, requirements and registration available at http:// avantimusic.org/civic-youthorchestra-south/.

ART/FILM

‘The Western: An Epic in Art and Film’: open through Sept. 10 at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver.

Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with extended hours until 8 p.m. Fridays.

Closed Monh days. Western genre, including moving pictures.

Requires special tickets.

18 and younger admitted free.

Go to www.DenverArtMuseum.org.

this week’s TOP FIVE ‘On Golden Pond’: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Saturday, Aug. 26 at the John Hand Theater, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver. Presented by Lowry’s Spotlight Theatre, the heart-warming love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer and their long life together.

Contact 720-530-4596 or www.thisisspotlight. com.

Summer Scream: 6:30-11:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31 at Lakeside Amusement Park. With the VIP early entrance pass is available, skip the lines and experience the park an hour earlier, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. This private, cultural event supports the Denver Film Society. Go to http://www. denverfilm.org/programs/summer-scream/ Teddy Bears and Tea Cups High Tea: 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, at Highlands Masonic Temple, 3550 Federal Blvd., Denver. Presented by the El Mejdel Daughters of the Nile. Vendors, 50/50 raffle and entertainment. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. Space is limited; reservations required. Tickets on sale now through Saturday, Oct. 28. Contact Jo Ann

Van Trump, 303-2323542.

Dinos! Live Traveling Exhibit: through Oct. 31 at The Denver Zoo, 2300 N. Steele St., Denver. Exhibit features 21 life-sized dinosaurs, 18 of which are animatronic. Sculptures will mostly be located near a Denver Zoo animal species that shares common traits. Go to DenverZoo.org for details about the exhibit and about the special events planned.

Fight Night Watch Party: 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26 at Element Kitchen & Cocktail, 1134 Broadway, Denver. Watch the rematch between Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor aired on 12 big screens plus a 150-inch projector screen. Call 303353-1172 or go to http://bit.ly/2i2ICgn

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver.

“Common Ground’ features more than 170 portrait and landscape photographs by critically acclaimed photographer Fazal Sheikh (1989-2013). Go to http://denverartmuseum. org/exhibitions/commonground-photographs-fazalsheikh-1989-2013.

EVENTS

‘Calder Monumental’ Sculptures: on display through Sept.

24 at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Sculptures

by American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976). The Gardens also presents concerts this summer. Go to https://www.botanicgardens.org/ for details.

Art on Film Summer Series: 7:30-10 p.m. the third Thursday of each month at the Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 965

seasonal habitat, in partnership with Butterfly Pavilion, is home to hundreds of native butterflies, such as swallowtails, monarchs, mourning cloaks and painted ladies. There are more than 50 native plant species in this garden. Go to www.botanicgardens.org.

Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Each installment includes an outdoor screening of a critically acclaimed feature film, food for purchase and live music. Series finale on Sept. 21 features “Network.” Go to artdistrictonsantafe. com.

‘At the Water’s Edge: Floral and Fowl’: open through Sept.

30 at Old South Frame and Gallery, 1588 S. Pearl St., Denver.

Features artwork of Michael Warren and Darryl Trott. Call 303-715-3828.

Water Line: A Creative Exchange: through Oct. 21 at Metropolitan State University of Denver Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Exhibit features 19 artists working in photography, mixed-media installation, video, ceramic and sculpture. Go to http:// msudenver.edu/cva/exhibitions/.

Photographs by Fazal Sheikh: through Sunday, Nov. 12 at the

Featured Author: 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26 at Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Author King Grossman will speak about his novel “Letters to Alice” and sign copies of the book. Grossman’s book is a finalist for two national book awards.

Iran: 2:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28, at Springbrooke, 6800 Leetsdale Drive, Denver. Join Active Minds for an in-depth look at the country of Iran. We will discuss the thorny issue of Iran’s nuclear program, the relationship between Iran’s religious and political leadership, and challenges presented by regional turmoil. In particular, we will discuss how the rest of the world is responding to the various challenges presented by Iran. Seating is limited; call 303-331-9963 to RSVP.

NATURE/OUTDOORS

Butterflies at Chatfield: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Sept. 24 at Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton. This

HEALTH

‘ROAD CarFit for Seniors: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month through September, at Dahlia Campus for Health and Wellbeing, 3401 Eudora St., Denver.

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month through September, at AAA-Colorado Southglenn, 700 S. University Blvd., Centennial.

Presented by the Reaching Older Adults Program, the 20-minute checkup is free but registration is requested. Call 303-991-5740 for an appointment.

Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Thursday for publication the following week. Send listings to calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

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LIFE

Chasing the

culinary dream Chris Johnson, 56, a student in the American Culinary Federation Colorado Chefs Association apprenticeship program, arranges a salad in the kitchen at West 29th Restaurant and Bar Aug. 8. His mentor chef, Cory Matthews, watches over him.

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Apprenticeship gives aspiring chefs hands-on training

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n the kitchen at West 29th Restaurant and Bar, Chris Johnson, 56, whips up intricately plated dishes and feels the heat as flames dance off the stove. He throws a meat-based pasta sauce in a pan as his mentor, chef Cory Matthews, handles another dish behind him.

He places a portion of house-made pasta in the pan, then pours it all into a bowl. And the dish is complete.

In the Denver metro area, you don’t need to try out for a Food Network show to be a bona fide chef.

An apprenticeship program in the Denver, Boulder and Greeley areas prepares aspiring chefs for “the real world,” as one mentor chef said.

For Johnson, 56, the program was the natural next step after a life of bouncing between different careers, including working as the

IF YOU’RE INTERESTED • The program runs for two years — September through mid-July for the first year and August to the end of July for the second year.

Enrollment ends Aug. 28.

• Total tuition including books, uniforms, knife kits and food supplies is $6,750. Students need not have any prior restaurant experience, but must have a high school diploma or equivalent and be 17 or older. maintenance director at a Georgia private school and running his own business, one that made statues and molds.

“I always wanted to cook and open up a restaurant, basically,” said Johnson, who searched for a cooking program after being laid off from a previous job. A Lakewood resident from Savannah, Georgia, he cooked as a hobby for events like birthdays and wedding receptions, but never professionally.

So Johnson decided to spice things up after hearing about the American Culinary Federation’s apprenticeship program.

That organization’s local chapter, Colorado Chefs

DID YOU KNOW? •Students take one five-hour class per week and work 40-plus hours in hands-on training the rest of the time. Students also take three online classes — sanitation, nutrition and management.

• An apprentice can make anywhere from $9.50 to $14.50 an hour starting pay. Some of the bigger locations that apprentices work at offer health benefits and vacation.

Association, oversees the program, which allows students to take two years of weekly classes at Metropolitan State University of Denver and to get real-world experience as an apprentice under a mentor chef at hotels, country clubs and restaurants in the area.

“I looked at the price between Johnson and Wales and this,” Johnson said.

“It’s affordable. You learn just as much.”

The price can be a big difference — about $7,000 for the apprenticeship compared to up to $60,000 for some culinary schools, said Christopher Moore, a SEE APPRENTICE, P11

• Most graduates pass the test for sous chef certification at the end of the program, said Christopher Moore, a mentor chef. Those who don’t pass still earn the certified culinarian title. Moore said most that get that certification go on to get their certified executive chef title.

• To register, call 303-222-0057 or email Monica Leonard, apprenticeship coordinator, at mleonard@ acfcoloradochefs.org.

• Colorado has had its apprenticeship program since the 1970s.

• The first American Culinary Federation Apprenticeship Program was started in the 1970s by the Pittsburgh chapter.

Since then, it’s grown to 70 programs with more than 2,000 culinary apprentices in training across the country.

An arranged plate of bread and cheese sits in the kitchen at West 29th Restaurant and Bar Aug. 8. Chris Johnson, a student in the ACFCCA apprenticeship program, prepared the plate.

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mentor chef for the program. But the main draw is a gulf of difference in experience students get.

They need none to apply and get paid for the hours they work.

And you’re never too old to reinvent yourself — Moore sees students from 19 to 50 years old. Apprentices “come from everywhere,” he said. One graduating this month is from Austin, Texas. Johnson’s nephew from out of state will join the program in September, too.

Not just book learning An apprenticeship provides the hands-on learning that can’t be obtained in a classroom, said Matthews, Johnson’s mentor chef and the executive chef at West 29th Restaurant and Bar in Wheat Ridge.

Students get “more technique, more basics,” Matthews said. “It also ensures that the person is dedicated to continuing in the industry.

You get sous chef certification at the end of the program.” A sous chef is the second-in-command chef in a kitchen.

Most culinary schools don’t focus as much on practical knowledge these days, said Moore, executive chef at The Club at Ravenna, which is just south of Chatfield State Park.

“A lot of times, I’ll interact with people, and they say they’ve never done (a certain cooking skill) before, whereas when I went to school, it was the exact opposite,” said Moore, who attended Scottsdale Culinary Institute in Arizona in the 1990s.

Moore said he’s seen a shift toward those schools having a more theoretical focus in the past three years because they often lack an outlet, like a student café, for the food students would make.

“It was explained to me early on in my career that chefs pass on their knowledge, and what used to be passed on generation to generation, father to son,” Moore said.

“With culinary school, that doesn’t really happen anymore. So my responsibility is to pass it on to future chefs.”

Cory Matthews, executive chef at West 29th Restaurant and Bar in Wheat Ridge, holds a pan of food in the kitchen at dinner time Aug. 8. In the back, Chris Johnson, 56, an ACFCCA apprentice, stands ready to assist.

PHOTOS BY ELLIS ARNOLD Students have written tests every week as well, Johnson said. The program provides 43 credit hours that are transferable to any community college in Colorado, said Sarah Beatty, a program spokesperson.

But the bulk of working as an apprentice is being thrown into the fire, going through the full process of preparing dishes.

“Knife skills, sanitation, how to really stick to a recipe” and techniques like how to break down a chicken are some of what students learn on the job, Johnson said.

“Just things that ... you wouldn’t think about at the house.”

Time management, dishwashing and cleaning up are also part of the learning package, Johnson added, as the goal is to transition into restaurant jobs, some of which come where students worked as ap-

prentices.

“When you get into the real world, you have to (do food preparation),” Moore said. “If you go to an apprenticeship program, you learn what you need to know to actually cook.”

Learn from the veterans The people that get you there are experts who take you through every step — Matthews has been a chef and sous chef for years.

“You can’t teach willingness and drive and good attitude, which is something an apprentice always has,” Matthews said. “Seeing them succeeding, learning, getting better every day and knowing that once the program’s over ... they’re going to succeed” is the reward.

Matthews graduated from the French Culinary Institute in New York, now called the International

Culinary Center, and worked for Garden of the Gods Club in Colorado Springs and the Denver Country Club.

As a young child, he’d climb onto his mother’s back to watch how she would cook.

“My mom, a single mom ... she was just always a great cook,” Matthews said. Cooking “takes time, effort and love, and that’s what I’ve grown up with.”

Now, he gets to pass that on, along with what he’s learned professionally.

Under Matthews’ direction, Johnson is on his way to becoming a sous chef.

“I would love to own my own restaurant, a small bistro type,” Johnson said. “But that’s a dream.”

After he graduates next summer, it might be more than that.

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Legal Notice No.: 8165 First Publication: August 24, 2017 Last Publication: September 7, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado 1437 Bannock St Rm 230 Denver, CO 80202 In the Matter of the Estate of: Harold Winter Attorney (Name and Address): Kathryn Kaeble, Kaeble Law LLC 14143 Denver West Pkwy, #100 Golden, CO 80401 Phone Number: 303.877.8921 FAX Number: 303.847.0912 E-mail: kathryn@kaeblelaw.com Atty. Reg. #: 16051 Case Number: 2016 PR 495 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO ยง 15-10-401, C.R.S. To: Jason Daigle Last Known Address, if any: none A hearing on Petition for Formal Probate of Will and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative for a probate case to be commenced for Harold Winter and for the appointment of a personal representative will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: 09/25/2017 * Time: 8:00 am Courtroom or Division: Rm 230 Address: Denver City and County Building, 1437 Bannock St, Room 230 Denver, CO 80202 Legal Notice No.: 8167 First Publication: August 24, 2017 Last Publication: September 7, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Roger Paul Thomasch, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30922 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Co-Personal Representatives or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 10, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Paul B. Thomasch Laura T. Uzzle Co-Personal Representatives 13740 Telluride Drive Broomfield, Colorado 80020 Legal Notice No: 8153 First Publication: August 10, 2017 Last Publication: August 24, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Christy L. Long, aka Christy Lynn Long, aka Christy Long, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30886 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 18, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Catherine A. Long Personal Representative 7271 E. Bentley Circle Centennial, Colorado 80112 Legal Notice No: 8156 First Publication: August 17, 2017 Last Publication: August 31, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sharon Elizabeth Walker, aka Sharon E. Walker, aka Sharon Walker, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30874 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 18, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Judith L. Forman Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sharon Elizabeth Walker, aka Sharon E. Walker, aka Sharon Walker, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30874

You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone All persons having claims against the aboveadvertise yourcall, public notices call 303-566-4100 or court appearance will not protect you. named estate are required toTo present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver If you do not file your Response on time, the Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, court may make orders affecting your marriage Colorado on or before December 18, 2017 or or domestic partnership, your property, and custhe claims may be forever barred. tody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

Judith L. Forman Personal Representative For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Online Self-Help Center Denver, Colorado 80203 (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (.www lawhelpca.org), or Legal Notice No: 8159 by contacting your local county bar association.

First Publication: August 17, 2017 Last Publication: August 31, 2017 NOTICE-RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PAGE 2: These restraining orders are effective against PUBLIC NOTICE both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the NOTICE TO CREDITORS court makes further orders. They are enforceEstate of Barry Stuart Engel, able anywhere in California by any law enforceaka Barry S. Engel, ment officer who has received or seen a copy of aka Barry Engel, Deceased them.

Case Number: 2017 PR 30980

Notice To Creditors

Misc. Private Legals

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 18, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

Marsha S. Engel Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No: 8160 First Publication: August 17, 2017 Last Publication: August 31, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Renee Arlene Anderson f/k/a Renee A. Rehg, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30918 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 26, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert F. Rehg Personal Representative 7749 N. Sunrise Trail Parker, Colorado 80137 Legal Notice No: 8166 First Publication: August 24, 2017 Last Publication: September 7, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice Dental patient record destruction notice: Susan H. Kurtz D.D.S. and Anne Gittings D.D.S. will be destroying dental records for their adult patients who have not received dental treatment or examination from them since August 1, 2010. If you do not want your records destroyed, please contact Dr Kurtz & Dr Gittings before August 31, 2017.

Legal Notice No.: 8146 First Publication: August 3, 2017 Last Publication: August 24, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice First Amended SUMMONS (Family Law) CITACION (Derecho familiar) NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name): LIA EVELYN SALAZAR AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre): You have been sued. Read the information below and on the next page.

Lo han demandado. Lea Ia informacion a continuacion y en Ia pagina siguiente Petitioner's name is: MANUEL JOSE FAJARDO Nombre del demandante CASE NUMBER (N0MERO DE CASO): 80648816 For Court Use Only (SOLO PARA USO DE LA CORTE) CONF0RMED COPY ORIGINAL FILED Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles APR 14, 2017 Sherri R. Cartet, Executive Officer By: Irma Labry, Deputy You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center

Tiene 30 dias de calendario despues de haber recibido Ia entrega legal de esta Citaci6n y Petici6n para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-12Q) ante Ia corte y efectuar Ia entrega legal de una copia a/ demandante. Una carla o 1/amada telef6nica o una audiencia de Ia corte no basta para protegerlo.

Sino presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, Ia corte puede dar 6rdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y Ia custodia de sus hijos. La corte tambien /e puede ordenar que pague rnanutenci6n, y honorarios y costas legales.

Para asesoramiento legal, p6ngase en contacto de inrnediato con un abogado. Puede obtener informacion para encontrar un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (.www.lawhelpca.org) o poni{mdose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

A VISO-LAS ORDENES DE RESTR/CCION SE ENCUENTRAN EN LA PAGINA 2: Las 6rdenes de restricci6n estan en vigencia en cuanto a ambos c6nyuges o miernbros de Ia pareja de hecho hasta que se despida Ia peticion, se ernita un fallo o Ia corte de otras 6rdenes. Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas 6rdenes puede hacer/as acatar en cualquier Iugar de California.

EXENCION DE CUOTAS: Sino puede pagar Ia cuota de presentaci6n, pida a/ secretario un formulario de exenci6n de cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por cornpleto, las cuotas y costas de Ia corte previamente exentos a petici6n de usted ode Ia otra parte.

1. The name and address of the court are (EI nombre y direccion de Ia corte son): LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT 111 NORTH HILL STREET LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner's attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (EI nombre, direcci6n y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante sino tiene abogado, son): EVANGELINA MALHOTRA, ESQ. SBN 112862 (562) 806-9400 MALHOTRA & MALHOTRA 7847 E. Florence Avenue, Suite 111, Downey, CA 90240 ARTER SHERRI R. C -

STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. removing the minor children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor children; 3. transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.

You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective..However, you may use community property, quasi-community prop-

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uses, especially reading signs in public. Plus, if you know braille, you’re more likely to be employed.”

At the table with Spears’ students, Mickey Payne sat punching a braille slate with a stylus, writing each letter and word backward so it would be right when she flipped it over.

“This means a lot to me,” Payne said. “I can read and write now.”

Among braille’s limitations are how much size it takes up. The center’s braille library’s dictionary is 72 volumes. “Gone with the Wind” takes up nine huge binders.

The center offers classes beyond the core skills. Students in the woodworking class use power saws, drills and hammers to build a variety of furnishings and projects.

“I’m finishing up a cake stand,” said Libby Connor of Arizona, tapping footers into an elegant stand composed of locally harvested cottonwood. “First I cut the logs to size with a chain saw, then I sanded it down and now I’m just putting it all together.”

Other classes and events include art, rock climbing, skiing, canoeing, and whitewater rafting.

For those who had sight into adulthood, the center is a lifesaver.

“I went blind my senior year of college,” said Kosy Asabere, 28, from Pennsylvania. “I had to stop going because I just didn’t have the skills.

I couldn’t use a computer, I couldn’t read my textbooks. I didn’t know how

Chris Parsons, a technology teacher, said blind people may often be able to navigate the internet more quickly than sighted people, thanks to keyboard shortcuts.

PHOTOS BY DAVID GILBERT to get to class. I was just stuck. The center gave me the tools to go back and finish. I feel like I can go for my master’s too. I came here for the tech skills, and now I’ve learned to program. I found my calling here.”

Public learns, too The center aims to educate the public as well, Burke said.

“One of the biggest misconceptions about the blind is that we don’t know where we are,” Burke said. “My person is not as private as a sighted person. People might grab my hand without asking, thinking I need help.”

Deden said the public could stand to appreciate the blind better.

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Jayaram Lamichhane, 21, stands in the center’s garden. He said the center has given him confidence that was hard to come by in his native Nepal.

“The unemployment rate among blind people is 70 percent,” Deden said. “We need the public to understand that blind people are very valuable, and to give blind people an opportunity and a chance.”

Deden said many blind people rely on Social Security and Medicaid.

She said 80 percent of the center’s students go on to college, vocational training, or jobs.

Chaz Davis, who graduated at the end of July, will go on to graduate school at the University of Denver.

“Right now I’m making a big meal for everyone to celebrate my last day here,” Davis said, chopping veggies and herbs for curry chicken salad

Libby Connor of Arizona puts the finishing touches on a cake stand in the center’s woodshop. She’s wearing “sleepshades,” a mask that blocks all light for those who retain some limited sight, to fully immerse them in their new skills.

wraps. “I lost my sight about 3 1/2 years ago. It was a genetic thing I didn’t know I had. I was in the middle of college and didn’t know how to navigate life.”

Davis said he was a runner in college, but didn’t let blindness stop him — he competed in the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this year.

“I feel extremely independent now, and that’s what it’s all about. There are so many blind people who are confined to their blindness because they don’t have the skills to travel, to t be employed. That’s what they teach b here. So many people who have come t through this program have gone on to great things.” t H R t & p m o v

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Gov. John Hickenlooper addresses an estimated crowd of 150 people at the state capitol on Aug. 11 to announce plans for the Redbarre Digital Media and Technology Campus. Company executives said Redbarre plans to build a 70-acre facility in the Compark area of Parker by 2020, creating an estimated 4,000 jobs. `COURTESY PHOTO

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A big player in the world of entertainment and digital media plans to bring 4,000 jobs and a 70-acre campus to Parker by 2020.

At an Aug. 11 press conference at the state Capitol in Denver, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Parker officials and Redbarre executives announced plans to create the Redbarre Digital Media & Technology Campus in the Compark area just north of E-470. The 1.9 million-square-foot, mixed-use development will focus on feature film, television and digital media production.

“Something like that can be transformational,” said Dennis Houston, CEO of the Parker Area Chamber of Commerce. “It’s life changing, what it could mean for the town and for the region.”

The company has yet to submit a

site plan application, but according to Parker Business Recruitment Manager Matt Carlson, a portion of the property is under contract and the remainder of the required property is under contract with a right of first refusal, meaning the land is available to Redbarre first if needed for the development.

Carlson cautioned that nothing is official yet and that the project is still in its infancy, but added that the fact the governor endorsed the project means that all signs are promising. Carlson added that ancillary businesses generated by the studio would have a significant impact on the entire south metro region.

“Hollywood is not a monolith,” he said. “Those people have to eat somewhere.”

Mayor Mike Waid echoed Carlson’s take, adding that retail space, office buildings and a boutique hotel would likely follow in the studio’s wake.

“The uniqueness of Parker is what allows catalyst projects like this,” Waid said. “This type of project lends itself to the cultural environment we’ve created in Parker.”

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