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Park Martial Arts, 1073 S. Pearl St. But after a woman was attacked in July on the Platte River Trail in Littleton — she managed to escape her attacker — the studio decided to take action and is offering women two months of free classes. They must attend their first class by the end of October. The offer is for the general adult martial art classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with open mat time on Saturdays.

One of the difficult things about teaching self-defense is getting people to stay in classes long-term, Spindle said.

Colorado’s status as a “purple” state often gets tossed about, and in the battle to tilt the state to Republicans’ and Democrats’ liking, unaffiliated voters are caught in a tug-of-war.

Just how mixed the electorate really is sparks debate in a state that voted for Democrats in the last three presidential elections but where support for President Donald Trump has been high among Republicans. Statewide, active registered Democrats have inched past Republicans, compared to this time two years ago. Democrats now lead with about 994,000 voters to Republicans’ 973,000, whereas the GOP held onto a 3,000-voter lead over Democrats in 2016.

But in the 2018 midterm elections, unaffiliated voters — those who don’t officially identify with a political party — are in high demand, viewed as having the potential to blur the red and blue lines. Unaffiliateds account for roughly 1.21 million of Colorado’s active voters, or 37 percent of the total.

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Allison Webster, left, learns how to do a move from Vanessa Spindle. Wash Park Martial Arts is offering free classes for women for two months to learn self-defense.

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Finding inner strength Platt Park martial arts school teaches women to defend themselves

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Imagine you’re driving a car. You go to make a turn and suddenly another car is there. Quickly, you slam on the brakes preventing a collision.

For Vanessa Spindle, a teacher at Wash Park Martial Arts in Platt Park, learning self-defense is a lot like driving a car. Awareness of

your surroundings can go a long way in preventing a potential incident. Even without any physical skills, Spindle said women can use a combination of instinct, direct eye contact and awareness of surroundings to recognize a potential threat.

“Being aware of your surroundings in and of itself is one of the biggest things you can do,” she said. “In that moment of ‘can it be prevented’, it doesn’t matter whose fault it is. It’s ‘can it be prevented?’ ” Spindle, who has practiced martial arts for 25 years, has been running seminars and other classes specifically on women’s self-defense for the past three years at Wash

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Homeless Out Loud group aims to repeal camping ban Organization works to get measure on city ballot next May

BY ESTEBAN L. HERNANDEZ DENVERITE.COM

Denver Homeless Out Loud organizer Benjamin Dunning got an urgent reminder Sept. 25 of why he and the organization he works for are pushing for a ballot measure effectively repealing the city’s urban camping ban.

It was a call from a man who told him he’s about to lose his living space.

“He didn’t give me the details about what’s going on, but he says `I’m going to be homeless soon,’” Dunning said. “So I was explaining to him: Biggest issue is know where to camp, know where the police are sweeping. So the reason the ordinance is important is people need to sleep.”

Organizers are hoping to give voters a chance to decide whether to repeal the city’s controversial urban camping ban during the May 2019 municipal election. Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say the current ban prevents people from finding safe spaces to sleep and exposes them to police harassment. It’s been in place since 2012.

“This initiative actually protects the right to sleep and use blankets but also protects just the basic right to exist in public space,” Denver Homeless Out Loud’s Terese Howard said.

Howard said they’ve collected more than 9,000 signatures for the measure, called the “Right to Survive Initiative.” They need at least 4,726 signatures from registered voters in the city for a spot on the ballot. They were planning on dropping off the signed petitions to the Denver Elections Division on Oct. 1, more than three months ahead of the deadline.

Howard said it’s the first time they’ve tried passing the ordinance through the city’s ballot initiative process. The group has tried presenting a similar, statewide bill for the past four years.

The initiative would ask voters to “adopt a measure that secures and enforces basic rights for all people” in Denver. It would give people the right to rest and shelter in a “nonobstructive” manner in public and outdoor spaces and allow people to stay in legally parked cars.

“It would repeal (the urban camping ban) and every other law that criminalizes acts of survival in public space,” Howard said. “It gives rights. It says we have basic human rights, they include sitting, using blankets, sleeping in your vehicle, and you can’t have laws that crimi-

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nalize that.” understand what’s going on,” Smith The bill has support from numersaid. ous local advocacy and resource orDenver’s Road Home is housed ganizations. Howard said it includes within the city’s Human Services “regular, neighborhood people” Department. Smith said the city has who have voiced concerns about the helped place close to 6,300 formerly city’s laws. homeless people Howard added into permanent that at the mohousing since ment, there are 2011. fewer encampPeople expements being disriencing homeplaced by the city. lessness aren’t She thinks it has necessarily fasomething to do miliar with the with the classinitiative but action lawsuit are supportive filed by Homeless of its goal.

Out Loud in 2016 Jose Orozco against the city said he’s been claiming that the experienctaking of people’s ing homeless property during on-and-off sweeps is unconsince he was stitutional. The a teenager. He trial prompted the strict Terese Howard, said by the lawsuit is rules in Denver Denver Homeless Out Loud mean people scheduled to start next March. organizer end up finding Opponents of spaces that are the proposed bill “far from other include Counplaces,” and cilman Albus can leave them Brooks, who has publicly said he in unsafe surroundings. He hadn’t opposes such a ban reversal. Brooks heard of the initiative. doesn’t think the proposed law is an Orozco said it’s human nature effective way to address homelessto want to be around other people. ness.

And things can get complicated for “If that bill had a funding mechapeople living outside who use drugs nism to support housing for people or alcohol, with the alcohol leadexperiencing homelessness, I would ing to potential issues like frostbite be completely supportive,” Brooks once the weather gets cold. said, but since it would allow camp“It’s hard to be homeless and soing in public spaces, he’s not supber,” Orozco said. “It’s hard because porting it. “That is not effective and you got to keep moving. Anywhere it doesn’t help anyone.” you go, you’re trespassing.”

He said national studies have Another man who identified himsuggested wrap-around services pro- self as Bruce and who was resting viding mental health and housing near a curb on Lincoln Street said resources are critical. The Caring 4 he hadn’t heard of the initiative but Denver initiative, which would prowas aware of some of the organizavide mental health services through tions that help people experiencing a tax increase, is the kind of balhomelessness. He couldn’t chat too lot initiative Brooks supports and long, he said, because he was busy thinks could benefit people experiattending to a friend. encing homelessness.

William Walbon said he grew Julie Smith, spokesperson for up in Denver and has experienced the city homeless resources office homelessness for the last seven Denver’s Road Home, said writing years. Walbon joined Orozco and a citation — one of the most conabout 10 other people on Sept. 25 troversial aspects of the law — is resting near the grassy area next to the last resort for officers. Brooks the Colorado Veterans Monument, said there have been fewer than 30 which sits in front of the State tickets issued for camping ordiCapitol. nance violations since the law was Walbon said police sweeps happen enacted. every day. They’re not pleasant, esDenver police’s job is instead to pecially when they happen to people take a proactive approach: Cops are Walbon said are going through difgiven pocket guides with inforficult times. mation on housing and medical Denverite is an online local news resources to give to people they source for everything you need to encounter. know about Denver in 5 minutes.

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In the lower levels of the downtown branch of the Denver Public Library, Rob Valuck, director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention, holds up a small device with a spray nozzle, similar to nasal decongestants. The device contains naloxone, an antidote to opioids, which can temporarily reverse the effects of an overdose.

The device is easy to use and can help to save someone’s life, Valuck said.

After his speech, he pulled out a dummy of the device, asking Mayor Michael B. Hancock to demonstrate how to administer it.

The demonstration was part of a larger event, International Overdose Awareness Day, on Aug. 30. Opioids were involved in more than 42,000 deaths across the nation in 2016.

In 2017, 201 people died of a drug overdose in Denver. Of those deaths, 70 percent of them involved three or more substances, Valuck said in his speech that day.

The event was a start of a larger push for the Opioid Response Strategic Action Plan released by the city of Denver at the end of July. Before releasing the plan, Hancock mentioned the opioid crisis in his State

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of the City speech, saying overdoes deaths had increased by 15 percent increase since last year.

During his speech, Valuck said that part of the reason overdose numbers have been rising is because a large number or people started using about 10 to 12 years ago. From first exposure, it takes that amount of time for people to build an addiction and habit to a substance before overdosing. It also means the number of deaths related to opioid overdoses are going to keep going up for the next few years.

“It probably will not peak until its in the range of 100,000 to 150,00 Americans a year dying from opioid overdoses,” he said. “Those trains have left the station and we cannot get them back.”

Getting people into treatment is the best hope, he said.

The city’s five-year action plan will focus on preventing substance (mis) use, improving treatment access and retention, as well as reducing harm.

The city is defining (mis)use as using drugs for reasons other than their intended purpose, as well as general substance use.

For people already using drugs in the city, there can be barriers to treatment such as costs and stigma around asking for help.

Katelyn Cole, project coordinator of the PHASE program with the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD), said some of those stigmas prevent people from getting the help they need.

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A new look for the ‘People’s Course’ Project at City Park Golf Course on schedule to be finished next May

BY KAILYN LAMB KLAMB@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Nearly a year after the closure of the City Park Golf Course, the clubhouse has been demolished and construction has started on the new one, which will be directly across the street from the Denver Zoo’s main entrance at 2300 Steele St. City Park Golf Course opened to the public in 1913 at 2500 York St. The land was formerly a dairy farm covering 136 acres and an TO LEARN MORE exhibit in the new clubhouse For more information will help honor its history as on the redesign the “People’s at City Park Golf Course.”

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The website will also instance, was list any future open one of the first courses to allow house meetings.

African-American men to play in the 1960s through the East Denver Golf Club, which used it as its home course.

“We just want to make sure people are celebrating that,” said Leslie Wright, director of marketing for Denver Golf.

A rendering of the plans for City Park Golf Course once construction on the course is completed. The course is part of the city’s flood mitigation plan Platte to Park Hill. COURTESY OF CITY OF DENVER DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Last November, the 18-hole golf course at one of Denver’s largest parks shut down for construction.

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In addition to increasing the flood retention at City Park Golf Course, the project includes a redesign of the entire area. The project was estimated at $40 million. Hale Irwin, a professional golfer-turned-course designer, was brought in for the work along with Broomfield-based iConGolf Studio.

Platte to Park Hill is focusing on Denver’s northern neighborhoods, said Nancy Kuhn a spokesperson with Denver Public Works.

“With no natural drainage way in this area, such as a creek or stream, and a century-old network of underground pipes that are aging, undersized and inadequate, these neighborhoods are the most at-risk for flooding in Denver,” she said in an email.

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She said it’s important to recognize that change doesn’t happen overnight. Many people who relapse forget that and close themselves off.

But that is often the last thing they need, Cole said.

The MHCD has facilities througout Denver and offers services for all aspects of mental health, including recovery. PHASE specifically works with people on probation or parole in creating a safe space for people to engage in recovery for both mental

meant to hold various levels of water, enough for a 100-year storm. The retention area allows the water to slowly drain instead of flooding the nearby neighborhoods.

Flood mitigation is all on the west side of the course, which is under construction now, Wright said.

There was some controversy behind the project, as seven Denver residents sued the city before the course’s closure saying the project violated the city charter.

David H. Goldberg, a judge for Denver District Court, ruled in favor of the city on Oct. 26, days before the course was set to close on Nov. 1.

So far, construction is on schedule to be completed at the end of May next year, Wright said. After that, the city will let the grass re-grow on the course before reopening it to the public. The city is hoping to reopen as early as next fall, Wright said.

“Reopening is really going to depend on grass growth,” she said. “Mother Nature is going to play a big role.”

health issues and addiction.

Part of Cole’s job as the project coordinator is to create a support network for people on their journey of recovery. Treatment and recovery can be a long process, Cole said. Many people go through relapses. Since Cole works with mental health as well as patients struggling with addiction, a large part of her job is counseling and directing people toward other resources to help them on their path to recovery.

But one of the most important resources a person in recovery can have is a support network, she said.

“I can’t stress that enough,” she said. “It’s not easy going through that alone.”

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“What I noticed was that women were going to one class, and it was concerning to me because I didn’t want people coming to an hour-long class and then thinking `Oh I’m good now,’ ” she said. “In some ways I felt I was almost doing a disservice.” e For Spindle, offering the martial arts classes is about more than teaching women a practical skill — it’s also about empowering them to find their own strength.

Over the years of both teaching and taking martial arts classes, Spindle said she has noticed that younger classes are full of girls. But fewer women are taking martial arts classes as they get older. Many of the adult classes she teaches are composed primarily of men, with one or two women here and there.

Women in adult classes tend to follow a pattern, she said.

In the beginning some are timid and apologetic, worried they might hurt someone. As the class goes on, women begin to realize their own strength and to understand they can use martial arts as a way to potentially overpower someone who outweighs them. This moment is one of Spindle’s favorite parts about teaching women.

“At some point, about halfway through class usually, this little switch will flip,” she said. “Suddenly, she’s

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A key piece to staying safe, though, is trusting your instinct, Spindle said.

If a woman notices someone that causes her to feel uncomfortable, it’s important to trust that instinct, Spindle said. Many women try to diffuse the situation by ignoring the person or trying to blend into crowds.

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“When you talk to people, nobody’s quite sure what the turnout is going to be this year — that’s part of why there’s so much focus on the unaffiliated voters,” said Matt Crane, Arapahoe County’s clerk and recorder, who oversees elections there.

In a time of increasingly polarized national politics — and even a strongly divided state climate — unaffiliated voters have grown as a group over the last decade, overtaking both major parties as the state’s largest voting bloc.

But don’t count them all as true independents, analysts say.

“I don’t think the impact of the unaffiliated voters will be huge,” said Seth Masket, a political science professor at the University of Denver. He added: “They tend to act a lot like partisans.”

How much of a wild card the group will actually be is far from certain, but with the loudest voice in the room, unaffiliated voters are under the microscope this season.

Brewing for years The passing of Proposition 108 in 2016, which allowed voters to participate in a major party’s primary elections without officially aligning with that party, put the spotlight on undeclared voters. But they’ve been quietly gaining for years, Crane said.

“We’ve seen an uptick in unaffiliated registration since 2006 or 2007,” Crane said of the pattern in Arapahoe County. “It goes back that far, where you see people leaving both parties and going unaffiliated.”

Statewide, comparing year-by-year each August, unaffiliated active registered voters surpassed Republicans and Democrats, respectively, by 2013, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.

Frustration with major parties likely plays a role, and Colorado’s state Legislature has been among the most polarized in the country — in terms of how far the parties are from each other in ideology — according to research by Boris Shor of the University of Houston and Nolan McCarty of Princeton University.

“When the choices seem so far apart between the parties, it tends to push people to register as unaffiliated,” said Robert Preuhs, political science professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

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ACTIVE-VOTER REGISTRATION BY COUNTY AUGUST 2018 County

Democrat

Republican

Adams

81,781

57,725

91,797

Arapahoe

116,272

97,708

130,689

Denver

185,298

51,446

136,683

Douglas

42,582

92,471

73,331

Elbert

2,143

9,898

5,771

111,920

108,167

143,244

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Democrat

Republican

Adams

77,202

55,540

76,727

Arapahoe

109,965

100,540

112,113

Denver

178,211

53,944

117,858

Douglas

40,089

91,596

60,939

Elbert

2,189

9,369

4,884

109,140

111,374

128,938

AUGUST 2016

SOURCE: COLORADO SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE

It’s common for millennials to register as unaffiliated, said Crane, a Republican running for re-election in November.

And, as with several facets of Colorado life, high population growth may play a role.

“New migrants from any other state tend to be more likely to register as unaffiliated until they get a sense of how the party operates in their state,” Preuhs said. More hard-line conservative or liberal voters may forgo the caution, he added, but newcomers to the state likely add to the unaffiliated count on the margins.

Even Western individualism may have shaped Colorado’s makeup, Preuhs said, referencing the idea that the Mountain West identity may not fit easily into Republican or Democratic policy positions.

“Relative to other states, Colorado has had a high proportion of unaf-

filiated voters dating back (a few) decades,” Preuhs said.

Eyes on the prize Both major parties, in and out of Colorado, are spending money to target unaffiliated voters, Crane said.

“There’s a real science behind trying to figure out how to woo the unaffiliated voters,” Crane said. Television ads, literature dropped at doors and socialmedia efforts are among the methods used to chase those voters in areas of the state where they’re prominent, and key messages from Matt Crane, campaigns can be part of that Arapahoe County targeting, he clerk and recorder added.

Both parties have their work cut out for them because they’ve moved to further to the left and right in recent years, said Dick Wadhams, political strategist and former chair of the Colorado Republican Party. For example, Sen. Bernie Sanders did well in Colorado during his presidential run, he said.

“But it becomes more difficult to appeal to the more unaffiliated voters” the more that happens, Wadhams said.

To be a Democratic nominee today, a candidate has to lean far left, and Republicans “have to pass the Trump test,” said Eric Sondermann, a Colorado political analyst, while discussing the governor’s race.

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‘When you talk to people, nobody’s quite sure what the turnout is going to be this year — that’s part of why there’s so much focus on the unaffiliated voters.’

ton or others deviating much from Trump orthodoxy,” Sondermann said, referencing the Republican candidate for governor.

Judging by the June primary election, Democrats will hope more unaffiliated voters turn out to vote, while Republicans would likely be content with a normal election scenario, Preuhs said.

“Republicans tend to turn out more than Democrats and unaffiliated voters in midterms,” Preuhs said.

In the June primary, unaffiliated voters chose the Democratic ballot over the Republican one by roughly 70,000, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

Parties that aren’t in power “tend to have more momentum,” Sondermann said previously. “It doesn’t determine what’ll happen in November, but I’d rather be holding the Democratic cards than the Republican cards.”

On the fence?

It’s popular to point out that unaffiliated voters are Colorado’s largest voting bloc — making up more than one-third of the electorate — but practically, Sondermann said, that’s inaccurate.

“There are many unaffiliated voters that are tacit Republicans or Democrats,” Sondermann said.

True unaffiliateds who can go either way would likely make up somewhere around 10 percent to 20 percent of unaffiliated voters, Sondermann guesses — which works out to just under 4 percent to 8 percent of all voters in Colorado.

But they’re still the “gold mine of politics,” he added.

“They’re the group that elected (President Barack) Obama and then switched and elected Trump — elected (Sen. Mark) Udall and then Cory Gardner,” Sondermann said.

Moving the needle For the midterms, “the big question” is how many in the group will actually vote, Preuhs said.

“Even when they have stable preferences, unaffiliated voters are still less likely to vote” than affiliated ones, Preuhs said.

Their potential to pull politicians to the middle may not be monumental, according to Masket.

“In other states, at any rate, when we see primaries open up to unaffiliated voters, we don’t really see much of an effect on the elected officials themselves,” Masket said.

“They don’t seem to become any more moderate, in large part because unaffiliated or independent voters simply don’t vote in very high numbers.”

Whether more unaffiliated voters participating will cause a shift in Colorado politics will take years to become clear, Preuhs said. And even this midterm election may not shed much light — identifying patterns is difficult given the uniqueness of the Trump administration and its influence, he added.

“For the real answers, we’re going to have to see,” Preuhs said. “We need more data to see what shift is going to occur, if any.”

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RSVP, or dwpconline.org/events/socialmedia-secrets-with-melody-jones-oct-6/ Taps & Tails: 6-10 p.m. Thursdays, Oct. 11, Oct. 18 and Oct. 25 at the Denver Zoo. Popup bier hall features Colorado breweries, seasonal food, wine, cocktails and entertainment. Host is comedian Janae Burris.

Two-time Grammy winner Will Champlin performs Oct. 11; singer/songwriter Rob Drabkin performs Oct. 18; DJ Rockstar Aaron hosts an animal onesie Halloween dance party Oct. 25. Ages 21-plus only. Go to https://denverzoo.org/ Enchanted Hollows: 6-9:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 5-6, Oct. 12-13, Oct. 19-20 and Oct. 26-2y at the Denver Zoo. For families and children 8 and older. Features Woodland Hollow, jack-o-lantern sculptures, spooky décor, seasonal foods, beer, wine, cocktails, animal meet-and-greets.

Trick-or-treat candy stations Oct. 26-27. Go to https://denverzoo.org/ St. Dominic’s 6th Annual Oktoberfest of the Highlands: 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 at Saint Dominic Catholic Parish, 2905 Federal Blvd., Denver. Our Denver Highlands event features live music and multiple neighborhood-local craft beer and fan favorite food vendors from the area. Admission is free; families and pets are welcome. Contact Christine Speckman at oktoberfest@stdominicdenver.org for more information.

Ballet Mélange Presents Melange D’Amour: 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14 at the Cleo Parker Robinson Theater, 119 Park Ave W in Denver. Ballet Mélange presents Melange D’amour - classic excerpts from well-known ballet love stories interspersed with the energy and excitement of contemporary works. One performance only. Tickets are $15. Visit www.classical-ballet-academy. com/ballet-melange/.

Boo at the Zoo: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20-21 and Oct. 27-28 at the Denver Zoo. Animal demonstratinos, trick-or-treat stations, family-friendly entertainment. Go to https://denverzoo.org/ Regional Premiere Production of `Oh My God!’: Runs through Sept. 30 at the Pluss Theatre in Denver’s Staenburg-Loup Jewish Community Center, 350 South Dahlia Street, Denver. Produced by Theatre Or, in collaboration with the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, Oh My God! is an early selection of JAAMM Fest (Jewish Arts, Authors, Music and Movies). For information about the show and touring, contact Theatre Or at theatreor@ mindspring.com, or call 303-801-5122. Tickets are available at each venue listed below and at www.theatre.com

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Invisible Links: Botanical Art and Illustration: Runs through Oct. 14 at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St, Denver. Denver Botanic Gardens’ School of Botanical Art & Illustration presents its annual juried exhibition highlighting students’ best achievements in a variety of media. Visit www. botanicgardens.org for more information.

Regional Premiere of: Love Alone: Performances will be Oct. 13 through Nov. 10 with shows Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m., plus Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $23 for adults/$20 for students, seniors and military or $18 for groups of 10 or more. All performances will be at The John Hand Theater at 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, CO 80230. Tickets and more information available online at www. firehousetheatercompany.com.

Glow at the Gardens: 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Oct. 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25 at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St, Denver. Enjoy spooky storytelling, hands-on crafts, games, cash bars, seasonal café specials and of course, a little trick-or-treating at this festive fall event. Seasonal food and beverages are available for purchase. Visit www.botanicgardens.org for more information.

Victorian Horrors: Offered over three weekends, the hour-long performances begin every 15 minutes from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on October 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27.

Victorian Horrors is environmental theater set within Denver’s most historic - and some say, most haunted - Capitol Hill mansion.

Tickets are $20 per person and $18 for Historic Denver members, seniors and children.

Call 303-832-4092, ext. 16 for tickets or visit www.mollybrown.org. Advised for ages 12 and up, per parental discretion.

Ghosts in the Gardens Tour: Friday-Sunday, Oct. 19-21 and 26-28, 6-8 p.m. and 8:3010:30 p.m. at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St, Denver. Guides share haunting stories of the Gardens’ one hundred years of history, inside and outside of what used to be called “The Boneyard.” Visit www.botanicgardens.org for more information.

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Autumn has list full of ways to be wistful

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A six-letter word that summons hundreds, and all of them are apples and the color orange.

My friend Thoreau said, “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

I hope that didn’t make you Thoreau up.

Autumn is a perfect time to reminisce about the year and about life.

It comes just ahead of the mania of Christmas, which now enters the room much too early.

Those of us who are graying might look at the leaves on our lawns and streets and remember a childhood moment when our lives were politicians-free and politicsfree.

But now.

“Press 1, if you plan to vote in the upcoming election.”

“Press 2, if you plan to vote for a Republican.”

“Press 3, if you plan to vote for a

Democrat.”

“Press 4, if you would like me to jump in a lake with a sack over my head.”

Here in Colorado, the four seasons kind of run together, like picnic food QUIET a paper plate.

DESPERATION onBack East, things are different.

The seasons all change when they are supposed to, and rarely get confused.

If you have been here long enough, you might remember the October 15, 1984, Monday Craig Marshall Night Football game Smith played at Mile High Stadium. In a blizzard.

Nora Ephron said, “Don’t you love the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

My nearest grocery store has had

ceramic pumpkins out front for over a month, and now, long before Halloween, there are actual pumpkins.

The minute Halloween has come and gone, I’ll start to see — and hear — the pep rally for Dec. 25.

I could do without the pep rally, but its inevitability is inevitable, isn’t it?

They might be hawking holiday gifts on the home shopping channels right now.

October was always my favorite month of the year, because I was born in October, and October meant gifts. Now it seems like there are two Octobers (or more) every year. I was 30 just a minute ago.

Quiz: Who yelled at falling leaves because it meant winter was next?

“Stay up there. Stop falling. Stop falling, I say.” Answer at the bottom.

Raking leaves is an annual chore.

Some of my neighbors leave it (as it were) to the wind, and I wind up raking them instead.

There are other exterior jobs to be

done before yard maintenance goes into hibernation, and most of them I don’t mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Life starts all over when it gets crisp in the fall.”

It will be nice not to hear the air conditioner doing its best to keep up with our record-setting summer. It will be nice to wear clothes around the house again. Once the dog sitter arrived a day early. Say no more.

When I was a kid, this time of year meant I had a big decision to make. Who to be on Halloween. I was a hobo one year. Flash Gordon another time. Hopalong Cassidy.

I knew I was too old for it when I was asked who I was, and I said, “Karma. Are you worried?”

Answer to the quiz: Lucy Van Pelt.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

`I Can Only Imagine’ what happens when we tell our own story

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ne of my very favorite songs is by MercyMe, and the name of the song is, “I Can Only Imagine.” You may have heard it before. You may have seen the movie that was made about the song and its writer Bart Millard and the band MercyMe. The song was written and recorded in 1999 and rerecorded and rereleased in 2001. When ringtones were first made available, at least when my kids introduced ringtones to me, it became my ringtone whenever anyone would call me, and I just loved whenever my phone rang. And even when I hear the first few notes today, it still brings a tear to my eye.

The statistics for this song are truly amazing as it was a powerful crossover song, meaning “I Can Only Imagine” had significant and meaningful success across all genres of music from pop to country, and of course, Christian rock. I am fairly confident you have heard it, but of you haven’t, you should.

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As powerful as the notes of the music are, and as humbling and inspiring as the lyrics are, the story behind the song is even that much more significant. To understand what I WINNING am talking about, WORDS I encourage you to watch the movie.

Since it had come out, many friends and many of you had encouraged me to go see it. But I never had. Until last week. And it is an incredible film, Michael Norton with an even more amazing story.

And that brings me to my point of this week’s column. The story behind the story. You see, in the movie Bart Millard is an incredible talent, with a moving voice and engaging personality. And he and the band can bring in the crowds as they play their music, but it’s not “their”

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Bart Millard’s story was not pleasant, but in the end, it was beautiful, so incredibly beautiful. I hope that make sense, if not, please watch the movie.

Now I am not sharing this with you because we all have an unpleasant story — some of us do, and some of us don’t. But what I do know is that we all have a story. Each and every one of us. And you do not have to write a column in this paper to share your story with your family, loved ones, or friends. You just need to share your story with them and with others who can appreciate it, learn from it, and maybe even pass it along.

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So how about you? Oh, I am sure you have a story to tell, have you told it? Have you shared it? I encourage you to share it with your family, friends, and loved ones. And if not, please share it with me at gotonorton@gmail.com. And when we can share our own stories, and live the story of love and forgiveness, it really will be a better than good life.

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The IliffWarren mansion was completed in 1893. In 1977, it became home to the RandelMoore school and later changed its name to Accelerated Schools.

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In 1893, Elizabeth Iliff Warren and her second husband, Bishop Henry White Warren, built an 18,000-square-foot mansion in the heart of what is now the University neighborhood.

Elizabeth was formerly the widow of a prominent land owner and cattle baron in Colorado, John Wesley Iliff.

He died in 1876. Many of the streets and buildings in the area bear the name of these founders of the south Denver area.

Jane Queen, director of Accelerated Schools at 2160 S. Cook St., which now calls the mansion home, said the building is a “gem” in the community. The home is often called the Iliff Mansion, but is also known as Fitzroy Place, Queen said.

On Saturday, Sept. 22, the school held a carnival and fundraising event for the 125th birthday of the mansion, which the city designated as a historical xxx in 2007.

For the past 40 years, the school in the mansion has become Queen’s life, but in many ways so has the mansion itself: Queen is the keeper of the school, but also the keeper of the mansion’s history.

“The bottom line is Fitzroy is a historic landmark and, because of that, we’re stewards of the building,”

Queen said. “We try to do the right thing and make the building available to the community.”

Queen offers tours of the building so that visitors can enjoy the historic place.

The building has a unique history.

It was completed in 1893 with a great deal of extravagence. After John died, Elizabeth was worth an estimated $10 million, Queen said. The building still has an old bank safe in it, which Queen says probably weighs? about 3 tons.

“Nothing was left undone in the building of this mansion,” Queen said.

The mansion caught fire in 1910, and it took several years to return it to its original state. Elizabeth lived there until her death in 1920, and her daughter from her first marriage, Louise Iliff, lived there until her death in 1966.

Louise donated the house and its surrounding property, which totaled 4.3 acres and included both the carriage and caretaker houses, to the University of Denver. The university in turn sold it to the owner of the Randall Moore School, which moved the facility there in 1974.

The school changed owners again in 1983, changing its name to Accelerated Schools. Queen began teaching at the school in 1979. She became the director of the school in 2009.

“It’s been my life to be here at this school, and the school was important,” Queen said. “But it was also important to me for us to be stewards of this property. For this building not to be preserved would be almost criminal as far as I’m concerned.”

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‘Educating Rita’ gets smart treatment

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Inside the Reinker Brothers Haunted Mansion fake zombies, ghosts and ghouls distract people from hidden live actors waiting to terrify them.

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Halloween attractions find challenges amid venues’ popularity

The building interest in haunted houses grew a few years ago, according to the NRF surveys, such as in 2009, 2010 and 2011, when the percentage of people expecting to visit a haunted house grew each year.

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n a late September day, Andrew Smith walked through a downtown Littleton shop unlike most on the block.

Inside the Reinke Brothers costume, prop and Halloween store on Prince Street, bundles of hairy spiders dangled from the ceiling, eyeballs filled cabinet shelves and a deli counter held an odd assortment of limbs, heads, guts and the like.

Before Smith left, he made sure to ask when the shop’s haunted house opens for the 2018 season.

He hasn’t been to a haunted house for a long time, he said, but the Littleton resident hasn’t forgotten coming to the Reinke Brothers Haunted Mansion about 10 years ago.

“I remember it being pretty cool,” he said. Haunted houses in general, Smith believes, offer “dark, creepy” fun.

People like to be scared, said Greg Reinke, who runs the Haunted Mansion from within his store with his brother, Chris, and people particularly like to be scared when they know

Mark Villano, Gina Palombo-Dinkel and Joe Palombo started the Haunted Field of Screams in 2001 as a corn maze before turning it into a haunt.

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On Sept. 25, Greg, Chris and a handful of staff were busy putting the final touches on their haunted house, which runs from Sept. 28 through Nov. 4.

Reinke doesn’t know how many people will come through their doors this year. There’s been a lot of buzz as the Haunted Mansion, which will operate for its 50th year in 2018, is reopening after a nearly three-year hiatus.

But in years past, they’ve seen between 18,000 and 30,000 people a season.

The National Retail Federation reported 21 percent of Americans plan to visit a haunted house in 2018. That figure has had held relatively steady in recent years, with 23 percent of Americans in 2017 and 21 percent in 2016 planning to visit such an attraction.

High expectations, big productions With the growing popularity of haunted houses has come growing expectations, said Joe Palombo, co-owner of the 40-acre scream park Haunted Field of Screams, located in Thornton.

Palombo, the Reinkes and other organizers behind Denver metro area haunted houses and spooky attractions are busy preparing for thousands of people to visit their events in the coming weeks while also attempting to keep up with mounting pressure to leave their customers entertained.

“Every year, actually, it gets tough.

You try to revisit things you’ve done well and think of ways to make them better. You try to pick other people’s brains to figure out what scares them,” Palombo said.

Palombo, his brother Mark Villano and sister Gina Palombo-Dinkel started the scream park in 2001 as a daytime corn maze and pumpkin patch.

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mily Van Fleet and John Hutton are very familiar with the words in the Arvada Center’s Black Box seasonopener, “Educating Rita.” After all, they’re the only two people on the stage for the entirety of the show.

But while they may know the lines, its not until an audience sits down to watch the show that they’ll fully understand what the play is about.

“There’s an energy you read when you’re in front of an audience,” Van Fleet explained.

“How they react to the show tells you everything about what the show is really about,” Hutton added.

The new Black Box season kicks off with “Educating Rita,” playing from Oct. 5 through Nov. 11 at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. PerformancCOMING es are at 7:30 p.m.

ATTRACTIONS Thursday through Saturday, 1 p.m. on Wednesday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Directed by Lynne Collins and loosely based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” — the same story that inspired Clarke Reader “My Fair Lady” and “Pretty Woman” — the show centers on Frank and Rita. Frank is a failed poet and professor and Rita is a working-class hairdresser. The two don’t appear to have much in common, but when Rita comes to Frank to learn, they discover new depths in themselves and each other.

“There are all these dynamics at play between them,” Hutton said.

“Issues like age and class, and we get a chance to explore them.”

The show is a comedy, so audiences should expect to laugh along the way, but they also shouldn’t be surprised at how moved they are by the connection between the characters.

“The show takes place in the ‘80s, but it’s just as relevant to today’s world,” Van Fleet said. “There’s a really human relationship happening between these two people and that’s the best part.”

To purchase tickets call 720-8987200 or go to www.arvadacenter.org/ educating-rita.

Longmont’s modern Oktoberfest Some Oktoberfests strive for that straight-out-of-the-Rhineland German authenticity.

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But people started showing up later, wanting to go through the maze at after dark. The siblings quickly realized they could easily turn it into a haunt, Palombo said.

For its 18th year, the park now comprises four attractions — some indoor, some outdoor and all with interactive elements like escape rooms, plus evil clowns and zombies. Tickets get customers access to each section of the park.

They don’t turn anyone away, but they also don’t recommend children younger than 12 years old attempt the park, Palombo said.

To pull the production off, Palombo and his siblings employ nearly 100 actors, which requires a team of 20 more people to manage costuming, makeup and special effects for the cast each night.

In general, props and makeup used in haunted house are becoming “more Hollywood quality,” Palombo said.

“I think we’re getting a little bit better every year. I know the competition is definitely getting stiffer, and becoming more of an industry,” he said.

Reinke and Palambo both say these aren’t easy productions to carry out.

For the trio behind the Haunted Field of Screams, it’s a year-round venture. Villano, a farmer, plants

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And while Longmont’s annual fall celebration certainly has German elements like lederhosen and dirndls, it also features a performance by rootsblues stalwart JJ Grey and Mofro.

Personally, I dig the cultural mix.

Hosted by the Left Hand Brewing Foundation, the seventh annual Longmont Oktoberfest is at Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., from 5 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 5 and noon to 9 p.m on Saturday, Oct. 6. All proceeds go to St. Vrain Football Club and Left Hand Brewing Foundation. t The festival will feature more than 10 breweries, local food, and games for all ages. Ranked as a “Must Visit Oktoberfest” by DRAFT magazine, head to www.lhbfoundation.org/longmontoktoberfest/ for all the details.

National treasure comes to Bellco Mel Brooks is one of those people that the phrase “living legend” was created to describe. The mind behind classics like “Young Frankenstein,” “Spaceballs,” “Blazing Saddles” and countless others is somehow still touring at 92, and you can see him.

Mel Brooks’ Denver stop is at the Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St. in the Colorado Convention Center, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6.

I could make an entire column full of Brooks’ lines that still crack me up every time, but they wouldn’t be near as funny without wizards like Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor or Cloris Leachman delivering them.

DENVER AREA HAUNTED HOUSES AND ATTRACTIONS Looking to visit a haunted house or spooky attraction this Halloween season? Here are some in the Denver metro area.

Castle of Terror Where: 303 Malibu Street, Castle Rock When: Oct. 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27 What: A haunted house benefiting Town of Castle Rock fire and police programs.

Information and tickets: Crgov. com/terror Dead Zone Where: Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, 8500 West Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton When: Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 5-27; Thursdays, Oct. 18 and 25; Sundays, Oct. 14, 21 and 28.

What: Three attractions include an After Dark Corn Maze, Corn Stalkers and Fear Flicks.

Information and tickets: deadzonepark.com Reinke Brothers Haunted Mansion Where: Reinke Brothers, 5663 S. Prince St., Littleton When: Sept. 28 through Nov. 4 What: Daytime “lights on” children’s tours of the haunted house and evening full-effect tours for people of all ages.

Information and tickets: reinkebrothers.com Haunted Field of Screams Where: 10451 McKay Road, Thornton When: Sept. 21 through Oct. 31.

Attractions open at sundown.

the park’s cornfield in early May. By June they’re cutting out the maze. In August, they begin constructing the sets from scratch. In the off season, they’re holding regular planning sessions.

Reinke and his brother personally built the interior of their haunt shop and customize each stage of their haunted house, which they fill with nearly 20 actors who hide and lurch at the thrill-seekers coming through.

Unlike the Haunted Field of Screams, the Haunted Mansion is If you follow Brooks on Twitter you know he’s lost none of his wit in his near-century of life. He’s reached the point where he’s as wise as he is funny — do not miss the chance to see a genius in the flesh. Get tickets at www.bellcotheatre.com.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Foo Fighters at Pepsi Center The Foo Fighters are probably the closest thing people in their midto-late 20s have to a classic rock act that started in their lifetime. They’ve carried the flag for the kind of arenastorming music that just doesn’t get made that often any more.

This kind of rock music sounds better outside, but seeing the Foo Fighters at the Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle in Denver, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 10 isn’t the worst way to spend an evening.

Last year’s Foos album “Concrete and Gold” was an underrated entry into a remarkably solid discography.

But, even if the album wasn’t great, you know they’re going to break out “Everlong” at some point in the evening. That’s worth the price of admission alone.

A little extra enticement — Australia’s Gang of Youths is opening the show, and they’re one of the most literate and exciting bands I’ve come across in years. They make the kind of big album statements that would’ve fit perfectly in the ‘70s.

Grab your tickets to this fantastic pairing at www.altitudetickets.com/ events/detail/foo-fighters.

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What: Four attractions include Condemned, Zombie Paintball Massacre, Dead Man’s Maze and CarnEvil.

Information and tickets: hauntedfieldofscreams.com.

Golden Historic Ghost Tour & Pub Crawl Where: Meeting point is the Dove Inn at 711 14th St., Golden When: Saturdays in October and Oct. 31 What: Visit paranormal hotspots and alleged haunted buildings in downtown Golden.

Information and tickets: goldenghosttour.ticketbud.com or ohsusannavintagephoto.com.

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family-friendly, Reinke said, and they offer children’s tours during the day.

Haunted houses, for real Theatrical haunted houses aren’t the only way to get a good scare this season.

Ghost hunters can visit what many believe to be real haunted houses on various tours, including the Historic Ghost Tour and Pub Crawl, based in Golden.

Run by Suzanne Restle, who said she’s personally witnessed evidence of ghosts in Golden’s historic buildings, the attraction takes people 21 and older on a pub crawl and walking tour of the community’s paranormal hotspots.

It portrays historical events through actors, with stories such as a crooked mayor who overdosed on drugs and a notorious murder known as Golden’s Night of Terror.

Although they offer historic tours year-round, the Halloween-themed tour in October seems to dredge up unexplainable occurrences, Restle said, particularly when she ran her vintage photography business from a downtown building also featured on

House, 3400 E. 52nd Ave. Denver. City of the Dead and Asylum, 7007 E. 88th Ave., Henderson When: 13th Floor, Sept. 21 through Nov. 10, City of the Dead and Asylum, Sept. 21 through Nov. 3.

What: Three haunted houses managed by 13th Floor Entertainment Group.

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the tour.

“Every night we did a tour something strange would happen,” Restle said. “The water would get turned on in the bathroom. Doors would slam.

Pictures would fall off the walls. They (ghosts) definitely wanted us to know they were paying attention to what they were doing.”

Last year, Restle said, every weekend of the tour sold out.

The NRF conducts a survey annually to gauge how much and in what ways consumers plan to spend on the nation’s spookiest holiday. Overall, Americans are projected to drop $9 billion this year, down slightly from last year’s $9.1 billion projection.

It’s the second-highest in the survey’s 14 years running.

Reinke said he knows haunted houses can be an expensive way to celebrate the holiday, but he’s still expecting a big turnout for 2018, and like the NRF found, plenty of revenue to support their efforts.

“What people do when they come through is, they have a blast,” Reinke said. “And I’ll tell you this, if you entertain people, they don’t mind spending money.”

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Black quarterback made history with Broncos Marlin Briscoe started in game against Bengals, marking AFL first

BY CLIFF BRUNT ASSOCIATED PRESS

Marlin Briscoe didn’t want to be pigeonholed simply because of stereotypes against black men. He was a star quarterback in college, and he believed he had the talent, intelligence and leadership skills to be one in the pros.

Fifty years ago, during an era of massive social upheaval in the United States, just getting a chance to prove it took a risky ultimatum.

Briscoe refused to switch positions after being drafted as a cornerback by the Denver Broncos, telling his team that he’d return home to become a teacher if he couldn’t get a tryout at quarterback. Denver agreed to an audition, and that season the 5-foot-10 dynamo nicknamed “The Magician” became the first black quarterback to start a game in the American Football League.

“It’s just so many different historic things that happened in the year 1968, it was unfathomable,” Briscoe, now 73, told The Associated Press. “It just seemed poetic justice, so to speak, that the color barrier be broken that year at that position. For some reason, I was ordained to be the litmus test for that. I think I did a good job.”

Briscoe’s groundbreaking accomplishments were somewhat lost in the shuffle during one of the most transformative years in U.S. history. Civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in 1968.

Civil rights riots broke out across the country and there were numerous protests of the Vietnam War. And less than two weeks after Briscoe’s first start, U.S. track and field stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black-gloved fists on the medal stand at the Olympics to protest America’s social injustices.

But Briscoe’s legacy resonates among his contemporaries 50 years later, hitting on race as well as the pressures athletes face in pro sports.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame calls Briscoe the first African-American starting quarterback in modern pro football history. Carolina’s Cam Newton and Seattle’s Russell Wilson have both considered Briscoe’s past as they contend for championships. Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl, counts Briscoe as one of his most important inspirational figures.

“I know the little bit that I had to go through, so I can imagine what he had to go through,” said Williams, who won the 1988 Super Bowl with Washington. “People were a little more accepted when I came through than when he came through.”

Groundbreaking game against Bengals Though Briscoe starred at Omaha University and eventually landed in the College Football Hall of Fame, he was drafted by Denver as a cornerback in the 14th round. Briscoe started last among eight quarterbacks during his tryout.

Helped by injuries and erratic play, Briscoe eventually stepped in for the Broncos as a reserve on Sept. 29, 1968, and nearly led a comeback against the Boston Patriots.

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Kaufman’s Tall & Big shop hits 60-year mark Belief in customer service persists from standards set by founder

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Fred Kaufman had a thriving men’s traditional clothing store in Englewood when he learned from customers of the apparel needs of big and tall men and opted to have his store meet those needs — creating Kaufman’s Tall & Big Shop, a landmark at 3395 S. Broadway.

Sam Kaufman joined his dad in the business and they worked side by side until Fred passed away 2010. His son now runs the business and he continues the tradition of personal service for every customer.

“Dad said he served a lot of customers at his original men’s wear store, but when he learned that big and tall men in the area had only a limited choice of apparel he decided to take on that challenge,” Sam Kaufman said. “He cleared out his traditional inventory and ordered an inventory of clothing to meet the needs of big and tall customers. He opened the big and tall men’s store in 1958 and was the first of its kind in the area and one of only a few big and tall men’s stores in the country.”

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the store, he was active in a variety of areas of the community.

“Dad sad Troy Bledsoe, then coach of the University of Denver basketball team, was a customer and Bledsoe got Dad involved with football and basketball in the area,” Sam Kaufman said. “He helped start the American Basketball Association that began in 1976. He also was on the board of directors for the Denver Rockets that when they joined the ABA became the Denver Nuggets.”

Kaufman said his dad was invited to move his store into the Cinderella City Shopping Center when it opened in Englewood in 1968 but declined.

He did eventually move the South Broadway store across the street to its present location “Dad said he didn’t want to abide by mall rules like the hours the shop could be open,” Kaufman said. “I guess that was because Dad believed in customer service. If a customer called and said he would not be able to get to the shop during normal business hours, Dad would keep the shop open. It was just another example of his belief in customer service.”

He said his dad felt you can sell something to a customer one time but the challenge is to provide the service that will convince customers to return to your store.

Sam Kaufman, left, owner of Kaufman’s Tall & Big Shop, talks with former employee and now customer Mike Miller. The store was founded by Sam’s dad Fred and is celebrating its 60th anniversary.

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He earned the next start against the Cincinnati Bengals, making him the first black quarterback to start a game in the AFL. Briscoe started five games that season and was runner-up for AFL rookie of the year, attracting strong crowds and energizing a franchise that had yet to establish a winning tradition.

Despite his breakout season — he passed for 1,589 yards and 14 touchdowns and ran for 308 yards and three scores — Denver didn’t give him a chance to compete for the quarterback job in 1969. He said he was never given a reason why, so he asked to be released.

“The more I’ve known him and been around him and talked to him, you’ve got to give him respect for what he did during that time and what happened to him after that time,” Williams said. “That’s the part that gets me. But that’s the time he was in.”

Players got death threats As a senior at Grambling, James Harris kept up with Briscoe’s 1968 season by going to the library to look up his statistics.

As fate would have it, Buffalo drafted Harris as a quarterback in 1969, putting him on the same team as Briscoe. It was Harris who became the AFL’s first black quarterback to open the season as a starter, and he said his roommate Briscoe was a critical mentor.

“We used to talk a lot about the do’s and

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don’ts and things that he had been through.

He was telling me the things I needed to be prepared for,” Harris said. “I felt that Marlin was the only person on the team that understood what I was going through.”

That included death threats, Briscoe said.

“We had the race card on our careers because we were the first,” he said.

Harris blossomed at QB. In 1974, he played for the Los Angeles Rams and became the first black quarterback to win an NFL playoff game. He also was Pro Bowl MVP that year.

Briscoe said more work needs to be done both in the league and society. He has noticed that Colin Kaepernick has not been given a contract since his decision to kneel during “The Star Spangled Banner” to protest racial and social inequality.

He believes President Donald Trump, an outspoken critic of Kaepernick, also bears some responsibility for some fans making racial comments toward black players, like a Texas superintendent who resigned recently after criticizing Houston Texans QB Deshaun Watson by saying black QBs can’t be trusted.

After all these years, Briscoe still sees shades of his old struggles.

“I grew up in the `50s and the `60s, when all that stuff was rampant, but you knew where you stood,” Briscoe said. “Today, you thought that all those attitudes were nonexistent or filtered away to some degree, but with the Trump-isms, his philosophy has brought out of the woodwork that old-time thought process. That’s scary. It really is.

It’s a scary situation.”

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He said an example of service to the customer was his dad working with actor Raymond Burr.

“Raymond Burr was a big man and a regular customer,” Kauffman said. “Dad said one of his complaints was he couldn’t get ties long enough so they could be tied properly and look good. Dad said Burr asked for ties 64 inches long. Dad ordered several dozen ties in different patterns.

“When they came in Burr said he really wanted ties 66 inches long. Dad said OK and spent the time to take material from one of the ties and lengthen the others. Burr was satisfied and accepted the ties but may never have known how they were adjusted to meet his requirements.”

Sam Kaufman went to college at Colorado State University and wanted to join his dad in the business.

“Dad initially said no,” Kaufman said. “I kept asking him to join the business and finally he said yes but said he would let me work in the store for five years. I guess I worked out because I am still here.”

He said he is at the store as often as his schedule permits, because he spends a lot of his time at home where it is quiet and he can work on the computer he uses to check out the clothing that is available to meet the needs of his customers.

“Kaufman’s is a small business and we thank all those who shop here and keep us in business,” he said. “We also encourage everyone to look for the small businesses like ours in their community and support those businesses. The people who run those businesses are your neighbors and can only continue in business with the support of the people of the community.”

Homeschool Day: Plants and People of the Southwest: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St, Denver. Homeschool Days offer families the opportunity to explore plant-based themes through a variety of hands-on activities, tours and take-home projects that families can do together.

Activities are designed for children ages five and up, however all ages are welcome to attend. $12 per day per child; One adult per child is free of charge. $7 additional adults and non-participating siblings over the age of two. Visit www.botanicgardens.org for more information.

Music with Friends: Free concert with Ensemble Faucheux: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30 at Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway. Concert is free to the public. Seating is limited - come early to grab a seat and enjoy some great happy hour food and drink specials. Questions? Call 303-388-9839 or email tickets@friendsofchambermusic. com.

Free Fridays at Clyfford Still Museum: Free Fridays 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock Street. Minimalist showcase for the large-scale paintings & archives of the namesake Abstract Expressionist. Call (720) 354-4880 for more information.

The Jester’s Court Returns to The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse: 10 p.m., Fridays at The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse located at 1260 22nd Street, Denver. The Jester’s Court is proud to announce several new performances of its hilarious and very popular short-form improv comedy show.

Tickets are just $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Tickets are available online at www. jesterscourtcomedy.com.

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.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF PAUL JOHN MASTERSON, A/K/A PAUL J. MASTERSON, A/K/A PAUL MASTERSON, DECEASED CASE NUMBER: 18PR31130

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All persons having claims against the above named 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 February 4, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Steven Michael Schum, a/k/a Steven M. Schum, a/k/a Steven Schum, Deceased Case: 2018PR31139

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John McKibben Crank, Deceased Case Number: 2018 PR 30977

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 February 4, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

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 February 4, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Legal Notice No.: 8656 First Publication: October 4, 2018 Last Publication: October 18, 2018 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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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 January 31, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

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