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Rules stiffen as virus worsens State also heightens restrictions in areas seeing bad news on COVID-19

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Stacey Decker, a resident of Denver’s Wellshire neighborhood, sits among the solar panels on her home, which were installed in March after Decker participated in Solar United Neighbors’ 2019 solar co-op.

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Going solar in Denver Co-op offers residents, businesses an opportunity to get group pricing, education on solar installation

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Stacey Decker believes that people in Denver want to do what they can to help reduce negative impacts to the environment.

“Denver is a forward-thinking community,” she said. “Many people are realizing the benefits of energy independence.”

Decker is a homeowner in Denver’s Wellshire neighborhood. She has lived in her home for about five years and had an interest in converting to solar power. But the initial research she did on her own found it to be too expensive.

Then, in the summer of 2019, Decker learned of a new co-op by a nonprofit organization called Solar United Neighbors (SUN) that helps people

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LEARN MORE To learn more about Solar United Neighbors, visit www.solarunitedneighbors.org/denver.

On that website, people can sign up for the next information sessions, which are scheduled to take place as webinars at 6 p.m. Nov. 17 and at noon on Dec. 12.

The website also includes an orientation video which was part of an online launch event and orientation on Oct. 5. The Spanish-language presentation took place on Oct. 8.

Denver has forced businesses, gyms and offices to reduce their capacity because of rising coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the city.

The changes, which took effect Oct. 28, come as the state has downgraded the city to Colorado’s safer-at-home Level 3 status, one step above returning to a full-fledged lockdown like what was put in place last spring. At the state leve, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced Oct. 27 it is also moving five other counties to more restrictive statuses: Adams, Arapahoe, Kit Carson, Otero and Crowley.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced the news for his city on Oct. 27, saying that everyone needs to work to reverse the trend as soon as possible.

“The numbers are the numbers,” Hancock said of Denver’s coronavirus case situation. “They don’t lie.”

Under the safer-at-home Level 3 status, businesses, including restaurants and retail, as well as places of worship and offices can only operate at 25% of their capacity — down from 50% — and indoor events are capped at 25 people.

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Guide helps parents of readers ask questions

BY ANN SCHIMKE CHALKBEAT.ORG

A 2019 state law toughened up rules on how Colorado schools teach reading — establishing new training requirements for teachers and placing guardrails on the kind of curriculum schools can use in kindergarten through third grade.

But for the average parent, figuring out if schools are using proven approaches to reading instruction and following the new state rules still isn’t easy. That’s why a statewide dyslexia advocacy group, in partnership with a local school improvement consulting firm, created a free online guide that parents and caregivers can use during discussions with teachers, principals or other school staff.

Officially called the Colorado Literacy Dialogue Tool for Parents/ Caregivers, the seven-page guide walks parents through key questions they should ask about reading instruction. In addition to listing words and phrases that indicate a school is using scientifically based materials and strategies, the guide also cites names and phrases that may raise red flags about a school’s approach.

The idea behind the tool is to help parents “traverse that educationese” and empower them to have real conversations about how schools teach reading, said Amy Dobronyi, a Douglas County parent and co-chair of COKID, a statewide parent advocacy group for students with dyslexia. COKID partnered with Schools Cubed, a Coloradobased consulting group, on the tool.

The groups created a similar tool for parents of children who attend private schools or schools outside Colorado.

Currently, the guides are only available in English, but leaders of the project say they’d like to get them translated into Spanish. In addition, Lucinda Soltero-González, assistant professor of literacy education at the University of Colorado-Denver, said she’d like to design something similar with a focus on reading instruction for English learners.

The answers compiled below come from the dialogue tool as well as other experts.

What are some key words parents should listen for?

The tool suggests parents ask for a description of the school’s “literacy block” — the part of the school day devoted to reading and writing. They should listen for phrases that suggest the school’s approach aligns to scientific research on how students learn

to read. These include “research/ evidence-based,” “direct or explicit instruction” and “decodable text” — a book or passage that features specific phonics patterns students have learned.

What should raise red flags?

Schools may mention a variety of reading practices and approaches that may indicate they don’t follow the science on reading instruction. These terms include “balanced literacy,” “workshop model,” “leveled reader,” and “guided reading.”

The parent tool also warns parents about two popular reading programs that aren’t aligned with science: Lucy Calkins — officially known as Units of Study for Teaching Reading — and Fountas and Pinnell. Both are popular in Colorado and around the country.

What other questions should parents ask?

The tool suggests parents ask if the school’s main reading program is on Colorado’s approved list and states “the answer should be YES.” The state’s recently revised list includes six English-language reading programs approved for K-3 core instruction. They are Core Knowledge Language Arts, Open Court Reading, Wonders, Into Reading, Benchmark Workshop, and The Writing Road to Reading.

Four other programs are approved for K-2 core instruction: Benchmark Advance, Collaborative Literacy, EL Education, and Superkids Reading Program.

State reviewers rejected several reading programs last spring, though many schools are still using them.

They include Lucy Calkins, Fountas and Pinnell Classroom, and Reach for Reading.

The two Spanish-language core reading curriculums approved so far are Maravillas and Arriba la Lectura.

My child is on a READ Plan. What do I need to know?

Parents with children on READ Plans — a state-mandated improvement plan for students whose reading skills are well below grade level — should ask what intervention program the school uses to help struggling readers, how often students get focused help, and which staff members deliver the help.

As it does for core programs, the parent tool highlights several interventions that are state-approved, including Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, 95% Group, and Blast. The tool also mentions programs the state has deemed unac-

HOW TO FIND THE GUIDE To find the free online guide that parents and other caregivers can use when asking educators about reading instruction, go to www.cokid.org, click on “Resources,” click on “Literacy Dialogue Tool & Curriculum Evaluation Tools,” then click on the link under “General Literacy Dialogue Tool.” ceptable but that some schools still use, including Fountas and Pinnell, and Leveled Literacy Intervention, which is often referred to as LLI. My child is an English learner. What should I ask the school about reading instruction?

First, it’s important that English learners are present for whole class reading instruction — and don’t get pulled out for English language development during that time. Experts also recommend parents ask schools how the share of English learners on READ Plans compares with the share of native English speakers on such plans. If there’s a big difference, parents should ask what teachers are doing to address that disparity.

Statewide, about 16% of K-3 students struggle enough with reading to qualify for a READ Plan. The rate for English learners is higher: 19% for students classified as having some English proficiency and 43% for students classified as non-English proficient.

Soltero-González, of University of Colorado-Denver, said emerging bilingual children may have little problem decoding English words, but still may not understand the text because they don’t know what the words mean.

“That’s why it would be very important there’s attention to the development of oral language ... and vocabulary, along with word recognition and decoding,” she said.

What else should parents of English learners be looking for?

School staff should convey to parents that using the family’s primary language — whether in routine conversation, storytelling, or singing at home — will help students gain skills for reading.

Gloria Corral, president and CEO of the California-based Parent Institute for Quality Education, said too often parents absorb messages that speaking with children in their home language instead of English will confuse them or create educational barriers.

“We really talk to families about how keeping home language, enriching home language is, in fact, a (read-

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ing) strategy.” she said. “That is not, sadly, a widely known, and certainly not a widely promoted strategy in a lot of school districts, or a lot of schools.”

What should I ask about in terms of teacher training?

Experts say good quality reading curriculum and intervention programs are important, but they must be paired with teacher training. That’s why the parent tool suggests asking whether teachers have satisfied a new state rule requiring 45 hours of training in the science of reading. In lieu of taking an approved class, teachers can also get credit by passing a test on reading instruction or earning a Colorado reading teacher or reading specialist endorsement.

Since Colorado’s K-3 teachers have until next August to meet the requirement, it’s possible some won’t have gone through the training yet, but they may have a plan in place.

What should I do if my child’s teacher or principal provides answers to my question that indicate they’re not using approaches aligned to science?

Experts and advocates say this is tricky territory. Obviously, some parents might take such answers as a nudge to go shopping for a different school. But not everyone has that option and no one wants to become “that parent” for asking too many questions or disputing educators’ knowledge.

“There’s concern about sending parents into something that could feel kind of hostile,” said Dobronyi, of COKID. But she and other advocates say parents don’t always have to go it alone.

PTAs, school accountability committees, and even school boards can use the parent tool to pose questions and hold discussions about reading instruction with school or district officials.

Stephanie Stollar, a consultant who helped the Colorado Department of Education develop the tool to review reading curriculum, recommended parents take a “let’s learn together” approach when asking educators for answers.

“It has to be a collaborative effort. It can’t be, `We know better than you — you’re wrong.’”

This story — which was produced with support from the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship program — is from Chalkbeat Colorado, a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools. Used by permission. For more, and to support Chalkbeat, visit co.chalkbeat.org.

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and small businesses go solar. She signed up right away, and in March, had 26 solar panels installed in three different spots on her home.

These panels provide the Decker family with more than enough power to meet their electric needs — including charging an electric car, Decker said.

“Since going solar, we’re saving money each month and reducing our carbon footprint,” Decker said. “It’s a real win-win.”

SUN works nationwide, and has its Colorado office based in Denver. The organization recently launched its second co-op to specifically serve Denver’s residents and small businesses.

Membership to the co-op will be open through Feb. 1.

For the co-op, SUN is partnering with the Denver Office of Climate Action, Sustainability & Resiliency; Alpine Bank; Colorado Renewable Energy Society; Vote Solar; Physicians for Social Responsibility-Colorado; New Energy Colorado; and the Northside Sustainability Alliance.

How it works is first people sign up to become a member of the co-op for free and with no obligation. Becoming a member is simply so people can learn “what going solar means to them,” said Bryce Carter, SUN’s Colorado program director. Members of last year’s co-op ranged from those who already had going solar on their minds to those looking into it for the first time, Carter said.

Once about enough people and businesses have signed up, SUN issues a Request for Proposals to local provid-

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Renewable Denver Community Solar Program on horizon for 2021 Bryce Carter, Solar United Neighbors’ Colorado program director, had solar panels installed on his home earlier this year through Solar United Neighbors’ 2019 solar co-op.

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ers. SUN staff then reviews the proposals — this review process entails looking into each provider’s licensing credentials and other important verifications.

SUN then provides an “apples-toapples” comparison of each proposal to the co-op members, Carter said. It is the members who select the single solar company that will complete all the installations for the co-op members.

The co-op members then have the option to individually purchase a solar system and electric vehicle chargers based on the installer’s group rate.

Joining the co-op does not obligate members to purchase solar, Carter said. If, for whatever reason, a person or small business decides not to go solar, they can walk away, he added.

“We are an advocate on behalf of our members,” Carter said. “We’re

there to answer all of their questions.”

SUN remains vendor-neutral while streamlining the process, providing quality control, helping to determine possible cost savings, networking among members and providing any necessary education about going solar, including information about equipment, Carter said. He added SUN is happy to work with Registered Neighborhood Organizations and other community groups to provide talks or meetings — which can be done virtually — so people can learn more about the co-op and/or going solar.

Since SUN’s launch in Colorado in 2019, SUN has facilitated five solar co-ops throughout the state. Those five co-ops have helped about 150 families and businesses go solar — about 25 of them were members of Denver’s 2019 co-op.

Even though the cost of installing solar has gone down by about 90% in the past decade, Decker said, it is still a major investment for people.

“It feels nice to do it as a community (because) doing it as a group affects our net impact,” Decker said. “But the cost savings are what makes a lot of sense for individual homeowners.”

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‘That bright spot makes a real difference’ Girl Scouts send uplifting emails to hospice nurses to brighten their day

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BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Hospice nurses have such an important job.

That is why Denver Girl Scout Rebecca Gruen-Wener wanted to make hospice nurses the focal point of her Silver Award project.

“I really love knowing that I’m helping nurses,” she said, “because their whole job is to help others. This is our chance to help them.”

Hospice nurses are health-care professionals who care for people who are near the end of their life cycle.

The purpose of Gruen-Wener’s Silver Award project, called the Support Pal Program, is to uplift hospice nurses’ spirits. Gruen-Wener is working with about 15 Girl Scouts from eight different troops to send a weekly email with an uplifting message to the nurses working at Brookdale Hospice Denver. The Support Pal emails can include a comic or cartoon, joke or riddle, phrase of encouragement — just about “anything to make the nurses smile,” GruenWener said.

Unlike a pen pal program, the nurses are not required to return an email.

The emails have a sole purpose of brightening the nurses’ day, without adding more stress to their alreadybusy day, Gruen-Wener said.

The job of a hospice nurse is rewarding — being able to connect with a person during an intimate time in that person’s life, said Kevin Samelson, one of two clinical services managers at Brookdale. He and Abby Shaw oversee the nursing program.

But it is stressful, Samelson added.

Especially now with the virus, a patient’s hospice nurse may be the only person he or she sees in-person.

Receiving the emails is such an

Denver Girl Scout Rebecca GruenWener, 14, is a recent recipient of the Silver Award. To earn the Silver Award, Gruen-Wener implemented the Support Pal Program, for which hospice nurses receive an uplifting email from area Girl Scouts on an ongoing, weekly basis.

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Colorado at critical juncture with COVID-19, state warns

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Citing “an alarming increase in hospitalizations due to COVID-19,” the state public-health department painted a dire picture of where the coronavirus’s spread could end up in the coming months in a recent news release.

A few days later, Gov. Jared Polis told Coloradans that “the trends are unsustainable and these numbers are very concerning.”

“If these trends continue, we will exceed (April) hospitalization num-

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Outdoor events have a 75-person limit.

At the time of the announcement on Oct. 27, the state’s safer-at-home Level 3 rules dictated that gyms close except to host virtual and and outdoor classes. Later that night, the state health department issued new regulations allowing gyms in counties at Level 3 status to operate at either 25% capacity or 25 people, whichever is fewer.

The state recommends that counties under safer-at-home Level 3 status move K-12 schools to either fully remote learning or to a hybrid remoteand-in-person scheme. Health officials recommend limiting in-person learning “as appropriate.”

Voter service centers will not be affected by the new restrictions. Hancock said variances that allow for greater capacity at Denver’s cultural institutions, such as the Denver Zoo and Botanic Gardens, will not be changed.

Denver will be under safer-at-home Level 3 status for at least several weeks until it can prove to state health officials that its cases, hospitalizations and positive test rate have been reduced over a sustained period of time.

Two-week rate far too high Bob McDonald, executive director of the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, said Den-

bers — the peak of our first wave — by (November), and the most recent modeling predicts that we’ll exceed all of our existing hospital capacity by the end of the year,” Polis said in an Oct. 27 new release. “There’s time to fix this by staying ‘safer at home,’ signing up for exposure notifications, wearing a mask when you have to be out, avoiding groups and washing your hands regularly.”

Colorado recently launched a voluntary and free “exposure notifications” service that lets people know if they’ve been near another person who tests positive for COVID-19 within a

14-day period and chooses to upload the results.

If Coloradans opt in to the service, their smartphones will share anonymous tokens with others’ phones — if they have also opted in — through Bluetooth technology. Tokens are not associated with any phone number, name, location or IP (internet protocol) address, and they change every 15 minutes to add an extra layer of anonymity, according to the governor’s office news release. Learn more at addyourphone.com.

Colorado launched that statewide system on Oct. 25 in partnership with

Google and Apple.

To avoid increasing infections and u strain on hospitals over the next three n months, a “substantial increase” in f effort in fighting the virus’s spread will be needed, the state public-health p S department said in a news release.

Increases in contacts over the holi- b days will likely accelerate case growth, s and intensive-care unit hospital capaci ity may be exceeded in December or s January, the news release said.

“The window to improve (the virus trend) is over the next several weeks c to assure that critical care capacity is s s not stressed,” the release said.

ver’s two-week cumulative case rate is 385 per 100,000 people. The city must reduce that to 175 per 100,000 people over two weeks for things to return the way they were.

“We’re seeing an increase for all age groups,” McDonald said.

McDonald said intensive-care unit capacity is going down as hospitalizations rise. “Hospital systems could be overwhelmed in the next couple of weeks,” McDonald said. “It could happen that soon. We need to act quickly here.”

McDonald said Denver faces a risk of being forced into returning to a stay-at-home lockdown status if the trend doesn’t change.

“That’s a real possibility here,” he said.

Hancock said Denverites need to do everything possible to ensure the city’s economy isn’t forced to shut down again. The mayor said businesses have already let him know that the new restrictions, as Denver slides into safer-at-home Level 3 status, will be tough for them.

“We can get this thing back under control, but we’re going to have to take more of a serious approach,” Hancock said.

Denver tried to slow the spread of COVID-19 in recent weeks by requiring mask-wearing outdoors and by limiting gatherings to no more than five people in the city. Those measures don’t appear to have worked, however, and Denver’s coronavirus situation has only worsened since then.

State, nation seeing worse numbers Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising across the state, following a trend being experienced across the United States. On Oct. 23, Gov. Jared Polis’ administration restricted gatherings to no more than 10 people from two households in 60 of Colorado’s 64 counties.

The counties that are exempt are under the state’s protect-our-neighbors status.

Denver isn’t the only county that has been moving in the wrong direction on the state’s COVID-19 “dial.” Logan County has previously been moved to the safer-at-home Level 3 status by state health officials. The state health department announced on Oct. 27 that it would also move Adams County to safer-at-home Level 3.

Arapahoe County, Kit Carson County and the southeastern Colorado counties of Otero and Crowley will be downgraded to the safer-athome Level 2 status this week, CDPHE said. That follows La Plata County, in southwestern Colorado, moving to the same status on Oct. 26, while Mesa County — which had previously been in the relatively lightly restricted protect-our-neighbors status — was downgraded to safer-at-home Level 1.

As counties move down the dial, restrictions at restaurants, houses of worship and other places ratchet up. Moving down the dial allows for greater capacity at businesses and inperson instruction at schools.

“We need everyone to stay vigilant.

b Colorado is experiencing a swift rise t in cases right now that is worrisome,” d Jill Hunsaker Ryan, executive director o of the Colorado Department of Public s Health and Environment, said in a writ- n ten statement. “As we head into winter h and spend more time indoors, the virus t is going to be harder to suppress.”

A Polis, during a coronavirus briefing e o on Oct. 27, said that Colorado’s test positivity rate is now between 6% and p 7% — above the 5% threshold at which the World Health Organization recom- f p mends governments begin issuing new restrictions to slow the spread of G e the disease.

The governor said Colorado contin- s ues to detect more coronavirus cases i than at any point during the pandemic. h Hospitalizations because of COVID-19, which have been increasing n since Sept. 30, reached 538 on Oct. 27, t D their highest level since May 12.

“Now is the time to shrink our bub- v t bles, to be more careful,” Polis said.

Scott Bookman, the state’s incident commander, said that a number of Colorado hospitals are “stressed” under the increasing caseloads.

“Some of our hospitals have had to manage their elective surgeries from day to day,” he said. “But nobody is at the point where they are turning away patients, where we are thinking about crisis standards of care.”

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Used by permission. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

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uplifting, pleasant experience for the nurses, Samelson said.

“It’s something that takes you away from the stress. It (the email) is a completely stress-free moment in the day,” Samelson said. “Everybody needs a bright spot in their day. That bright spot makes a real difference.”

Something else that Samelson added is so valuable about the emails is the spontaneity of them.

“We don’t know when it’s going to come,” he said. “It just arrives. It’s a surprise, but it’s always a pleasant surprise.”

Gruen-Wener began her project by asking the hospice nurses what their biggest challenges are currently, during COVID-19. They told her a big one was the lack of their patients’ support system. Because of the strict no visitor rules, hospice patients don’t have access to visitors such as music therapists, and friends and loved ones.

Another was, simply, not being able to exchange the basic human interaction of a smile because of the need to use personal protection equipment (PPE).

“The hospice nurse now bears the full responsibility for in-person support of the isolated hospice patient,” Gruen-Wener said. “The Support Pals’ emails help the nurses deal with their stress and make their week better. It is a one-way support system for these hero-nurses at this difficult time.”

To implement this, Gruen-Wener networked with the other Girl Scout troops — four of which are based in Denver, two in Aurora and one in Arvada — and assigned a hospice nurse to each participating Girl Scout.

Launching the entire project was done remotely, Gruen-Wener said, adding that she has never met any of the other Girl Scout Support Pals in person. However, Gruen-Wener is hoping to have a get-together with them once COVID is no longer a concern and it is safe to do so.

Nurses also responded that another big challenge was protecting themselves from catching the virus and keeping their PPE organized.

Brookdale Hospice Denver’s physical location is in Greenwood Village, but the nurses also do home visits which requires travel throughout the Denvermetro area and Boulder, and Brookdale also has a location in Colorado Springs.

To solve the problem of the PPE organization, particularly for the nurses doing home visits, Gruen-Wener designed and made a personalized box that the nurses can keep in the trunk of their car. The box has dividers so that one side serves as a place where the nurses can keep their clean and sanitized PPE, and the other side is for personal items such as a cell phone and keys.

Gruen-Wener’s mother, Liss Gruen, was one of the inspirations behind the project. She works fulltime as a geriatrician doctor, and part time as a medical director for Brookdale.

“She works really hard,” GruenWener said. “She is a great role model.”

At nearly 70 years of age, Samelson said something else that’s fun about receiving the Support Pal email is that they come from youth/teens.

“It exposes us to a younger approach to life,” Samelson said. But moreover, Samelson added, “I’m heartened to see there are young people out there who have such a concern for others.”

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VOICES

It goes without saying, but they say it anyway

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ell, I swear,” is an obsolete expression that was a way of swearing without swearing.

Believe it or not, QUIET four-letter words DESPERATION were once impermissible in films.

Now it would be almost impossible to find a film other than one of Disney’s or Hallmark’s that wasn’t filled with them.

It belongs at a 10-year-old slumCraig Marshall ber party, but one Smith of Ellen’s (many) idiotic bits involves the determination of a celebrity’s favorite curse word.

Guess which one is most popular?

Hint: It’s said 506 times in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

I swear at home, but not when I leave the house.

My swearing is never directed at someone. It’s directed at something, such as a remote control that is playing hide and seek.

Now and then when I can’t open crackers I’ll say something profane.

I don’t know how Charles Dickens managed without four-letter words. His novels would have been so much better.

If you tried to play a game of shots watching “Good Will Hunting,” waiting for one four-letter word in particular, you’d be legally drunk by the time Will meets Skylar.

As is true with many overused words, four-letter words have innumerable synonyms as well as slang terms.

W. C. Fields, unable to curse on film during the Hayes Code era, came up with “Godfrey Daniel” and “Mother-of-pearl,” said with equal force and conviction.

However, when it comes to expletives, most of us don’t look around for creativity, and go straight to the most common and most familiar.

Not knowing (or caring) that each time it depletes the impact.

More than once, I was told the unthinkable by college students.

There was a time it would have

meant expulsion.

Walking across campus one day behind members of our men’s basketball team, I realized they only knew about nine or 10 words.

Guess?

One screenwriter and film director was chided for the number of profanities in one of his films: “Glengarry Glen Ross.”

So David Mamet wrote and directed a film with none. Can you name it?

There are PG films that feature foul-mouthed kids. In PG-13 and R, shut the door.

Watching “The Bad News Bears” in 1976 I asked myself, “Did I talk like that in Little League”?

“No” was the answer.

Where would some music be if not for profanities? It’s too bad the Beatles and Bob Dylan didn’t take advantage of the allowances made for every perceivable vulgarity.

Go ahead and swear. Now and then there’s nothing more satisfying.

But over and over and all the time, it’s tiresome and dumb.

Some readers might respond to this commentary with one finger,

raised in my direction, as a nonverbal expletive, as it were.

The omniscience of the middle finger as a gesture of obscenity is equal and concurrent with uttered profanities, and can be witnessed almost everywhere.

Why not?

We’re easily offended and disrespected. In some parts of the country, however, disrespecting someone won’t be settled with curse words or fingers.

But with guns.

Curse words or curse words and guns are requisite in the scripts of just about every contemporary film.

Who wants to see a film that doesn’t have any dirty words or people getting shot?

It would be un-American, wouldn’t it?

Steve Martin starred in the complex noir film “The Spanish Prisoner,” written and directed profanity-free by David Mamet.

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

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Over the last 12 years, I have now written 600 published columns. AdWINNING ditionally, I have posted thousands WORDS of messages through social media and have been on podcasts, radio interviews, and have appeared as a keynote speaker numerous times here in the states as well as around Michael Norton the globe.

I continue to be humbled by these opportunities to connect with you. So first, let me say thank you to all of you who send me emails and messages, I sincerely appreciate you all and love our exchanges. Happily, most of our exchanges are extremely positive, after all the column is called “Winning Words.” There is a percentage of our readers who love to challenge me on a thought or an idea that I had shared, and in most cases, it is a very healthy and engaging dialogue. And then there are a few people who try and

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So here in column number 600, I wanted to answer a couple of questions, and sometimes concerns, that I have received from our community. I am often asked why I have not taken a stance or a position on a sensitive topic. Some even suggesting that my silence must clearly define how I really feel or intimating that I have always stayed right down the middle, not choosing sides so that I do not offend anyone. And a part of this is very true as my goal is never to offend anyone but to encourage everyone.

Regardless of what has been happening in our community and in our country, my column has remained consistent. Winning words, that’s it. My attempt each week is to inspire hope and motivate top performance. I take all other issues off the table. This is when I receive questions like, “How do you feel about …?” Or “What do you think of …?” And “Where do you stand on …?” You can probably guess this last and most common question over the past two months, “Who are you voting for?”

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Now that probably answers the other question too, “Where do I stand?” Where I stand is by my faith and I stand with all of you as well. Your faith may be different than mine, awesome. Your political party may be different than mine, fantastic. You may drink craft beer and I drink a simple lager, how cool is that? You may enjoy a vegan diet, and I am a carnivore, we can both find something on the menu. The important topics where we differ in our beliefs and opinions may be much bigger than these examples, but that does not mean we get to quit on each other.

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Where do I stand? Where hope begins. For those of you who said I am always right in the middle, you were correct. I am right in the middle of unconditional love, unconditional forgiveness, kindness, gentleness, compassion, generosity, goodness, encouragement, opportunity, justice, equality and benevolence.

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Mask store capitalizes on moment in history Customers seek show of style as pandemic requires unwanted fashion accessory

BY MARKIAN HAWRYLUK KAISER HEALTH NEWS

Darcy Velasquez, 42, and her mother, Roberta Truax, were walking recently in the Park Meadows mall in Lone Tree, looking for Christmas gifts for Velasquez’s two children, when they spotted a store with a display of rhinestone-studded masks.

It’s an immutable truth of fashion: Sparkles can go a long way with a 9-year-old.

The store is called COVID-19 Essentials. And it may well be the country’s first retail chain dedicated solely to an infectious disease.

With many U.S. stores closing during the coronavirus pandemic, especially inside malls, the owners of this chain have seized on the empty space, as well as the world’s growing acceptance that wearing masks is a reality that may last well into 2021, if not longer. Masks have evolved from a utilitarian, anything-you-can-findthat-works product into another way to express one’s personality, political leanings or sports fandom.

And the owners of COVID-19 Essentials are betting that Americans are willing to put their money where their mouth is. Prices range from $19.99 for a simple children’s mask to $130 for the top-of-the-line face covering, with an N95 filter and a batterypowered fan.

Almost all shops and many pop-up kiosks in the Park Meadows mall now sell masks. But COVID-19 Essentials also carries other accessories for the pandemic, in a space that has a more established feel than a holiday pop-up store; permanent signage above its glass doors includes a stylized image of a coronavirus particle. Nestled beside the UNTUCKit shirt store and across from a Tesla showroom, it has neither the brand recognition nor the track record of a JCPenney. But longevity doesn’t seem to have helped that clothing chain or many others escape industry upheaval during the pandemic.

According to analysts at S&P Global Market Intelligence, retail bankruptcies from January to mid-August reached a 10-year-high.

Not that the COVID-19 Essentials owners want their products to be in demand forever.

“I can’t wait to go out of business eventually,” said Nadav Benimetzky, a Miami retailer who founded COVID-19 Essentials, which now has eight locations around the country.

That seemed to be the attitude of most of the customers who walked into the store on a recent Friday afternoon. Most understood the need for masks — face coverings are required to even enter the mall — and thus they recognized the business hcase for a COVID-19 store. Still, they hoped masks would soon go the way of bellbottoms or leg warmers. For .the time being, they’re making the best of the situation.

Opportunity seized Nathan Chen, who owns the Lone Tree store with Benimetzky, previously ran a different store at the Denver airport, but as air travel

declined, a COVID-focused business seemed a much better venture. The pandemic giveth and the pandemic taketh away.

Benimetzky opened the first COVID-19 Essentials store in the Aventura Mall in suburban Miami after seeing the demand for N95 masks early in the pandemic. “They’re ugly and uncomfortable, and everybody hates them,” he said. “I piggybacked off of that. If you’re going to wear a mask, you might as well make it fashionable and pretty.”

That could mean a sequin or satin mask for more formal occasions, or the toothy grin of a skull mask for casual affairs. Some masks have zippers to make eating easier, or a hole for a straw, with a Velcro closure for when the cup is sucked dry.

The chain has locations in New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Las Vegas, and is looking to open stores in California, where wildfires have only added to the demand for masks.

Initially, the owners really weren’t sure the idea would fly. They opened the first store just as malls were reopening following the lockdowns.

“We really didn’t grasp how big it would get,” Benimetzky said. “We didn’t go into it with the idea of opening many stores. But we got busy from the second we opened.”

Nancy Caeti, 76, stopped in the Lone Tree store to buy masks for her grandchildren. She bought one with a clear panel for her granddaughter, whose sign language instructor needs to see her lips moving. She bought her daughter, a music teacher and Denver Broncos fan, a mask with the football team’s logo.

“I lived through the polio epidemic,” Caeti said, as her latex-gloved hand inserted her credit card into the card reader. “It reminds me of that, but that I don’t think was as bad.” She recalled how her mother had lined her and her siblings up to get the polio vaccine, and said she’d be first in line for a COVID shot.

That perhaps is the one essential the store does not carry. It hawks keylike devices for opening doors and pressing elevator buttons without touching them. Some have a built-in bottle opener. There are ultraviolet-light devices for disinfecting phones and upscale hand sanitizer that employees spray on customers as if it were a department store perfume sample.

But the masks are the biggest draw.

The store can personalize them with rhinestone letters or the kind of iron-on patches that teens once wore on their jeans.

Upon entry, customers can check their temperature with a digital forehead scanner with audible directions: “Step closer. Step closer.

Temperature normal. Temperature normal.”

The store also has added a sink near the entrance so customers can wash their hands before handling the merchandise.

Passersby puzzled Some mallgoers walk by the store in bewilderment, stopping to take photos to post to social media with a you’ve-got-to-be-kidding message.

One older white couple in matching masks noticed a mask emblazoned with the slogan “Black Lives Matter” in the storefront display, and walked away in disgust.

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Underprivileged youths earn bikes, skills, hope

Making wheel change

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

F

ernando Ibarra couldn’t figure out how to fix his bike.

So he took it to Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery, a nonprofit community bike shop a block from his house in west Denver.

He couldn’t afford the repair price, but the shop manager offered another option. Ibarra, then 15, could volunteer around the shop, work off the cost of the parts he needed, and learn how to do the repair himself.

“I came in every day after school and kept at it, and before long I had a great bike,” Ibarra said.

Now 20, Ibarra works as a mechanic at Lucky Bikes, and said the shop brought far more to his life than just a couple wheels under his feet — he calls his coworkers his “bike family.”

“The folks here got me into mountain bike racing,” he said as he ran new brake lines on a BMX bike. “I’ve raced in Leadville, Granby — beautiful places I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

I’m so grateful for this place.”

Lucky Bikes is one of several nonprofit bike shops in the Denver metro area, working to connect underprivileged youths with their own transportation, the skills to repair bikes themselves, and even start careers.

Bringing bikes to the masses Bicycles can be transformative for young people, said Jon Pasquini, the executive director of Lucky Bikes and its sister organization, Trips For Kids.

“There’s a sense of adventure on a bike,” Pasquini said. “As a kid, that freedom is amazing. There’s independence, there’s health and exercise, and it’s good for the environment, too.”

A former teacher, Pasquini wrote a curriculum for Learn to Earn a Bike, a 10-hour program where youngsters learn not just how to repair a bike, but also about the physics behind biking — levers, pulleys, force — and at the end get to keep their bike, a helmet and a set of tools.

The shop has lots of other programs, including three-month internships where local youth can learn customer service skills in addition to repairs. The pandemic put the kibosh on many of the shop’s fundraising efforts, but thankfully a boom in sales of refurbished bikes is keeping the shop afloat.

Now, Pasquini is working on a mountain biking team for local kids.

“Cycling is seen as an elitist sport,” he said. “Lots of kids on those teams are riding $10,000 bikes. We’re going to provide kids with bikes on that level.

We’re bringing it to the masses.”

‘It kept me going’ For others, nonprofit community bike shops are an integral part of the community, and a lifeline in tough times.

Julie Messa of Golden found herself out of work in mid-March as the pandemic forced the shutdown of the Golden Community Center’s senior program. Facing an uncertain future, Messa wanted to fall back on her favorite pastime of biking, but her bike was in shambles.

“Since I was out of work, I didn’t want to spend a bunch of money on a new bike,” she said.

That’s where the Golden Optimists

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Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery is one of numerous nonprofit community bike shops in the Denver area that provide low- or no-cost bikes to underprivileged youths.

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Fernando Ibarra works on a bike at Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery. Ibarra said working at the shop has given him skills, friendships and life experience.

Bicycle Recycle Program came in. For years, Messa had bought bikes for her two children from the program, dropping off their old ones as they outgrew them.

The bike she picked up at the beginning of the pandemic “kept me going,” she said.

Messa wasn’t alone, said Carol Cameron, the group’s president.

“Bikes are the new toilet paper,” Cameron said. “Bikes and parts are in super high demand right now.”

The pandemic kept the shop from with local schools to donate bikes to holding one of its key events this year: underprivileged students who show driving refurbished bikes improvements in “academdown to the Navajo ics, attendance and IF YOU GO Nation in the Four attitude.”

The Denver area’s Corners region.

“Research has nonprofit community bike The silver lining, shown that in shops have a wide variety of programs she said, is that material povand services. Many are looking for volunmore elite erty, there are teers and donations of bikes or money. And, of cyclists dounderdevelcourse, they have plenty of bikes for sale, and some nated a good oped plans available free of charge to qualifying clients. number for the Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery: 3150 W. Jewell Ave., Denver. of highfuture,” TripsForKidsDenver.org or 720-454-9722 end used Buck said.

Golden Optimists: 1200 Johnson Road, Golden. Goldbikes and “We try to enOptimist.org parts in give kids a the spring chance to Project reCYCLE: 3279 S. Santa Fe Drive, Suite C, Englewood. ProjectReCYCLE.org or 720-387-7904 and sumbelieve in mer as they themselves Bikes Together: 1060 Osage St., Denver. Bikesupgraded. and realize Together.org or 720-403-8757 The prothey can plan Second Chance Bicycle Shop: 4122 S. gram, among for the future Parker Road, Aurora. SecondChancethe older in and achieve it.”

BikeSC.wixsite.com/colorado the Denver area, Buck, a former or 720-270-5731 operates on an allpastor, said that volunteer basis, selling while the group is nonrefurbished bikes to cover religious, he personally finds the cost of tools and rent. They work a sense of spiritual fulfillment in his with local social services agencies to work. donate bikes to locals experiencing “If I have to choose between talking homelessness. about what Jesus said but not doing “If someone just needs a bike but the work, and doing the work but not can’t afford one, we’ll donate one,” talking about it, I’ll choose the latter,” Cameron said. “We have no means he said. testing. We get taken advantage of Buck is involved in a wider range of sometimes, but hey, we’re Optimists.” local efforts to boost bicycling, including sitting on the City of Littleton’s Doing the work transportation board, where he advoConnecting people with bikes can be cates for more and better bike lanes a means to personal growth, said Jon around town.

Buck, the executive director of Project Buck said bikes are bringing light to reCYCLE, a nonprofit community bike dark times. shop in Englewood.

“This is tangible, simple, and it can The group, which is in the process change lives,” Buck said. “People need hope now more than ever.” of rebranding as HopeCycle, works

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November 5, 2020

Littleton-area musician’s album on streaming services ‘SAME SHIrT, DIFFERENT DAY’ was released Oct. 23

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Rodney Rice, a resident of the Ken Caryl area west of Littleton, developed an interest in music at an early age, he says, as he “pillaged my older sister’s CD and tape collection ... She took me to see John Prine. It was the first concert I went to ...” They sat in the back row. Prine “captivated” the young fan and a story began.

Rice’s recent (Oct. 23) release of his own work, “SAME SHIrT, DIFFERENT DAY,” recorded with a band in Austin, Texas, is now available, streaming from Spotify, iTunes, Amazon and more ...

West Virginia, where Rice grew up, “is blue-collar working folks.

A lot of my family represents that too. I think people relate to the songs of John Prine and Billy Joe Shaver because there’s some kind of underdog way of life. I don’t want to sit on an oil rig anymore, but I had the idea it was what I had to do to pay some bills ...”

He figures his present location, close to the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, is a good choice for a guy who sees his future as a musician instead.

Rice graduated from West Virginia University in 2010 after starting a day job sitting on a rig in 2008, alternated with an office job with the oil company.

For a while, he worked on rigs and in an office in West Texas, where he had a chance to see more major music figures, in addition to Prine and Shaver.

Rice’s wife, who has family in Littleton, Highlands Ranch and Boulder, is a geochemist and Rice “has geology friends in town ...”

But there “are no geology jobs” here at this time and Rice is concentrating on this, his second release — with the same band as his first album.

“I chipped away at it for about two years — one piece at a time,” he says, continuing on about how much he “loves going into a studio in Austin and playing live with studio musicians. It’s a company town ...” Songs were recorded one at a time, when he could manage it.

The record case lists personnel on each song in the album. Rice is always there on acoustic guitar and vocals as is Rick Richards on drums, but then on some there is a horn part with sax and trumpet and on another, a Hammond organ chimes in. On “Free At Last,” we find a fiddle and a dobro included. Bassist David Carroll’s name appears often, as does multi-instrumentalist Andre Moran, whose studio is the production location every time.

Rice recently appeared at Golden’s well-known country spot, Buffalo Rose, and is focusing on publicizing the release, since, as he puts it: “There are no geologist’s jobs or music gigs here right now ...”

He has enjoyed the beautiful Colorado Trail and been “fly fishing a lot.” He rides his bike at all times of year and will “stay positive, keep the eyes and ears open” and hope people will discover his music.

Rice’s favorites? “Memoirs of Our Youth” and “Ain’t Got a Dollar.”

MASK STORE FROM PAGE 9

The store takes no political sides; there are three designs of President Donald Trump campaign masks, two for Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden. One woman, who declined to give her name, came in wearing a mask below her nose and wondered whether a Trump mask would fit her smallish face. The Trump masks are among the more popular sellers, Chen said, so he keeps them in a bigger cabinet to accommodate the extra stock. It’s not clear if that will forecast the election results, as some have posited with Halloween mask sales.

Daniel Gurule, 31, stopped by the mall on his lunch hour to pick up an Apple Watch but ventured into the store for a new mask. He said that he normally wore a vented mask but that not all places allowed those. (They protect users but not the people around them.) He bought a $24.99 mask with the logo of the Denver Nuggets basketball team.

“It takes away a little bit of our personalities when everybody is walking around in disposable

Rodney Rice, a musician living in the Ken-Caryl Valley, recorded his album “SAME SHIrT, DIFFERENT DAY” in Austin, Texas.

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masks,” Chen said. “It kind of looks like a hospital, like everybody is sick.”

Most of the masks are sewn specifically for the retail chain, including many by hand. One of their suppliers is a family of Vietnamese immigrants who sew masks at their Los Angeles home, Benimetzky said.

Chen said that it was hard to keep masks in stock, and that every day it seemed some other design became their best seller.

Dorothy Lovett, 80, paused outside the store, leaning on a cane with an animal print design.

“I had to back up and say, `What the heck is this?’” she said. “I’ve never seen a mask store before.”

She perused the display case, noting she needed to find a better option than the cloth version she was wearing.

“I can’t breathe in this one,” said Lovett, who is white, before deciding on her favorite. “I like the Black Lives Matter mask.”

This story is from Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. Used by permission. For more, khn.org.

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Sonya Ellingboe Miners Alley Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden will announce six shows to be presented in 2021, all planned with a choice of in-person or livestream viewing.

Parker Arts “Allegories of Transformation” is a new exhibition of indigenous art at the PACE Center at 20000 Pikes Peak Ave. in Parker. The art speaks of issues of the day through the use of modern techniques and themes. Curator Rose Frederick said: “The artists in this exhibition, along with many, many other indigenous artists, are tremendously accomplished.” The exhibit runs through Nov. 18. Artists are: Norman Akers, Corwin Clairmont, Joe Feddersen, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Anna Hoover, Linley Logan, Cara Romero, Diego Romero, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Neal Ambrose Smith and Steven Yazzie.

Free. Images at parkerarts.org.

Curtis Center Curtis Center for the Arts, 2349 E. Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, presents an exhibit of works by the Women’s Caucus for Arts, “Old Myths, New Stories,” Nov. 7 through Dec. 23. Works by: Martha Russo, Chandler Romeo, Bruce Price, K. Cesark, Sara Ransford,

Jason Reynolds, author of the best-selling book “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,” will appear in two virtual presentations hosted by Arapahoe Libraries.

COURTESY PHOTO Annakatrin Kraus, Andrea Gordon and Tina Suszynski. Open: Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. 303-797-1779.

‘This is Colorado’ A virtual exhibition of Arapahoe Community College’s 2020-2021 “This is Colorado” exhibit can be seen through Jan. 30 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts website. Visit www. arapahoe.edu/this-is-colorado-statewide-exhibition; also through Zoom — arapahoe.edu.zoom.us/j/84033616213.

A virtual awards ceremony was on Nov. 2, with juror Amanda Furman.

Rox Gallery/CWS Annual The Rox Arts Gallery at Aspen Grove, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, presents the 2020 annual members show of the Colorado Watercolor Society through Nov. 22. (This is usually a fine collection of works.) Hours: noon to 7 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. 720-724-5730.

Own an Original Littleton’s annual Own an Original Exhibit has a theme of “Liberating Humor.” It will be at the Littleton Museum, Nov. 20-Jan. 3, but there won’t be an opening reception due to COVID restrictions. A reservation is needed to visit, to limit number of visitors at any one time. Juror is Dr. Sarah Magnatta, who is on the University of Denver faculty.

More soon on this favorite annual show.

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ason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, will be presented by Arapahoe Libraries virtually at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 6 in a program geared to teens and adults, where he will discuss empowering young people through literacy, followed by a Q&A. At 2 p.m. on Nov. 7, he will talk to tweens and teens about the importance of seeing oneself in stories.

His books include the best-selling SONYA’S “Stamped: Racism, SAMPLER Antiracism and You.” Books may be purchased from the Book Bar. Registration is required for both events: call 303542-7279 (LIBRARY) or go to arapahoelibraries.org and click on “Virtual Events.”

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Beer brewed with wood at Olde Town brewery wins gold Beer wins top honor for second straight year

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

While visiting a brewery in Brazil a few years ago, Jason Buehler sampled a beer brewed in amburana wood for the first time.

“I had never heard of it before,” said Buehler, who is the head brewer for Denver Beer Co. “And the beer was incredible.”

When Buehler asked if amburana was available in the US, the beer’s brewer responded that he didn’t know but offered to instead give Buehler some amburana wood bark to take back.

Buehler did so and, soon after arriving in Colorado, brought that wood to Denver Beer Co.’s brewery

in Olde Town Arvada where he toasted it and added it to the fermenter he then used to make a new Imperial Porter beer called Amburana Dream.

“We could tell we had something special because it tasted great,” said Buehler. “It didn’t particularly sell that great probably because people didn’t know what amburana was but the flavor was awesome.”

While Amburana Dream is not currently available at Denver Beer Co. — it will likely find a more receptive audience whenever it returns thanks to the Great American Beer Festival, which just awarded the beer the gold medal in its Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer category for the second straight year.

Buehler said Amburana Dream coming out on top two years in a row was “pretty crazy,”—especially after the beer actually lost to an-

IF YOU GO Denver Beer Co.-Old Towne Arvada location 5768 Old Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada 303-433-2739 Denverbeerco.com/locations other amburana beer when it was first entered at GABF three years ago.

But while Denver Beer Co., which also operates a brewery in Denver, has become no stranger to GABF recognition (with 14 awards, including two other awards at the festival this year for beers brewed at its Denver facilities), this year’s win had a different feel according to Buerhle said.

While the awards have usually been handed out in a packed auditorium, this year’s ceremony was held online. Buerhle actually didn’t find out about the win until he got

service while camping in the mountains.

As of now, the small quantity of Amburana Dream’s gold medalwinning batch that remains is being saved for future competitions and the brewery’s staff. However, Buerhle said it will be brewed again in the very near future. It could also face stiffer competition at future competitions as Amburana wood is now available in the US, where it is becoming an increasingly popular option.

Buerhle, however, remains thankful for his first experience with amburana beer.

“After we won, it immediately made me think of the brewer in Brazil and so I reached out to him and told him we won and thanked him for helping me because I never would have discovered this amburana had he not made a great beer with it,” he said.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Metropolitan Districts Public Notice NOTICE AS TO AMENDED 2020 AND PROPOSED 2021 BUDGETS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the amended 2020 and 2021 proposed budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors of Denver Rock Drill Metropolitan District for their consideration.

A copy of such proposed budgets has been filed in the offices of the District Manager, Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Boulevard, Loveland, CO 80537, where the same is open for public inspection. Such amended and proposed budgets will be considered at a special meeting of the Board of Directors to be held via videoconference (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_M2YyMmZmNmMtYmJjZi0 0ODdjLWJjYzgtNDhhMmUyZWEyOWUz%40th read.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2295 d90e40-ea92-4b9b-bab0-f6f9c6fe1c1d%22%2c %22Oid%22%3a%2294ff686e-3943-4977-87eebeb60ba7eab3%22%7d) on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Any interested elector of Denver Rock Drill Metropolitan District may inspect the amended and proposed budgets at the office of Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Boulevard, Loveland, CO 80537 and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the budgets.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DENVER ROCK DRILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Traci Miller, Administrator Legal Notice No. 80737 First Publication: November 5, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at two locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 45 feet on a 48-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 1009 Grant St., Denver, Denver County, CO 80203.

Antennas will be installed at a top height of 40 feet on a building with an overall height of 40-feet at the approx. vicinity of 4105 E Florida Ave #104, Denver, Denver County, CO 80222. Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Alison, a.cusack@trileaf.com, 1515 Des Peres Rd, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63131, 314-997-6111.

Legal Notice No. 80735 First Publication: November 5, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Wilbur Taylor Little III, a/k/a Wilbur Taylor Little, a/k/a Wilbur T. Little, a/k/a Wilbur Little, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31208 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before March 1, 2021 or the claims may be forever barred.

James A. Little, Personal Representative PO Box 69 Wetmore, CO 81253 Attorney for Personal Representative Bryan T. Fredrickson Fredrickson Johnson & Belveal, LLC 831 Royal Gorge Blvd. Ste 329 Canon City, CO 81212 Legal Notice No. 80729 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jose Angel Sanchez Cardenas, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31331 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 March 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jose Miguel Cardenas Cardona Personal Representative 6797 W. Portland Avenue Littleton, Colorado 80128 Legal Notice No. 80739 First Publication: November 5, 2020 Last Publication: November 19, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of PHYLLIS CLARICE MARCUS, a/k/a PHYLLIS C. MARCUS, a/k/a PHYLLIS MARCUS, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 31249 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before March 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeffrey H. Marcus, Personal Representative 3050 S. Garfield St. Denver, CO 80210 Legal Notice No.80724 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Janis E. Calhoun, Deceased Case Number 2020PR31214 All persons having claims against the above named 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Craig Calhoun Personal Representative 3332 Kearney Street Denver, Colorado 80207 Legal Notice No. 80718 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Faith Arlene Nigh, aka Faith A. Nigh, aka Faith Nigh, aka F.A. Nigh, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31205 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Cindy L. Martinez Personal Representative c/o 3801 E. Florida Ave., Suite 906 Denver, Colorado 80210 Legal Notice No. 80715 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Deborah T. Owen, aka Deborah Owen, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31266 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Laurie T. Manso, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 80720 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Charlotte King, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31257 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dennis A. King, Personal Representative c/o Goddard & Hawkins, PC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 625 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No. 80716 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Michael David Gutzait, a/k/a Michael D. Gutzait, a/k/a Michael Gutzait, a/k/a Mike David Gutzait, a/k/a Mike D. Gutzait, a/k/a Mike Gutzait, Deceased.

Case Number: 2020PR31321 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 March 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Eric S. Gutzait, Personal Representative c/o KATZ, LOOK & ONORATO, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80728 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Walter Henry Hill, Jr., a/k/a Walter H. Hill, Jr., a/k/a Walter Henry Hill, a/k/a Walter Hill, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31316 All persons having claims against the above named 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 March 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Stanley Stewart, Personal Representative 3991 S. Walden St. Aurora, CO 80013 Legal Notice No. 80733 First Publication: November 5, 2020 Last Publication: November 19, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

of Denver, County, Colorado on or before March 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Artis Annette Harrison Rains, Personal Representative PO Box 5031 Denver, CO 80217 Attorney for Personal Representative Bryan T. Fredrickson Fredrickson Johnson & Belveal, LLC 831 Royal Gorge Blvd. Ste 329 Canon City, CO 81212

PROBATE COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO City and County Building, Rm 230 437 Bannock St Denver, CO 80202 In the Matter of the Estate of MARY E. AUNSPAUGH, aka MARY AUNSPAUGH, Deceased Attorney for Nanci Phillips: Justin W. Blow, Esq. #41085 John Phillips, Esq. #11834 Phillips & Blow, P.C. 7700 E. Arapahoe Rd., #100, Centennial, CO 80112 Phone: (303)741-2400 Fax:(303)713-9150 E-mail: justinb@jrphillipslaw.com Case Number:17PR31488 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

BY PUBLICATION To all unknown interested persons: a petition has been filed alleging that the decedent, Mary Ellen Aunspaugh (nee, Garland), died in 2017 leaving probate assets. All persons related to the decedent are requested to submit a Demand for Notice either to the Attorney for the Personal Representative or to the Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 1, 2021.

In the Matter of the Estate of: Oleta L. Crain

Legal Notice No. 80722 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

To: Heirs of Oleta L. Crain Last Known Address, if any: 2102 N. Marion Street in Denver, CO A hearing on the Estate of Oleta L. Crain for the assignment of a new Personal Representative to clean up Title of Property Deed she transferred prior to her death, will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: 11/30/2020 Time: 8:00 a.m.

Denver Probate Court 224 Address: 1437 Bannock St. Room 230, Denver, CO 80202 The hearing will take approximately 15minutes.

Legal Notice No. 80731 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Richard Samuel Gildar, AKA Richard S. Gildar, AKA Richard Gildar, Deceased Case Number 20PR31235 All persons having claims against the above named 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kimberly Raemdonck, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative 899 Logan Street, Suite 308, Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80721 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: October 22, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Gloria Mae Buckins, a/k/a Gloria M. Buckins, a/k/a Gloria Buckins, Deceased Case Number 2020PR000221 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court

Legal Notice No. 80738 First Publication: November 5, 2020 Last Publication: November 19, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Justin W. Blow, Attorney for Personal Representative 7700 E. Arapahoe Rd., Ste 100 Centennial, CO 80112

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S.

The McKenzie Law Firm, LLC 7955 East Arapahoe Court, Suite 2525 Centennial, Colorado 80112 Phone Number: (303) 578-2745 Email: dan@themckenziefirm.com

Legal Notice No. 80730 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Denver Probate Court Denver County, Colorado Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street, #230 Denver, CO 80202

Party Without Attorney: Valentino Jefferson 10621 Chevy Drive - Knoxville, TN 37922 Phone Number: 865.776.3711 E-mail: 4jeffersonfam@gmail.com Case Number: 2020PR382 Courtroom 224

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank Denton Jones, a/k/a Frank D. Jones, a/k/a Frank Jones, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31200.

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 22, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sara S. Price, Esq. Attorney for Personal Representative FrazerAbel Law, LLC. 4704 Harlan Street, Suite 250 Denver, Colorado 80212 Legal Notice No. 80719 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Elizabeth Gonzales, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 030921

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Public Notice is given that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child or Adult was filed with the DENVER DISTRICT Court on September 15, 2020.

The Petition requests that the name of NEVAEH RAE SABALA be changed to NEVAEH RAE SABALA-SUAZO Case Number: 20CV33160 Courtroom: 316 GENEVIEVE ROTELLA, Clerk of Court By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 80734 First Publication: November 5, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ELIZABETH MARIE SCRIBNER, a/k/a E. MARIE SCRIBNER, a/k/a ELIZABETH SCRIBNER, a/k/a ELIZABETH MARIE McFARLAND, a/k/a E. MARIE McFARLAND-SCRIBNER, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31270

All persons having claims against the above named 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 March 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anne Grimes McFarland, Personal Representative 1652 S. Washington St. Denver CO 80210 Legal Notice No. 80732 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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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 March 8, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

S. Blake Harris, Esq. No. 45942 Attorney for the Personal Representative 1660 17th Street, Suite 120 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 80736 First Publication: November 5, 2020 Last Publication: November 19, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Viivi Chambers, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR 031149 All persons having claims against the above named 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 March 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

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All the flavors to entice kids.

All the nicotine to keep them hooked.

E-cigarette makers and vape shops are enticing kids with flavors like cotton candy, gummy bear and bubble gum. And nationally, over 5 million kids are using these flavored e-cigarettes.

Vape shops and tobacco companies say their products aren’t ending up in kids’ hands, but that’s just not true. Many retailers still sell to minors, and many of them in Denver even illegally sold products during the COVID-19 shutdown violating emergency orders.

Let’s stop pretending vape shops and the industry care about public health or the health of our children. It’s time to stop the sale of flavored tobacco products to protect our kids.

Take action now by visiting FlavorsHookKidsDenver.org to tell your City Council Members to end the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.

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