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County thinks hemp plan will weed out problems Careful control is key to proposal to allow growing plant on local farms

BY JULIE A. TAYLOR SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

of project and it has made a huge impact on me. We got to meet the people who owned the homes and they were very grateful for what we were doing. I am so glad I was able to do what I could to help these people. I feel I was blessed by the experience.”

The project lasted two weeks, but the Elizabeth team only took part in the project for one week so the middle and high school students could return home in time to resume classes when spring break ended March 26.

The project was designed to help those whose homes were destroyed

Elbert County is establishing a permitting system for something that looks scandalous, but is actually harmless.

To the trained and untrained eye, hemp plants look exactly like marijuana — a crop forbidden in Elbert County. After numerous requests to grow hemp, the board of commissioners has decided to set up a system that distinguishes the unwanted from the wanted, and also believes it could be boon for the economy.

Within the last few months, businesses and individuals have approached county commissioners, asking about the growing process. One upcoming business, 221 Farms, spoke at a recent board meeting to explain what they hoped to do with their ranch, and the legitimacy of their operation.

“With the first farm we have, they’re looking at just farming to get their feet wet,” said the project’s manager, Doug Chimenti.

The permit is set to cost $250. If the board give a green light in June, then permitted farmers can begin on the first day of 2019.

County Commissioner Chris Richardson believes this crop could bolster the local economy, continuing the board’s vision of becoming more business friendly.

“We’re aiming toward flexibly zoned and lightly regulated,” Richardson said.

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Volunteers from the Harvest Bible Church in Elizabeth prepare to move flood-damaged debris into containers to be hauled away as part of the Eight Days of Hope project in the Houston area. The Elizabeth middle school and high school students spent spring break joining about 4,700 volunteers working to assist owners of homes damaged by the flood caused by Hurricane Harvey. The team returned home in time to start classes March 26.

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Volunteers do good where flood went bad Elizabeth church team travels to Houston to help make homes habitable

BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Fun and games weren’t on the spring break agenda for a team from Elizabeth — 11 young men and women and four adults — who traveled to Houston to repair flood-damaged houses to help people return to their homes.

The team from Harvest Bible

Church in Elizabeth left March 24 for the two-day trip to Houston to join about 4,700 volunteers from all 50 states and three foreign countries taking part in the Houston home repair project, which was organized

by Eight Days of Hope. The goal of the effort was to help repair homes damaged by the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

“This is an amazing experience,” Elizabeth resident Nick Jahnz said by phone from Houston. “My wife and I joined another couple and the kids for this project. Being here is incredible. Everyone works hard and no one seems to mind the heat, the humidity and the sore muscles.

This is my first time to do this type

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Family story is face-off of fear and faith

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his is the girls’ story.

That’s what doctors told Kendal and Tyler Conley as they worried and prayed and waited for their twin babies, fighting a rare medical condition, to be born.

This is a story, too, about the marvels of medicine: That’s what Kendal and Tyler will tell you saved their babies.

But more than anything, this is a story about family. And love. And faith that a happy ending would be written.

••••• Meet the Conleys: Kendal is 33, an account manager for a wine and liquor distributor. Tyler, 38, in software sales, works from home. They live in Golden and have a 2-year-old son, Beckham, whom they call “little man.”

Beckham now also has two little sisters, whose story began June 25, when Kendal’s home pregnancy test unequivocally read “PREGNANT.” Eight weeks later, the ultrasound technician began laughing. “Do you have twins in the family?” she asked Kendal and Tyler.

“Nooo....,” Kendal said. And then, “Oh, my gosh.”

“Yes,” the technician said, “there’s two in there.”

Kendal and Tyler were ecstatic.

Beckham ran around the doctor’s office in circles.

But a hint of concern shadowed the happiness when the ultrasound also

showed the fetuses, who were identical twins each in their own amniotic sacs — bags of fluid in which the fetuses grow and develop —were sharing one placenta. That meant a higher risk for the rare and serious Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, or TTTS, which in simple terms means babies share blood vessels that lead to one baby receiving extra blood flow and the other baby getting too Ann Macari little. Untreated, one Healey or both of the babies die 80 to 100 percent of the time.

But with treatment, the outcome is drastically different: One or both of the fetuses survive in 96.5 percent of pregnancies; both survive in 83 percent of pregnancies, a recent review of cases at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora shows. Most cases, however, have one or more complicating factors that can reduce survival rates.

At 12 weeks, the couple began consulting with specialists from Children’s Colorado Fetal Care Center.

“We know that when they share a placenta . . . almost all the time you’re going to see interconnecting vessels, but about 15 percent of the time, that will cause problems,” said Dr. Nicholas Behrendt, one of the maternal fetal medicine specialists working with the

Tyler and Kendal Conley spend time with their twin babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Colorado Fetal Care Center at Children’s Hospital Colorado. The babies, born nine weeks premature, are six weeks old in these photos. They experienced the serious and rare Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome while they were in the uterus, which can be deadly if not treated.

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Conleys. “We watch these babies very closely.”

From then on, doctors ordered ultrasounds every three days to monitor any changes in the amount of fluid in the amniotic sacs and make sure kidneys, bladders and hearts were working

properly. If TTTS were to kick in, the kidneys of the baby receiving too much blood flow would essentially work overtime, filling up the sac with the extra urine being excreted. The bladder would be larger; the heart would beat faster to help the kidneys work harder.

Anxiety began to consume Kendal. A pit of worry settled in her stomach. She didn’t want to name the girls: “I was scared to get attached.”

Tyler, unsure the babies would survive, didn’t tell anyone, except for family and close friends, that Kendal was pregnant.

“Every time we went, we worried,” Tyler said. “How are their bladders?

Are there heartbeats? We were waiting for the bad, bad news.”

Between 13 and 17 weeks, the ultrasounds showed some discrepancy in fluid between the babies, but it would self-correct, and the worry would ease.

At 21 weeks, however, Kendal’s stomach became so swollen and taut she felt like a huge balloon. The ultrasound showed one baby floating in a pool of fluid. The other looked shrink-wrapped.

Doctors said the condition had progressed so fast the only option was laser surgery to separate the blood vessels.

The babies underwent a battery of tests to ensure their hearts and brains were healthy enough for the procedure. Behrendt and Dr. Henry Galan explained the condition, the plan, the SEE HEALEY, P8

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Colorado House sends $29 billion budget bill to Senate

BY JAMES ANDERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS

Colorado’s Democrat-led House passed a $28.9 billion budget bill March 29 and sent it to the Republican-led Senate, where the focus will be on how much transportation — long an underfunded priority — should receive.

A strong economy propelled by record oil production, rising wages and the new federal tax law is giving legislators a cushion to make catch-up investments in roads, schools, school safety and state pensions in the fiscal year that starts July 1. The House passed the budget bill 42-22 after hours of debate, defeating Republican amendments to add millions of dollars more to fix aging roads and bridges.

The Senate now takes up the bill, and

a separate bill that would issue bonds to generate $3.5 billion for roads will influence the debate. That legislation unanimously passed the Senate and is before the House, whose leaders, citing the prospect of an eventual recession, are hesitant to commit $250 million a year for 20 years to back the bonds — a sum that would siphon funding from K-12 and other funding should Colorado’s economy falter.

The bond issue depends on the bill passing this session and voters approving it in November 2019. Democrats argue asking Coloradans for a tax increase is a better option.

“The dollars we are investing in transportation may not be available to us in future years,’’ said House Speaker Crisanta Duran, D-Denver. “I’m open to a responsible amount of bonding, but

we cannot simply mortgage away our future.’’

A companion budget bill passed last week commits $455 million to transportation regardless of whether the bonding bill succeeds. Republicans objected to a provision that allocates about $68 million of that amount to so-called “multimodal’’ needs that could include sidewalks and other safety improvements, public transit or other infrastructure. They argued for straightforward roads funding.

“I recognize that we have finally made transportation a priority in this building,’’ said Rep. Polly Lawrence, R-Roxborough Park. “But we also need to recognize the fact that these local communities know what they need better than we do.’’

“This encourages (rural communi-

ties) to think about everybody in the district, and not just about cars,’’ said Democratic Rep. Barbara McLachlan, whose district includes several rural southwestern counties.

Republicans, citing Colorado’s history with school shootings and the February massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school, added $35 million to the budget for school safety projects and training. That boosts total K-12 funding to more than $600 million.

Tuition at most public colleges and universities will be capped at no more than 3 percent next year, and $225 million would go to the troubled state public employee pension plan.

Another bill is designed to rescue the plan, whose unfunded liabilities are between $32 billion and $50 billion.

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Democrats underscore differences at forum in governor’s race Kennedy, Polis, Lynne, Johnston discuss energy, transportation, health care

REPUBLICANS APPEARED IN FEBRUARY

The Denver Business Journal and the Colorado Business Roundtable hosted a candidates’ forum for the Republican gubernatorial candidates Feb. 21 at the History Colorado Center, 1200 N. Broadway, Denver.

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A crowded governor’s race that has seen more than three dozen declared candidates has pared down to a handful of top contenders, and those on the Democratic side carved out different niches for themselves just weeks away from the state assembly.

“I’m applying for a very small promotion,” said Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, to laughs from the audience at the Democratic Governor Candidate Forum in Denver.

The event at the History Colorado Center on March 29 saw Lynne playing up her experience in her secondto-the-governor role, as U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder cast himself as keeping businesses on his mind and former state Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, took the audience into the details on policy.

Former state treasurer Cary Kennedy — who is giving Polis a run for his money in polling and grassroots support — made the most plays for relatability in the forum, which was hosted by the Denver Business Journal and the Colorado Business

Candidates featured included Walker Stapleton, state treasurer; Victor Mitchell, former state representative of Castle Rock; Doug Robinson, former investment banker; and Cynthia Coffman, state attorney general.

Former state Sen. Mike Johnston, of Denver, stands to answer a question during the Democratic Governor Candidate Forum hosted by the Colorado Business Roundtable on March 29. The other candidates at the forum were, from left, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder, Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne and former state Treasurer Cary Kennedy.

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It’s possible several candidates may get onto the ballot for the June 26 primary election. In a race that may come down to the wire, here’s what gubernatorial candidates had to say on some of 2018’s most prominent issues.

Health-care expansion The Bernie Sanders-esque call for “Medicare for all” is alive and kicking in Polis’ and Kennedy’s platforms, while Johnston and especially Lynne are more conservative in their ideas.

“Particularly on the Western Slope, I hear from families spending $2,000 a month, $3,000 a month,”

Kennedy said. Some Colorado counties have among the highest costs in the nation, she added, referring to premiums in mountain and western counties.

Kennedy wants to open up Medicaid for anyone and also make available the plans currently available to state employees. She said the Medicaid initiative wouldn’t cost taxpayers anything — analyses of similar proposals say government spending would need to increase, although health care costs overall could drop due to eliminated need for advertising and administrative spending in the private sector. How the trade-off would turn out is hotly debated. Kennedy also said the state would have SEE FORUM, P5

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— in bolstering Colorado’s infrastructure.

Polis supports efforts toward a rail line that serves the Front Range, potentially connecting places between FROM PAGE 4 Fort Collins and Pueblo. Johnston brought up the “last-mile” issue, leverage to negotiate lower costs commuters needing a solution to with health-care providers. connect to their destination after usPolis also supports a single-payer ing certain transit. option, which he said could take Kennedy talked up more funding burden off of businesses. He also for transportation projects, lament-pointed to the issue of people going ing the reliance on to emergency rooms private fees to use and shifting costs roadways in lieu of onto others. tax increases, which On the other must be approved by hand, Lynne, a voters in Colorado. former Kaiser Per“It can’t just all be manente executive, private pay or user favors opening the pay,” Kennedy said. state-employee plan “We have to make the to small businesses, Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne investment in rural areas with high costs that lack covCandidate for governor roads (and) highways.” erage choices and Lynne echoed that local-government — saying that the entities. state needs to pass a tax to prevent “Twenty-six states already do revenue problems that could arise this,” Lynne said, “opening it up to when, inevitably, the next recession local communities, counties, towns, comes — and also said transportaschool districts.” tion needs may change.

Johnston said those who would pay “If we finance something with a more than a certain percentage of their income — his website says rough- 20-year view, which I’m not opposed ly 10 percent — on premiums should be to, we need to take technology into account,” said Lynne, adding that able to buy into Medicaid. He’s also for advancements like self-driving cars tax incentives to bring health providcould be factors. ers to rural communities.

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“I’m applying for a very small promotion,”

Modes of transportation All candidates acknowledged the importance of multimodal transportation — which generally means including mass transit like light rail

“It can’t just all be private pay or user pay, we have to make the investment in rural roads (and) highways.”

Cary Kennedy Former state treasurer “It reduces long-term rates,” Johnston said, adding that drilling shouldn’t take place in “environmentally sensitive” places.

The move would bring green jobs that can’t be outsourced, Polis said.

“There are tremendous opportunities for job growth and savings for consumers,” Polis said of the plan that’s become the hallmark of his campaign, to much criticism from conservatives.

Colorado would be irresponsible to talk too far into the future, said Lynne, who has in the past high-

lighted efforts by Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration to support renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.

But, Lynne said, “We have to be realistic.” Similarly, Kennedy said Colorado “is and should continue to be” transitioning to renewable energy sources.

“That doesn’t mean the oil and gas industry aren’t important. We are one of the biggest producers in the country,” Kennedy said, adding, “I am not one of the folks you’d see wanting to do harm.”

Move to renewables Polis and Johnston support moving Colorado to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040, while Kennedy and Lynne don’t go so far.

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Douglas County commissioner accepts appointment as U.S. marshal for Colorado Republican Party has 10 days from April 1 to fill the seat of David Weaver

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County Commissioner David Weaver has accepted the appointment of United States Marshal for the District of Colorado, according to a news release issued March 27 by Douglas County. He vacates his seat as county commissioner this week, eight months before the end of his first full term.

“Although my plan had been to not only complete my first term as commis-

sioner and then run for a second term, the honor of this nomination and opportunity to serve in law enforcement at the federal level as the U.S. Marshal for Colorado was an opportunity as a public servant I knew I must do,” Weaver, who previously served as the county’s sheriff, said in the release.

“It has been an honor to serve Douglas County for the past 38 years and I hope I leave it a better place.”

President Donald Trump nominated Weaver, a Weaver Republican, for the role in November. On March 20, the U.S. Senate confirmed Weaver as a nominee. Duties of the position include protecting the federal judiciary, apprehending fugitives, transporting prison-

ers and protecting witnesses, a news release from the White House said.

Prior to being elected as commissioner of District I in 2014, Weaver served as Douglas County sheriff for two terms.

He was employed by the sheriff ’s office for 33 years.

The Douglas County Republican Party has 10 days from April 1 to make a decision on who will fill Weaver’s seat as county commissioner, or else Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper would make the appointment.

A vacancy committee, formed of about 360 board members, elected officials, district captains and precinct leaders, is waiting on a venue to cast the vote, said Tanne Blackburn, chair of the Douglas County Republicans.

She expects the vote to take place on April 9, 10 or 11.

Blackburn said it is “most likely” that one of the two Republican candidates running for Douglas County District 1 commissioner in the general election will be appointed. Those candidates are Abe Laydon, an attorney at a law firm in Denver, and Douglas County Treasurer Diane Holbert.

Weaver will leave big shoes to fill, the county’s two other commissioners said in the news release.

“We will miss Dave’s leadership, his positive approach to problem-solving and the experience he brings to all opportunities and challenges,” Roger Partridge said.

Said Lora Thomas: “I’ve known Dave since 1984 when I was a trooper and he was a deputy serving Douglas County.

Dave’s concern for Douglas County is obvious and he will be missed.”

Dentist group makes push to limit opioid prescriptions

BY LINDSAY TANNER ASSOCIATED PRESS

The American Dental Association wants dentists to drastically cut back on prescribing opioid painkillers.

The association announced a new policy recently that “essentially says eliminate opioids from your arsenal if at all possible,’’ said Dr. Joseph Crowley,

the group’s president. The Chicago-based group represents around 161,000 dentists.

The group is also pushing for limiting opioid prescriptions to no more than a week and mandatory education for dentists that encourages using other painkillers.

Dentists write fewer than 7 percent of U.S. opioid prescriptions, but new research shows

that practice has increased in recent years, despite evidence that ibuprofen and acetaminophen work just as well for most dental pain and are less risky opioids, which can be addictive.

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Hearing moved in Kiowa teacher murder case STAFF REPORT

The preliminary hearing in the murder case against Dan Pesch, the man accused of killing Kiowa High School teacher Randy Wilson in 2010, was moved from March 30 to April 12 at 2 p.m. at the Elbert County Courthouse in Kiowa, the 18th Judicial District said.

Pesch, 34, has been charged with first-degree murder in the case, as well as resisting arrest, attempting to escape and obstructing an officer.

Pesch was arrested in Littleton in December 2017, more than 7 ½ years after Wilson was found dead.

Wilson, who was 52 at the time of

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Chimenti sees hemp’s potential as being more than just a trend that could fizzle as a steadily increasing number of people grow the crop. In a county with such a dry climate, he says hemp could use a drip irrigation system, opposed to other crops that requires spraying.

A study published in 2010 found that cows produced more milk when they were fed a moderate amount of hempseed cake, a good deal more than those that ate the control feed. Not only could local cows consume hemp, but for the humans, popular product lines exist for everything from lotions to shoes to seeds eaten for nutritional value.

Despite looks, the hemp plant will not affect a person the way marijuana does.

“What I’ve heard is it takes about 100 pounds,” Chimenti laughed, explaining that the controversy only extends to appearances.

Even the best sheriff could confuse an industrial hemp farm for its illegal cousin, because it’s impossible to know unless the plant is tested for THC. Taking a look at other counties like El Paso showed the project manager Chimenti how to execute a plan that eliminates controversy.

First, everyone needs a permit in which they give their name and the GPS coordinates of the farm; this helps law enforcement but also the fire department in case of a wildfire. Next, the state sends out analysts who test

his death, was found dead of asphyxiation at the intersection of County Line Road and Kiowa-Bennett Road on June 14, 2010.

Information in the case against Pesch, including typically public information like arrest affidavits and autopsy reports, were sealed the day of his arrest. The secrecy is to protect the integrity of the investiPesch gation, said 18th Judicial District spokeswoman Vikki Migoya.

Prosecutors will present some of the evidence against Pesch at the hearing. the plant on-site to ensure the THC levels are below 0.3 percent. Anything above that will be destroyed, and the farmer will be penalized. If the levels are well above that, anything over 1 percent, the state turns the results over to law enforcement.

Chimenti said this last point is not unheard of as businesses in northern Colorado have claimed to grow hemp, when it turned out they were growing marijuana and selling outside the state.

An unexpected issue that hemp farmers may face is not the confusion from cops, but from bandits.

“A lot of counties are having issues with what I call `boneheads’ robbing farms, thinking they’re marijuana farms,” Chimenti said. “El Paso County is always getting huge tracks taken down, ripped out.”

Army veteran Chimenti was brought into the county through a special project to help transition military personnel into civilians. He says it’s often difficult for veterans to translate their skills in a way that hiring managers understand. Even though he’s traveled the world and coordinated the lives of hundreds of men and women, finding a job has been difficult. Industrial hemp permitting is one of the many tasks he has undertaken during his fellowship.

Richardson said of the county staff, “Ten percent were let go in 2010. This last year we’ve come back up to the same number of employees in 2011.

Somebody like Doug can come in, we’ll give him a project and he can do the research. We could probably use three or four more Dougs.”

“It’s a reciprocal relationship,” Chimenti replied with a smile.

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risks, the options.

“Knowledge is power,” Tyler said.

“The more you know, the more you understand. We had so many questions.”

A week later, a team of specialists including Behrendt and Galan performed a successful 2-minute, 34-second laser surgery that separated 11 blood vessels.

They also drained 2 1/2 liters of fluid.

But to separate those vessels, it was necessary to rupture the membrane that divided the babies’ amniotic sacs, which put the twins at high risk of entangling their umbilical cords.

As a precaution, Kendal went on bedrest at home. At 26 weeks, she moved to the maternal fetal center at Children’s, where she continued on closely monitored bed rest. Ultrasounds three times a day checked the babies’ heartbeats and made sure their cords remained untangled.

And despite being afraid to get attached, Kendal and Tyler got to know their babies well: Baby A, as she was called, was a spitfire, a wiggle worm who kicked and hiccupped and rolled around all the time. Baby B was mellow.

Quiet. Peaceful.

••••• On Christmas Eve, at about 30 weeks, Kendal’s water broke. But the goal was to reach 31 weeks — nine weeks before the original March 6 due date — to give the babies more time to grow and a better chance of surviving and developing without complications.

Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, or TTTS, is a rare and serious medical condition that occurs in about 15 percent of identical twin pregnancies in which the fetuses share a placenta and the blood supply becomes connected through shared blood vessels.

One baby, called the recipient, receives too much blood supply and the other baby, called the donor, receives too little.

“We watch these babies very closely, every two weeks at least, starting at 16 weeks to the end of pregnancy,” said Dr. Nicholas Behrendt, 37, a maternal fetal specialist and fetal surgeon at the Colorado Fetal Care Center at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

“If the imbalance occurs, both babies can become very sick from the disease,” he said. “If the disease progresses, then severe complications such as heart failure or death can occur.”

Left untreated, one or both babies die in 80 to 100 percent of pregnancies, statistics show. The number of deaths from TTTS exceeds those from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). But when treated, and without complicating factors, the center expects 96.5 percent for survival of one or

both fetuses and 83 percent for survival of both babies, according to a recent review of cases at Children’s. But 90 percent of TTTS cases have at least one or more complications that can reduce survival rates.

Before ultrasounds, the condition was diagnosed only after the babies’ deaths, Behrendt said. The laser surgery to separate the blood vessels has been used since the 1980s. But he said survival rates have drastically improved over the past decade because doctors are better at the technically challenging procedure that requires a team of doctors and support staff to perform.

“It’s a satisfying feeling . . . to be able to take care of these patients,” Behrendt said.

The Colorado Fetal Care Center, which opened in 2010, performs between 100 and 130 TTTS laser procedures a year involving families from throughout the country.

“I get a lot of satisfaction out of being able to educate the families about what is going on with their pregnancy,” Behrendt said. “At the end of the day, it’s great to feel that we give as many families a shot in a pretty dire situation.”

— Ann Macari Healey

On Jan. 2, fluid began to build up again, igniting concern that some vessels might still be attached. So two days later, on Jan. 4 at 11:25 a.m., doctors performed a C-section and delivered two little girls.

Kendal didn’t see the babies before they were whisked away — each with her own eight-member team of neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, nurses, respiratory therapists and pharmacist — to the room next door.

But when she heard them both cry, she cried, too.

The babies were immediately put on ventilators to help them breathe — lungs don’t fully develop until 36 weeks — for the first 24 hours.

Tyler drifted back and forth, between mom and babies, like a passenger following directions. He actually doesn’t remember much.

When she finally met her babies, Kendal felt her anxiety ease.

Baby A, the one receiving the extra blood flow, became Kenna. She weighed 4 pounds. Baby B — Zoey — weighed 3 pounds, 10 ounces.

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On March 2, just four days before their original due date, Kenna and Zoey left their side-by-side cribs in the neonatal intensive care unit and went home. Kenna weighed 8 pounds, Zoey 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Their parents brought with them oxygen equipment to help them breathe, a stethoscope to monitor heartrates, the meds and supplements needed to add calories to breast milk.

In the first 10 days home, the babies woke at night and slept during the day.

Kendal and Tyler estimate their sleep totaled 15 to 20 hours during that same time. But the babies are growing and will soon not need the extra oxygen help.

Life, Kendal said, “is beautifully chaotic.”

••••• When she and Tyler look back on the journey, they say they have witnessed two miracles.

The first is the medicine — the doctors that educated and included them in the process and the procedures and care that gave their children life.

“Seeing how these babies started and seeing how good they are — 20 years ago these babies wouldn’t have survived,” Tyler said. “What’s incredible is how medicine saved these girls.”

The second is the girls themselves.

“They’re little miracle babies,” Kendal said simply. “We are overjoyed.”

Love. Faith. Family.

A happy ending.

Ann Macari Healey writes about people, places and issues of everyday life.

An award-winning columnist, she can be reached at ahealey@coloradocommunitymedia or 303-566-4100.

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HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Editor’s note: Send new listings or changes to hharden@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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Need: Volunteers to to help older, lowerincome taxpayers prepare their tax returns.

Requirement: All levels of experience are welcome; training and support provided.

Contact: 1-888-OUR-AARP (687-2277) or www.aarpfoundation.org/taxaide Alzheimer’s Association, Colorado Chapter: Provides care and support to 67,000-plus families dealing with all kinds of dementing illnesses.

Need: Walk to End Alzheimer’s committee members.

Requirements: Individuals who love to help plan and execute. Our Walk to End Alzheimer’s attracts more than 10,000 people, so planning committee members are essential.

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Animal Rescue of the Rockies: Provides foster care for death-row shelter dogs and cats throughout Colorado Need: Foster families for animals on lists to be euthanized Contact: www.animalrescueoftherockies.org.

Arthritis Foundation, Colorado/Wyoming Chapter: Helps conquer everyday battles through life-changing information and resources, access to care, advancements in sciences and community connections.

Need: Walk to Cure Arthritis committee members and general office volunteer support.

Requirements: Individuals who love to help plan and execute Walk to Cure Arthritis. We combat arthritis every day, so support from volunteers so that we can serve people is crucial.

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ASSE International Student Exchange Program: Organizes student exchange programs Need: Local host families to provide homes for boys and girls age 15-18 from a variety of coutries.

Contact: Cathy Hintz, 406-488-8325 or 800733-2773 AYUSA: International Youth Exchange Program: Promotes quality exchange programs for high school students from around the world.

Need: Host families for international high school students ages 15-18 studying in the Denver area.

Requirements: To provide students with a safe home, meals and transportation for 5-10 months. All family types are considered.

Must fill out onlilne application and pass background check.

Contact: Adrienne Bivens, 720-467-6430 or abivens@ayusa.org. Go to www.ayusa.org.

Castle Rock Senior Activity Center: Provides services to local seniors Need: Volunteer drivers to take seniors to appointments, the grocery store, pharmacies and more.

Contact: Steph Schroeder, 303-688-9498 Colorado Humane Society: Handles animal abuse and neglect cases Need: Volunteers to care for pregnant cats,

dogs and their litters, as well as homes for cats and dogs that require socializing or that are recovering from surgery or injuries.

Contact: Teresa Broaddus, 303-961-3925 Court Appointed Special Advocates: Works with abused and neglected children in Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties Need: Advocates for children, to get to know, speak up for and ensure their best interests in court Contact: 303-695-1882 or www.adv4children. org.

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Douglas/Elbert Task Force: Provides assistance to people in Douglas and Elbert counties who are in serious economic need, at risk of homelessness or in similar crisis.

Need: Volunteers to assist in the food bank, client services and the thrift store Treasures on Park Street.

Contact: Marion Dahlem, 303-688-1114, ext. 32

Get ready to fill your fly boxes for the start of spring fishing with an all-day fly-tying extravaganza.

Twenty-four of the biggest names in fly tying will give away their fly fishing and tying secrets at the Orvis Park Meadows Spring Fly Tying Fest from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 14. Many tiers will be there all day, while others will cycle in for four-hour shifts.

Drop in any time and watch some of the best tiers around. Orvis is located at 8433 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree.

In addition to talking fly fishing and tying flies, customers will enjoy free chili, Lone Tree Brewing Co. beer, wine, snacks and more. Those who attend also can win fly boxes with flies tied by these experts, fly tying materials, and other items in the afternoon raffle.

For information or to RSVP, call or email Orvis Park Meadows at 303-768-9600 or retail-parkmeadowsstr028@orvis.com.

Dumb Friends League Harmony Equine Center: Cares for homeless horses and other equines.

Need: Volunteers to work with horses and other opportunities.

Requirements: Must be 16 years old, pass a background check, and be able to commit to at least three hours a week for three months.

Other Information: Two-hour orientation provides an overview of the services provided, learn about the volunteer opportunities, take a tour of the center, and talk with staff and volunteers.

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when Houston was hit by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, dumping 50 inches of rain on the area in a short time. The deluge caused widespread flooding that damaged 35,000 homes in Houston and other areas of Texas. According to statistics, 80 percent of the damaged homes’ owners didn’t have flood insurance, so they personally had to cover all costs to repair their homes.

Teams came in soon after the hurricane and removed all flood-damaged items like furniture, drywall and cabinets.

However, a great many homeowners had no resources for removing all the debris and remaking the shell of a house into a home.

Eight Days of Hope, a Mississippi foundation, organized the project to bring volunteers to Houston to help do repairs so people could return to their homes.

The Elizabeth team was housed in an empty, renovated shopping mall with about 100 other volunteers. Project volunteers provided a hot breakfast, a sack lunch and a hot dinner to all the volunteers.

Tyler Knowlton said he

Members of the team from Harvest Baptist Church in Elizabeth spent their spring break doing volunteer work in the Houston area as part of the Eight Days of Hope project, assisting owners of homes damaged

by Hurricane Harvey. Volunteers spent days working on the project and at night slept on the floor of a renovated shopping mall.

COURTESY PHOTO wanted to go out and help people outside his community, so he volunteered to be part of the Houston project.

“I didn’t know what to expect but, when we arrived, I realized there was a lot of

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particularly cleaning up the debris and loading it to be hauled away. But it was worth it because we are helping people. It also is fun because I have met new friends among the volunteers from other

states. I also got to meet one of the homeowners, named Gail, who told us about what it was like during the flood.

That was something.”

He said he is thankful that he was able to join all the people who volunteered to help the Houston families.

“It is amazing to see how many people volunteered for this project,” he said. “It is incredible to see so many people left their homes to come together as one large family, helping those who need their help.”

Elizabeth High School freshman Emily Jahnz said she was sort of nervous because she didn’t know what the group would be doing.

“They had us helping remove a lot of debris,” she said. “It was heavy work but we had guys working with us to make it easier. I really was surprised there was so much debris still waiting to be hauled away.”

She said it was hard work but it also was fun getting to meet other volunteers from other states.

“I feel we accomplished a lot,” she said. “I am happy we got a lot of work done and it was special that the people who lived there came out and thanked us for all we were doing. It has been a great week and I am very glad I came.”

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If you’re not watching for dog food falling from the sky, you should be

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Your dog food might be on its way down.

Amazon (our new neighbors?) just received a patent for packages with inflatable air bags.

QUIET Amazon wants to DESPERATION make deliveries by drone from as high as 25 feet. Why not have the drones come in for a landing? It uses too much of the drone’s power.

I have always wondered how Amazon (and others) make home deliveries to Craig Marshall remote areas, up Smith mountain roads, in the sticks, to off-the-map places. It can’t be cost-effective.

Drones might be the answer.

I thrive on unintended consequences to fuel these articles, and it would seem that aerial drone drop deliveries would be full of them.

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All it would take is the wrong house number, and Buzz up the street gets clunked with your case of Gainesburgers.

Or what if the incoming dog food encounters a flock of seagulls in midair?

Or your delivery is scheduled for 2 p.m., but the drone is early while you’re out back drinking 40s. The bag doesn’t inflate and you are felled by dog food. How does that look in your obituary?

I benefit from new technologies, certainly, but maybe we have enough of them. Maybe I have enough of them.

Thoreau would be throwing up.

“Simplify, simplify,” he said.

“Complicate, complicate,” is what we’re doing.

In Tempe, Arizona, a fully autonomous car killed a 49-year-old woman as she walked her bicycle across a street. CNN reported the investigation does not show the vehicle slowing before the crash. A 44-year-old Uber test driver was behind the wheel.

There was a driver, but the car was on self-drive.

Did anyone else foresee this, or just Old Craig?

Even carefully thought out technologies can go wrong. I watch something called “Air Disasters,” primarily because of the forensics involved in determining why an airplane crashed.

Frequently there is something wrong in the design. It might even be a bolt.

One plane lost all of its hydraulics.

“One in a billion,” a pilot said.

The fault was in the design, and the design was corrected.

Maybe there will never, ever be another death caused by an autonomously driven automobile.

“The self-driving industry,” CNN said, “has found quicker-success with highway driving” than dealing with pedestrians and bicyclists.

I used to think that my father’s car’s cruise control feature was both unnecessary and kind of decadent.

Until later in life when I drove through Nebraska.

Even so, whenever I have used cruise control, I’ve felt some guilt.

It is not what Henry Ford intended.

The true automobile experience is betrayed.

The same goes for the films I watch on television. Films were meant to be watched on a big screen with big sound in a big theater.

And they weren’t meant to be watched in intervals, or interrupted with trips to the kitchen, or to let the dog out They were meant to enrobe you from start to finish, completely, and without qualification.

I apologize to Auguste and Louis Lumiere, French pioneers in filmmaking, every time I watch a film on my little flat screen, and go back and forth to my office or to my studio.

We seek convenience at every turn, and I am no exception.

But I can tell you right now what would to happen to my Gaines-burgers. They would land on my roof.

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

He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

What’s new with you? It could well be more than you think

e have all had this conversation, haven’t we? You know the one I am talking about, when we run into someone we haven’t seen in a while, it sounds something like this, “Hey, how’s it going, how you been, what’s WINNING new?” and the other WORDS person responds politely and says, “Great to see you too, everything is pretty much the same, what’s new with you?”

The question, “What’s new with you?” has been around forever.

Michael Norton And most times the responses are exactly like the scenario above, “Not much, same-old-same-old going on around here.”

I think that sometimes we reply in this way because we feel like we don’t want to share what is new in our lives.

And I think that other times, we really

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don’t think about all the new things happening or we do not have a full appreciation for them.

And maybe, the new things going on in our life are new, but maybe they aren’t necessarily good things that are going on and we would rather not share that part of what’s new with others just yet.

So new doesn’t always connect with being good, but most times it does.

A new car, a new dress, a new suit, a new restaurant, a new friend, a new or renewed love, a new attitude built on the pure, the clean, the powerful, and the positive.

The new way we look at each other, the new way we see the world and all the beauty that comes with it.

You see, the marketing slogan “New and Improved” isn’t just for businesses, “New and Improved” should be and can be about us too.

Now for most people there seems to be two times a year when they think of things being new and maybe put a little more effort and emphasis on the newness of life.

New Year’s Eve is one as we set goals and talk about resolutions, dropping bad habits and picking up new and healthier habits.

And the other time of the year is right around now, springtime and Easter.

With springtime come the flowers, the budding of the leaves on the trees, extra daylight, warmer weather, a little more spring in our step and bounce in our ounce, and maybe even a new and positive attitude.

And at Easter we know that all things are made new as we celebrate the newness that the meaning of Easter brings.

Are you prepared for the question, “So what’s new with you?” I’ll bet if you really think about it, the response will not be, “Not much, just the sameold-same-old around here.”

I’ll bet you can think of something that is new, something you are doing in your life, whether it is at home or at work, that has you energized and hopeful.

Something that is putting a little

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extra spring in your step and bounce in your ounce.

The “What’s new with you?” question can also be a newfound appreciation and sense of gratitude. Maybe it’s this year, this spring, right now that we can recognize just how grateful we are and how we fully and deeply appreciate all the people, sights and sounds, and things that we have been blessed with in our lives.

If this is a new concept for you, give it a shot as gratitude and appreciation are two of the healthiest of all our emotions.

What’s new with you? I really would love to hear what’s new with you and your “new” story at gotonorton@ gmail.com.

And when we can identify and appreciate the feeling of something new, it really will be a better than good week.

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

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THINGS TO DO Wiley and the Hairy Man: 10-11:10 a.m.

Saturday, April 7 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Go to http://parkerarts.org/

Friday, April 13, The Studio at Mainstreet, 19600 Mainstreet, Parker. Info: parkerplayersimprov@gmail.com. Tickets at Eventbrite.com; search for Parker events.

Best of PAG Spring Show: Sunday, April 8 to Saturday, May 5 at Deep Space Gallery, 11020 S. Pikes Peak Drive, Parker. Parker Artists Guild show includes an opening reception from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 8; a community open house from 5:30-8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 18; and the First Friday Art Walk season opener from 5:30-8 p.m.

Friday, May 4. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Call 720-6757932. Contact Kay Galvan, galv56@gmail. com.

“Westward Ho: Trailblazers of Douglas County” Exhibit Grand Opening: noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Castle Rock Museum, 420 Elbert St. Meet Mountain Men and see the equipment needed for a venture across Colorado in the 1800s. Info: 303-814-3164 or www.castlerockhistoricalsociety.org.

Macaroni Kid Douglas County Summer Camp and Activities Fair: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sunday, April 8 at CU South Denver, 10035 S. Peoria St., Parker. Admission to the CU South Denver’s museum exhibits and galleries is included for all who attend. Go to bit.ly/MKDC2018SCF to register.

String Quartet Ethel and Flutist Robert Mirabal: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14, PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker.

Tickets: 303-805-6800 or parkerarts. ticketforce.com.

Elbert Woman’s Club Meeting: 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 10 at the Elbert Mercantile Building.

Free Legal Clinic: 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 at the Elizabeth Public Library, 651 W. Beverly St., Elizabeth. Clinic is for parties who have no attorney. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain the process and procedure for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans’ issues, and civil protection orders.

Walk-ins welcome; everyone helped on first-come, first-served basis. Additional 2018 dates are May 8, June 12, July 10, Aug. 14, Sept. 11, Oct. 9, Nov. 13 and Dec. 11.

The Stephen Long Expedition: Thursday, April 12 at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Presented by local historian Kent Brandebery, in honor of the new Castle Rock Museum exhibit on early explorers in Douglas County. Go to www. castlerockhistoricalsociety.org or contact the Castle Rock Museum at 303-814-3164 or museum@castlerockhistoricalsociety.org Henry and Mudge: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Based on book series by Cynthia Rylant. Info: http://parkerarts.org.

Chicago Long Form Improv: 8-9:30 p.m.

Pancake Breakfast: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, May 27 at the Elbert Mercantile Building.

Elbert Woman’s Club event.

Pancake Breakfast: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, April 22 at the Elbert Fire Department.

Elbert Woman’s Club event.

Bingo: 6-9 p.m. Monday, June 4, at the Elbert Mercantile Building. Elbert Woman’s Club event.

Fermentation: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 2 at PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Hear Dr. Andrew Hawkins, a Ph.D. trained microbiologist, teach you about all the good stuff fermentation can do as well as how microbes help us live a happier, healthier, and fuller life. Go to parkerarts.org.

Elbert Woman’s Club Meeting: 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, June 12 at the Elbert Mercantile Building.

Elbert Alumni: 4 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the Elbert Mercantile Building. Elbert Woman’s Club event.

Elizabeth Library Book Sale: gently used books for children and adults for sale in the book sale room at the Elizabeth Library.

Stocked by Friends of he Elizabeth Library.

Book sales benefit the Elizabeth Library.

Bingo: 6-9 p.m. Monday, May 7, at the Elbert Mercantile Building. Elbert Woman’s Club event.

Elbert Woman’s Club Meeting: 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 12 at the Elbert Mercantile Building.

Lifetree Café Discussion Group: 5-6 p.m.

Monday, April 9 (In the News; topic TBD); Monday, April 16 (How to Live Before You Die); Monday, April 23 (Pass or Fail?

The State of Education); Monday, April 30 (Emergency! Make Room for God) at DAZBOG, 202 Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Call 303-814-0142. Go to LifetreeCafe.com.

Outback Express: public transit service provided by the East Central Council of Local Governments; 24-hour notice appreciated.

Call Kay Campbell, 719- 541-4275, or 800825-0208 for reservations. Go to www. eccog.com for reservations, information and each month’s schedule. April schedule: Tuesday, April 10, Elizabeth to Colorado Springs or Parker; Thursday, April 12, Good Samaritan Nursing Home residents; Monday, April 16, Simla and Matheson to Colorado Springs; Tuesday, April 17, Kiowa, Elizabeth and Elbert to Parker or Colorado Springs; and Thursday, April 26, Simla and Matheson to Limon.

a trailer loading clinic will follow from 1-4 p.m. Space is limited. Call 303-688-0553 or email nccadams3@gmail.com to RSVP.

Pancake Breakfast: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, June 24 at Elbert Creekside 4-H. Elbert Woman’s Club event.

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OBITUARIES HIGMAN

Cynthia J. Higman 10/10/1961 - 3/23/2018

56, of Elizabeth, CO, Went to be with her Lord and Savior on March 23, 2018 with family at her side. Loving Wife of Spring Fly Tying Fest: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 14, Orvis Park Meadows. Meet 25 of the best fly tiers in the Rockies. Go to http://www.orvis.com/s/park-meadowscolorado-orvis-retail-store/620?group_ id=41829 Learn About: Rocky Mountain Gardening: 2-4 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at Parker Library, 20105 E. Mainstreet. Registration required; call 303-791-7323 or go to www.dcl.org.

Summer J.I.V.E. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at Colorado Early Colleges, 10235 Parkglenn Way, Parker. Job, Internship, Volunteer Expo is for students ages 14-19 and their parent. Workshop at 11:30 helps students with resumes. Register at www. bit.ly/JIVEFair. Businesses can register to host a table at www.bit.ly/JIVEFairBusiness.

Researching Swedish Ancestors: 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 14, Parker Library, 20105 Mainstreet, Parker. Led by Cheryl Johnson, Parker Genealogical Society member.

Lessons and Lemonade: 9:30-11 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturdays at Hobby Lobby, 10901 S. Parker Road, Parker. Parker Artist Guild classes for children in grades 4-8. Upcoming classes are April 14, Mixed Media-Textures with Peggy Jackson; May 12, Art Tissue Landscape with Judy Dvorak; and June 23, BrockArt with Toni Brock. Registration required; go to www.parkerartistsguild. com/classes/youth. Contact judypendleton4@gmail.com.

Emergency Preparedness Clinic: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 21 at the Elbert County Fairgrounds, 95 Ute Ave., Kiowa. The Preparing Your Horse for a Disaster Situation clinic will focus on prioritizing, making prior arrangements, identifying your horse, preparing your facilities and more. Afterward,

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A once-in-a-lifetime reading assignment Dead Sea Scrolls make first visit to Denver

BY CLARKE READER CREADER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

At just a cursory glance, one could almost be forgiven for being unimpressed by the Dead Sea Scrolls. After all, they appear as indecipherable writing — unless one speaks Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek — on scraps of paper to the untrained eye.

But when one considers these papers survived for more than 2,000 years and contain excerpts from some of history’s most important documents, they start to look a lot more impressive.

For the first time, Denver residents have the opportunity to not only examine some of the scrolls up close, but also hundreds of other artifacts from the same era in Israel at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

“People say the discovery of the scrolls was one of the great archaeological discoveries of the 20th century,” said the museum’s archaeology curator, Dr. Steve Nash. “You can take away 20th century and replace it with all time.”

The scrolls can be seen at the museum, 2001 Colorado Blvd. in Denver, through Sept. 3. This is the first time these documents have stopped in the Mile High City — the closest they’ve come before was Salt Lake City in Utah. The exhibition is organized by the Israeli Antiquities Authority.

These oldest-known biblical documents were discovered in 1947 by young Bedouin goatherders, who wandered into a cave along the shore of the Dead Sea, near the site of the ancient settlement of Qumran.

They found an assortment of clay jars, inside of which were scrolls wrapped in linen.

Over the next nine years, archaeologists and Bedouins searched the surrounding caves. After extensive excavation, more than 900 remarkably preserved scrolls were recovered.

Before the discoveries of the scrolls, Nash said, the oldest biblical texts were from about 900 in the Middle Ages.

For the exhibit, the scrolls are presented within a massive exhibit case featuring carefully regulated individual chambers, along with the full English translation. Ten scrolls will be displayed when the exhibition

Conservators working at the IAA’s Dead Sea Scrolls Conservation Laboratory. The scrolls were discovered in 1947, and are making their first visit to Denver. COURTESY OF ISRAELI ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY opens. Because of strict preservation requirements, 10 different scrolls will arrive halfway through the run to replace the 10 initial scrolls.

Each rotation includes a scroll that has never before been on public display.

For this first rotation, the never-before-seen scroll is Tohorot (Purities) A. This text focuses on ritual purity, a common topic of the Hebrew Bible.

“If guests look only at the scrolls, they’re only getting one perspective on one religion at the time,” Nash said. “The goal is to give some context to what was happening at the time, to show how the writers of the scrolls were influenced, and the world they influenced.”

More than 600 artifacts from the ancient Middle East give visitors a background in the historic traditions and beliefs that continue to impact world cultures today.

Objects on display include inscriptions and seals, weapons, stone carvings, terra cotta figurines, remains of religious symbols, coins, shoes, textiles, mosaics, ceramics, jewelry and a three-ton stone from the Western Wall in Jerusalem, believed to have fallen in 70 CE (Common Era).

“Just like at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, guests are leaving notes and prayers in the cracks. When the exhibits is finished, they’ll be sent to Jerusalem, to the real wall,”

IF YOU GO WHAT: The Dead Sea Scrolls WHERE: Denver Museum of Nature and Science 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver WHEN: March 16 through Sept. 3 Monday through Friday - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Dead Sea Scrolls will be on display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through Sept. 3. Visitors can see 10 scrolls, and they will then be switched out to preserve them. MATTHEW PEYTON Nash said. “There’s also a live feed where people can watch what’s going on at the Western Wall in Jerusalem while they see the stone here.”

Unlike many exhibits that come through the museum, what each person takes away from seeing the scrolls depends on their own beliefs.

But there’s no contesting the impact these documents have had on the world and its three enormous faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

“This exhibit is really about the epic sweep of humanity,” Nash said. “History is always more complicated, messier and more interesting.”

COST: Adult - $25.95 Senior (65 and older) $21.95 Junior (3 to 18 years old) - $17.95 Ticket includes general admission entry.

INFORMATION: 303370-6000 and dmns. org/deadseascrolls.

Tickets are for specific times, and are selling out quickly, so visitors are encouraged to purchase in advance.

An example of the kind of jar the Dead Sea Scrolls were kept in for thousands of years before they were discovered.

MATTHEW PEYTON

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AA If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours. More than 1,000 AA meetings are offered in the Denver area every week. If you think you may have a problem with alcohol, come see us. To find a meeting near you, call 303-322-4440, or go to www.daccaa.org.

Castle Rock Bridge Club: 1 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Plum Creek Golf Club, 331 Players Club Drive, Castle Rock. Friendly, ACBLsanctioned duplicate games. For assistance in finding a bridge partner, call Georgiana Butler at 303-810-8504. Go to www.castlerockbridge.com.

Chess: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays at the Simla Library. All skill levels and ages welcome. Call 719-541-2573.

Douglas-Elbert County Music Teachers’ Association: 9 a.m. every first Thursday at Parker Bible Church, between Jordan and Chambers on Mainstreet. All area music teachers are welcome. Call Lucie Washburn, 303-814-3479.

Elbert County Sheriff’s Posse: a nonprofit volunteer organization that is part of the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office. As volunteers we support the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office, all law enforcement in our county, and the community at large. Go to http://www.elbertcountysheriff.com/posse.html, or contact Dave Peontek at 303-646-5456.

Elizabeth American Legion, Post 82: a veteran’s association supporting veterans, their families and the community, meets the first Monday of every month (except when the first Monday is a holiday, in which case the meeting is the second Monday) at the Legion Post Hall at South Banner Street and Elm Street in Elizabeth. Social hour begins at 5:30 and the regular business meeting starts at 6:30. Friday Afternoon Club meets from 5-7 p.m. every Friday and Veterans Coffee Club meets every Wednesday from 8-11 a.m. for social time with other veterans. All Veterans are invited to all meetings, we’d like to see you.

Website: aml82.org.

Elizabeth Food Bank: 12:30-3 p.m. Friday and 9-11:30 a.m. Saturday at 381 S. Banner in Elizabeth (next door to Elizabeth Presbyterian Church); available to help anyone who needs food. Other times by appointment.

Game Night: 4 p.m. Mondays at the Kiowa Library; call 303-621-2111. Also, 5 p.m. Tuesdays and 5 p.m. Wednesdays at the Elbert Library; call 303-648-3533. Enjoy board, card, and video games for all ages. Go to pplibraries.org.

Kiowa Creek Food Pantry: open from 8:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays in the Fellowship Hall at 231 Cheyenne Street, Kiowa. Distribution for the State of Colorado TEFAP food program.

Food is distributed monthly to low-income individuals/families that qualify. We also distribute low-income senior food boxes for the state; those 60 and older may qualify for a monthly supplement. If you are in need of food assistance or know someone who is, we may be able to qualify you for one of these programs. Call the food pantry at 303-6212376.

Knitting Group: 2 p.m. Tuesdays at the Kiowa Library. Knit and chat. All skill levels welcome.

Call 303-621-2111 or go to pplibraries.org.

Lawyers at the Library: 6-9 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly St. Free legal clinic for parties who have no attorney. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain the process and procedure for the areas of family law, civil litigation, criminal defense, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law and civil protection orders. Walk-ins welcome.

Everyone will be helped on a first-come, firstserved basis.

LEGO Master Brickster: 3:45 p.m. Thursdays at the Kiowa Library. Build LEGO stuff together.

Call 303-621-2111 or go to pplibraries.org.

Mystery Book Club: 9:30 a.m. the first Saturday of each month at the Simla Public Library.

The group enjoys talking about a variety of mystery authors and titles. We also periodically host a Colorado author during our meetings.

Everyone may join us, and registration is not required. Visit the Simla Branch of the Elbert County Library District at 504 Washington Avenue, call 719-541-2573, or email farabe@ elbertcountylibrary.org.

Outback Express: public transit service provided by the East Central Council of Local Governments. To ensure a seat is available, 24hour notice appreciated. Call Kay Campbell, 719- 541-4275, or 800-825-0208 for reservations. Go to eccog.com. Outback Express runs from Simla and Matheson to Colorado Springs on the first and third Monday of each month; from Simla and Matheson to Limon on the fourth Thursday of each month; from Kiowa, Elizabeth and Elbert to Parker or Colorado Springs on the first and third Tuesday of each month; from Elizabeth to Colorado Springs or Parker on the second Tuesday of each month.

Good Samaritan Nursing Home Residents may ride the bus on the second Thursday of each month.

Overeaters Anonymous: 10-11 a.m. and from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays in the Sedalia Room at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 2100 Meadows Parkway, Castle Rock.

Parker-Franktown-Elizabeth Paper Crafting Club: regular meetings on various weekday evenings and weekends at 7786 Prairie Lake Trail, Parker (in the Pinery). Open to anyone interested in card making and scrapbooking.

Contact Alison Collins at 720-212-4788 or find us online at http://www.meetup.com/ParkerFranktown-Elizabeth-Paper-Crafting-Club/ Ranchland Republican Women: 7 p.m. third Monday of each month at the Elizabeth Library, 651 Beverly St. Membership is open to Republicans only. Dues are $25 for a full voting member (women only) and $10 for a nonvoting member (can be women or men). For a membership application and other information, go to RanchlandRepublianWomen.org.

Seniors Meet: 11 a.m. Mondays at the Elizabeth Senior Center, 823 S. Banner St. Bring a dish for potluck on the first Monday of each month. Other Mondays, bring a sack lunch.

Bingo, games and socializing. New leadership.

Call Agnes at 303-883-7881 or Carol at 303646-3425.

Simla Open Mic Night: 6:30 p.m. Fridays at the Simla Library. Share poetry, music, dance, comedy or painting (inter alios), or just come and watch.3333 Sky Cliff Center Caregiver Support Group: 10-11:30 a.m. the third Tuesday of each month at 4600 E. Highway 86, Castle Rock. Caregiving for adults can be challenging at times, and

you’re not alone. For information, or to let the center know if you’re coming, call 303-8142863 or email skycliffctr@skycliff.org. Go to www.skycliff.org Sky Cliff Center Stroke Support Group: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the second and last Wednesday of each month at Christlife Community Church, 5451 E. Highway 86, Franktown (lunch provided). Also, 10-11:30 a.m. the third Wednesday of each month at Sky Ridge Medical Center, 10101 Ridge Gate Parkway, Lone Tree. Call Sky Cliff Center at 303-814-2863.

Southeast Beekeeping Club meets from 6:30-8:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month at the North Pinery Firehouse, Parker.

All levels of beekeeping welcome, from nobees to wanna-bees to tons of bees. Our meeting time is spent solving beekeeping challenges, networking and refreshments.

There is no fee for this meeting and a lending library is available. Call Linda Larsen at 303776-3039 or email sebcbeemail@gmail.com.

Teen Tuesday: 5 p.m. Tuesdays at the Elbert Library. Play card and video games. Call 303648-3533 or go to pplibraries.org.

Therapeutic riding: Promise Ranch Therapeutic Riding in Parker offers free therapeutic riding for developmentally disabled adults and children. Scholarship money is available for Douglas County residents to provide 10 therapeutic riding lessons. Call 303-841-5007 or visit www.promiseranchtherapeuticriding. com.

VFW Post 10649: 8:30 a.m. the first Saturday of every month at 24325 Main St., Elbert. Go to http://www.vfwpost10649.org. Contact Alan Beebe at 303-435-2560 for questions.

VFW Post 4266: 7 p.m. the third Monday of every month at the Pinery Fire Station, Community Room Lower Level, 8170 N. Hillcrest Way, Parker. Serving veterans of foreign wars in Parker, Castle Pines and Castle Rock areas.

Go to www.vfwpost4266.org. P.O. Box 4266, Parker, CO 80134. On Facebook at VFW Post 4266, Parker.

Waste Not Wednesdays: 4:15 p.m. Wednesdays, at Simla Library. Kids craft and learn with repurposed stuff. Call 719-541-2573 or go to pplibraries.org.

What’s up Wednesdays: 4 p.m. Wednesdays at the Elbert Library; 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Kiowa Library. Free STEAM activities for kids and parents. Call 303-648-3533 (Elbert) or 303-621-2111 (Kiowa) or go to pplibraries.org.

Women’s Divorce Workshop: 8:30 a.m. to noon the fourth Saturday of each month at Southeast Christian Church, 9650 Jordan Road, Parker. Check in from 8-8:30 a.m.

Register online at www.divorceworkshopdenver.com. Legal, financial and social issues of divorce. Volunteer presenters include an attorney, mediator, therapist and wealth manager.

Discussion items include co-parenting, child support, family coping, tax consequences, property division, hostile spouses and more.

Contact 303-210-2607 or info@divorceworkshopdenver.com.

Widowed Men and Women of America, sponsors social events for members to make new friends and have fun with people who have shared life experiences. Members live in the Denver metro area and surrounding communities. Contact Dorothy at 303-794-7547 or Les at 303-797-1209, or go to www.widowedamerica.org.

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Cherokee Castle has geology on agenda in two lectures

he Cherokee Castle property, at 6113 N. Daniels Park Road, Sedalia, contains a petrified forest with preserved fossil logs — and some were “harvested” and incorporated into the castle architecture.

SONYA’S In recent years, an SAMPLER expert has identified several distinct species that would indicate a very different climate than that of today. At 6:30 p.m. on April 11, there will be a lecture, “Secrets of our Petrified Log Forest Revealed.”

Admission: $18, free Sonya Ellingboe for students with ID and educators.

For reservations: cherokeeranch.org, 303-688-5555. The same website and phone number can be used for reservations to another presentation, on May 16, when Dr. Al Koch, director of the Cherokee Ranch Science Institute, will talk about nearby geological gold placer deposits: “The History and Geology of Gold in Douglas County.”

Doors open at 6 p.m. for lectures.

Literary festival Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, hosts the Writers Studio annual Literary Festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 14 in the Half Moon, Littleton Campus. Morning and afternoon workshops with nationally published and award-winning writ-

ers of fiction, poetry, non-fiction will fill morning and afternoon sessions.

Lunchtime will feature readings by workshop faculty. Books will be available for sale. An open mic for festival participants will conclude the day from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. See Arapahoe.edu/litfest for listing. For reservations, contact andrea.mason@arapahoe.edu and send check or money order by April 12 to: ACC Writers Studio Literary Festival, c/o Andrea Mason-Campus Box 32, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, P.O. Box 9002, Littleton, CO 80160-9002. Fee: $50 full day, non-ACC student; $30 half day non-ACC student; $20 ACC student. Pay by credit card — call Mason, 303-797-5857, or use URL above.

Student art The Arapahoe Community College Fine Art Juried Student Exhibition runs through April 12 at Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Annex, first floor, Littleton Campus. Closing reception is 5-7 p.m. April 12. Awards donated by Heritage Fine Arts Guild. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and until 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Books for tots One Book 4 Colorado returns to area libraries this year April 9-23, with a free picture book for families with young children (title TBA). More than 75,000 books will be distributed at Colorado’s public and military libraries this year, to support reading at home and ensure school readiness.

Visit your local library.

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Depot Gallery Littleton’s Depot Gallery hosts its annual “$100 or Less” exhibit at 2069 W. Powers Ave. through April 22.

303-795-0781. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesdays through Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays.

presented by Noel G. Ferre, program chair, Castle Rock Genealogical Society; April 17, 1-3 p.m., “Mapping Your Ancestors,” presented by Kirsten Canfield and Summer Greenwood from Arapahoe Libraries. ColumbineGenealogy.com.

High Line Canal April open houses will continue to explore the future of the 71-mile High Line Canal, according to the completed Community Vision Process.

Help with forming the Framework Plan from 4-7:30 p.m. April 10 at the Goodson Recreation Center, 6315 S. University Blvd., or on April 26 at the main Aurora Public Library, 14949 E. Alameda Parkway. (September open houses will be announced.) Users will continue with input. For information, see highlinecanal.org.

Littleton Symphony “Great Music From the Arts — From Literature” is the title for Littleton Symphony’s concert at 7 p.m. April 13 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Tickets: littletonsymphony.org, 303-933-6824.

Senior Resource Fair Visit the Senior Resource Fair at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial, sponsored by the Centennial Senior Commission, from 10 a.m. to noon on April 6. Before the fair, from 9-10 a.m., TLC Meals on Wheels will present how to live independently with Meals on Wheels, which offers volunteer visits and wellness checks.

(Reserve a spot for this program: 303542-7279 or visit arapahoelibraries. org/events.)

Concertmaster needed The Lone Tree Symphony seeks applications for a Concertmaster because the present one is retiring. (Feefor-service.) Send resume to Jacinda Bouton, Conductor/Music Director: Jacinda.Bouton@sprint.com and Mary Barnes, Vice President: Music@ Barnes.net.

Genealogy meetings Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society April meetings: April 10, 1-3 p.m., “Using Social History for Genealogy: Filling in the Gaps between Birth, Marriage and Death”

Readings Finalists in mystery, science fiction/ fantasy, thriller categories will read at 7 p.m. April 6 at the Book Bar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver. ($5 Blood Orange Sangrias, while they last. Previous winner Carter Wilson will emcee.) Barbara Nickless, Charlotte Hinger, Margaret Mizushima, L.D. Colter, Michael Haspil, Laura E. Reeve, John A. Daly, Chris Goff, Peg Brantley will read.

Winners will be celebrated at 4:30 p.m.

June 2 at the Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. $20 ticket includes reception and readings by winners.

Indian Wars The annual Denver Indian Wars Symposium will be held May 12 at the Colorado National Guard Headquarters, 6868 S. Revere Parkway, Centennial. Speakers, authors, booksellers, buffet lunch and morning coffee and doughnuts included. To reserve a place: send check for $35 to: OIW, P.O. Box 1650, Johnstown, CO 80534.

Nick Sugar directs “Passing Strange,” a musical in a regional premiere at The Aurora Fox, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, from April 13 to May 13, will be directed by Nick Sugar, well-known at Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays (no show on Sunday, April 15).

Tickets: 303-739-1970, aurorafox.org.

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For ex-major leaguers like Helton, retirement no easy transition

BY JANIE MCCAULEY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Todd Helton now regularly drives his two daughters to school or other activities back home in Tennessee, a huge life change for Colorado’s former All-Star first baseman.

He had no idea walking away from baseball would be such a daunting and overwhelming adjustment. The daily routine that had become part of his DNA — the bantering, the batting practice, the games — replaced by chauffeuring kids, helping around the house and some golf.

“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,’’ Helton, 44, said. “I’ve been a baseball player since I could walk, always knew I was going to be a baseball player.’’

As baseball begins anew, many former players realize just how tough it is.

No more opening days. No adrenaline rush from batting with the bases loaded and two outs in front of 40,000 fans going crazy. No clubhouse camaraderie, sharing a goal of reaching the World Series.

The planes, the hotels, the autograph seekers and, sure, the money.

But a structure totally built around being at the stadium, suddenly replaced by mundane tasks with nobody

watching.

“You step away and the game goes on without you, no matter how great you were,’’ former outfielder Randy Winn said. “And there are some really great players standing around here that aren’t playing anymore: world champions, All-Stars, Barry (Bonds) walks in and some of the greatest of all time. And the game goes on.

There’s younger people that come in that get talked about. That’s maybe not the hardest thing but it’s kind of the `What’s next for me?’ that is the hard part.’’

Injuries forced ex-San Francisco pitcher Noah Lowry to retire early , and he now owns an outdoors store in Northern California and joined the Chamber of Commerce.

Like Helton, he also felt lost without his sport.

“I felt dead inside,’’ Lowry said.

One-time Giants teammate Jack Taschner became a police officer in Wisconsin. He blossomed into an internet sensation last fall when he showed up at a high school football game and fooled fans by leading a group cheer in the stands.

Helton retired after the 2013 season following a 17-year career, all with the Rockies. He returned to Coors Field last Sept. 15 for a reunion of the 2007 NL champions who were swept

by Boston in the World Series. While there, Helton visited a back room in the clubhouse and reminisced while looking at the bat rack where his lumber once rested.

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guys a lot younger,’’ Matheny said. “I think some guys handle it extremely well. Most of them have a balance and once again they kind of do figure out what is going on in their life besides the game.’’

“There’s other guys that are very content with the fact of putting the title on themselves they’re going to be a lifer. They’re going to be in this game no matter what. ... It all comes down to most of the guys just finding peace with where it is they’re supposed to be,’’ he said. “It’s not easy. I’ve talked with some guys who have had unbelievable careers. They just can’t get their mind around not being part of something or part of a team.’’

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It can be a difficult change even when you know your time’s up. Especially for those players who didn’t earn the kind of salaries to support them for decades to come.

“If you’re lucky you’re in your mid-30s, right? Let’s say you make it to the big leagues when you’re 25 and if you’re lucky you play five years — you’re 30 years old,’’ said Winn, who retired in April 2011 after 13 major league seasons in the outfield with Tampa Bay, Seattle, San Francisco, the New York Yankees and St. Louis.

“You have 50 years of being retired, so that’s daunting. Even if you do play 20 years you still have a lot of years on the other side to figure out kind of `What do I want to do?’ Fred McGriff told me when I first retired — that’s my guy, he took me under his wing when I was a rookie — he said, `Randy, there’s only so much golf you can play.’ ‘’ Retired reliever Scott Eyre, who pitched 13 big league seasons with five teams, announced “I need a job!’’ in a Facebook post on Aug. 31.

Finding purpose Helton is accustomed to his new, far-different routine. He golfs, he goes fishing, he is director of player development for Tennessee’s baseball team.

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Elbert County News 19

April 5, 2018

VOLUNTEERS FROM PAGE 9

elbertcountysheriff.com/posse.html; print out and complete an employment application and turn it into the Elbert County Sheriff ’s Office in Kiowa, “Attn: David Peontek.”

Requirements: Must dedicate one to two hours a week Contact: Phil or Mary at 303-798-7642 (from 8 a.m. to noon Mondays through Fridays)

Elbert County Sheriff ’s Posse: Supports Neighbor Network: Nonprofit that helps Girl Scouts of Colorado: Youth organizathe Elbert County Sheriff ’s Office and the older adults stay independent. Serves all tion for girls Office of Emergency Management with of Douglas County Need: Troop leaders, office support, admindetentions support, patrol, administrative Need: Volunteers who can provide transporistrative help and more duties, event security, emergency services tation, light housekeeping, handyman and Age requirement: Men and women, 18 and support, and call-outs as need arises. companion services to seniors. older Need: With proper training and clearances, Requirements: Must be at least 21 years old Contact: www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org, volunteers help with patrol, fingerprinting, and have a valid driver’s license and auto inquiry@gscolorado.org or 1-877-404-5708 records keeping, community event security insurance. services, disaster response and manageContact: 303-814-4300, neighbornetwork@ Hospice at Home ment (wildfire, tornado, blizzard, flood, douglas.co.us or dcneighbornetwork.org.

Need: Volunteers help patients and their disaster relief, etc.). families with respite care, videotaping, Requirements: Must be 21 years of age or Parker Senior Center: Provides services to massage and other tasks. Home study older; retired individuals are great. Must local seniors. training is available. complete a employment application, Need: Volunteer drivers to take seniors Contact 303-698-6404 pass a background check, and complete to the center for a hot meal, to appointinterviews. After being sworn in, in the first ments, to the grocery store, and more.

Hospice of Covenant Care: Nonprofit, three months of membership, complete Contact: Louise West at 303-841-5370. faith-based hospice a minimum of 45 hours of orientation Public Notice Need: Volunteers to support patients and and training curriculum. After this 90-day District Court, Elbert County, Colorado PeopleFirst Hospice: Denver hospice families probationary period, members must log a Court Address: 751 Ute Avenue Kiowa, CO 303-731-8039 80117 Need: Volunteers to provide companionship Contact: minimum of 10 hours of month and attend PUBLIC NOTICE to hospice patients and their families.

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: monthly training meetings. Persons ages Contact: Rachel Wang at 303-546-7921 Meals on Wheels: Delivers meals to resi- CHILD FIND 15-20, may join the Elbert County Sheriffs MANDI F. RODRIGUEZ EastJeff Central BOCES and/or its member anddents GARFIELD LOPEZ in Englewood, southern erson Explorer POST that is associated with the districts would like to locate all 0 through 21 year (name of person(s) seeking to adopt) Red Cross: Supports the elderly, internaCounty and western Arapahoe Posse. olds, County who may have a disability.

THE ADOPTION OF to A CHILD tional causes and social services Need: Drivers deliver meals; volunteers to Contact: David Peontek at djp1911@msn. FOR The Colorado Department of Education main- MATEO ANDREAS RODRIGUEZ a comprehensive child identification sys- to provide support Need: Volunteers help prepare, box and labeltains meals com or 303-646-5456. Go to http://www.

Attorney (Name and Address): Sergei B. Thomas, Thomas Law Group, P.C. 1407 Larimer Street, Suite 206 Denver, CO 80202 Phone Number: 720-325-5109 E-mail: sergei.thomas@thomasfamilylawcounsel.com FAX Number: 720-634-1117 Atty. Reg. #: 20002 Case Number: 2018 JA 1 : Division 1

tem consistent with Part B of IDEA and ensures that each Local Education Agency (LEA), in collaboration with a variety of community resources, assumes the leadership role in establishing and maintaining a process in their community for the purpose of locating, identifying and evaluating all children, birth to 21 years, who may have a disability and may be eligible for services and supports under Part C or special education services under Part B of IDEA.

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Public Notices If applicable, an Affidavit of Abandonment has been filed alleging that you have abandoned the child for a period of one year or more and/or have failed without cause to provide reasonable support for the child for one year or more.

You are further notified that an Adoption hearing is set on APRIL 26, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. in the court location identified above.

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice District Court, Elbert County, Colorado Court Address: 751 Ute Avenue Kiowa, CO 80117 IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: MANDI F. RODRIGUEZ and GARFIELD LOPEZ (name of person(s) seeking to adopt) FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD - MATEO ANDREAS RODRIGUEZ Attorney (Name and Address): Sergei B. Thomas, Thomas Law Group, P.C. 1407 Larimer Street, Suite 206 Denver, CO 80202 Phone Number: 720-325-5109 E-mail: sergei.thomas@thomasfamilylawcounsel.com FAX Number: 720-634-1117 Atty. Reg. #: 20002 Case Number: 2018 JA 1 : Division 1 NOTICE OF HEARING To: JOHN DOE (Full Name of Parent).

Pursuant to §19-5-208, C.R.S., you are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner(s) has/have filed in this Court a verified Petition seeking to adopt a child.

If applicable, an Affidavit of Abandonment has been filed alleging that you have abandoned the child for a period of one year or more and/or have failed without cause to provide reasonable support for the child for one year or more.

You are further notified that an Adoption hearing is set on APRIL 26, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. in the court location identified above.

You are further notified that if you fail to appear for said hearing, the Court may terminate your parental rights and grant the adoption as sought by the Petitioner(s).

Legal Notice No.: 24026 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: April 19, 2018 Publisher: The Elbert County News

You are further notified that if you fail to appear for said hearing, the Court may terminate your parental rights and grant the adoption as sought by the Petitioner(s).

Misc. Private Legals

Legal Notice No.: 24026 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: April 19, 2018 Publisher: The Elbert County News PUBLIC NOTICE CHILD FIND East Central BOCES and/or its member districts would like to locate all 0 through 21 year olds, who may have a disability.

The Colorado Department of Education maintains a comprehensive child identification system consistent with Part B of IDEA and ensures that each Local Education Agency (LEA), in collaboration with a variety of community resources, assumes the leadership role in establishing and maintaining a process in their community for the purpose of locating, identifying and evaluating all children, birth to 21 years, who may have a disability and may be eligible for services and supports under Part C or special education services under Part B of IDEA. Ages 0 through 5 year-old concerns should be directed to the following: • Cheyenne County (Cheyenne Wells and Kit Carson Schools) • Lincoln County (Genoa-Hugo School) • Yuma County (Idalia & Liberty Schools) • Kit Carson County (Bethune, Stratton, Arriba-Flagler & Hi-Plains Schools) • Arapahoe County (Byers, Deer Trail, Strasburg & Bennett Schools) • Washington County (Arickaree & Woodlin Schools) • Adams County (Bennett, Strasburg, Byers and Deer Trail Schools) • Lincoln County (Limon & Karval Schools) • Elbert County (Agate & Kiowa Schools) • Kit Carson County (Burlington Schools) Please contact: Stacey Schillig, Child Find Coordinator - (719) 775-2342, ext. 133 All 5 through 21 year-old concerns should be directed to the local school district administrator, special education teacher, East Central BOCES (719) 775-2342, ext. 101.

Services for infants and toddlers are voluntary.

Please contact: Stacey Schillig, Child Find Coordinator - (719) 775-2342, ext. 133

Misc. Private Legals

All 5 through 21 year-old concerns should be directed to the local school district administrator, special education teacher, East Central BOCES (719) 775-2342, ext. 101.

Services for infants and toddlers are voluntary.

The East Central BOCES member schools are: Bennett, Strasburg, Byers, Deer Trail, Agate, Woodlin, Arickaree, Limon, Genoa-Hugo, Karval, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells, ArribaFlagler, Hi-Plains, Stratton, Bethune, Burlington, Liberty, and Idalia.

Legal Notice No.: 24031 First Publication: April 5, 2018 Last Publication: April 12, 2018 Publisher: The Elbert County News

City and County DISTRICT COURT, ELBERT COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 751 Ute Ave. Kiowa, CO 80117 Plaintiff: SPRING VALLEY RANCH MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation Defendant: MARCUS ANTHONY GARZA; CECE YVONNE GARZA; A GRADE A MORTGAGE, INC., Delinquent June 1, 2009; SPECIALTY LENDING GROUP LLC, Colorado Authority Relinquished January 25, 2010; COMPASS BANK; DITECH FINANCIAL LLC fka GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC; RICK PETTITT, Elbert County Public Trustee Attorneys for Plaintiff: Name: Alcock Law Group, PC Tammy M. Alcock, Esq. Address: 19751 E. Mainstreet, Suite 210 Parker, CO 80138 Phone No.: (303) 993-5400 Atty. Reg. #: 39816 Tammy@Alcocklawgroup.com Case No.: 2018 CV 30003 SUMMONS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT:

Sunset Hospice: Provides end-of-life support Need: Volunteer training is from 6-10 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesdays; they also meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every first and DISTRICT COURT, third Saturday ELBERT COUNTY, COLORADO Contact: Jami Martin at 303-693-2105 Court Address: 751 Ute Ave. Kiowa, CO 80117

The Right Step Inc.: Therapeutic horseback Plaintiff: SPRING VALLEY RANCH MASTER riding program for children and adults with ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado corporation disabilities.

Basednon-profit in Littleton.

Need: Volunteers to help withANTHONY horses before, Defendant: MARCUS GARZA; CECE YVONNE GARZA; A as GRADE A during and after lessons, as well to walk MORTGAGE, INC., Delinquent June 1, 2009; alongside clients as they ride to help keep SPECIALTY LENDING GROUP LLC, Colorado Authority Relinquished January 25, 2010; COMthem securely on their horses.

Volunteers PASS BANK; DITECH FINANCIAL LLC fka GREEN TREEwith SERVICING LLC; also needed to help administrative RICK PETTITT, Elbert County Public Trustee tasks and fundraising.

AttorneysVolunteers for Plaintiff: who help with lesRequirements: Name: Alcock Law Group, PC Tammy M.least Alcock,14 Esq. sons must be at years old and attend Address: 19751 E. Mainstreet, Suite 210 a three-hour training session.

Parker, CO 80138 Phone No.: (303) 993-5400 Contact: volunteercoordinator@therightstAtty. Reg. #: 39816 epinc.orgTammy@Alcocklawgroup.com or go to www.therightstepinc.org.

Case No.: 2018 CV 30003

SUMMONS Volunteers of America, Foster Grandparent Program:TOFoster grandparentsDEFENDANT: volunteer in early THE ABOVE-NAMED SPECIALTY LENDING GROUPfocusing LLC, Colorchildhoodado centers and public schools Authority Relinquished January 25, 2010 on literacy and numeracy for at-risk children and ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required youth. YOU to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or otheron response the attached If serNeed: Seniors a low, to fixed incomeComplaint. who enjoy vice of the Summons and Complaint was made working with work 15-40 upon children. you withinVolunteers the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response hours a week. within 21 days after such service upon you. If service of the Summons and Complaint was Contact: 303-297-0408 or www.voacolorado.org.

DISTRICT COURT, ELBERT COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 751 Ute Ave. Kiowa, CO 80117

made upon you outside of the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after such service upon you. Your answer or counterclaim must be accompanied with the applicable filing fee.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, the Court may enter judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.

Notices

Ages 0 through 5 year-old concerns should be

directed to the following: To: JOHN DOE (Full Name of Parent).

ColoradoCommunityMedia.com • Cheyenne County (Cheyenne Wells and Kit

Pursuant to §19-5-208, C.R.S., you are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner(s) has/have filed in this Court a verified Petition seeking to adopt a child.

Contact: 303-607-4768 or 303-266-7855

Plaintiff: SPRING VALLEY RANCH MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation

Defendant: MARCUS ANTHONY GARZA; CECE YVONNE GARZA; A GRADE A MORTGAGE, INC., Delinquent June 1, 2009; SPECIALTY LENDING GROUP LLC, Colorado Authority Relinquished January 25, 2010; COMPASS BANK; DITECH FINANCIAL LLC fka GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC; RICK PETTITT, Elbert County Public Trustee

Dated: January 9, 2018

Alcock Law Group, PC 19751 Mainstreet, Suite 210 Parker, CO 80138 (303) 993-5400 Plaintiff’s Phone Number

1. This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended. A copy of the Complaint must be served with this Summons. This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.

Attorneys for Plaintiff: 2. WARNING: A valid summons may be issued public notices callnot 303-566-4100 Name: Alcock Law Group, PC To advertise yourby a lawyer and it need contain a court case Tammy M. Alcock, Esq. number, the signature of a court officer, or a Address: 19751 E. Mainstreet, Suite 210 court seal. The plaintiff has 14 days from the Parker, CO 80138 date this summons was served on you to file the Phone No.: (303) 993-5400 case with the court. You are responsible for conAtty. Reg. #: 39816 tacting the court to find out whether the case Tammy@Alcocklawgroup.com has been filed and obtain the case number. If Case No.: 2018 CV 30003 the plaintiff files the case within this time, then you must respond as explained in this sumSUMMONS mons. If the plaintiff files more than 14 days after the date the summons was served on you, TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: the case may be dismissed upon motion and SPECIALTY LENDING GROUP LLC, Coloryou may be entitled to seek attorney’s fees from ado Authority Relinquished January 25, 2010 the plaintiff.

City and County

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint. If service of the Summons and Complaint was made upon you within the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 21 days after such service upon you. If service of the Summons and Complaint was made upon you outside of the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after such service upon you. Your answer or counterclaim must be accompanied with the applicable filing fee.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, the Court may enter judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.

Dated: January 9, 2018 Alcock Law Group, PC 19751 Mainstreet, Suite 210 Parker, CO 80138 (303) 993-5400 Plaintiff’s Phone Number 1. This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended. A copy of the Complaint must be served with this Summons. This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.

2. WARNING: A valid summons may be issued by a lawyer and it need not contain a court case number, the signature of a court officer, or a court seal. The plaintiff has 14 days from the date this summons was served on you to file the case with the court. You are responsible for contacting the court to find out whether the case has been filed and obtain the case number. If the plaintiff files the case within this time, then you must respond as explained in this summons. If the plaintiff files more than 14 days after the date the summons was served on you, the case may be dismissed upon motion and

City and County

Legal Notice No.: 24027 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: April 19, 2018 Publisher: Elbert County News Public Notice NOTICE OF VACANCIES ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Spring Valley Metropolitan District No. 4 of Elbert County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that two (2) vacancies currently exist on the board of directors of the Spring Valley Metropolitan District No. 4 (“District”). Any qualified, eligible elector of the Districts interested in filling such vacancies and serving on the board of directors should file a Letter of Interest with the board on or before the close of business on April 16, 2018.

Letters of Interest are available and can be obtained from the Spring Valley Metropolitan District No. 4, c/o Lisa A. Johnson at Special District Management Services, Inc., 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, CO 80228, (303) 987-0835.

SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4 By: /s/ Lisa A. Johnson, Secretary Legal Notice No.: 24030 First Publication: April 5, 2018 Last Publication: April 5, 2018 Publisher: The Elbert County News

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