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Polis issues statewide mask order, hoping for ‘wake-up call’ Kiowa High School is part of a district with nearly 250 students across all grades.

PHOTO BY TABATHA STEWART/SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Schools set to open for in-person learning At-risk students can opt for distance approach

BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Officials with the Elizabeth, Kiowa, Simla and Elbert school dis-

tricts have been working diligently to come up with a plan that will safely allow students to return to the classroom for in-person learning next month.

After weeks of collaboration that also included the Elbert County Department of Health, officials have developed similar plans that they believe will help keep students safe

BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

After more than five hours of public comment, testimony from local

law enforcement and a presentation from Paul Leafstedt, who is looking to build Healing Pines Recovery Center, the Elbert County Board of County Commissioners unanimously decided on July 15 to delay their decision for the Special Use By Review rezoning request until Aug. 12.

Despite nearly six months of reviewing Leafstedt’s application to change zoning from Agriculture to

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Commercial, including addressing concerns from commissioners and citizens, the three board members indicated they did not have enough information to make a decision.

“I’m uncomfortable with the application,” said Commissioner Grant Thayer. “To me there’s no plan here.

There’s concerns about the kitchen situation, and the commercial well.

Faced with a potential exponential growth curve of COVID-19 cases that threatens to overrun Colorado’s intensive care capacity by early September, Gov. Jared Polis has issued a statewide mask-wearing order after repeated hesitation to take that step.

“We’re really on the knife’s edge,” Polis said at a July 16 news conference, referencing the dire spikes in the coronavirus’ spread outside of Colorado.

“Many nearby states have shown us what will happen. It’s not what may happen — it’s what will happen if we don’t regain our footing and take social distancing and masks seriously.”

He added: “I’m hoping that (for) the people of Colorado ... this is a wake-up call for those who might have become a little bit lax. We need to take this very seriously. Our lives depend on it, and our economy depends on it.”

Polis, who has cited research that shows masks are more effective than previously thought in stemming the spread of COVID-19, compared the state’s order on wearing masks in public to generally accepted traffic laws.

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and maximize learning during the COVID-19 crisis.

“We do a better job of teaching our kids in person. Period,” said Scott Mader, superintendent of Elbert County School District C-2, which includes nearly 250 students in the Kiowa area.

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County delays decision on addiction recovery center Commissioners request more information, will meet again Aug. 12

‘The virus doesn’t care what political party you’re in’

POOLS REOPEN AMID PANDEMIC PERIODICAL

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Controversial new state holiday shines spotlight on Mother Cabrini Colorado state legislature voted to replace Columbus Day with holiday for Cabrini last March

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Since 1938, visitors have flocked to the mountains just west of Golden to learn about and pay tribute to Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Catholic saint who established 67 schools, hospitals and orphanages around the U.S., including in Colorado.

Now, the rest of the state is about to become more familiar with Cabrini as well, as a result of the Colorado state legislature’s decision to establish Cabrini Day, a state holiday that will take the place of Columbus Day as a state holiday on the first Monday in October.

Colorado House Bill 20-1031, signed into law by the governor in March, declares the new holiday is “a recognition of Cabrini’s contributions to the state of Colorado and creates an opportunity to promote an appreciation, tolerance and understanding of the different cultures that make up our state.”

In 1909, Colorado became the first state in the nation to observe Columbus Day as an official state holiday at the urging of Angelo Noce, a prominent figure in Denver’s Italian immigrant community.

The bill also states that Columbus never traveled to the territory that became the United States and had no contact with the state of Colorado, “providing no rationale for a Colorado state holiday bearing his name.” It also states that Columbus participated in the extermination of the Taino people who initially welcomed him to the island of Quisqueya, which he renamed Hispanola.

While many Italian Americans continue to regard it as an important celebration of their heritage and its contributions to America (Columbus was Italian), the holiday had become mired in controversy in recent decades by Native Americans who say it is culturally insensitive to continue to celebrate a figure who led the extermination of native peoples and can only be said to have discovered the Americas if their presence here is disregarded.

The Denver Post reported the move

The 22-foot statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Mother Cabrini’s Shrine.

A statue of Mother Cabrini at Mother Cabrini’s Shrine.

A stained glass image of Mother Cabrini inside the Mother Cabrini chapel at Mother Cabrini’s Shrine.

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to replace Columbus Day represented an attempt to reach a compromise with Colorado’s Italian American community after previous bills that would’ve replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day or made Election Day into a state holiday were defeated.

However, some members of Denver Italian heritage groups say their community did not respect the change and that the legislature did not reach out

to them as they have claimed.

“Mother Cabrini has a feast day and it’s not in October,” said Pam Wright, a former president of the Order Sons of Italy Grand Lodge of Colorado. “A lot of us feel that we have celebrated Columbus Day for years and years and it’s not so much the man we celebrate but his journey and that journey is what brought a lot of our ancestors here along with Christianity and that kind of thing so that disappointed us.”

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Anna Vann, a first generation Italian immigrant, also questioned the choice to replace the celebration of Columbus with one for Cabrini.

“Mother Cabrini was an actual friend of people in my family in the past here,” said Vann. “She was a very honorable woman but to make a state holiday for her and take away Columbus Day was very wrong.”

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Colorado, other states trim health programs amid COVID-19

BY MARKIAN HAWRYLUK KAISER HEALTH NEWS

As a teenager, Paulina Castle struggled for years with suicidal thoughts. When her mental health was at its most fragile, she would isolate herself, spending days in her room alone.

“That’s the exact thing that makes you feel significantly worse,” the 26-year-old Denver woman said. “It creates a cycle where you’re constantly getting dug into a deeper hole.”

Part of her recovery involved forcing herself to leave her room to socialize or to exercise outside. But the COVID-19 pandemic has made all of that much harder. Instead of interacting with people on the street in her job as a political canvasser, she is working at home on the phone. And with social distancing rules in place, she has fewer opportunities to meet with friends.

“Since the virus started,” she said, “it’s been a lot easier to fall back into that cycle.”

Between the challenges of the pandemic, the social unrest and the economic crisis, mental health providers are warning that the need for behavioral health services is growing. Yet faced with budgetary shortfalls, Colorado is cutting spending on a number of mental health and substance use treatment programs.

Across the country, the recession has cut state revenues at the same time the pandemic has increased costs, forcing lawmakers into pain-

ful decisions about how to balance their budgets. State legislatures have been forced to consider health care cuts and delay new health programs even in the midst of a health care crisis. But many lawmakers and health experts are concerned the cuts needed to balance state budgets now could exacerbate the pandemic and the recession down the line.

“Health care cuts tend to be on the table, and of course, it’s counterproductive,” said Edwin Park, a health policy professor at Georgetown University. When there’s a recession, people lose their jobs and health insurance, he noted, the very moment when people need those health programs the most.

‘Everything has to be on the table’ In Colorado, for example, lawmakers had to fill a $3.3 billion hole in the budget for fiscal year 2020, which started July 1. That included cuts to a handful of mental health programs, with small overall savings but potentially significant impact on those who relied on them.

They cut $1 million from a program designed to keep people with mental illness out of the hospital and another million from mental health services for juvenile and adult offenders. Lawmakers reduced funding for substance abuse treatment in county jails by $735,000 and eliminated $5 million earmarked for addiction treatment programs in underserved communities. And SEE HEALTH, P5

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Paulina Castle of Denver uses weekly routines to manage her mental health — made worse from isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. “We need to start treating mental health the same as we do physical health,” she says. “This is an issue we need to stop keeping in the dark.”

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that’s all on top of a 1% cut to Medicaid community providers who offer health care to the state’s poorest residents.

Some of those cuts were offset by $15.2 million in federal CARES Act funding allocated to behavioral health care programs. But some programs were completely defunded. Cuts were targeted primarily at programs that hadn’t started yet or hadn’t been fully implemented. The rationale: Those cuts wouldn’t have as deep an impact.

Doyle Forrestal, CEO of the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council, which represents 23 behavioral health care providers, worries that resources won’t be there for an emerging wave of people who have developed mental health or addiction issues during the pandemic.

“People who are isolated at home are drinking a lot more, maybe having other problems — isolation, economic despair,” she said. “There’s going to be a whole new influx once all of this takes hold.”

State legislators said they tried to avoid cutting programs that would hamper the response to the pandemic or the economic recovery.

“There was a desire on both sides to do everything we could to protect health care spending in Colorado,” said state Rep. Dylan Roberts, DAvon. “But when you’re looking at across-the-board cuts, everything has to be on the table.”

Every state is facing a similar conundrum. With tax filing deadlines pushed back to July 15, states

are unsure how much income tax revenue they will collect.

So in addition to cutting back where possible, states are raiding discretionary funds — Colorado repurposed money from the tobacco settlement and marijuana taxes — to shore up their budgets. States are also tapping rainy day funds, which, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers, grew to record levels after the 2008 recession.

New policies delayed Overall, at least 43 states have made some changes to facilitate access to Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program as many people have lost their job-based health insurance in the COVID crisis. And in late June, voters in Oklahoma approved expanding Medicaid to more residents. But since the start of the pandemic, states including Kansas and California have put off plans to expand eligibility for Medicaid, which provides health care to low-income people.

“These are symptoms of states that can’t deficit-spend, despite this great need for more coverage,” said Sara Collins, vice president for health care coverage and access at the Commonwealth Fund, an independent health policy research foundation based in New York. “If they spend more in one area, that means cuts in another.”

Colorado has had an aggressive health agenda in recent years but had to defer plans for a public health insurance option that could have provided a more affordable plan for people buying insurance on their own.

The legislature killed a proposal to create an annual mental health

checkup. The measure would have cost the state only $13,000, but Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signaled he wouldn’t sign any bills that included new mandates for insurance companies.

State Rep. Dafna Michaelson Jenet, D-Commerce City, who sponsored the checkup measure, was disappointed.

“Not every one of us is going to catch COVID, but every single one of us will have a mental health impact,” she said.

Long-term implications Once the economic crisis eases, Roberts said, lawmakers will look to restore funding to some of the programs they cut.

But cuts are often easier to make than to restore — as illustrated by cutbacks made during the 2008 recession, according to Georgetown’s Park.

“Many cuts were never fully restored, even though we were in one of the longer economic expansion periods in our country’s history,” Park said.

He also worries many of the smaller primary care and behavioral health providers, who saw fewer patients come through their doors because of stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, might not survive.

“That means less access to care, including routine care like vaccinations,” he said. “If kids aren’t vaccinated, they may be more vulnerable to flu and measles, making them more vulnerable to COVID-19.

That makes it more difficult for a stressed health care system to try to deal with a potential second wave of infections.”

The longer-term mental health toll

may be harder to catalog.

Castle, for one, has focused on establishing routines to help her manage her mental health during the pandemic. Every Wednesday night, she plays games online with her friends. And every Friday night, she and her boyfriend build a fire in the backyard.

“If I know people are expecting me to be somewhere at 6 o’clock, that obligation encourages me to go out,” she explained. “There are days it’s a struggle. I have to focus on baby steps.”

Still, Castle worries about others who may be struggling during the pandemic. She has signed on to work with the Colorado chapter of Young Invincibles, which lobbies for health care, higher education and workforce policies to help young adults. Even as states and the federal government have found the money to help hospitals and doctors treat the physical effects of the COVID pandemic, she doesn’t see the same commitment to treating its mental health toll.

“We need to start treating mental health the same as we do physical health,” she said. This is an issue we need to stop keeping in the dark.”

If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or use the online Lifeline Chat, both available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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

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You visited a business with a COVID case. Now what?

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FREE electronics recycling event Douglas County residents are invited to recycle unwanted electronics for FREE on Aug. 8, from 9 a.m. 1 p.m. at EchoPark Stadium in Parker. Stay in your vehicle and staff will unload. No paper shredding services will be available. For more information visit douglas.co.us/community-recycling-event

COVID-19 testing locations Wondering where to obtain COVID-19 diagnostic testing? For links and information about providers near you please visit douglas.co.us/covid19-testing-locations

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Visiting a restaurant and later finding out it closed because of a COVID-19 case is not necessarily a cause for alarm, but vigilance is warranted, a health official says.

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No need to panic, experts say, but stay vigilant

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Ashley Richter visited West Main Taproom and Grill in Parker July 3 for a meal and said he found all its employees and customers were wearing masks and complying with social distancing. Yet that evening, the restaurant notified patrons via Facebook it temporarily shut down due to a case of COVID-19.

One employee had tested positive for the disease. The restaurant remained closed until July 9.

“It can happen to anyone,” Richter said.

Richter is the communicable disease epidemiology manager for the TriCounty Health Department, which serves Douglas as well as Arapahoe and Adams counties. He said his July 3 visit to West Main was to eat, not an official visit.

People who visited a restaurant under such circumstances should remain vigilant for symptoms of COVID-19, but do not necessarily need to quarantine themselves, Richter said.

“If you have dined at a restaurant or store and find out the same day or the next day they’ve chosen to close, I don’t think you, yourself, have to be quarantined,” Richter said. “It’s a good idea to keep an eye on your health and be vigilant of symptoms of COVID for the next 14 days.”

In Parker, at least four restaurants have temporarily closed recently due to a reported case of COVID-19 among staff: West Main, The Egg and U, Hickory House and Little Ricci’s. All notified the public about the situation and their temporary closures. All have since re-opened.

The Egg and U posted on Facebook that one of its staff members tested positive for COVID-19; it later deleted the post.

An infected person can be asymptomatic for days without realizing it — or may not develop symptoms at all.

Symptoms typically occur two days after the initial transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“We don’t want to close businesses,” Richter said. “We really want to work with you to make your restaurant or business as safe as it can be for the

public. If we go down that route to close a restaurant and see that’s the best option, that’s because it’s our last option.”

Richter said Tri-County Health will order a temporary shutdown only if there is a major violation or risk to the public.

“That’s our job as a health department: to keep the public safe,” Richter said. “We work with restaurants and businesses to provide recommendations to ensure the health of the public as they continue to visit that establishment.”

Richter added that people who have visited a known contaminated area should do twice-daily temperature checks, wash hands or apply sanitizer frequently, and should avoid entering enclosed public places (stores, restaurants, etc.) -- or, if that’s necessary, they should wear a mask and remain at least six feet apart from others.

When a business has an employee suspected of having COVID-19, it should contact Tri-County Health, Richter said. West Main immediately reported its case to Tri-County July 3 and sent multiple employees home.

Though there is no set procedure every business must follow, the health department will make recommendations to the owners based on an initial investigation.

Richter said Tri-County will recommend managers send home employees who: • Are ill.

• Show symptoms of COVID-19.

• Have a high temperature.

• Have had contact with someone with COVID-19.

Patrons cautious of a restaurant because of a reported COVID case should not fret, Richter said. Though is always some risk in contracting the coronavirus if a person goes out in public, remembering social distancing guidelines and wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of the virus, Richter said. People who are particularly worried should seek outdoor dining options, he said.

In general, Richter said she could not stress enough the importance of wearing a mask, avoiding large groups and social distancing.

“I know we’re all to the point where we think, ‘Is this over yet?’ We see we’re having an uptick in the number of cases, so keeping a good handle of what we did in April and May is a really good idea.”

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Not sure about Polis’ claim of outrage

hen the monument honoring Colorado Civil War Union soldiers was recently torn down at the State Capitol, Governor Polis issued the following statement: “I am outraged GUEST at the damage to a statue that comCOLUMN memorates the Ted Harvey, Kent Union heroes of the Civil War who Lambert, Kevin fought and lost their Lundberg, Scott lives to end slavery.

Renfroe and This statue will be repaired, and we David Schultheis will use every tool at our disposal to work with Denver Police and to hold accountable those responsible for the damage whether they are hooligans, white supremacists, Confederate sympathizers, or drunk teenagers.”

Really?

For Governor Polis to suggest it was anyone except the Antifa revolutionaries or their sympathizers is absurd. He knows better, and is doing all he can to deflect the blame from where it belongs. His list of possible vandals is also ridiculous, and drips with his hard-left political style.

We hold the governor responsible for this shameful act. He set up the circumstances for the destruction

to occur by making it very clear he would not stop any vandalism, and by refusing to provide appropriate security for the Capitol Complex.

Consequently, the Capitol grounds have been methodically destroyed, and memorials to the most deserving heroes of our state have been defaced and torn down.

The destruction of the Civil War monument is particularly significant. When Denver was laid out, the Capitol was bordered by streets named after Presidents Lincoln and Grant, General Sherman, and the author of the 13th Amendment that prohibited slavery, U.S. House Speaker Colfax, who later became Vice President Colfax. These heroes were the champions of abolishing slavery. Of all the monuments surrounding the Capitol, the Civil War monument represents our state founders’ highest ideals.

Finally, our governor has dishonored the very troopers under his command, who protect him and his office. Colorado law stipulates that the State Patrol is responsible to defend our Capitol, the governor, and the General Assembly. By refusing to take a strong stand against the ongoing vandalism, the governor has surrendered the jurisdiction and authority of the State Patrol along with his own responsibility to enforce the

The Civil War Monument at the Colorado state Capitol, featuring a statue of a Civil War cavalryman by Jack Howland, as it appeared in 2011. The statue was pulled down June 25. COURTESY OF DADEROT/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS law and prevent millions of dollars of damage to the most iconic historical landmark in Colorado.

It is reprehensible that this monument was targeted for such destruction. It is inexcusable that the governor did not understand that it is his responsibility to prevent this lawlessness.

The governor has given the limited staff of State Patrol officers assigned to the Capitol Complex just one option: helplessly watch Antifa-inspired rioters vandalize the area.

Why does the governor continue to refuse to do his duty? We can only guess, but it appears his sympathies may be more for the revolutionaries and not so much for upholding the laws of the State of Colorado.

Governor Polis took an oath to support and defend the Constitutions of both the United States and the State of Colorado. Instead, he has let domestic terrorists trample on our laws and promote the violent overthrow of our government.

The people of Colorado deserve better. Much better. If our present governor cannot uphold the laws of our state, the people of Colorado need to replace him with someone who will.

This column was submitted jointly by former state senators Ted Harvey, Kent Lambert, Kevin Lundberg, Scott Renfroe and David Schultheis.

The good, the bad, and the jumbly

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ccording to a top-secret study that up until recently had been suppressed, for one week in January there were an identical number of bad people 18 and older living in America as good people.

QUIET How the statistic was determined DESPERATION would take forever to explain. What qualified as bad?

What qualified as good?

Some general assumptions could be made about violent gang members (bad) and first responders Craig Marshall (good).

Not all priests and Smith politicians are bad, so someone really had to do their homework.

Is shoplifting bad? Yes. But was a single incident sufficient to be grouped with the bad population?

The parts of the study that were not redacted provided a few clues, but left me with a lot of unan-

swered questions.

I have done some bad things in my life; at least by my definition. But maybe they weren’t bad enough.

I’d like to think I am a good person, but some of my former students may not think so.

At the time when the bad and good were evenly divided, there were 162,359,017 bad people and 162,359,017 good people that had been tracked.

Hoping to break the tie before publication, the investigators located a young man who was about to turn 18 to a small town in Missouri and tempted him.

That’s right.

He was followed around on his birthday and into the only bookstore in town where by pre-arrangement he was given too much change for the purchase of the book he purchased, which happened to be “Crime and Punishment,” by the way.

Would he keep the excessive amount or return it to the salesperson?

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like the bad girls, honey, is that true?”

The Shangri-Las sing, “He’s bad, but he’s not evil.”

Jimmy Dean sings, “Big John, big bad John.”

Dialogue in a 2003 film: “He’s wrong.”

“Yeah, wrong can be fun.”

Am I wrong? I might have been at one time. Now, like just about everyone who ages except Keith Richards, I have slowed.

I drove the width of Kansas with my left turn signal on.

Never was a rebel without a cause.

Never had a pack of cigarettes in my T-shirt sleeve. Never walked around with toothpick dangling from my sensuous lips.

All of these behaviors are signs of being bad.

Then, of all things, in the early 1970s the word “bad” came to mean “good.”

“He’s bad” meant “wonderful, deeply satisfying.”

The bad-good committee members must have had their hands full distinguishing between bad when it’s

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bad and bad when it’s good.

Anyone who puts a hat on a dog is bad, as far as I’m concerned.

Anyone who follows my car too closely is bad, as far as I’m concerned.

Anyone who says “Me and her” is bad as far as I am concerned.

But did transgressions like that impress the committee?

Back to Missouri. The young man walked to the counter with his book and paid with a twenty. He was given change for a fifty but didn’t realize it until he was out the door and up the block.

He stopped, reached in his pocket, and looked at the change he’d been given. Meanwhile, across the street he was being watched.

The teeter-totter of good and bad in America was waiting on what he did next.

And for once, there was some good news.

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

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“We want to do everything we can to keep them safe and keep them in school.”

Kelli Thompson, superintendent of Elbert School District #200, which serves nearly 275 students in the Elbert area, said that district is planning for in-person learning with all health protocols in place.

“We are planning for in-person learning, with a backup plan for rolling out to remote learning if an instance occurs where we need to close down portions of the school,” said Thompson.

Douglas Bissonette, superintendent yof Elizabeth School District, which serves nearly 2,500 K-12 students, said the district will offer in-person instruction for the vast majority of students.

“Our priority is to take a commonsense and measured approach to meeting the needs of our school community,” said Bissonette.

There are three options for students enrolling in Kiowa or Elbert this fall.

• In-person learning — Students attend school daily for face-to-face instruction. Prevailing public health order protection protocols are in place.

• Remote and in-person learning — All students receive instruction in the buildings, by attending school in cohort groups of reduced size. Instruction is delivered face-to-face and digitally to students, with prevailing public health order protection protocols in place.

• Complete suspension of in-person learning — With few exceptions, all instruction is delivered via distance learning. Under controlled conditions, limited in-person support is available on a scheduled basis as allowable by public health order.

Students who fall into the high-risk category and cannot access school inperson should call their school district to discuss an online-only learning option.

Kiowa and Elbert will be using a green, yellow and red plan, based on COVID-19 activity within the county.

Green status will be considered the closest to normal instructional services, when the county is experiencing low rates of confirmed cases.

Green days will include in-person learning. Students will be subject to voluntary home entrance screening, masks will be suggested but not required, students will be separated into smaller “cohort” groups, classrooms will be disinfected daily and transportation will be augmented to observe group size and distancing requirements.

Employees will be required to wear masks when in confined areas with students or adults, and are encouraged to wear protective masks at all times. They will also be required to screen for temperature and any other type of illness prior to going to work.

Parents dropping off students will be required to remain in their vehicles, and school staff will check students’ temperatures. Anyone with a temperature of 100.04 or above will not be allowed in the school.

Students will be allowed recess and lunch breaks in assigned areas, and will have structured and controlled access to the library and gym.

The districts will institute yellow days when there is a direct threat to the district or the community, including in the event of an increase in COVID-19 in the community or cases occurring within the school system.

Elizabeth Middle School is part of a district planning to hold in-person learning .

During yellow days, students will still attend school in person, but will be segregated into smaller cohorts and may be required to wear protective masks. Students and staff may also be screened for temperatures throughout the day. Students will receive in-person and supervised distance learning within the school, with classes being divided in two, and students alternating between in-person learning with their teacher, and supervised distance learning with a para-professional in another part of the school.

All staff will be required to wear masks, and if it is determined the facility needs to be disinfected, there may be times and days in which the entire school is utilizing home distance learning, which may occur in one-, two- or four-day increments.

Red days will occur if there is a dramatic increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, or the state or the department of health order school districts close. The school district may also choose to close schools as well.

During red days, instruction will take place through distance learning.

The Elizabeth district is still finalizing its plan, but officials sent a letter to parents stating they plan to offer in-person learning for all grades, with health protocols in place. If in-person learning is not possible, the district will temporarily transition back to remote learning.

Students and staff will be encouraged to wear face coverings unless six feet of physical distancing can be maintained. Face coverings may be required in specific situations like IEP meetings. Parents will be asked to screen students for fever or COVID-19 symptoms at home before bringing students to school. Schools will increase circulation of outdoor air as much as possible by opening windows and doors, and utilizing fans. Assemblies, gatherings, events and activities that do not allow for physical distancing will be minimized.

Steve Wilson, superintendent the Big Sandy 100J District, which serves 335 students in the Simla area, said their plan is still emerging, but they hope to open to in-person learning next month.

“By far the majority of our families really desire in-person learning and getting back to ‘normal,’” said Wilson.

The district will not be utilizing the green, yellow, red model, but will be in communication with parents about changes if COVID-19 cases increase.

Students and staff will be encouraged to wear masks, but masks will not be mandatory in cases where social distancing can be safely utilized. Oneon-one interactions between students and staff may require facial cover-

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ings. Wilson said if social distancing can’t be maintained in a safe manner, the district would revisit the mask requirements.

More information can be found on district websites or Facebook pages.

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tions on Coloradans’ lives that applied earlier in the pandemic.

The statewide mask rule will expire 30 days from July 16 unless extended by another executive order.

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“If you drive a car, you wear a seatbelt, you obey the speed limit, you drive sober,” Polis said. “It doesn’t matter whether you agree politically with speed limits or with drunk driving laws, but we follow the law.”

The governor announced he would sign an executive order that went into effect July 17 requiring that Coloradans older than 10 wear a face covering in public indoor spaces. That doesn’t include when a person is eating or working out on their own, but it applies in stores, at work and where people congregate, Polis said.

That includes wearing a mask while using or waiting on a taxi, bus, light rail, train, car service, or ride-sharing or similar service, according to the order’s text.

Unlike a recent order issued by the Tri-County Health Department, the local public health agency for Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties, the statewide order will not allow local governments to opt out of the requirement — other than when counties qualify for the state’s “protect our neighbors” phase of social distancing policy, which requires the virus’ spread to be under control in ways that are unlikely to be seen in the Denver metro area in the near future.

Before Polis’ action, Douglas County has said it planned to opt out of the Tri-County order.

On July 14, Jefferson County Public Health also issued an emergency mask-wearing order.

Polis addressed the political nature of mask-wearing, a dividing line in American society that has showed

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announces a new statewide order requiring those over age 10 to wear masks indoors on July 16.

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“Wearing a mask is not a political statement. I don’t know how in anybody’s mind it’s become a game of political football,” Polis said.

“It’s simple, it’s common sense and it’s data. The virus doesn’t care what political party you’re in, the virus doesn’t care what belief system you have, the virus doesn’t care what your ideology is. The virus is the virus, and it is a threat to every single one of us.”

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mayor of Aurora, one of Colorado’s largest cities, spoke alongside the governor in support of the mandate, saying he believes it is “the best and least invasive public health option that is available to us.”

“I know there’s going to be some grumbling about this. I get it. It’s a mandate from government,” said Coffman, a former congressman.

But he added: “If people think wearing a mask is a hardship, they need to think about the others in our society that have been suffering and will suffer more if we have to reenact” restric-

Governor reverses course Polis’ reversal on a mask rule comes on the heels of data that show hospitalizations due to COVID-19 could increase on a steep curve similar to the trend seen earlier in the pandemic.

Colorado’s trajectory for hospitalizations during the stay-at-home order and shortly after it would have put the state on a decreasing trend, and more recently, hospitalizations were on track to stay almost flat, said Rachel Herlihy, state epidemiologist, who spoke at the news conference.

But in light of the state’s behavior most recently, a steep upward curve is projected that could exceed Colorado’s capacity of intensive-care beds in September, with a peak in ICU need occurring sometime in October, Herlihy said.

Two days earlier, Polis continued to strongly recommend masks but stopped short of issuing an order. He was concerned with whether a rule would increase mask-wearing.

“It turns out that having this kind of (law) in place does increase mask wearing fairly substantially,” Polis said. He cited a survey by by an “outside group” that showed 67% of people wore masks in counties with no mask requirement, and in places with a rule, mask wearing stood at about 83%. A survey by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment showed 49% mask-wearing in places without a rule and 57% with a rule, Polis said.

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It appears mask requirements do not make people less likely to follow social distancing, Polis added.

Earlier in the month, the governor was still betting on persuasion instead of an order, hoping to try “every method of communication” to try to convince Coloradans to wear masks, he said.

“If you’re somehow waiting to wear a mask until the governor tells you to, I hope you’ve heard that I’m telling you to. And if I haven’t been clear, I’m telling you to wear a mask: Wear a damn mask,” Polis said at a July 9 news conference.

In the days before the statewide order, more than half the state’s population had a mask-wearing requirement in their local jurisdiction. That includes many municipalities and counties in the Denver metro area.

“Coloradans value their bodily autonomy and their liberty, but the reason this issue is more complex is it’s not so much about just your rights — it’s also about protecting the right to live of those who are impacted by your decisions,” Polis said.

The way to avoid the need for another stay-at-home order is mask-wearing and limiting socializing, Polis said.

State officials have acknowledged several times that the state could see stay-at-home orders again if the pandemic becomes dire enough in Colorado. Coronavirus cases in the state have seen an upswing for roughly the past month.

Order spotlights businesses Coffman took issue with Tri-County

Health’s mask-wearing order for Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas because it allowed counties and municipalities to opt out.

“A majority of the workforce leaves Aurora in the morning and comes back in the late afternoon. And so, the notion that we could have this patchwork and have it be effective is just not possible,” Coffman said.

In the past, including at a July 14 news conference, Polis had argued a statewide mask order would be difficult for the state to enforce and that efforts with local enforcement capabilities are more effective.

What helped change his mind is the research that showed “the mere existence” of local requirements correlated to about 15% more mask-wearing, despite that they’re seldom enforced, Polis said.

Under the state’s order, a person without a mask who refuses to leave a business would be trespassing — similar to if a person enters a store without proper clothing — and local law officers can enforce that, Polis said.

Businesses serving the public may not provide service to a customer or allow a customer onto its public indoor space unless the customer is wearing a face covering, according to the governor’s office news release.

Businesses will be required to uphold the requirement if they don’t want their licenses to be affected, Polis said.

On the other hand, the order will give business owners firmer ground to stand on in requiring people to wear masks, Polis argued.

“I’ve heard from many business owners who are frustrated that they haven’t had the moral authority” to ask people to wear masks, Polis said, adding: “This will help small business

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Pumping brakes on reopening The state will slow the pace of Colorado’s lifting of restrictions with a two-week pause on issuing counties any new exceptions, or “variances,” to Colorado’s current limits on gatherings and activities under its saferat-home order, according to Polis’ presentation.

Counties that already have variances but are seeing concerning COVID-19 levels must take “bold and urgent” steps to suppress the spread, or they risk losing the variances, according to the presentation.

The state is still moving forward with its third phase of social distancing policy, the “protect our neighbors” phase, Polis said. The first two phases were the stay-at-home and current safer-at-home orders.

Once counties meet certain criteria, submit a plan to mitigate surges and are approved by the state, they can permit activities at 50% of pre-pandemic capacity “across all sectors,” with at least 6 feet between non-household members and no more than 500 people in one setting, according to the state’s framework.

The state on July 7 released a form to allow counties to apply to qualify for that new phase of social distancing.

Counties that qualify for the “protect our neighbors” phase may choose to become exempt from the mask order, according to the executive order’s text.

While less-metropolitan areas may be able to qualify, “that is very unlikely to be the case for the Denver metro area in the near future,” Polis said.

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n July 10, outdoor swimming pool H2O’Brien in Parker was teeming with swimmers.

Parents held up infants bobbing in the water, children stood under the dump bucket, squealing

with glee as water crashed around them, and lifeguards walked the pool perimeter keeping a close eye on the scene.

For Tiler Paliga, heading to the pool was a fun and safe way to keep her 2-year-old son Will entertained, she said.

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is still avoiding trips to the store or going out during the COVID-19 pandemic, but she appreciated the capacity limits at H2O’Brien pool. She felt she could keep her distance from others while enjoying the outdoors, she said.

“It makes you feel like you have a little bit of normalcy for the summer. I just think it’s important for the kids,” she said.

Parker’s Aquatic Supervisor Brian Gentilini said the pool’s first session reached its COVID capacity of 250 people that morning. Capacity in a normal season would be 521 people, and the pool might get 400 visitors on a day like that in any other season.

“This is what a packed house looks like under the variance,” he said, referring to a variance Douglas County received allowing outdoor gatherings of up to 250 people.

The scene in Parker was a far cry from what Janice Weed feared could come to pass this year.

In May, the aquatics supervisor for the Town of Castle Rock was waiting on guidance from local and state health departments to decide if and how she could open swimming pools during the pandemic.

Now, area pools are up and running, albeit with numerous changes in place, she said.

The state Department of Public Health and Environment released new pool guidance in June, allowing facilities to open at 50% capacity or 50 people, and some local communities have received variances that loosen restrictions further.

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area described taking many of the same precautions — such as requiring that people wear masks when entering and exiting the facility but not while in the pool. Or, placing markings on the concrete to guide people in staying six feet apart.

Some pools have cleared decks and are asking people to bring their own furniture while others are spacing seating apart, prohibiting guests from moving the furniture and working it into staff ’s cleaning routines.

Most pools are holding a series of daily sessions that families can attend, either on a first-come first-serve basis or by reservation. In between sessions, staff deep clean and disinfect the grounds.

Weed said community members have been good at distancing themselves so far, and most sessions are reaching capacity.

Englewood’s Senior Aquatics Facility Supervisor Brad Anderson said the same is true there.

The city’s Pirates Cove waterpark opened June 19 at a capacity of 150 people in a session, although capacity jumped to 250 by July. Sessions require a reservation.

“We are about filling up every single one of our sessions. Pirate’s Cove has been very popular, so that’s a good thing,” Anderson said.

Anderson said they put up signage throughout the facilities reminding people of social distancing and air reminders on the public announcement system.

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In preparation for reopening, Anderson said getting enough cleaning supplies was one of the more challenging aspects. Disinfectant is not readily available, he said.

Supplies needs to be ordered in advance and the city had to order brands of supplies it wouldn’t usually.

Anderson said he was not sure of the exact budget impact, but that “it was a significant cost that we had to come up with for the disinfectant.”

“And we’re not done with it yet,” he said. “We’re in that learning phase right now where now that we’ve been open for three weeks, we’re starting to see that supplies dwindle a bit.”

Anderson said he is glad to see people at the city’s pools — the recreation center’s indoor pool is open for fitness and lap swimming — and to have employees back on the job.

“It’s nice from the kid standpoint, that they’re able to have a summer job, and it also feels good to be able to offer a swimming pool to our community,” he said.

Social distancing was not the only hurdle for local facilities. For some area pools, renovation or construction projects took a blow from the pandemic as well.

The Town of Parker launched a $2.8 million renovation of H2O’Brien in 2019. Renovations included replacing the play structure and adding two 182-foot water slides. The project was supposed to wrap up in time to open H2O’Brien by Memorial Day. Instead, the pool opened July 6. Gentilini, Parker’s aquatics supervisor, said the “biggest hit” to the renovation project’s schedule was shipping delays.

New tables got ordered in February but didn’t arrive until early June.

The Texas plant that made the pool’s new shades shut down during COVID. Those arrived days before opening.

New concrete wasn’t poured until mid-June, and the pool’s pump and motor came from Italy.

“We barely got that before Italy shut down,” he said. “In every way possible it delayed. Whether it be subcontractors not being able to bring their full crews to the site, or mostly what it was, was shipping. But you name it, it affected it somehow.”

Parker’s Director of Parks and Recreation Mary Colton said the project came in on budget, and the town’s

team worked passionately to get it done, but for a time the town did not know if the pool would open for the 2020 summer season.

“It’s been quite the challenge to determine our approach to reopening,” Colton said. “We took a lot of time in really planning and evaluating whether or not it would be feasible to open the pool at all this year.”

South Suburban Parks and Recreation also launched major pool construction projects before COVID-19 hit.

The department decided to reconstruct three of its pools — Franklin, Harlow and Holly — after a pool audit in 2017.

Like Parker, South Suburban planned to complete its pool projects

by Memorial Day. Then the pandemic limited the size of construction crews that could work at once and the ability to get materials, Assistant Director of Recreation Kelsey Whisler said.

“Factories were shutting down entirely,” she said.

The pools are now slowly opening up.

South Suburban’s Cook Creek pool located in Douglas County was the first to reopen in early June. Harlow opened July 3. Franklin and Holly were slated to open in the near future as well, Whisler said.

While some pools are maxing out pandemic capacities, South Suburban is staying cautious, Whisler said.

Cook Creek allows a capacity of 600 people in a normal season. South Suburban is keeping capacity to 200 on a first-come, first-serve basis for now, although a Douglas County variance allows 250 people.

“Right now, we feel that 200 is at our comfort level,” Whisler said.

Arapahoe County’s variance allows outdoor pools to reopen at 50% capacity, she said, so South Suburban will reopen pools there by reservation.

Those are Franklin, Harlow and Holly.

Harlow opened at a capacity of 40 people and South Suburban will raise that to 60 soon, Whisler said. The pool’s capacity without a pandemic would be 160. Whisler said the department did not feel it could gauge how reopening would work until people were in the facility.

Still, she’s glad to see swimmers back at the pool.

“It’s really exciting. Safety, being in parks and recreation, is always a top priority. So that’s at the forefront of our mind,” she said. “But we also want to make sure people have a fun, enjoyable experience too.”

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Community members expressed various concerns, including residents of the treatment center smoking on the property, creating a fire hazard; children living in the neighborhood next to men recovering from addiction; and the loss of a rural environment.

Elbert County Sheriff Tim Norton addressed the crowd regarding his expectation that the facility would create an increased need for law enforcement.

“Basing my comments on over 34 years of experience, I’ve dealt with treatment facilities, and you will see an increase for calls for service,” said Norton. “I dealt with facilities in neighborhoods and it was a daily occurrence that police were called to these locations. For a variety of reasons, when you get a group of people together like this, who are all battling the same issues, tempers flare. We are already short-staffed, and if we get called for an issue out there, that leaves us a person

mals. Many people have said they short somewhere else. I’m here on agree with what the facility would behalf of all the men and women of do for people with addiction. There the Elbert County Sheriff ’s Office are a few who are vocal about not to say we really oppose this being wanting it here. But concerns canapproved by the Board of Commisnot be a basis for sioners.” denial. We have Norton’s statemet all legal obment received ligations for the applause from application.” those in attenSzewczyk also dance, some of pointed out that whom said they he and Leafstedt would sell their had submitted property and several letters to leave the county the BOCC from if Healing Pines other recovery is approved. centers stating Greg Szewcthey had not zyk, attorney for had an increase Healing Pines, in calls in their said although neighborhoods. he understood “I’m not sure the emotions Paul Leafstedt, what type of fabehind the conHealing Pines rezoning applicant cilities or where cerns, none of Sheriff Norton them were legal has had experireasons to deny ences,” said the application, Szewczyk. “But which, he said, that cannot be a basis for denial. We has met all criteria necessary and submitted letters from facilities that was approved by the planning comhave never called the police. Healmission. ing Pines has done everything by “The main point heard today is the book and will continue to do so. that this is not in harmony with There is not sufficient evidence to the neighborhood,” said Szewczyk. legally deny the application.”

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“It’s a little bit frustrating, and has been one of the most emotionally straining things I’ve had to do in my life,” said Leafstedt. “From the first meeting that felt like an attack, then to go through it and get it pushed and pushed and pushed again. I would have appreciated it in advance if you had said `What’s your time frame?’ Or any other questions you had I would have prepared in advance.”

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CABRINI FROM PAGE 2

Jeff Lewis, the Executive Director of the Mother Cabrini Shrine, said that while the Shrine’s staff are happy Mother Cabrini “will continue to be celebrated in Colorado” they did not have anything to do with the effort to make a Cabrini Day holiday.

“I don’t really know what to say,” Lewis said when contacted by CCM about his reaction to the new holiday. “That’s more of a political thing and we really have nothing to do with that.”

Who was Mother Cabrini?

So who exactly was the subject of Colorado’s newest holiday?

Sr. Roselle Santivasi, who works at the shrine, said Cabrini was ultimately a humanitarian who dedicated herself to those who had very little help.

“She just had a sensitivity for the needs of people and had a talent for making their needs met whether it was housing or education,”

said Santivasi. “Just simple things like her and the sisters reading their mail because they were illiterate or writing letters back to their home countries or just being with people.”

Cabrini is also someone who has much to teach America today, Santivasi said.

“She would certainly see that every person is entitled to all the privileges of whatever country they live in and so she would work toward that for whomever,” she said. “She would not limit herself to immigrants, she would definitely open herself to the needs of anyone who had needs that were not being met by the government of whatever country they came from.”

Santivasi said an estimated 100,000 people visit the shrine each year and the staff now thinks it might see more with the new holiday.

“We weren’t part of the development of the holiday but if they want to celebrate Mother Cabrini because she’s a woman that’s wonderful,” she said. “And if it’s someone else for the same reason that’s wonderful too. The more we celebrate people who have done humanitarian things and done good, social justice things for other people that’s good, let’s celebrate them.”

A statue of Mother Cabrini at Mother Cabrini’s Shrine outside Golden.

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CONTAINING 2,500 SQ. FT. OR 0.057 ACRES MORE OR LESS. Legal Notice No. 24400 First Publication: July 23, 2020 Last Publication: July 23, 2020 Publisher: The Elbert County News

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• 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)

Section III Process of Identifying Legal Notice No. 244399 First Publication: July 16, 2020 Last Publication: July 23, 2020 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LILLIE MORRIS, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 7

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

All persons having claims against the above East Central BOCES and/or its member districts named estate are required to present them to All 5 through 21 year-old concerns should be would like to locate all 0 through 21 year olds, who the personal representative or to the District directed to the local school district administrator, CONCERNING THE ABANDONMENTS LIST OF may have a disability.

Court of Elbert County, Colorado on or before special education teacher, East Central BOCES November 9, 2020, or the claims may be forever (719) 775-2342, ext. 101.

WATER RIGHTS IN ELBERT COUNTY The Colorado Department of Education maintains barred. a comprehensive child identification system conThe Division Engineer, in accordance withinfants §37-92-401, Colorado Statutes (2019), has compiled the list of absolute water Services for and toddlers areRevised voluntary. sistent with Part B of IDEA and each Michael L. been Morris rightsensures that he that or she “has determined to have been abandoned in whole or in part and which previously have not adjudged to Local Education Agency (LEA), in collaboration Personal Representative The East Central BOCES member schools have been abandoned.” with a variety of community resources, assumes 3124 Antelope Ridge Trail are: Bennett, Strasburg, Byers, Deer Trail, A complete list of water rights that have been abandoned, in the opinion of the Division Engineer,Parker, may be Colorado found on the Division of the leadership role in establishing and maintaining 80138 Agate, Woodlin, Arickaree, Limon, Genoa-Hugo, Water Resources (DWR) https://www.colorado.gov/water. a process in their community for the purpose of lo- website Karval, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells, If you wish to object to the inclusion of any water right on the Division Engineer’s abandonment list, you Notice must fileNo. a written statement cating, identifying and evaluating all children, birth Legal 244395 Arriba-Flagler, Hi-Plains, Stratton, Bethune, to 21 years, who may have aofdisability First Publication: July 9, 2020 Liberty, Idalia. objectionand withmay the be Division EngineerBurlington,

by July 1, 2021.

Weand request that objections be submitted using DWR’s Abandonment eligible for services and supports under Part C or Last Publication: July 23, 2020 Objection Form, which can be obtained on the DWR website (search keyword “Abandonment 2020”) or from any DWR office. special education services under Part B of IDEA. Publisher: The Elbert County News References: IDEA, Part C, The Abandonment List, with any revisions made as a result of written statements of objection, will be filed with the Water Court by Section 303.320-323 2021. be Once the list is adjudged

by B, theSection entry of300.125 a decree by the Water Court, such decree will be conclusive as to the Ages 0 through 5 year-oldDecember concerns31, should IDEA, Part directed to the following: abandonment of the water right. ECEA CCR 301-8 2220-R-4.01-4.04(4) East Central BOCES In the following table, U indicates units of either C=cfs Comprehensive or A=acre-ft. ThePlan uses being abandoned are either 'All Uses' indicating all ### decreed uses of the water right, or the individual uses listed, such as Irr=Irrigation. If any aspect of the decreed place of use is being abandoned, that is indicated by 'Yes' in the Place column.

WATER DIVISION 1 ABANDONMENT LIST Structure Name Water Source

Water Rights AGATE DITCH

BOONE WELL 1-14871 Public Notice

Decreed Amount

Aband Amount

Remain U Abandoned Amount Uses

Agate Creek South Platte River

30.0000 0.2600

30.0000 0.2600

0.0000 C All Uses 0.0000 C All Uses

Place No No

BOONE WELL 2-14872

South Platte River

0.2900

0.2900

0.0000 C All Uses

No

CONCERNING THE ABANDONMENT LIST OF WATER RIGHTS IN ELBERT COUNTY

BOONE WELL 3-3199F

South Platte River

0.2900

0.2900

0.0000 C All Uses

No

BOONE WELL 4-3198F

South Platte River

0.2900

0.2900

0.0000 C All Uses

No

The Division Engineer, in accordance with §37-92-401, Colorado Revised Statutes (2019), has compiled the list of absolute water rights that he or she “has determined to have been abandoned in whole or in part and which previously have not been adjudged to have been abandoned.”

A complete list of water rights that have been abandoned, in the opinion of the Division Engineer, may be found on the Division of Water Resources (DWR) website https://www.colorado.gov/water.

If you wish to object to the inclusion of any water right on the Division Engineer’s abandonment list, you must file a written statement of objection with the Division Engineer by July 1, 2021. We request that objections be submitted using DWR’s Abandonment Objection Form, which can be obtained on the DWR website (search keyword “Abandonment 2020”) or from any DWR office.

The Abandonment List, with any revisions made as a result of written statements of objection, will be filed with the Water Court by December 31, 2021. Once the list is adjudged by the entry of a decree by the Water Court, such decree will be conclusive as to the abandonment of the water right.

In the following table, U indicates units of either C=cfs or A=acre-ft. The uses being abandoned are either 'All Uses' indicating all decreed uses of the water right, or the individual uses listed, such as Irr=Irrigation. If any aspect of the decreed place of use is being abandoned, that is indicated by 'Yes' in the Place column.

DEITRICH DITCH 2

Kiowa Creek

1.5000

1.5000

0.0000 C All Uses

No

GODLEY WELL 2-3740-F GODLEY WELL 5

South Platte River South Platte River

1.5600 0.2780

1.5600 0.2780

0.0000 C All Uses 0.0000 C All Uses

No No

HERBST SPRG

South Platte River

0.0001

0.0001

0.0000 C All Uses

No

HOWELL WELL 2-20205-2

South Platte River

0.2900

0.2900

0.0000 C All Uses

No

HOWELL WELL 3-19955

South Platte River

2.0900

2.0900

0.0000 C All Uses

No

KRUSE MAULDIN DITCH

Running Creek

1.5000

1.5000

0.0000 C All Uses

No

PHILLIPS WELL 1-20002-1

South Platte River

1.1500

1.1500

0.0000 C All Uses

PHILLIPS WELL 2-20002-2

South Platte River

1.0000

1.0000

0.0000 C All Uses

No No

SIEFKAS SUMP 14697

South Platte River

0.7800

0.7800

0.0000 C All Uses

No

SIEFKAS SUMP 19991-1

South Platte River

1.6000

1.6000

0.0000 C All Uses

No

SIEFKAS SUMP 19991-2

South Platte River

1.0000

1.0000

0.0000 C All Uses

No

SIEFKAS SUMP 19992

South Platte River

0.7800

0.7800

0.0000 C All Uses

No

WILLIAMS WELL R20700

South Platte River

1.1200

1.1200

0.0000 C All Uses

No

WATER DIVISION 1 ABANDONMENT LIST Structure Name Water Source

Decreed Amount

Aband Amount

Remain U Abandoned Amount Uses

Place

AGATE DITCH BOONE WELL 1-14871

Agate Creek South Platte River

30.0000 0.2600

30.0000 0.2600

0.0000 C All Uses 0.0000 C All Uses

No No

BOONE WELL 2-14872

South Platte River

0.2900

0.2900

0.0000 C All Uses

No

BOONE WELL 3-3199F

South Platte River

0.2900

0.2900

0.0000 C All Uses

No

BOONE WELL 4-3198F

South Platte River

0.2900

0.2900

0.0000 C All Uses

No

DEITRICH DITCH 2

Kiowa Creek

1.5000

1.5000

0.0000 C All Uses

No

Legal Notice No.: 244394 First Publication: July 9, 2020

Last Publication: July 30, 2020 Publisher: Elbert County News

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