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Freedom, safety at heart of helmet debate

Adult motorcyclists make own choices about life-saving gear

By Tom Skelley tskelley@colorado communitymedia.com Brahm Bechtold rides a Harley-Davidson cruiser, a bike he says is made for taking it easy and enjoying the scenery.

He and his wife and pas-

senger, Dagmar, say new motorcyclists should wear helmets, but they feel safe without them because they take it slow.

“The wind’s in your hair, you’re having fun and just kind of putting along. It’s nothing fast, no tight turns, it’s a lot slower, just enjoying the scenery,” said Bechtold, a Lone Tree resident who has been riding for 20 years. “I’m not looking to cut those corners or do that high acceleration.”

Steve Hall sits astride his HarleyDavidson Electric Glide cruiser outside the Platte River Bar and Grill in Littleton on July 19. Hall says if he dies riding his bike he will die doing what he loves most in life. Photo by Tom Skelley

In Colorado, where adults are not legally required to wear a helmet, emotions over whether to do so are riding high on both sides as the number of motorcyclist deaths increases. Those who wear them cite safety, while riders who don’t say it’s a matter of personal freedom.

“You should definitely wear a helmet, but I don’t,” Bechtold said. “It’s my personal choice.”

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County making financial progress Tax revenue increases by more than $350,000

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media

Families gather on the hillside for Elizabeth’s second annual Outdoor “Walk-In” Movie Night. This year’s feature presentation was “The Goonies.” Photos by Rick Gustafson

A picture-perfect evening About 200 people turn out for movie night in Elizabeth

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media As wishes go, Dick Eason’s would probably not rank very high, but what it lacked in scale, it made up for with effectiveness. His wish, a little rain early in the afternoon to cool things off and clear by 8 p.m., was exactly what happened for Elizabeth’s town administrator.

While storms hammered the fields just a few miles to the northwest on the evening of July 23, the rain clouds kept their distance from Elizabeth while residents set up lawn chairs and spread blankets on the newly mown grass of the town’s natural amphitheater at the corner of Washington and Garland Streets for the town’s second annual “WalkIn” Movie Night.

To enhance the drivein atmosphere, volunteers Aimee Thomas and Wendy Movie continues on Page 5

Alora Moore loads up on snacks.

The Pine and Plains Libraries set up a concession stand complete with fresh popcorn and movie candy.

Despite the continued rancor in county government, there is at least one thing elected officials and staff in Kiowa can agree on: Elbert County’s overall financial position has improved significantly over the past four years.

At a meeting of the board of county commissioners July 20, Kim Higgins, the county’s engagement partner from Eide Bailly LLP, presented her firm’s audit opinions on the county’s 2015 financial statements.

Higgins opened her presentation by telling the commissioners that the county’s financial statements continue to improve.

“To watch our clients get better is always something that we enjoy seeing,” Higgins told the BOCC. “You continue to add more information to your financial statements. It gives the reader more information about Elbert County.”

In addition to timely reporting for the third consecutive year, the county added several sections to the beginning of the Annual Financial Report, including a list and the terms of county officials and department heads, an organizational chart and a brief explanation of each of the county’s funds.

Highlights of the financial statements: a significant increase in the county’s overall cash by $1.8 million, tax revenues increased by $351,000 (due to reassessments), and a decrease in general fund Progress continues on Page 4

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Getting muddy to raise some money MuckFest 2016 helps in multiple sclerosis fight

By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com Nearly 3,200 filthy philanthropists gathered at Salisbury Equestrian Park in Parker on July 16 to fight multiple sclerosis, raising more than $167,000 for the National MS Society.

Temperatures hovered around 95 degrees throughout the day as participants, affectionately known as “mudders,” slid under, climbed over and powered through obstacles and pits of mud before hosing off beyond the finish line.

“There’s always power when people affected by MS come together,” said Carrie Nolan, president of the ColoradoWyoming Chapter of the National MS Society.

This year is the first time the annual event was held in Parker, and Nolan said the location was a natural fit.

“We’ve been looking for a home that was within eyeshot of the metro Denver area and was accessible,” Nolan said. “It’s a great opportunity to also have a place where participants can go somewhere to get a beer or lunch after the event.”

Since its inception six years ago, MuckFest has raised more than $24 million for multiple sclerosis research.

All funds go directly to the National MS Society’s work in researching a cure and providing services for people with the disease, such as assistance with insurance and navigating the health care system to find the best doctors.

Multiple sclerosis affects the central nervous system, interrupting signals sent within the brain and outward to other parts of the body. Symptoms vary, but include everything from numbness in the extremities to paralysis and blindness.

At least 2.3 million people worldwide have the disease, and two to three times as many women are afflicted than men.

Most people with the disease are diag-

A participant in Parker’s MuckFest 2016 crawls through the course to raise money for MS at Salisbury Equestrian Park on July 16.

Photo courtesy of Gameface Media nosed between the ages of 20 and 50.

Colorado has one of the highest incident rates of MS in the country. One out of every 400 people in the state live with the disease compared to one in 750 people nationally.

The money raised at the Parker MuckFest will be used locally by the ColoradoWyoming Chapter of the National MS Society, a point that isn’t lost on Jenny Roberts of Castle Rock.

“I think the best thing is that the money doesn’t just go to the MS Society, it goes to the local chapter,” Roberts said.

“It’s going to my sister, it’s going to my sister-in-law, and I think that’s something critical for people to know.”

Roberts has been participating in the annual fundraisers since her sister was diagnosed with MS in 2010, organizing the “Greatest Show on Dirt” team that she said has raised over $140,00 in six years.

It wasn’t until Roberts sent out emails to raise support for the team that she realized how many people she knew were living with MS. “We had a lot of people reply ‘Oh yeah,

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Roberts discovered that, along with her sister, her sister-in-law and her college roommate also had MS. As her team has grown each year, Roberts said she and other mudders realize how widespread their community is.

“This event opens the door to all these people who don’t realize the support they have,” Roberts said. “It’s provided a lot of support for people to be able to talk and share their experiences. It gives them an opportunity they wouldn’t have had.”

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Brain cells’ communication coming to light

By Lauran Neergaard Associated Press The brain’s nerve cells communicate by firing messages to each other through junctions called synapses, and problems with those connections are linked to disorders like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy. Now Yale University researchers have developed a way to picture synapses in living brains.

The technique reported July 20, using PET scans, is highly experimental but it raises the possibility of one day monitoring synapse function in some common diseases.

A healthy human brain harbors trillions of synapses, a number that changes over a lifetime.

Early in life, the brain “prunes” the many synapses between neurons so the right number is in each region, a process that can go wrong in disorders such as autism or schizophrenia.

Changes in the density of synapses

may signal where epilepsy seizures originate. Later in life, synapse loss is associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

But measuring synapses has required autopsies, or occasional attempts during brain surgery.

To find a non-invasive approach, the Yale-led team developed a radioactive compound, called a tracer, that is injected into the body and binds with a particular protein that is found in the brain’s synapses. The idea: During a PET scan, those synapses appear lit up against dark, synapse-free areas of the brain.

Animal testing confirmed the tracer was targeting synapses.

The research team then mapped the density of synapses in the brains of 10 healthy volunteers and three patients with a form of epilepsy.

Compared to the healthy brains, the technique revealed lost synapses in the epilepsy-affected regions of those patients’ brains, the researchers reported

July 20 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

“This work represents a breakthrough in the ability to study an important process in the brain that is not only part of normal brain development but that also may be involved in several neuropsychiatric diseases,” said Dr. Peter Herscovitch, who directs PET scanning at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center and wasn’t involved in the research.

Much more work is needed to make the tracer last longer in the brain, a key if it’s ever to be of use to doctors, cautioned Yale radiology professor Richard Carson, the study’s senior author. But even though it starts disappearing quickly, he said it’s a good tool to research brain function.

Stay tuned: Carson’s team has begun using the technique to study Alzheimer’s, to determine if changes in synaptic density over time can help predict that disease’s development.

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Progress Continued from Page 1

Kim Higgins, of Eide Bailly LLP, delivers the financial audit report to the Elbert County Board of County Commissioners. Higgins said she was happy with overall improvements to the county’s procedures and financial position. Photo by Rick Gustafson

spending by $103,000.

County Manager Ed Ehmann said he was very pleased with the progress the county has made over the last few years and credited the improvements to the hard work of the county staff.

One area of note is the continued trend of a declining net position resulting from depreciation, which means that on balance, the county’s assets are gradually wearing out faster than they are being replaced.

The county’s total capital assets declined from just more than $94 million at the end of 2009 to just more than $79.1 million at the end of 2015. The decline of $14.9 million over six years was a major driver of a decrease in the county’s net

July 28, 2016 position of $11.4 million during the same period.

While Higgins did not see the decline as an immediate problem, she advised the BOCC that with the annual process of identifying spending under control, the BOCC will need to address the more strategic challenge of declining assets and begin setting aside funds dedicated toward reinvestment.

“You need to begin… looking at a longer-term focus to be able to make sure you don’t continue to be in the hole on your capital assets and depreciation. That’s not going to be fixed in a year. It might not be fixed in 10 years,” she said.

The deadline for submitting annual audit report to the state auditor is July 31, and a copy of the report is posted on the county’s website, www. elbertcounty-co.gov, under Government/Departments/ Finance & Budget.

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Car Fest raises money, spirits Movie Continued from Page 1

Parker Cruisers, DougCo Dubs come together for fun and funds

Judy Varra holds her trophy for Best in Show at the Parker Cruisers Car Fest on June 12. The car show raised $8,000 for the Parker Task Force. Courtesy photo

By Tom Skelley tskelley@colorado communitymedia.com Classic car enthusiasts came together to raise money and give a local family a reason to smile in the process.

On June 12, the Parker Cruisers Car Club held their annual Car Fest fundraiser for the Parker Task Force. Participants raised a total of $8,000 via vehicle registration fees and sponsorships from local retailers, as well as a T-shirt sale and raffle.

“Handling the paperwork for the event was the easy job. The task force appreciates the hard work that went into putting together such a successful car show with record-setting proceeds,” Steve Budnack, volunteer chairman of the Parker Task Force, said in a news release.

The task force, which provides food, financial assistance and other support services to help Parker residents become self-sufficient, helped register 144 cars for the show.

Parker Cruisers judges gave the Best in Show Award to Judy and Mike Varra for their 1965 Chevy Malibu, but a new category and a specially-appointed judge recognized the finest Volkswagen at the show.

“He has a hard time communicating, he can’t walk or talk, but for some reason put him next to a Volkswagen and it seems like he’s more in tune to what’s going on,” said Aaron Davis, father of 7-year-old Graham Davis.

Graham presented the “Super Graham” award to the best Volkswagen in the show, a 23-window microbus owned

by Terry Miller.

Graham has an extremely rare genetic disorder, L1 Syndrome, causing delays in his development and requiring him to have shunt implanted in his brain. He’s had several surgeries on his stomach, brain and heart, and because the condition is so rare, doctors don’t have enough information to give his parents a clear prognosis.

“We’ve been told by the doctors to enjoy whatever time we have with

him.” Aaron said.

Davis said he and his wife, Erin, are “car people” whose collection of Volkswagens is the source of Graham’s fascination with the cars. The Davises belong to an offshoot of the Parker Cruisers especially for Volkswagen enthusiasts, known as DougCo Dubs.

The Super Graham award, Aaron said, was a way to involve Graham in the show and show appreciation for the support they’ve received.

“It was our way of saying we appreciate our friends and we appreciate the Volkswagen group,” Aaron said.

The Super Graham prize, a modest trophy with a VW bug on top, is a rare instance where the award means as much, or more, to the judge presenting it as it means to the winner.

“It’s hard to gauge him sometimes, but he was all smiles,” Aaron said. “It was just really, really good for him.”

Walp, of the Friends of the Pines & Plains Libraries in Elizabeth set up a concession stand, filled bags with freshly popped popcorn and offered candy.

Proceeds from the sales benefited the Elizabeth Library Foundation and help to fill the library’s wish list for new books, computers and other services.

Once everyone was settled with popcorn and candy, Mayor Clay Hurst got things started with a few opening remarks, thanking the nearly 200 people for attending and inviting them to make their wishes known for the use of the natural amphitheater they were sitting in.

“This property is something that we are using now as an experiment to see how it functions,” he said. “There has been some discussion about maybe putting a stage down further and having our music festival and bands here. We’d like to get your input on that.”

The mayor also took the opportunity to remind everyone about the upcoming music and arts festival on Main Street on Aug. 12 and 13, and invited them to participate in the discussion regarding the possibility of home rule for the town.

With dusk settling in and the brief opening formalities over, the feature began. On the big screen, “Goonies,” a kid-friendly film projected onto a 16-foot inflatable screen.

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Focus on appreciation as life scurries along Actually, time flies whether we are having fun or not. I mean, here we are already at the end of July. Seven months have passed since the beginning of the year. I am not sure about you, but for me the time has absolutely flown by.

I was having a conversation with a gentleman today. He has three children and the youngest one is a 9-month-old daughter. He passionately shared how he feels about his wife and children, but he lamented on how fast they all seem to be growing up and changing, especially his 9-month-old daughter.

That resonated with me because this year my 27-year-old daughter will be getting married. And I think back and wonder: Where has the time gone? We have had so many wonderful, beautiful and happy times together, and they all seem like they happened just yesterday. From taking her on walks and to her first days of school, through her high school and teen years, and then being able to have fun with her as an adult with her friends and her fiancé. But I swear it was just yesterday that she was 10 years old and we were on our way to her first concert at Red Rocks. Time flies when you are having fun.

And again, time flies even when we are not having fun. We may feel like a painful event turns minutes into hours and hours into weeks or even longer. Many of us who have lost a loved one know all too well the anguish and pain that comes along with watching someone suffer and then what that mourning feels like. And yet, as we get

through the most terrible times and moments, all of a sudden we look back and say, where has the time gone, its seems like yesterday that we were together and it has actually been 3½ years since they have passed away. Time flies, even when we are not havMichael Norton ing fun.

For some of us WINNING business meetings feel WORDS like torture and the meeting cannot end soon enough. And for others we become completely energized and wish the meeting would keep going. Some of us suffer during the hour of worship, only showing up out of a sense of obligation and not for a true desire to be in a house of God. And then there are those of us who love being at worship services, get motivated by the music and inspired by the message and the word of God. But either way, whether we feel like time is dragging or time is flying, time is time and moves on its own schedule whether we want it to or not.

One of my favorite things to do is go to concerts, especially seeing some of my favorite singers and bands who are once again touring. They play the songs we all know by heart and we get to sing along. And before

we know it, two hours or in the case of Bruce Springsteen, four hours has gone by in the blink of an eye. Time flies when we are having fun.

Everything seems to happen in the blink of an eye. From kids growing up, to people passing away, to endless meetings and conference calls, inspiring worship services, ball games, concerts, family vacations, and even a great book. What we can probably all learn to do a little more of is appreciating each and every moment, hour, day, week, month and year that we have been blessed with here on earth. When we look back, we should not lament so much as to where the time has gone, but instead we should look back in appreciation and with an attitude of gratitude for what we had the opportunity to experience.

Time flies, it sure does. And it flies whether we are having fun or not. So how about you, are you someone who needs to do a little more appreciating for each and every day or someone who is just allowing time to pass on by, fast or slow? Either way I would love to hear all about your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we enjoy the time that we have and that we have shared with others, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Initiative 75 not the answer Proponents of Initiative 75 are currently collecting signatures in our community in an attempt to get a “local control” initiative for oil and gas development on this November’s ballot. Initiative 75 seeks to amend the state constitution and allow local governments to unilaterally regulate oil and gas development and “enact prohibitions, moratoria, or limits on oil and gas development.”

The proponents of Initiative 75 would like you to believe that oil and gas regulation currently occurs only at the state level. In reality, local governments already play a significant role in any oil and gas development occurring within their communities. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission COGCC presently requires oil and gas companies to work with local communities to address concerns beginning in the project planning process, long before any drilling begins. Communities can designate Local Government Designees to serve as liaisons between the community and the COGCC, thus ensuring that all community concerns are addressed.

Additionally, local governments already have the right to negotiate a legally binding agreement with companies known as a “Memorandum of Understanding” to define how and where oil and gas development occurs within their communities.

Ask yourself this: Which city council representatives or county commissioners are technically qualified to regulate the numerous complicated oil and gas development issues? Do they have the necessary expertise in engineering, geosciences or environmental sciences to ensure that oil and gas operations are conducted in a safe, environmentally responsible manner? The COGCC has this expertise.

The existing partnership between the COGCC and local communities contributes significantly to making Colorado’s oil and gas regulations already some of the most stringent and comprehensive regulations in the nation. Initiative 75 claims to give local governments “local control,” but in reality it will only add unnecessary complications to our state’s already comprehensive regulations.

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Need for connections spurs different selections A friend of mine is on a dating site.

She told me all about it. I said that it sounded like the Orphan Train.

“Eleanor” said: “What’s that?”

“Saddest thing I’ve ever heard of,” I said.

The Orphan Train Craig Marshall Smith Movement operated between 1854 and QUIET DESPERATION 1929.

Trains filled with as many as 35 orphans left Eastern cities, and dropped off the orphans who were pre-ordered by couples, largely in the Midwest.

But sometimes the children were “viewed” in various towns, like homeless dogs at an animal shelter.

About 200,000 were relocated.

Sometimes brothers and sisters were adopted separately.

The program was closely governed. There were follow-up visits, to make sure the orphans were not being abused.

An orphan is a child whose parents are dead.

The most famous orphans are fictional.

Oliver Twist, Annie, and Bambi.

My parents are dead, but I am an adult.

Nevertheless, their absences still have a daily impact, and a nighttime one too.

I dream about them frequently.

I adopted and it has worked out brilliantly.

Not a child.

A dachshund.

My mother, as I have previously written, was adopted and it didn’t work out brilliantly.

Quite a few well-known people were adopted.

Former President Bill Clinton, Edward Albee, Maya Angelou, Jesse Jackson (“Charlie Henry Jackson adopted me, gave me his name, his encouragement, discipline and a high sense of self-respect”).

Tallulah Bankhead, Ingrid Bergman, John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Harry Caray.

I tried to picture Capote and Caray spending some time together.

Eleanor said that she is lonely.

Loneliness is not a disease, but it affects your life as if it were. Some people thrive on being alone. I am an example. Others go to great lengths to try to find someone.

Eleanor said the dating site required a profile and some photographs of herself.

Smith continues on Page 7

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Helmets Continued from Page 1

But the Bechtolds also know firsthand the risks of riding. Brahm Bechtold said a friend died about two years ago on her motorcycle when a car hit her from behind and she was thrown from the bike. He doesn’t think she was wearing a helmet.

Head injury is the leading cause of death for motorcyclists, and nearly twothirds of the motorcyclists killed statewide in 2014 were not wearing a helmet, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

‘Riskier to be on two wheels’ Helmets are nearly 40 percent effective in preventing motorcycle-crash deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. But they are not mandatory gear for adults in most of the country.

State law specifies that only riders 17 and younger are required to wear helmets, making Colorado one of 28 states with an age-specific helmet requirement.

All riders must wear helmets in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Only three states — Illinois, Iowa and New Hampshire — have no helmet requirements at all.

Motorcycle accident fatalities in the state have increased sharply in the last three years. According to CDOT, an alltime high of 105 people died in motorcycle crashes in 2015, up 11.7 percent from 2014 and 20 percent higher than 2013.

The 2015 data is preliminary and it’s not entirely clear why fatalities are up, but it’s likely that impaired driving, speeding and not wearing a helmet are factors, a CDOT spokesman said.

To this point in 2016, there have been 58 motorcycle-crash deaths — including at least three in the south metro area — in Colorado, up 14 percent from this time in 2015, CDOT announced July 22. Of those killed, 34 were not wearing helmets.

Russ Rader, spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, says helmets can make a difference in preventing many motorcycle-crash deaths.

“It’s riskier to be on two wheels than on four,” Rader said. “Wearing a helmet is the single most important thing a rider can do to reduce their risk of serious head injury or death in a crash. Helmets are very effective in preventing death.”

Chris Kozuch, of Castle Rock, agrees with Rader.

Kozuch is a motorcycle patrolman and leads the accident reconstruction team for the Parker Police Department. He rides a motorcycle on the job and rode one for pleasure until the birth of his son

FOR MORE INFORMATION • American Motorcyclist Association: www.americanmotorcyclist.com • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/mc/

Smith Continued from Page 6

Hers said that she loves to ski and dance and that she cries when the Broncos lose.

I asked her if she was hoping to attract a mannequin wearing an orange shirt.

“It has nothing to do with you,” I said.

“What do you believe in with the strongest convictions? It can’t be the Broncos.”

The site also asked her to answer a whole bunch of questions about schooling and whether or not she drinks or smokes.

Once a day she receives a menu of potential matches predicated on her preferences. For example, “You’re both non-smokers!”

That doesn’t exactly narrow it down, does it?

Cervantes, believe it or not, gave us the expression “looking for a needle in a

last year. He says he has always worn a helmet, on duty or off.

“You’re more vulnerable on a motorcycle than you are in a car, that’s something that has to be taken into consideration,” Kozuch said. “Being a motorcycle rider personally, I wear the helmet for safety because I have a family and I have to be as safe as I can.”

Kozuch added that faster, lighter performance bikes, also referred to as “sport bikes,” accelerate quickly and have more sensitive steering, leading to situations that riders sometimes can’t control.

“Motorcycles can do three things very well: they can accelerate very well, they can turn very well and they can brake very well, just not all three of them at once,” he said. “A wild animal or even gravel in the roadway can cause that motorcycle to start acting in a way that you’re not expecting. And if you’re not ready for it, it can have very bad consequences.”

The most ‘fragile part of the body’ Tommy Van Swearingen rides a performance bike and says he likes the speed and responsive controls.

He also likes his helmet.

“I’ve got a great physical therapist. He can fix everything I’ve got, except for one thing. If I hurt my head, he can’t fix that.

It’s the most fragile part of the body,” said Van Swearingen, a Littleton resident.

“Having crashed a few times and seeing what it’s done to my helmet, it just solidifies the belief that it’s the most important part of my gear.”

Van Swearingen has been riding for 30 years and says all of his friends who ride also wear helmets. Van Swearingen works with parts manager Doug Vickery at a motorcycle shop in Aurora. Vickery asked that the name of the shop not be used because helmet use is such a personal issue he didn’t want to offend any customers.

Vickery is a Larkspur resident and retired professional American Motorcycle Association racer. He still rides a sport bike, but he’s traded the racetrack for the road. He once crashed on a bike at 160 mph, in addition to being hit by cars on two separate occasions. He says he “always” wears a helmet, just as his parents and his son do.

“I feel naked without one,” Vickery said. “Even if I had a cruiser bike, I’d wear a helmet … Safety equipment is everything.”

But Vickery said, as important to him as helmets are, “if someone doesn’t want to wear one, I support their freedom to choose.”

For Englewood biker Steve Hall, not wearing a helmet is all about “getting the full effect” of seeing and hearing everything around him as he rides.

“They’re just uncomfortable,” he said.

“I just like the freedom. The wind in your

hair ... A helmet is heavy, it’s cumbersome and you’re missing the full effect. You can’t hear what’s going on around you.

Even with your mirrors and everything, it’s not the same as just being able to turn your head and see what’s there.”

Everyone’s responsibility Brahm Bechtold says other drivers are a more dangerous variable than whether or not he’s wearing a helmet.

“You have to watch everyone around you,” he said. “We do the speed limit and it’s relatively safe, but there’s always the problem of the people who are going to cut you off. You really have to watch how you ride because not everyone is concerned about motorcycles here in Colorado.”

Kozuch, the police officer, agrees about the importance of awareness: “I think at the end of the day it’s the responsibility of everybody that’s on the road, whether you’re on the motorcycle or a bicycle or in a car, to watch the roadway for everybody that’s around you.”

CDOT recently announced a safety campaign that will last through Labor Day. It is placing messages on social media, at gas stations and on radio stations asking motorists to “look twice for motorcycles.”

Hall has a Harley-Davidson cruiser and has been riding for more than 20 years. He wore helmets when he rode dirt bikes as a boy but says he’s never worn a helmet on the road. He was in an accident several years ago and suffered a slew of broken bones, but the incident didn’t change his mind on the subject of helmets. He hasn’t been in any accidents since, and he credits his careful technique and awareness of other drivers for that.

He respects the decision of others to wear a helmet, but it’s not for him.

“You ride your way,” he said. “I’ll ride my way.”

HOW COMMON ARE HELMETS? Nationally, a little more than 60 percent of motorcyclists wear helmets that comply with federal standards, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

States that have universal helmet laws — all motorcyclists must wear them — see more than 80 percent of riders wear compliant helmets, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In states like Colorado without such a law, on average, only slightly more than half of motorcyclists wear helmets.

Data specific to Colorado is not available, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Transportation said.

“Whatever the number is, too few people are wearing helmets,” said Sam Cole, a communications manager for CDOT.

BY THE NUMBERS $1.1 billion

— Amount that could have been saved if all motorcyclists in the U.S. had worn helmets in 2013

1,630

— Total number of lives saved in the U.S. by motorcycle helmets in 2013

69 percent — Reduced risk of head injury when wearing a helmet

37 percent — Reduced risk of death when wearing a helmet

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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haystack,” in Don Quixote.

That’s what it’s like if you are looking for love on the internet.

My neighbors are proof that it’s possible. Millions of others are still looking.

What some of us do instead is buy or adopt a pet.

Smitty has never asked to see my resume, and he doesn’t seem to care that I missed a few off-ramps when I was younger.

This is being written on the day after the Nice massacre. We went for a walk earlier when the sun was coming up and backlighting the trees across the street.

He trotted to his favorite tree. His mind wasn’t on anything else except that tree. It must be nice, I thought.

Then I wrote to Eleanor, and she said that she was crying about Nice.

I said, “Take out the part about the Broncos and put that in instead.”

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July 28, 2016

Treating the whole person Holistic medicine takes a different route on the road to health

By Tom Skelley | tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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aige Fox recognizes that many people don’t understand what she does.

“Ten years ago I would have thought all of this was crazy,” Fox said.

Fox is a certified classical homeopath with a home and practice in Parker. Born and raised in Germany, she relied on traditional medicine throughout her life.

But having children changed her outlook on the cycle of getting sick, taking prescription medication and eventually getting sick again. Though she has a B.A. in business, she went back to school at 35 to study at Homeopathy School International in Boulder.

“I wanted to learn something that I could give them to help them grow a strong immunity and become healthy and have a healthy life,” Fox, 41, said. “Kids do get sick and that’s very normal, but if you keep getting antibiotics it suppresses the immune system and the body doesn’t learn how to fight it itself.”

From skeptics to practitioners Dr. Kelsey Asplin’s initial skepticism toward holistic medicine ran even deeper than Fox’s.

“I thought it was all hogwash,” Asplin, 27, said. “I initially took the class so I would be able to have a platform to stand

on to say that.”

Asplin, who lives and practices in Highlands Ranch, received her doctorate in June 2015 from Bastyr University in Seattle, one of only five schools in the United States that offers a doctorate in naturopathic medicine. She received a license to practice naturopathic medicine in Colorado in November.

Many clients turn to holistic medicine simply because nothing else has worked, Asplin and Fox said. Both women said some patients are dissatisfied with the lack of time and attention they receive from primary care doctors, and are increasingly skeptical that prescription after prescription is the best way to stay healthy.

The holistic approach involves a deeper conversation than just listing symptoms.

“We really do a lot of digging to try to find out what is that root cause of your symptom,” Asplin said. “If you have a headache, you don’t have a headache because you have an ibuprofen deficiency.”

So… what is it?

The term “holistic” refers to looking at a person’s entire lifestyle rather than treating their symptoms. Many practices fall under the term, including acupuncture, botanical medicine, Reiki, homeopathy

Brittany Goettling, left, looks at a monitor of her breathing and heart rates as Dr. Kelsey Asplin explains the readout in her Highlands Ranch office on July 14. Asplin says naturopathic doctors work with their patients to find the root causes of their health problems rather than trying to overpower the symptoms with medication. Photo by Tom Skelley and naturopathy.

Key principles of holistic medicine, according to the American Holistic Health Association, are that a patient is a person, not a disease, and that every person has an innate capacity to heal. Another principle is that physicians and homeopaths work collaboratively with patients to determine the underlying causes of health problems, rather than just treating symptoms.

Asplin and Fox are quick to acknowledge the value of traditional western medicine.

Fox is a certified EMT and did a semester of emergency medicine with the South Metro Fire Rescue Authority and Parker Adventist Hospital. Asplin’s doctorate required 140 preceptor hours, working with MDs, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals in a clinical setting, and she’s trained in primary care as well,

providing physical examinations, sports physicals and Pap smears to her patients.

Both women also said they are quick to refer patients to a hospital or physician if they have a serious condition that needs immediate attention.

“There’s a place for western medicine, there’s no question about it,” Fox said. “I wish we could work together with patients more, give them more options.”

Tools and techniques In Fox’s practice, she primarily uses a combination of biofeedback and homeopathic remedies.

“We try to really find out what emotional state you’re in, did you have any traumas, what’s your mental state and support everything so that everything’s in balance and works together,” Fox said.

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When Fox first works with a new client, she spends up to three hours learning about any stressors or traumas that have affected them while they are connected to a biofeedback device that reads the galvanic skin response, or vibrational frequencies, throughout the body. The machine detects toxins and stress reactions in the body as it reads those frequencies.

If the device shows elevated levels of amalgam, for example, it may be because the person has a leaking dental filling. If a measurement shows elevated reactions to allergens, Fox prepares a homeopathic remedy to boost the body’s ability to resist the allergen.

“We have 5,000 different medicines to turn on the innate vital force,” Fox said. “If you have all of these symptoms and all of these (medicines) and match them, it pushes the disease out of the body.”

Asplin also uses biofeedback, but her machine focuses on physiological reactions like a patient’s breath rate and heart rate. The next step, she said, is to ask the patient questions about their life, their job, their relationships and so on and monitor their bodies’ responses to the questions.

“We don’t even realize how quickly we are startled by those things, so it allows you to see how your body reacts when you have those thoughts… and then you learn to be able to control that by your breathing or by putting your body back into a parasympathetic state.”

Asplin also said she uses homeopathic remedies with a “small percentage” of her patients, but adds that every naturopathic doctor is different, and many, including one of her mentors, use them with most of their patients. She describes her approach as “foundational,” in

Dr. Kelsey Asplin takes a break in her Highlands Ranch office on July 5. Asplin obtained a doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University in Seattle after a four-year post graduate program.

Paige Fox takes a break before appointments in her office in Parker on Pikes Peak Drive. Fox says she went back to school to study homeopathy to give her children a chance for better lifelong health. Photos by Tom Skelley that she takes a patient’s nutrition, social life, emotional condition and other factors into account.

Teaching patients to take charge The biggest difference between the holistic approach and the traditional methods is ownership, Fox and Asplin said.

Asplin said her goal is to work with her patients to understand what they can do differently to improve their health.

“I’m not a psychiatrist but I do

naturopathic counseling, which is basically talking to you, understanding your story, and then having conversations with you about what are the obstacles in your life… what can you do differently?” she said. “I don’t like to put a number on it but I would say that 80 to 85 percent of my therapeutic value is just in listening to people.”

Fox puts it more bluntly.

“My job,” she said, “is to get people to take charge of their own lives.”

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July 28, 2016

‘I caught a Pikachu in her kitchen’ Smartphone users around metro area catch Pokémon fever

By Casey Van Divier Special to Colorado Community Media Clark Wilson, 12, was at summer camp in Massachusetts earlier this month when the new app, Pokémon Go, was released for iPhone and Android.

“All the camp counselors were talking about it as soon as it came out,” Wilson said.

Though the campers weren’t allowed to play the game during camp, counselors started catching Pokémon immediately.

“The app was pretty big news,” said Wilson, back home in Highlands Ranch and looking for Pokémon with his mom at Civic Green park last week. “I downloaded it after I got home.”

The Pokémon franchise, once limited to trading cards and video games, is growing larger and larger since the release of Pokémon Go on July 6. Though the app is free to download, in-app purchases generated more than $14 million in just five days, according to SuperDataResearch.

The eagerly awaited app — which uses augmented reality technology — hit the top of U.S. sale charts 13 hours after its release, according to Boy Genius Report.

Players use their cell phone cameras to view their surroundings. The game then adds Pokémon characters to the screen, making it seem as if they have appeared in real life.

“Research suggests the game is so popular because of the appeal of combin-

Christopher Cole and his two children, Malcolm, 3, and Elizabeth, 6, encounter a Pokémon during their daily walk. “I like the way this game gets me and the kids outside,” said Cole. Photo by Casey Van Divier ing the virtual world with the real world,” said Annie Butler, associate professor and department chair of human services at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Butler specializes in addictive behavior as it relates to video games and technology.

“It sounds like a fun game, but there are two sides to every coin,” Butler said.

“Some people can use it and it’s no big deal. But it becomes an addiction when people try to stop playing and can’t, or let it interfere with their relationships.”

Butler believes the game appeals to different demographics in different ways.

While kids enjoy the cartoon images and the gaming pieces of it, she said adults are more likely to enjoy the way they can use the app without experiencing the usual solitary aspects of gaming.

Christopher Cole, a Pokémon Go player and father of two, is one of many adults who have become avid Pokémon trainers this month. Cole typically plays the game with his two children and his wife, Karen.

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“We go on walks around the neighborhood and make it an adventure,” Cole said.

In the first 12 days since downloading the game, the Parker resident walked more than 55 miles.

“It motivates people to go to places they’ve never gone before and see parts of the city they’ve never seen before,” he said.

Pokémon Go works with Google Maps to direct players to Pokéstops, sites where they can catch different Pokémon based on their geographical location and the time of day. These places are usually located in neighborhoods, parks, stores or malls.

Brittany Rickson, 22, Matt Shircliff, 17, and Jill Zablonski, 26, often go to Parker’s O’Brien Park to catch Pokémon.

“We usually come here together,” said Zablonski, who was the first of the friends to download the game.

“Brittany downloaded the game a few hours after I did, when I told her I caught a Pikachu in her kitchen,” she said.

“I play Pokémon Go too much — I’m always on it,” said Rickson. “I play a good four or five hours a day, at work and everything.”

The three friends are just a fraction of the many people catching Pokémon in O’Brien.

“Even at 10 at night, the O’Brien parking lot is full,” said Cole. “It’s interesting to see all the people getting together and having fun, regardless of age and location.”

Casey Van Divier, who lives in Parker, is a sophomore in the journalism program at University of Colorado-Boulder.

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

Community Blood Drives A number of community blood drives are planned in the south Denver metro area. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bonfils Appointment Center

at 303-363-2300, unless otherwise noted. Go to www.bonfils.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Saturday, July 30, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Music Saves Lives, Walmart, 11101 S. Parker Road, Parker.

Summer Wizard Camp Learn magic and performance skills by professional magicians Carol Massie and Joe Givan at Summer Wizard Camp at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock. Camp dates are Monday to Friday, Aug. 1-4 (more dates may be added). Camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to noon each day. Cost includes all supplies and recital show for family. Open to ages

7 and older. Call 303-660-6799 for details and to sign up. Go to www.AmazingShows.com.

Elizabeth. Call 303-646-3699 or go to www. go-harvest.org.

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Enjoy bounce houses, carnival games, cotton candy, snow cones, food and more at the Harvest Bible Church community carnival from 3-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at 826 S. Elbert St.,

Cowboy Up Kiowa presents its second Open Saddle series. The 2016 Gymkhana schedule Saturday, Aug. 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a 1 p.m. start.

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IT’S NOT JUST KIDS WHO ARE ABSENT. IT’S $422 MILLION. When energy industry jobs are lost, families move away, school enrollment drops, and $422.2 million in school funding disappears. In Colorado’s Platte Valley alone – where 97% of the school district’s budget comes from taxes paid on mineral production and equipment – students and teachers stand to lose up to $1 million in state support. So if you think the oil and natural gas industry isn’t important to Colorado schools, you’ve got a lot to learn. Find out more at ConsumerEnergyAlliance.org/value.

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The Clubhouse When: 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month Time: 1:00pm-4:30pm Location: Aurora Ages: 2.5-7 Elevate U When: School breaks Time: 9:00am-3:00pm Location: Aurora Ages: 18-21

The Meeting Place When: 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month Time: 2pm-6pm Location: Littleton Ages: 18+ The Meeting Place for Teens When: 1st Saturday of every month Time: 5:00pm-8:30pm Location: Aurora Ages: 13-18