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Injured service dog rescued Car crash results in Tango being medically retired

By Tom Munds

tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Freedom Service Dog graduate Tango suffered life-threatening injuries in a rollover vehicle accident in March but, with tender care and a lot of love, the dog is taking baby steps along the long road to recovery.

“I love every dog I train but Tango always had a special place in my heart because he was one of the first dogs I trained,” said Freedom Service Dog trainer Bri Ore. “When I learned he survived the crash and the extent of his injuries, I made the trip to Albuquerque (N.M.) to get him and bring him back here where we can love him and do all we can to help him fully recover.”

Tango now spends most of his days

at the Englewood Freedom Service Dogs headquarters. The Golden Retriever mix shows the result of the injuries and struggles to stand still, because his pelvis was broken in several places. A special harness attached to his hindquarters enables the trainer to help the dog stand and move.

The injury resulted in Tango not yet being able to use his right hind leg or wag his tail. But he likes attention and lets you know by leaning toward you and kissing your hand when you scratch his ears.

Ore, a Centennial resident, takes Tango home with her at night and on the weekends. She said Tango gets along well with her two dogs and she feels her dogs help motivate Tango to move around more.

“I bond with the dogs I train and I feel a lifetime commitment to them so there was no hesitation to go get Tango when he needed our help,” Ore said. “It hurt me to Dog continues on Page 20

Freedom Service Dog trainer Bri Ore scratches Tango’s ears. Tango is battling back from life-threatening injuries suffered in a car crash. Photo by Tom Munds

Makeover for park draws near Lengthy planning about to pay off

By Tom Munds

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He also was a history teacher and soccer coach. He said he loved to dance and now lives in Littleton with his daughter.

The organizers took time to honor former kings and queens. Orville Stoddard held the hand of his wife, Ruth, as they were introduced.

“We have been married a long time,” Orville said. “We met on a blind date while we were living in Denver and we were married at a young age.”

Ruth quickly added that she feels blessed that she and Orville are still together.

Nearby, Gerti Bigul smiled and said she dressed up for the occasion.

“I love to dance and this young man from the high school is learning to dance like I do,” she said. “I love music. In my younger days I was a singer and I often get to sing to the folks here.”

Bigul, who will be 85 in May, said she grew up in Michigan, where she met her husband on a blind date.

“I have always loved music and loved singing,” she said. “My husband Jim and I were at a concert and got to meet the Four Freshmen. A member of the Four Freshmen

Work on the long-planned makeover of Duncan Park is forecast to begin in May. Jerrell Black, parks and recreation director, told the city council at the April 14 study session that only one bid for the makeover was received and the bid was about $500,000 over budget.

“We tried to resolve the issues and eventually decided to recommend we approve a contract for the bidder, American Civil Contractors,” he said.

“We plan to cover the gap between the bid and the budget by drawing from other funds, like the money from the lottery. No general fund money will be used for the project.”

He said $15,000 of the cost was because the proposal is to do the makeover in phases so the entire park will not be shut down during construction.

Black said approval of the contract award is all that still needs to be done before the project can move forward.

Plans were to have the contract approval on the April 21 council agenda.

The new Duncan Park will include an athletic field, picnic pavilion, a basketball court, two playgrounds, restrooms, a horseshoe pit and new sidewalks.

The effort to do a makeover of Duncan Park dates back to 2011, when residents of the area were asked to help create plans for the 3.3-acre site at the intersection of South Pennsylvania Street and East Layton Avenue.

Black said the neighbors have been involved in the park makeover since the effort started. He said his department will keep people involved by posting signs that include when work will start, what will be done in each of the two phases and the estimated completion date.

“Our hope is the contract will be approved so work can begin May 1,” Black said. “The goal is to have the project

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George Rusch, left, and Joyce Boe were crowned king and queen at the April 16 senior prom organized by InnovAge Johnson Adult Day Program staff. About 80 seniors and family members came to the crowning and dance. Photo by Tom Munds

‘Senior Prom’ is event for the ages

Multiple generations enjoy dance for older members of community

By Tom Munds

tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Smiles, laughter and dancing abounded April 16 at the “Senior Prom” held at the InnovAge Johnson Adult Day Program building in Englewood.

Organizers tailor activities and events to senior members of the community.

And what would a senior prom be without

crowning a king and a queen?

This year’s king was George Rusch, 88, and the queen was Joyce Boe, 87. Students from the Grandview High School leadership class helped the king and the queen don their sashes and their crowns to the applause of about 80 seniors and their relatives who attended the event.

Boe taught home economics in Denver Public Schools and, after she retired, she designed lamb’s wool coats emblazoned with buffalo. Her coats resulted in her being featured in People magazine.

The king grew up in California. He was a Golden Gloves boxer and was in the Merchant Marine during the Korean War.

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Long session makes for short fuses The most uttered words during any legislative session could be “bill” and “vote.”

But, lately, one could make the case for other four-letter words that have bounced around the Capitol — ones that would make Quentin Tarantino blush.

The session is winding down, but some lawmakers seem to be wound awfully tight.

Over the last couple of weeks, tempers have flared and emotions have gotten the better of our grown men and women who create our laws.

Here are a few recent examples: Rep. Chris Holbert, R-Parker, hurled an expletive toward fellow Republican Rep. Kevin Priola of Henderson on the House floor over his role in a vote on an education bill. That confrontation preceded a vote by Republicans to oust Priola as party whip, a position from which he would resign days later.

Rep. Mark Waller, a Colorado Springs Republican who is running for attorney general, barked the same expletive toward Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, after Pabon made a joke on the House floor about Waller’s delegate vote count at the recent GOP state assembly — Waller barely earned a spot on the Republican primary ballot that day.

And it’s not just “Men Behaving Badly.” Reps. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, and Cheri Gerou, R-Evergreen, have been on each other’s throats more than their Adam’s apples.

Clearly, something’s in the water at

the Capitol these days.

“It is unfortunate. I wish we could all get along,” said House Speaker Mark Ferrandino, DDenver, doing his best Rodney King impersonation.

“I think that sometimes there’s a joke that this is high school at the Capitol.

Sometimes, it feels like junior high.”

Junior high?

It’s been more like watching the best of “The Jerry Springer Show,” sans a hooting audience egging on the behavior — well, except for the press of course.

Holbert acknowledged that his comments made to Priola on the House floor recently were made out of frustration. He was upset that Priola, who was House minority whip at the time, did not support a Republican amendment to the Student Success Act, a K-12 funding measure.

The amendment had to do with how schools provide transparency over financial figures.

Instead, Priola voted for a competing and prevailing Democratic amendment and, seeing as how he didn’t vote for the GOP version, he did not whip up votes for the failed effort.

Holbert expressed his displeasure by

walking up to Priola and hurling a comment that begins with the sixth letter in the alphabet.

“Tensions were probably running a little higher than normal,” Holbert said.

But high tensions are the norm when it comes to the epic Duran and Gerou rivalry.

Duran is the chairwoman of the all-important Joint Budget Committee and the House Appropriations Committee. Gerou VOTING VOTING ENDS ENDS serves on the same committees.

Those LOG ON NOW! committee hearings really should have been held inside steel cages this year.

The two really got into it during an April 2 hearing, where you could have played a drinking game based on the number of times that Duran used her chairwoman’s gavel.

Things got ugly after Gerou suggested to a lawmaker that they “make a deal” over funding for bills they were carrying.

Gerou later said she was kidding.

Duran took Gerou as suggesting “quid pro quo” over legislation, which is a nono. Gerou was not happy with Duran’s interpretation of her comments and let her know it.

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quid pro quo,” Gerou said angrily. “And if you are imputing my nature, my ethics, madam chair, I object!”

Later that day, Duran said Gerou “hasn’t acted like a state representative” this legislative session and said her conduct has been unprofessional all year.

Not to be outdone, Gerou said Duran is “young enough to be my daughter” and that she doesn’t quite understand the rules involved with chairing a committee.

Mr. Speaker, what’s up with your members getting all Rowdy Roddy Piper on one another?

“I think during the end of session, nerves and tempers get short,” Ferrandino said. “There’s no secret that there’s no love lost between Rep. Duran and Rep Gerou.”

I suggested to Ferrandino that it would be quite entertaining to see the creation of a reality TV show called “Crisanta and Cheri” — two women who can’t stand each other, forced to live together in a city apartment, or a deserted island.

The speaker said he would “neither confirm or deny that has been kicked around” as a possible skit that is part of the legislature’s end-of-the-year “Hummers” event, where lawmakers roast one another.

Look, far be it from me to criticize bad behavior — after all, my cross streets are Sodom Avenue and Gomorrah Boulevard. Believe it or not, politicians are humans who sometimes say or do things they regret.

It’ll be interesting to see if things settle down the rest of the session — although, I won’t be holding my breath.

Gotta run, now. “Crisanta and Cheri” is on TV.

Vic Vela covers the Legislature for Colorado Community Media. He can be reached at vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

Or, follow him on Twitter: @VicVela1.

Property tax relief bill advances

By Vic Vela

vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com A bill aimed at providing tax exemptions for seniors and widows of military veterans who lose homes as a result of natural disasters is moving through the Legislature.

It is a bipartisan effort that Rep. Steve Lebsock, D-Thornton, said, “is one of my favorite bills that I’ve sponsored. … It’s going to make a big difference for folks.”

House Bill 1373 makes changes to the state’s Homestead Exemption, where qualifying seniors are exempt from having to pay a portion of their property taxes.

Lebsock said the bill addresses two ineq-

uities in the program.

Right now, seniors whose homes are destroyed by natural disasters, and who then move out of the flood plain, do not qualify for the tax relief. The bill would change that, so that seniors who are impacted by floods or wildfires are not left with an even bigger financial burden, just because they move.

The bill also allows a surviving spouse of a fully disabled veteran who dies to also benefit from the tax exemption. Under current law, the exemption applies only to veterans who are living in their homes, but not the spouses who take over the property when the veteran dies.

The bill passed the House with bipartisan support April 21. It now heads to the Senate.

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Reproductive rights effort fizzles Democrats spike own bill before debate

By Vic Vela

vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com A Democratic effort to bolster women’s reproductive rights was introduced at the Legislature with fanfare, but went out quietly.

The bill — which would have prohibited the state from interfering with a woman’s reproductive health care decisions — was killed by Democratic leadership before it ever came up for a highly anticipated debate in the Senate on April 16.

The reason behind the last-minute decision by Democrats to kill the legislation depends on which lawmaker one speaks with.

The bill sponsor, Sen. Andy Kerr, DLakewood, said the effort was pulled because Republicans had threatened to wreak havoc on the legislative process for the rest of the session, if the bill had gone forward.

Kerr said Republicans were planning to use filibusters and other delaying tactics to interfere with key pieces of legislation that are still moving through the Capitol.

“It became obvious that D.C.-style politics were going to be happening the last three weeks of the session here,” Kerr said.

That’s nonsense, said Republican leadership.

“That’s ridiculous,” said Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs.

“What they ran into was a firestorm of public dissent, period; a firestorm of public opposition to this political hatchet job.”

In the Senate gallery, onlookers who gathered to follow the vote — most of whom were opposed to the legislation — didn’t get much of a show.

Senate Majority Leader Rollie Heath of Boulder gave no explanation for spiking the bill when he moved to lay over the measure until the day after the session ends, which kills the legislation this year.

The bill would have prohibited state or local governments from enacting “any policy regarding reproductive health care that is inconsistent with or contrary to current evidencebased scientific data and medical consensus …” accompanying bill language states.

The effort is a response to continued conservative efforts to restrict women’s reproductive rights, either through the Legislature or the ballot box.

The sudden demise of the bill capped a wild, 48-hour sequence of events.

Catholics converged on the Capitol to protest the bill on April 15. That’s the day debate on the bill was supposed to be held

in the Senate. However, the vote was delayed a day because Sen. John Kefalas, DFort Collins, went home sick. Kefalas’ vote was needed for the vote to pass in a Senate that Democrats control by a single vote.

The next day, speculation swirled that the bill could end up being killed. Colorado Community Media was the first to report that Democratic leaders had spent the day figuring out whether they were going to move forward with the bill.

Kerr asserts that he had all 18 Democrats on board, but the reaction afterward from a couple of Democratic lawmakers puts that in question.

Kefalas voted for the bill in committee. But he later acknowledged that he struggled over his vote — and he never confirmed that he was going to vote yes in the first place.

After the vote was killed, Kefalas did not directly answer questions by reporters as to how he would have voted.

“All I can say is I express a concern about this and I listened to constituents,” Kefalas said.

Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, D-Arvada, was also conflicted. When asked how she was planning to vote, Zenzinger said, “I honestly don’t know.”

Zenzinger is a Catholic, first-term lawmaker who will face a tough election bid

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this November. Asked if she was relieved that she didn’t have to cast a vote, Zenzinger said, “Yeah, I think so, being a Catholic woman.”

Senate President Morgan Carroll, DAurora, did not speak with reporters on the Senate floor on April 16. Carroll instead sent an emailed statement, in which she was critical of Republican positions on women’s reproductive rights issues.

At the same time, Carroll, like Kerr, said she didn’t want other important pieces of legislation being affected as a result of GOP outrage.

“We have made our point, and in the interest of getting the remaining work done on education, jobs, higher education affordability and child care, we laid the bill over,” Carroll said.

But Cadman — who denied any effort on the part of Republicans to disrupt the legislative process — said Democrats have only themselves to blame for the bill’s failure. Cadman also referenced last year’s Democratic legislative achievements on hot-button issues, many of which angered Republicans.

“They got called on it and, unfortunately, they put their caucus and this entire institution through a significant turmoil over the last few days and dragged a lot of people out of their homes to come express their voices,” Cadman said. “The good news is this time, unlike last year, they listened.”

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New business group seeks to build relationships Roundtable’s leaders have vision of collaborative platform

By Hannah Garcia

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Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia addresses educators at Arapahoe Community College on April 17. Photo by Jennifer Smith

Higher ed changes discussed Goal of legislation is to increase graduation rates

By Jennifer Smith

jsmith @coloradocommunitymedia.com Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia visited Arapahoe Community College in Littleton on April 14 to address educators gathered to discuss changes in higher education stemming from HB 12-1155, which was designed to raise graduation rates for students who enter college less than prepared.

“Leaving college with debt but no degree, that’s the worst of all possible worlds,” he said. “We need to graduate more students, and graduate more diverse students. That’s our goal.”

It’s not just good for the students, it’s good for the state’s economy, he added. By the year 2020, 74 percent of all jobs will require some form of higher education. But 40 percent of students who enrolled at a Colorado college in 2011 needed some form of remedial education in math or English, and the number goes up to 66 percent for those in community college.

Of those, only about 22 percent graduate.

“We are losing students every step of the way,” said Garcia, who at one time was president of Colorado State University at Pueblo.

According to its author, HB 121155 offers colleges more flexibility in how they offer remedial coursework in an attempt to retain more of those students.

“We needed to create flexibility, and we needed to allow the institutions to have more control over this,” said Dr. Matt Gianneschi, director of the Postsecondary and Workforce Development Institute. The institute is an arm of the Denver-based Education Commission of the States, a nonpartisan education-policy agency largely funded by the states it serves.

Prior to the bill’s passage, the Colorado Department of Education required high-schoolers to spend a prescribed amount of time on various subjects in order to be “college ready.”

“We said you had to take four years of math, but we didn’t say it had to be good math,” said Gianneschi.

“It didn’t say you had to learn anything, it just said four years of seat

time. … We overthought it.”

So in 2008, legislation passed that changed the benchmarks regarding how competent students are in the subjects. Those changes take effect this fall, and Gianneschi said it will be a huge transition at the highschool level.

Meanwhile, HB 12-1155 allows colleges and universities to decide for themselves how to provide remedial courses, though CDE still has to sign off on their plans. Some students will be allowed to take them at the same time as their regular course of study, allowing them to proceed toward graduation more quickly.

Bruce Vandal, vice president of Complete College America, a national nonprofit that works with states to increase graduation numbers, said if a student hasn’t settled on a degree program by the end of the first year, he or she is less likely to graduate, so speeding up the process is one key to success. Another, he said, is to tailor classes to that degree program.

“Not all students need to be taking college algebra,” he said. “Why are we asking students to take college algebra if we know that’s not the path they’re going to take?”

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Two business leaders are trying to build a consortium of sorts to unite entities with economic interests.

The Colorado Business Roundtable is in its infancy, with executive director Jeff Wasden and president Gayle Dendinger starting discussions to form the group in February and taking concrete actions in March.

“Everyone we’ve approached has been really optimistic about the group,” Wasden said. “Nobody’s said `no.’ ” Wasden is also the owner of PROformance Apparel in Littleton and vice chair of public affairs for the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce. Dendinger is the CEO of shipping company CAP Logistics and publisher of ICOSA, an economic media company.

Although both men are well versed in a business environment, Wasden and Dendinger said the roundtable is a collaborative effort that deviates from the corporate model.

“It’s all about setting up connections and building relationships,” Dendinger said.

Dendinger said he first attempted to found a Colorado-based business roundtable in 2001, but between the 9/11 attacks in New York City and the fizzle of the dot-com boom, 54 percent of members went out of business and the collaborative died out.

With the economy making a recovery and the CBRT building momentum, Dendinger said he hopes participants will adopt a new philosophy.

“Instead of shrinking, market harder,” Dendinger said.

The group has various goals in different arenas, from public policy to education and plans to work with other organizations like Colorado Concerns on immigration issues and the South Metro Chamber on hydraulic fracturing. The group held its first event in Lone Tree on April 16 in conjunction with other organizations to discuss a study by the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business regarding the impact of a fracking ban on Colorado’s economy.

Wasden said a big part of the mission is education.

Dendinger said access to ICOSA will be big part of that.

“Part of what we’re trying to accomplish is an organization of doers, who want to create the best and brightest in the state,” Wasden said. “We want to partner with other organizations for diversity and strength, to get that extra lens. Instead of working in a vacuum, the idea is to leverage and multiply, then educate.”

The group operates under the larger umbrella Business Roundtable in Washington, D.C., which has roundtables in 25 other states in its network, Dendinger said.

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Student art on display at library Drawings, paintings and sculptures cover the walls

By Tom Munds

tmunds@colorado communitymedia.com A lot more color covers the walls and tops of bookshelves at the Englewood Public Library as several hundred works created by young Englewood artists are on display for the annual Student Art Show.

Art teachers from around the district have been hanging artworks throughout the library in preparation for the reception for the artist being held 4:30 to 6 p.m.

April 24. The art works will be on display through May 5. The show is free and open to the public.

Preparations for the events began in earnest a few days before the official show opening as Englewood School District art teachers and parent volunteers begin putting up the creations of Englewood

students ranging from kindergartners through 12th-graders. The works include paintings, drawings sculptures and other media.

There are hundreds of creations and, in keeping with tradition, the artworks cover most available walls, the tops of the bookshelves, the display cases and hang from the ceiling.

Englewood High School teacher Shelia Olson, who retired last year, helped get the district art show started.

“We had our first show about 1990,” the art teacher said in an interview last year. “The first two years, it was at the high school and then we moved it to the library so more people could enjoy the art.”

She said there is a lot more diversity in the art show now than during the early years of the event.

Also there are a lot of kids doing art now.

“There are a lot of kids who are visual learners and I like to see them take up art as their voices, providing a variety of ways to express themselves,” she said.

Families check out a portion of last year’s student art show at the Englewood Public Library. The artist reception for this year’s show is April 24 and will feature hundreds of creations by Englewood students. The artwork will be on display until May 5. File photo

City close to hiring search firm in city manager hunt List of possible companies narrowed down to three

By Tom Munds

tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com The process to hire a new city manager moved forward April 21 as the Englewood City Council reduced the field of search firm applicants to three.

The city is in the process of hiring a new city manager to fill the vacancy that will be created when current City Manager Gary Sears retires in September.

Sue Eaton, Englewood human resources director, told councilmembers April 21 that the city received seven acceptable proposals by the April 11 submission deadline. After reviewing and evaluating the pro-

posals, council narrowed the field to three and will invite the finalists to come to Englewood for interviews on May 5.

“This is one of the most important decisions this city council will make,” Mayor Randy Penn said. “We need to make sure we evaluate these proposals and select the best firm to do the search.”

Penn had each councilmember name their top three selections.

Two firms, Waters and Company and Slavin, were in the top three of almost every councilmember. Individual councilmembers then talked about their choice of the third firm and eventually Affion was selected.

The timeline calls for council to — between the dates of May 5 and 23 — select a search firm and then meet with the company representatives to develop the council’s desired criteria for the profile of the

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The vacancy will be posted from June 1 to 30 and the council wants to select and hire a new city manager

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Of the three search firm finalists, none are based in Colorado, but all have helped municipalities in the Centennial State.

Waters and Company has offices in Dallas and Cleveland and has conducted successful searches for city managers in Fort Collins and Loveland.

Salvin, based out of Norcross, Ga., has done executive searches for a variety of public positions for Colorado communities including Thornton, Lakewood and Fort Collins.

Pennsylvania-based Affion has worked with 27 Colorado municipalities including Denver and Boulder.

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The Transition in Englewood Schools Program is designed for students 18 to 21 who have met graduation requirements but who continue to need skills development in the areas of mobility and career exploration.

Funds raised will be used for items and equipment that will be used by the students in the program.

Book sale at the library Friends of the Englewood Library

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are holding their annual book sale April 24 and 25.

The book sale will be open from 4 to 8 p.m. April 24 and from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. April 25. The event will be held in the Englewood Public Library, which is located on the first floor of the Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway.

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The Englewood Historical Preservation Society will hold its meeting at 3 p.m. April 25 in the Englewood Public Library.

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Life has challenges; words have power Reading is one of the things I enjoy so very much in life. And as an avid reader, I have accumulated a vast and diverse book collection.

Some are worn around the edges, some are dog-eared, sticky notes protrude from the tops of several, and many are filled with highlights and underscored words with my notes written in the margin. In my line of business, I find myself going back to some of my favorites for ideas and reminders on how to improve in some way or handle a situation.

So the other day I was dealing with a very challenging family issue and it was happening right at the one-year anniversary of the loss of my wife and my kids’ mom. I took some time to sit in my library and meditate on what was happening around us and I was feeling sad, hurt and confused. And as I thought and prayed about the situation and events,

I looked up and some of the titles of the books literally seemed to come to life right before my eyes. Specific books and words seemed to become bigger in font size and boldness.

They were books such as Zig Ziglar’s “Embrace the Struggle,” or “The Journey”

by Billy Graham. There were also titles such as “Be Great” by Peter Thomas and “Results” by Gary Neilson and Bruce A. Pasternack. There are hundreds of books in my library, and as I continued to scan

Bob Dylan thinks he’s a penguin I have been under the weather and I don’t really have the strength to write a column today. One is overdue, however, and rather than let down my editor, I am going to do my best.

This will be highly unusual. It’s never been done anywhere before. I know it’s the easy way out, but I am weak. Please bear with me. You’ll have a full-fledged column next time.

I am going to assemble a column out of nothing but headlines. That’s crazy, huh?

I realize that it’s manipulative and a tease, kind of like what they do on the TV news to keep you hooked through a commercial.

“Bob Dylan thinks he’s a penguin. Details after the break.”

So here we go. Nothing but headlines.

No explanations, no stories to go along with them. Please: Use your imagination.

That’s a good thing, right?

How well do you know asparagus? A horse, a bucket and a spoon. Your comb over is scaring my grandson.

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. Memories that hold your life together like glue. Living in the limelight the universal dream. Breathe deep the gathering gloom.

The calendar on the wall is ticking the days off. I’m not the man you think I am, but I’m the man for you.

Delightful spring recipes for neighborhood squirrel. Why dogs eat your homework. Smells on a bus.

Hundreds sickened on cruise ship.

Cruise ship experiences propulsion problems. Cruise ship overturns. Cruise ship generator breaks down. Cruise ship forgets to load shuffleboard pucks, passengers riot. Cruise ship runs out of deveined shrimp, passengers riot.

Are you OK? It’s been two whole minutes since you checked your messages.

The dark side of Mr. Green Jeans. Lisping in Ithaca. My mother the car. Eating crackers in bed, rolling in the crumbs. This is not a dachshund.

Lady writer on the TV. Talking about the Virgin Mary. I know you never read a book.

Burning bridges shore to shore. This time, baby, I’ll be bulletproof.

Every day it’s getting closer. Going faster than a roller coaster. The melody haunts my reverie. We all become brothers under the laws of Minerva. “I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.” The French have a different word for everything.

I’m just a teenage dirtbag, baby. Some had scars and some had scratches.

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

WDYT: The decay of language is the decay of mankind. If you go down to the woods today, you’d better go in disguise.

You played it for her, you can play it for me. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I’ll even ask for your forgiveness, though I don’t know just what I am asking it for. I am a champion and you’re going to hear me roar.

Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky. I told you I was trouble, you know that I’m no good. School board member addicted to popping bubble wrap.

Charles Krauthammer is way over my head.

If you go down to the woods today, you’d better not go alone. Stopping by woods on a snowy evening.

There is only one David Letterman. The top 10 rejected names for the seven dwarfs.

Top 10 summer jobs in hell. Top 10 signs that Chef Boyardee is losing his mind.

What’s so good about goodbye?

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

the shelves and titles I saw “Gung Ho” by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles and Wayne Dyer’s “The Power of Intention.”

Although many other titles and books caught my attention, the final one I will include here is John Ortberg’s “God is Closer Than You Think.”

Here I was, feeling extremely challenged and quite low, and one of the things that I enjoy most in life hit me right between the eyes: my books. Just think of the words alone and how powerful they are and how much encouragement they bring. “Embrace the Struggle,” “The Journey,” “Be Great,” “Results,” “Gung Ho,” “The Power of Intention,” and “God is Closer Than You Think.” Immediately my spirits were lifted and my attitude elevated.

I am in a struggle, it will be a journey, as the leader of my family I have to be great in order to get the results we will need, this will require a gung-ho attitude,

it will be an intentional effort, and God has always been and will be right by my side. For me, words are powerful, the actions they inspire are incredible, and the adjustment in attitude is simply amazing.

Most days I read for pleasure, to grow, and to learn. I find personal development materials such as books or audio programs to be an absolute asset to my success. And when needed personally or professionally, these powerful words are packed with wisdom.

How about you, do you have a library or source of knowledge and encouragement? I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com. And as we benefit from the power of words, this really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Highlands Ranch, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/founder of www.candogo.com.

Bill would battle sex trafficking It is not a well-known fact that the fastest-growing segment of organized crime, as well as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world, is sex trafficking.

And while many believe this is only an international problem that pervades Third World countries, the unfortunate reality is that sex trafficking also occurs here in the United States.

The United Nations estimates that there is $9 billion in revenue generated from sex trafficking in the U.S. alone. Moreover, according to the Department of Justice, the average age of the women who are trafficked is between 13 and14 years old. In Colorado, over 30 percent of the human trafficking victims are minors, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.

This is striking given that the FBI cites an estimated 293,000 American youths are at risk of becoming victims of commercial sexual exploitation. The majority of these victims are runaways who live on the streets and who generally come from homes where they have been abused or from families who have abandoned them.

Sadly, these women and young girls are too often sold to traffickers, where they are drugged and abused into submission.

In 2000, Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), which created the first comprehensive federal law to address trafficking. The law allows for prosecution and severe punishment through newly formed federal crimes. Ac-

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cording to the FBI, this operation has succeeded in saving nearly 900 children from sex trafficking by successfully convicting more than 500 pimps, madams, and their associates. However, given the size and scope of this horrible industry of human exploitation, more needs to be done.

Fortunately, many local and state law enforcement agencies have joined federal efforts to combat sex trafficking. In Colorado, the Colorado State Patrol created the Smuggling and Trafficking Interdiction Unit (STIU) to address these issues of human smuggling and human trafficking.

Since 2006, this unit has launched efforts to eradicate our state of this type of organized crime.

Recently, the STIU, along with other state and federal agencies, stopped organized human trafficking operations out of various massage parlors and spas in Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Our local operations along with national efforts have had some success, but there are other ways for Coffman continues on Page 7

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CLUBS IN YOUR COMMUNITY

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PROFESSIONAL AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of University Women, Littleton-Englewood Branch invites baccalaureates to participate in activities that further the goals of equity for women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change. Meetings usually are Mondays each month, September through May, at Koelbel Library, Orchard Road and Holly Street, Centennial. Social time is followed by business meeting and informative program on subjects ranging from public policy issues to poetry. Call Linda Shell at 303-796-7702.

DENVER INVESTOR Club meets the first Thursday each month at 7:30 p.m. at the IHOP on Clinton Street in Englewood. Call Gail Segreto at 303-810-9015 or e-mail gailsegreto@starband.net. This is a nonprofit educational club.

ENGLEWOOD CHAPTER of the Junior Chamber of

Commerce (Jaycees) needs men and women between the ages of 21 and 40 to help re-establish the chapter. Jaycees work to help chapter members grow professionally and to help serve the community through hands-on projects.

To become involved, call 303-914-0180 or visit www. coloradojaycees.org.

LETIP INTERNATIONAL, local chapter, is a professional referral organization that meets at Maggiano’s at the Denver Tech Center, 7401 S. Clinton St., in Englewood.

A Highlands Ranch chapter meets at LePeep’s, 7156 E. County Line Road. Call 303-789-7898 or visit www.letip. com.

NARFE (NATIONAL Active and Retired Federal Employees), Chapter 1089 was merged into Chapter 81. The membership meetings are from noon to 1:30 p.m. the third Friday of every month, with an optional lunch at 11 a.m., at the American Legion Post 1, at the Southeast corner of I-25 and Yale Ave (5400 E Yale). All current and retired federal employees are invited to attend. For information call, Hank at 303-779-4268 or Darlene at 303-771-2024.

RECREATION CHERRY CREEK Anglers meets at 7 p.m. every second Thursday in the Lodge Meeting Room at Gander Mountain Sports, 14000 E. Jewell Ave. Call Dennis at 303-841-3612.

KILOWATT EIGHTS is for people interested in square

dancing. Dances are the first, third and fifth Friday each month at Malley Senior Center in Englewood. Call Ron at 303-759-4862.

MOUNTAINEERS SQUARE Dance Club meets the first, third and fifth Saturdays of the month at the Valley View Church of God, 4390 S. Lowell Blvd., Englewood, to square dance. Dances start at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and watch. This is a healthy activity for all. Call 303-798-4472.

organization with a philanthropic purpose. For almost a century, DBE has been a common bond for women of British heritage living in the United States. DBE is open to women who are citizens or residents of the U.S. who are of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry or who are married to men of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry.

There are six chapters in Colorado, including chapters in Littleton, Englewood, Centennial, Evergreen and Boulder County. Call Chris at 303-683-6154 or Olive at 303-3471311, or visit www.dbecolorado.org and use the contact form available.

SERTOMA CLUB of DTC meets on Thursdays at Mangia Bevi Restaurant, Englewood. Contact David Oppenheim at 303-850-7888 or captdso@aol.com.

EMBROIDERERS GUILD of America Colorado Chapter meets at Bethany Lutheran Church at Hampden Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Englewood the fourth Tuesday each month from 9:30 a.m. to noon, excluding December and July. Meetings include needlework projects, needle art education, lectures and workshops of all levels. Guests are invited. Call Marnie Ritter at 303-791-9334.

THE ENGLEWOOD Lions Club meets at 7 a.m. every

Thursday at the Grill at Broken Tee Golf Course, 2101 West Oxford Avenue. Previously the Lions Club met every Wednesday at noon. The change in time is being made to better accommodate working men and women in the Englewood area who are interested in serving the community. Please join the Lions for breakfast and a weekly program and learn more about Lions Club International and the activities of the Englewood Lions Club.

THE ROTARY Club of Englewood meets each Wednesday

at 12:15 p.m. at the Wellshire Inn, 3333 S. Colorado Blvd, Denver. For information, contact Josh Staller at 303-7216845, or visit rotaryclubofenglewood.org.

FRIENDSHIPS ARE Golden, a Precious Moments col-

lectors club, meets the fourth Thursday each month at Castlewood Library in Englewood. Dinner provided by club members at 6 p.m., meeting from 7-9 p.m. Give back to the community by doing local charity work. Talk and share stories about Precious Moments. Call Leota Stoutenger, club president, at 303-791-9283.

GRACE CHAPEL Mothers of Preschoolers meets second and fourth Wednesdays from 9-11:30 a.m. at Grace Chapel, I-25 and County Line Road, Englewood. Call Karleen Wagner at 303-799-4900 or visit www.gracechapel.org.

KIWANIS CLUB of Englewood believes it has an obligation to be involved in community projects. Members meet Wednesdays 7 a.m. at The Neighborhood Grille 1500 W. Littleton Blvd. Everyone is welcome to join and have breakfast on Kiwanis. Call 303-783-9523.

SERVICES

NEWCOMERS AT Grace Chapel in Englewood welcomes women who are new to the Denver area. Learn about the group’s ongoing Bible study, make new friends, and be encouraged about God’s faithfulness and what happens after the boxes are unpacked. Call Carolyn Chandler at 303-660-4042 for information on welcome teas, Bible study, field trips and get acquainted luncheons.

HOMECOMING INC. offers caregivers of low-income seniors who are frail, disabled or unable to live alone without care in Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson and Denver counties respite care. Assistance includes personal care and homemaking. Call Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson or Trini Martinez at 303-526-2318 for an application and information.

RANCH RACONTEURS Toastmasters. Learn to improve your personal and public speaking skills, listen effectively, develop leadership abilities and build your confidence in a fun, supportive environment. Group meets at 6:55 p.m. every Thursday at the Eastridge Recreation Center, 9568 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Visitors welcome. Contact Debbie Fuller at vpm-873616@toastmastersclub.org.

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ROTARY CLUB of Denver Tech Center meets from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays at the Glenmoor Country Club in Englewood. Call Larry McLaughline at 303-741-1403.

ARAPAHOE SERTOMA Club meets on Thursdays at the Englewood Elks Club, 3690 S. Jason, Englewood. Contact Ken Kelley at 303-789-9393 or kenkelley@allstate.com.

DAUGHTERS OF the American Revolution, Columbine Chapter meets at 1 p.m. every second Saturday at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Unita St., Englewood. Call Michelle Brown at 303-979-7550.

DAUGHTERS OF the British Empire is a national

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us to combat the growth of sex trafficking in the U.S. — we need to target its economic allies as well.

Shockingly, there is big business in the online advertisements that facilitate this sex slavery. Online classified services are making millions of dollars of revenue generated from the advertisement of children for sex. Recent reports indicate that online prostitution advertising revenue generated $45 million in 2013 alone. Obviously, this is an issue that needs more attention from national policymakers.

For this reason, I am proud to cosponsor H.R. 4225, the SAVE Act, which was recently introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo. The bill seeks to prohibit entities from knowingly selling advertising that leads to sex trafficking activities. Although larger measures are needed to prevent is-

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sues like domestic violence that isolate young women from society, the SAVE Act will make this sex trafficking less profitable by cutting off methods of advertising.

Moreover, the SAVE Act criminalizes this behavior and provides the tools to allow all levels of law enforcement to combat this pernicious exploitation of American women and children in the U.S. As a member of Congress, I will do what I can, but these repugnant sex traffickers operate outside both our legal and moral frameworks. Therefore, we need a total effort from our community, both local and national, to stop this heinous activity. If you would like to help the effort, I urge you to contact the Colorado Network to End Human Trafficking (CoNEHT) at 1-866455-5075 or the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking at 303-295-0451.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman represents the 6th Congressional District, which includes Aurora, Centennial, Littleton and Highlands Ranch.

Building, 9510 South Meridian Blvd. in Englewood. For more information, contact our current VP of Membership, Brent Hilvitz at 303-668-5789. We hope you will visit us and check out Meridian Midday Toastmasters. www. meridianmidday.com

WIDOWED MEN and women of America, Come join us and make new friends and share in a variety of activities.

Our monthly meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Rox Bar and Grill, 12684 W. Indore Place, in Jefferson County. For more information call Mel at 303-973-8688or Nan at 728-981-1841.

SOUTH SUBURBAN Women’s Connection, affiliated with Stonecroft Ministries, meets from 9-11 a.m. the second Wednesday of every other month beginning in January at Maggiano’s, 7401 S. Clinton St. The brunch includes a feature and an inspirational speaker. For details, reservations and complimentary nursery, call Rachel Lee at 303-866-1444 or e-mail rllee58@gmail.com.

SUPPORT ADULT CHILDREN of Elderly Parents, a Denver-area group of caregivers and relatives of elderly looking for support and resources, meets twice monthly at Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lincoln Street, Englewood. Meetings often include speakers from medical, counseling and housing services. Call Marina at 720-272-2846.

BREAST CANCER Support Group meets Tuesdays 5:306:30 p.m. at Swedish Medical Center, 501 E. Hampden Ave., Englewood, second floor Conference Center, Spruce B. Patients, survivors and caregivers are welcome to attend. Meetings are free and open to the public. RSVP to Kelly Topf, oncology patient care coordinator, at 303319-8638.

EMPOWER COLORADO, South Metro Support Group for parents of children with mental illness. Learn how to handle mental health challenges within the family and how to collaborate with the school system. Find out how to access resources for mental health care services. Email listserv and educational classes are also available.

Meetings are from 6-8 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network, 155 Inverness Drive West, 2nd floor, one block East of Dry Creek (next to DirecTV and the Light Rail) Englewood, CO 80112. Dinner will be served (usually pizza or Subway). Contact Carol Villa at kyvilla@aol.com or 1-866-213-4631.

HEPATITIS C Support Group. The group meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 1000 Englewood Parkway from 7-8:30 p.m. Contact is Deidrea at 303-504-1853.

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LUNG CANCER Support Group meets from 7-8 p.m.

Tuesdays at Swedish Medical Center, 501 E. Hampden Ave., in the second-floor Conference Center, Spruce B, in Englewood. Patients, survivors and caregivers are welcome. Meetings are free and open to the public. To reserve a spot call Kelly Topf, oncology patient care coordinator, at 303-319-8638.

MERIDIAN PARKINSON’S Support Group is a unique group. The group is open for Parkinson’s patients and their care-givers. The group will divide into patients in one group and care-givers in another at the April meeting, so that people will be able to get into particular issues and problems and share the successes and failures we experience in dealing with Parkinson’s disease.Attend meetings at 10 a.m. the third Tuesday of each month in the Sky Room of the Meridian building, 3455 S. Corona, Englewood. For more information, contact Gail Greenwood, facilitator, at 303 805 3590 NAMI SUPPORT group for family members and friends of persons with mental illness meets from 7-8:30 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of the month January through October and the second Wednesday of the month November and December at Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network, 155 Inverness Dr. West, second floor, Englewood.

NAMI INFORMATION programs for consumers, family members and friends meet from 7-8:30 p.m. the second Wednesday January through May and September and October at Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network, 155 Inverness Dr. West, second floor, Englewood.

NARCONON REMINDS families that abuse of addictive pharmaceutical drugs is on the rise. Learn to recognize the signs of drug abuse and get your loved ones help if they are at risk. Call Narconon for a free brochure on the signs addiction for all types of drugs. Narconon also offers free assessments and referrals. Call 800-431-1754 or go to DrugAbuseSolution.com. Narconon also can help with addiction counseling. Call for free assessments or referrals, 800-431-1754.

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

PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY Support Group The Denver Branch meets from 3:30-5 p.m. the first and third Thursdays of every month at Christ Church United Methodist, 690 Colorado Blvd., Denver; parking and entrance in the back. For information about the Denver Branch meetings, call Dorothy Miller at 303-814-2112 or email dorthy_miller@hotmail.com.

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Red light camera ban could get green light Bill also would bar use of photo radar

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vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com Red light cameras could be a thing of the past, under a bill that is making its way through the Legislature.

The bipartisan legislation would prohibit the use of red light cameras and photo radars anywhere in the state. Communities sometimes use the technology to slow down speeding drivers and to increase revenues.

The bill received initial approval in the Senate on April 17 and is expected to pass the chamber before the legislation moves to the House.

Rep. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley, a bill sponsor, contends that the use of red light cameras and other driving detection technology is a “cash grab” on the part of communities, and that their presence can have an adverse impact on public safety.

Renfroe and other supporters argue that drivers sometimes slam on the brakes after noticing the equipment, which can lead to the very accidents communities are

And bill supporters also said that a single picture of a vehicle crossing an intersection often doesn’t take into consideration other road factors that impact the way people drive.

“A camera can take a picture, but it doesn’t tell the story,” Renfroe said.

Supporters pointed to a number of areas of concern over the technology. Sen. Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, a bill co-sponsor, said there isn’t any evidence that indicates that the devices have “a tangible effect on public safety.”

Sen. David Balmer, R-Centennial, said the flashes that emit from the cameras can trigger epileptic seizures. Balmer also said the devices interfere with a driver’s right to confront his or her accuser in court.

But the bill had its share of opponents who said communities would suffer if the bill becomes law.

Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, also opposed the legislation. She said that communities in her district want to see more driver detection technology, not less.

“I have, in my district, communities that have requested me to vote no on this, who are begging me to vote no on this because of the safety factor,” Newell said.

Englewood man indicted for alleged abuse, porn

By Tom Munds

tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia. com A federal grand jury indicted Englewood resident Mervin Edy Wolf on four counts related to sexual assault on a child and creating child pornography.

The indictment was handed down March 26 and Wolf was ordered held without bond pending the resolution of his case. A four-day trial has been scheduled May 27 at the federal courthouse in Denver.

The first count of the four-count indictment charges Wolf traveled across state lines with intent to engage with a sex act with a child If found guilty on count one, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, the possible penalties for a first offense are not less than 30 years or not more than life imprisonment, a fine of not more than $250,000 or both.

Counts two, three and four relate to charges that he persuaded a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography.

If Wolf is convicted of counts two through four, production of child pornography, he could be sentenced to not less than 15 years or not more than 30 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both for each count.

FBI agents arrested the 61-year-old Englewood resident March 5 on child pornography charges.

According to the arrest affidavit, in about September 2007, Wolf began taking pornographic photographs of a minor child who lived with Wolf’s California relatives. The report stated that, over the next seven years, Wolf forced the minor child to perform and participate in an escalating pattern of sexual acts which Wolf would photograph or videotape.

According to the affidavit, the victim made the decision to report the sexual abuse when she learned Wolf planned to visit in June. She said she was afraid Wolf would start molesting her younger siblings. Once the girl’s family learned about the claims, other family members came forward to report sexual abuse by Wolf.

police report Robber arrested

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Englewood police tracked down and arrested a 26-year-old woman who was suspected to have committed armed robbery and kidnapping at a business on the 3000 block of South Broadway shortly before 8:45 p.m. April 21.

According to the police report, the investigation determined the woman came into the business to have a prescription filled. She left the business, returned a short time later and allegedly climbed over the counter with a knife in her hand. The report suggests that she threatened two employees demanding they provide her with prescription pills or she would and kill them. She allegedly used the knife to move them from one place to another in the store against her will.

The employees provided the suspect with the pills she demanded and the 26-year-old left the business and the area in a vehicle. Englewood police were able to track down the suspect to a nearby motel where they arrested her. Police reported they recovered the majority of the pills given to the suspect in the motel room.

The woman was later taken to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Detention Facility.

Possible charges she could face include aggravated robbery of a controlled substance as well as second degree kidnapping for moving the employees against their will.

Fake drugs found

A 39-year-old man was arrested by Englewood police officers at 7 p.m. April 18 on the 3000 block of South Acoma Street over suspected possession of heroin.

The man possessed four small plastic bags filled with a brown substance that resembled heroin. The substance in the bags turned out to be crumbled muffins, which the suspect told officers he packaged to look like heroin.

The suspect allegedly told police that he intended to sell the bundles and use the money he received to buy real heroin. While searching the suspect, police also found several syringes and other drug paraphernalia items.

The man was arrested and taken to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Detention Facility where he could face several charges related to his activities.

Wanted man arrested

When police stopped a 52-year-old man at 5:30 p.m. April 15 on the 4200 block of South Broadway over a report of suspicious activities, officers wound up arresting him after they found he had an outstanding felony warrant. The man was also in possession of methamphetamine. Officers took the suspect to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Detention Facility where he faces multiple charges.

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Fracking analysis focuses on economy Consortium pays for study that avoids other potential impacts

By Jane Reuter

jreuter@colorado communitymedia.com A University of Colorado-Boulder Leeds School of Business study concludes that a statewide moratorium on hydraulic fracturing would put a drag on Colorado’s economy, though the study’s leader said they don’t know potential environmental impacts of the controversial practice, known as “fracking.”

Such a moratorium is not currently proposed, though several Colorado municipalities have enacted fracking bans or moratoriums, and recent initiatives propose more local control and increased setbacks for oil and gas drilling.

Researcher Brian Lewandowski talked about the fracking analysis during an April 16 meeting at the Lone Tree Arts Center.

A consortium including the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, the Denver South Economic Development

Partnership and a nonprofit economic think tank, Common Sense Policy Roundtable, contracted with the Leeds School to do the fracking analysis and other studies about economics tied to public policy. Lewandowski said the consortium pays them quarterly.

Research subjects are decided by a panel vote including members of the Leeds School and the three groups. Lewandowski does not sit on the panel and said the outside agencies are “hands off” about the studies’ conclusions and methodology.

According to the fracking analysis, the oil and gas industry and related activities contributed $29.6 billion to Colorado’s economy in 2012, which Lewandowski said was based on readily available facts.

“We studied what we know about the industry,” he said. “We know employment, taxes, production.

There are a lot of things we don’t know; we don’t know environmental impacts, air quality, water quality, noise pollution. The question is, `What value would you put on these topics?’”

Lewandowski noted those issues and impacts also are being studied, but that will take many years.

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growing in number. Collectively in 2012, the industry contributed about $3.4 billion in income to Colorado households, or 2.8 percent of the state’s total salary and wages.

“Property taxes are perhaps the largest payment from the oil and gas industry — about $675 million in 2012,” he said. “School districts represent the majority of this, more than half if you look at mill levies across the state.

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“Colorado could expect to lose about 68,000 jobs on average in the first five years (and) 93,000 jobs over the long view, between 2015 and 2040,” Lewandowski said.

Current increased setback proposals wouldn’t have the same impact.

“We modeled this on a worst-case scenario,” he said.

Lewandowski cautioned that the Leeds School study shouldn’t be considered in isolation.

“There’s so much data that demonstrates the economic importance of the industry that it’s hard to deny that from the economic standpoint that it wouldn’t be detrimental

to the economy (to restrict it),” Lewandowski said.

“The economics shouldn’t be the only thing you take into consideration.

“The analogy I use is that when I’m buying a house, I look at the house itself, but I’m also looking at the view and the schools, the neighborhood, the amenities around it. This study should hopefully be part of the conversation, but I don’t think it should be the whole conversation.”

He also noted that existing bans are in densely populated areas, where oil- and gas-related activity is minimal. Production is concentrated in Weld, Rio Blanco, Garfield, Montezuma and La Plata counties.

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Mom says her son is not a killer Meloni says she did her best to raise Spridgen right

By Jennifer Smith

jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Maria Meloni admits raising her son, 19-year-old Chase Spridgen, came with challenges.

“He’s a good kid, and he’s respectful,” she said during an April 11 interview. “On the other hand, he acts tough, but it’s just to protect himself.”

Spridgen was 17 on the night he and Dion Rankin, then 20, were at a 14-yearold’s birthday party in a home on Fox Street near Progress Park in Littleton. They ended up fighting with Da Von Flores and others. The two left, but returned with guns.

Rankin shot Flores, 18, dead in the street; Robert Placa, then 18, shot Spridgen. He himself nearly died, spending the next 35 days in the hospital before being arrested at home.

Meloni says the bullet went through her son’s stomach and intestines, leading to myriad infections. He was still hooked up to intravenous antibiotics and walking with a cane when the police took him to jail, she said.

On April 7, Spridgen was sentenced to six years in Arapahoe County’s Youthful Offender System, a medium-security prison for 14- to 19-year-olds who have been tried as adults. If he cannot succeed in the program, he’ll go to prison for the remainder

of the 18 years.

“I’m upset, but I’m also relieved,” said Meloni. “Maybe at YOS he can get the structure I couldn’t give him.”

Meloni says the troubles began after her son got jumped coming home from 7th grade at Moody Elementary School. Before that, he was an honor-roll student with interests in football and psychology.

“He stopped trying because he felt like a nerd, and he didn’t want to be a nerd,” she said. “His brain, I just don’t know how to explain it.”

After, she began finding knives in the laundry. Then he starting experimenting with drugs, and she noticed he started wearing a lot of red.

“I don’t know if he was affiliated with a gang,” she said. “I think they’re wannabe gangs. I have a different image in my head of what a real gang would be, like in Los Angeles, and these were just kids.”

At one point, Spridgen stole her car and led police on a chase down Santa Fe Drive.

“The police have had his number for a long time,” said Meloni.

Eventually, he was diagnosed with depression.

“He said, `There’s nothing wrong with my brain,’ and he refused to take any medications,” she said.

She looked into private programs, but the single mom couldn’t afford them on the salary she made as a home health-care provider.

“I tried, I tried to get him in, but it’s like pulling teeth,” she said. “So I just would wait until they came and arrested him,

hoping he could get help that way. But this … I told him he was going to end up getting shot. I asked him why he was drinking and getting high and stuff, and he said that’s what everybody is doing in Littleton.

And I said, `You’re just hanging around the wrong crowd.’”

She forbade him to associate with certain of his friends, particularly the older ones like Rankin, but he ignored her. She thinks he was looking for a father figure, having never really gotten to know his own dad. He was a drinker, says Meloni, and she left him when Spridgen was just four months old.

“I wasn’t tough enough on Chase,” she said. “And by the time I tried to be, it was just like a joke. … I didn’t know what to do about it, so they just say I’m a bad mother. I’m not a bad mother. I did the best I could.”

She’s frustrated that the young man

who shot her son only got six months of home detention, especially since her son didn’t shoot anyone. She notes that witnesses said Placa and Flores brought guns with them to the party, and Spridgen and Rankin actually left the party to go get theirs after seeing the others flashing theirs around.

“I don’t think my son got any justice, but I think the YOS will be good for him,” she said.

Spridgen has spent some of his time in jail earning his high-school degree, and Meloni said he’s been attending church.

He lives with nerve damage as a result of the shooting.

“I hope that he’ll learn from experience,” she said. “I want to have grandkids. I want to see him get married and be happy.

I told him, `You can be whatever you want to be, but if you want to be a thug, goodbye.”

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Larry Zierer of LaZy B Acres in Wiggins brought four fuzzy angora goats to the April 12 Fiber Festival. Photos by Sonya Ellingboe

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ coloradocommunitymedia.com In April, the Littleton Museum’s very special Navajo-Churro sheep are sheared, and it’s the occasion for an annual Fiber Festival. The hardy historic breed is the kind of sheep Littleton’s early residents would have raised on their farms — with thick coats of black and caramel-colored wool.

In addition, the museum’s interpreters at the April 12 festival had a group of weathered-looking dye pots heating over open fires as they demonstrated dyeing techniques, hanks of variously colored yarn hung to dry, while the costumed women introduced new ones into the natural dye baths and answered questions from curious parents and children. At intervals, the

electric sheep shears were turned on as an assistant delivered a rotund ewe to the shearer.

Explaining that if she couldn’t get both front feet on the ground, she wouldn’t think she could get away, he set her on her bottom and began to skillfully take off a year’s growth of wool — all in one thick piece. After about 10 minutes, the ewe looked much cooler and was carried back to her pen.

Visitors could place a guess on how much a fleece weighed.

Wide-eyed toddlers were as fascinated as the grown-ups over this bit of old-fashioned agricultural technique.

There were also demonstrations of skirting, washing, carding, knitting and spinning spread around the 1860s farm under sheds topped with brush.

And there were a few woolly visitors: from Gentle Spirit Alpaca Farm in Wiggins, Nancy Simmons Holloway brought an al-

paca and a paco-vicuna. Both were gentle and interested in the little people who bounced around the area. Holloway maintains a traveling “shop” and does about eight shows a year, she said. She is part of a group of alpaca raisers who exhibit together — as many as 20 booths at the National Western Stock Show. “There are a lot of fiber enthusiasts out there,” she said.

From LaZy B Acres in Bennett, Larry Zierer brought four white angora goats and two angora rabbits — holding a soft, wriggly baby goat up to the fence so kids could pet it.

Over in the meadow, there was a demonstration by a sheepherding dog to show another facet of a business that still goes on in Colorado.

Families who enjoyed this sunny afternoon will no doubt be back next year for another time trip to the 19th century.

Denver’s Euclid Hall, in Larimer Square, has been praised for its food, mainly because of James Beard Awardnominated chef Jorel Pierce and co-owner Jennifer Jasinski, a “Top Chef Masters” finalist.

Add one of America’s best beer bars to the accolades, courtesy of Travel + Leisure magazine.

Here’s some of what T+L wrote about Euclid Hall: Jessica Cann and Jules Bouchard’s expert sourcing have made this brick-walled 1863 landmark building one of the best beer halls in all of Colorado — and according to Food & Wine, one of America’s best gastropubs in one of America’s best cities for foodies. Locals belly up for 12 taps, beer cocktails, and an extensive menu of bottles and cans quirkily ranked by mathematical difficulty (“Arithmetic” session beers to strong, complex bad boys under “Quantum Mechanics”). Bestsellers like Boulevard’s Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale and Avery IPA get paired with way-above-average bar bites by Jorel Pierce.

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Montgomery leaving 9News

One of my favorite TV news characters, Kirk Montgomery, is leaving 9News.

According to a Denver Post story, the entertainment reporter-anchor at KUSAChannel 9 since 2001, is out at 9News. He will move to at WILX, the NBC affiliate in Lansing, Mich., reportedly to become anchor of a new 4 p.m. newscast.

Montgomery announced his exit on his Facebook page April 16 after joking on the 4:30 p.m. broadcast about growing up in Michigan (and spending time on a llama farm).

He earlier wrote about not being offered a full one-year contract at Channel 9. On Twitter he said, “Mixed emotion I say goodbye to CO and @9NEWS on 5/9/14.”

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Zappolo, Adams hired by 9News

Speaking of 9News, the news ratings leader has hired former Fox 31 news anchor Ron Zappolo and ex-Rocky Mountain News sports columnist Sam Adams for an “experiment” in a segment of its newscast, The Denver Post reported.

Zappolo retired a year ago after five years in the anchor chair at Fox 31 and stints as a sports anchor for KCNC-Channel 4 and then 9News.

According to The Post story, Zappolo and Adams (now a comedian who has worked for several Denver TV stations) will talk sports within the weekend newscast.

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LEFT: Museum interpreters demonstrated techniques from the 1860s for dyeing yarns. RIGHT: Nancy Simmons Holloway of Gentle Spirit Alpaca Farms in Wiggins brought an alpaca and a paco-vicuna to the Fiber Festival on April 12.

The Hudson Gardens and Events Center in Littleton has announced its 2014 summer concert schedule, and the musical slate includes the likes of Smokey Robinson, Peter Frampton, Chris Isaak and Boz Scaggs. Colorado favorites, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, open the concert schedule on June 1.

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Museum highlights art from Colorado Kirkland Museum has opened its new “Colorado Art Survey” Number IX, as it continues to showcase its extensive collection of Colorado artworks, by more than 500 artists, dating from the 1870s to the 2000s in a timeline from realism to pure abstraction. The paintings are accompanied by decorative art from similar eras, in salon style. The Kirkland is at 1311 Pearl St. in Denver. Kirklandmuseum.org, 303-8328576.

Bob Hoppe appears as Patsy and Stephen Day as King Arthur in “Spamalot” at the Aurora Fox. Courtesy photo

‘Spamalot’ is welcome bit of silliness on stage Monty Python play is an audience-pleaser

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sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia. com It takes place in medieval England and here — A.D. 932 and now.

Many in the opening night audience knew almost every move in the Aurora Fox staging of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” — singing along on “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” and other songs by Eric Idle, the former Monty Python member who wrote the book and lyrics and collaborated on the music with John Du Prez.

They also started to laugh before the first pronouncement from the stilt-walking Knight of Ni and were appropriately bedazzled by the wonderful Sarah Rex as Lady of the Lake.

They were ready for killer rabbits and flying cows and the “bring out your dead” scene (“I’m Not Dead Yet”) — and impressed that the Black Knight bit was pulled off successfully. The wise-head French guard brought another round of laughter as skilled director/choreographer Piper Lindsay Arpan’s experience with the show brought it all together. (She performed in it on Broadway and in the national touring show.)

Throughout, the cast performed with tongue firmly in cheek in this charming spoof of the King Arthur legend — includ-

“Monty Python’s Spamalot” plays through May 4 at the Aurora Fox, 9900 E. Colfax, Aurora. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $28/$24, 303-739-1970, AuroraFox.org.

ing the apparently clueless king, played by mellow-voiced Stephen Day. Costumes verged on cartoon versions of medieval garments and the set has castles walls and crowded streets, with assorted imaginative props. One needs to pay attention to detail for full enjoyment.

I’m certain that with a few more performances under the belt, comic timing will be even better.

The musical is based on the film, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” a clever and silly spin on the King Arthur legend — reinvented with the fast-paced humor of the weekly “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” television programs, beloved my millions.

Nimble character and costume changes prevail: Daniel Langhoff is a goofy Sir Galahad (et al) and Michael Bouchard plays the timid Sir Robin (et al). Kurt Brighton is Sir Lancelot (et al); Jim Hindsley is Sir Belvedere (et al); Liam Speros is Prince Herbert (et al); and the nimble Bob Hoppe is King Arthur’s faithful servant Patsy, he who clacks the coconut shells as they canter along — and sometimes trot.

Camelot it’s not — but it’s an entertaining evening for those who are somewhat familiar with the territory.

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Artist/members of the Heritage Fine Arts Guild will display their works in a juried show from May 1 to 30 at Bemis Public Library, 6015 S. Datura St., Littleton. Juror is well-known Denver artist and teacher Victoria Kwasinski. A public reception is planned from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on May 6.

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Englewood High School will hold a Jazz Night from 6 to 9 p.m. on April 29 at Englewood High School’s New Commons, 3800 S. Logan St. Tickets: $10 adults/$5 children and seniors includes dinner. Dinner, silent auction and great jazz by two groups of 18 musicians. Tickets: available from EHS band students or at the door. (Parking will be in the east lot off Clarkson and Lehigh.)

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One-woman exhibit has ‘Crossings’ theme Duzan’s art on display at Town Hall center

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Her artwork, executed in acrylic and oil, is mostly painted on rough-edged canvas, attached to a panel, but not stretched on a frame. These have a clear sheet of acrylic mounted over it in a uniform presentation, which gives a pleasing overall ordered effect to the exhibit.

The more traditional landscapes are on stretched canvases with conventional frames. They are indeed characterized by wide-open skies, as she says.

Her palette is generally subtle and she is technically skilled — experience shows.

There will be a meet-the-artist reception at Town Hall from 4 to 7 p.m. on May 3.

Duzan has been teaching since 1998 and earned an MFA in painting from the Art Institute at Lesley University in Boston in 2010.

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Her BA degrees in art and elementary education are from the University of Northern Colorado, 1984, and her work has been shown in several local galleries as well as the Littleton “Own an Original,” Depot Art Center’s “All Colorado Show,” Lone Tree’s “Annual Art Exhibition,” Curtis Arts and Humanities Center’s “All Colorado Show,” the Denver “Plein Air Exhibit” and more.

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ter, 4900 S. Syracuse Ave., just north of Belleview Avenue and east of Interstate 25, opening at 2 p.m. May 2 and continuing to 6 p.m. May 4.

Several other conventions are happening the same weekend: ComicsFest, HorrorFest, RoboFest and DigiFest.

General-admission tickets are $20 for May 2; $35 for May 3 or 4, Saturday or Sunday; $55 for a three-day pass. Half-price for children 6-10; children younger than 6 free. Buy online and find more information at StarFestDenver.com. (Upgrades and VIP packages available.)

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members only started on April 21. General public tickets go on sale on April 28. Purchase at www.AltitudeTickets.com.

Hudson Gardens is located at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. Check out the schedule and more details at www.hudsongardens.org or call 303-797-8565.

Walnut Room update complete

The Walnut Room has completed an expansion and renovation of the kitchen at its River North location, 3131 Walnut St. The six-week project doubled the size of The Walnut Room’s original kitchen, providing much-needed space to accommodate upgraded equipment, including two new pizza ovens.

“These changes will allow us to run our food operations more efficiently and provide better quality food to our patrons,” said John Burr, owner of The Walnut Room.

The larger kitchen will make it easier for Chef Jonah Munson to eventually expand the restaurant’s menu.

Music fans may also notice that The Walnut Room’s concert hall also includes a new bar, since the last one was removed to make way for the new kitchen. The music venue still has capacity for 180 people for concerts and can host up to 65 for seated events, such as rehearsal dinners or private receptions.

While concerts were suspended during the construction, the venue has resumed

its regular slate of shows, which includes Simon Townshend of The Who on May 3.

Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area. Parker also writes for Blacktie-Colorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at www.blacktiecolorado.com/pennyparker. She can be reached at penny@blacktie-llc.com or at 303-619-5209.

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ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) You’re doing better on the flexibility issue, but you still need to loosen up a bit to show you can be less judgmental and more understanding about certain sensitive matters.

TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) Your personal aspect continues to dominate this week. But try to make time to deal with important career-linked matters as well. A change of plans might occur by the weekend.

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CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) That surprising (but pleasant) recent turn of events continues to develop positive aspects. But be prepared for a bit of a jolt on another issue that needs attention.

LEO (Jul 23 to Aug 22) Creating a fuss might bring you that attention you want. But are you prepared for all the explaining you’d have to do? Better to use more subtle ways to make your bid.

VIRGO (Aug 23 to Sept 22) With education continuing to be a strong factor this week, this could be the time to start learning some new skills that can later be applied to a bid for a potential career move.

LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) You might do well to reconsider some of your current time priorities before you get so deeply involved in one project that you neglect meeting a deadline on another.

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Pirates blank another opponent Englewood shuts out Thomas Jefferson 3-0

By Tom Munds

tmunds@ coloradocommunitymedia.com The Englewood girls soccer team stretched its winning streak to nine on April 17 as they outscored Thomas Jefferson 3-0 at Englewood High School Stadium.

In not one of those games, have the No. 9-ranked Pirates given up a goal.

“I felt we would have a good team but never expected us to do this well,” Pirates Coach Chris Kavinsky said afterward. “We have great leadership from our juniors and seniors plus we have young players who have stepped up to strengthen our team. It has been a great season so far.”

The Pirates kept both their streaks alive, improving to 10-0 overall and 4-0 in the Colorado 7 league with a 5-o shutout of Fort Morgan April 19. The Pirates have now outscored opponents 48-0 on the year.

Coming into this week, Englewood and Weld Central shared the top spot in the standings with matching 4-0 marks. The two teams were scheduled to meet April 24 at Englewood High School Stadium in a game that may well decide the league championship.

After the Weld Central game, Englewood is on the road April 29 against Fort Morgan and closes out the regular season against Elizabeth at 6:30 p.m. May 1 at home. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students with school identification.

Against Thomas Jefferson on April 17, the Pirates got ahead quickly, taking control of the ball on the opening kick and pushing it down the field. A lead pass went to Katie Kavinsky who drove in and drilled a shot past the Spartan goalie to give Englewood a 1-0 advantage less than four minutes into the game.

The Pirates played their ball-control style and, although they didn’t get another goal in the first half, they put peppered the Spartan goalie with a number of shots on net. Thomas Jefferson did make a couple runs deep into Englewood territory but only got off three low velocity shots on goal.

The second half started much like the first with the Pirates pressing the attack.

Less than five minutes into the half, there was a battle for the ball near the mouth of the TJ goal. Sierra Mazur got a foot on the ball, it deflected off a defender and went into the net to make the score 2-0.

Just minutes later, Sydney Gonzales lofted a corner kick near the goal and Elijah Daughtry headed the ball into the net for the Pirates third and final goal of the game.

“This was a good win for us as we did a number of different things and they worked,” Chris Kavinsky said. “Our defense is exceptional and we are strong in the midfield, winning the majority of loose balls. Up front, our attack is scoring goals.

We are not a high-scoring team but we get goals when we need them to get the wins.”

Englewood senior Elijah Daughtry (9) pushes the ball ahead against a Thomas Jefferson defender during the April 17 non-league soccer game. Daughtry, the team’s scoring leader, headed in a goal later in the game as Englewood won 3-0 to improve its record to 9-0. Photos by Tom Munds He said Englewood is a young team with four seniors on the roster. The coach said a number of freshmen have come in, stepped up and strengthened the team.

“Our JV team is all freshmen and sophomores and they are winning too,” Kavinsky said. “We are playing well at both levels and I feel that means a good future for Englewood girls soccer.”

Senior Kadie Kavinsky is one of the senior leaders and a player who scored goals for the Pirates.

“Elijah Daughtry is our leading scorer but she is being marked by other teams so we spread the ball and the scoring around,” said Kadie Kavinsky. “I think we expected to be a pretty good team but I don’t think anyone expected we would be this successful. It feels great and we are very excited.”

Kavinsky said her favorite goal she scored this season was against Elizabeth.

“I was about 18 yards out on the right side,” she said. “I hit a good shot, roofed the goalie (was too high for her to reach) and it sailed in.”

She is looking forward to graduation and to continuing her education and playing soccer at Midland University.

Junior Dominique Daughtry is one of the Pirate defenders and hopes that if two things happen, she could outscore the team’s opponents this year.

“I want to help us give up the least amount of goals possible this season,” she said. “Of course, it would be nice if I could score a goal this season.”

Englewood’s Kadie Kavinsky (8) got knocked down in this collision with Thomas Jefferson’s Kelly Cordes April 17.

Kavinsky scored the Pirates’ first goal of the contest to help her team post the 3-0 win.

Prep sports Scoreboard ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Boys lacrosse Englewood High School 14, Denver North 1

Englewood had a strong possession offense that produced 33 shots,

which proved too much for Denver North to handle. Englewood had 6 players scoring on 14 goals. J unior Austin Trail had 3 goals and 4 assists; junior Luke Hall had 4 goals and 1 assist; and sophomore Caleb Medina had 3 goals and 1 assist.

Defensive players of the game were freshman Taylor Rolfe and sophomore goaltender Kyle Brady, who had 11 saves.

Upcoming APRIL 24 4 p.m. - Englewood @ Bishop Machebeuf APRIL 29 6 p.m. - Englewood vs. Denver South

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Chamber names interim director McGilley will replace Brackney for now Staff report The South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce on April 21 named senior staffer Marcia McGilley to serve as its interim director until a permanent replacement for John Brackney is found.

“Marcia is an extraordinary leader with extensive experience in strategic planning, business development and forging strategic alliances,” Herm Brocksmith, chair of the chamber’s board of directors, said in a news release. “She has the skills, talent and vision to lead the chamber into an even more dynamic future.”

McGilley has been the executive director of the South Metro Denver and Aurora Small Business Development Centers since January 2008.

“I am honored to lead the chamber’s growth in the areas of economic development, public policy, education and sustainable infrastructure, which are vital to keeping our business community thriving,” McGilley said in the release. “We have a great staff, strong board McGilley of directors and many talented business leaders that I look forward to collaborating with on our existing and new initiatives over the coming months.”

McGilley has more than 20 years of public, private and nonprofit experience, helping with start-ups and expansions and providing consulting services. She has owned several of her own consulting and training businesses.

McGilley will retain her position at the SBDC, where sales have increased from $800,000 to $9.4 million annually since she started, according the statement. In 2011, the center earned recognition from the United States Small Business Administration as one of the top 10 in the country, and in 2012, McGilley was named the state’s small-business advocate of the year by the Association of Small Business Development Center. She is a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Cleantech Open and served as its regional and national training

director.

Her appointment caps a flurry of activity at the chamber. After more than a decade there, Brackney unexpectedly announced his resignation on March 24 and announced he’d accepted a job at Greenwood Village marketing firm Webolutions on April 11.

About three weeks later, Jeff Holwell, chief operating officer and economic development director, announced he was leaving to become the City of Lone Tree’s economic-development director starting April 28. He had worked at the chamber since 2011.

The chamber has seated a selection committee to begin the search for a permanent CEO. For more information, contact CEOsearch@bestchamber.com.

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UNITED METHODIST CHURCH “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher…You must make your choice.

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Maundy Thursday The Seder – 6:30 p.m.

Good Friday Tre Ore – noon Presentation on Walking the Labyrinth – 7:00 p.m.

Tenebrae – 7:30 pm Easter Sunday Reflective Communion – 8 a.m.

Gourmet brunch – 9:00 a.m.

Easter egg hunt – 10:15 a.m.

Festive Eucharist – 11:00 a.m.

615 4th Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 www.ChristsEpiscopalChurch.org 303.688.5185

Currently meeting at: Serving southeast Denver Acres Greenthe Elementary School 13524 Acres Green area Drive 303-688-9506 www.LoneTreeCoC.com

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Where people are excited about God’s Word.

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Greenwood Village

Weekly children’s classes, devotions and study DouglasCountyAssembly@gmail.com 303.947.7540

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Pastor Paul Flannery “It’s not about us... It’s about serving others... T hen God gets the Glory!”

Sunday Worship - 10:00am Bible Study immediately following Thursday Bible Study - 7:30pm

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Welcome Home!

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An Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Meeting Sun at 11am at Northridge Rec Center 8801 S. Broadway Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

9:00 am Sunday WorShip

9:00am Spiritual Formation Classes for all Ages 90 east orchard road littleton, co

Cowboy Church

Open and Affirming

First Presbyterian Church Non-Denominational of Littleton

Methodist Church  1200 South Street  Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.3047 www.fumccr.org

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Parker evangelical Presbyterian church Connect – Grow – Serve

Sunday Worship

8:45 am & 10:30 am 9030 Miller road Parker, Co 80138 303-841-2125 www.pepc.org

Sunday Worship: 10:45AM & 6PM Bible Study: 9:30AM Children, Young People & Adults 4391 E Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado 80134 Church Office – (303) 841-3836

www.parkerbiblechurch.org United Church Of Christ Parker Hilltop 10926 E. Democrat Rd. Parker, CO • 10am Worship www.uccparkerhilltop.org 303-841-2808

Abiding Word Lutheran Church 8391 S. Burnley Ct., Highlands Ranch

(Next to RTD lot @470 & University)

Congregation Beth Shalom Serving the Southeast Denver area

Call or check our website for information on services and social events! www.cbsdenver.org

303-794-6643

Worship Services Sundays at 9:00am

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Education Hour: Sunday 9:15am Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 www.joylutheran-parker.org

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Community Church of Religious Science Sunday 10:00 a.m. at the historic Ruth Memorial Chapel on Mainstreet

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see Tango so badly injured. But he is a fighter and is making small steps toward recovery. He can now get up on his own, something he couldn’t do when we brought him back.

“He can stand but doesn’t have a lot of endurance and usually needs help to move around very much. He attends physical therapy and we can see small improvements.”

Stacy Candella, of Freedom Service Dogs, said Tango, who graduated from the program in 2010, had been living in New Mexico with a veteran.

“In the accident, the veteran’s car rolled, Tango was thrown out of the vehicle and landed about 50 feet from the crash,” she said. “The driver suffered only minor injuries so the responders went to work to try to save Tango.”

The dog was rushed to Albuquerque Veterinary Animal Hospital and Referral Center. In addition to the pelvic fractures, Tango was diagnosed with a collapsed lung and needed three surgeries immediately, Candella said. The Englewood organization made the decision to pick up the tab. So far, the bills have totaled $20,000 and the organization has received about $12,000 in donations to go toward them.

Freedom Service Dogs, established in 1987 to train dogs to provide assistance to people with handicaps, has placed more than 200 dogs with clients since it was founded. All dogs entering FSD training are rescued from shelters. About half the dogs successfully complete the training, but no dog is returned to an animal shelter for not successfully completing the class

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Injured Freedom Service Dog Tango goes for a short walk with help from his 2010 trainer Bri Ore. The dog is recovering from life-threatening injuries suffered in a car crash in New Mexico. Photo by Tom Munds because FSD will locate homes for them.

The training takes a little more than a year and each training program is unique because each dog is trained to perform services for a specific client such as turning on lights, opening doors and picking up items off the floor.

The organization is located at 2000 W. Union Ave. in Englewood. The facility includes exercise areas for the dogs as well as a dog training area constructed like an apartment complete with appliances and furniture.

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Rod Handler and his wife Darlene teach two girls to dance their way at the April 16 senior prom. The event was put on by the InnovAge Johnson Adult Day Program. Photo by Tom Munds

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then introduced me to bandleader Stan Kenton.”

She said she mentioned she was a singer and Kenton called on her to fill in with the band when his regular singer was sick and when the singer was preparing to have a baby.

“It was a great time and it was a great experience singing with such a well-known band,” Bigul said. “It is one of my treasured memories.”

On the dance floor, Rod Handley and his wife Darlene were teaching the Grandview students their way of dancing.

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completed by this fall.”

Duncan School closed in the mid-1970s, and in 1978 the city leased the land from the school district for use as a park.

The school district, following the recommendation of a citizens’ finance committee, announced in 2007 that it would sell the property. The site included the Duncan School building, which had been leased for several years by All Souls School for use as a preschool and the surrounding

Rod smiles as he moves to the music and show the students his dance steps.

A short distance away, three generations were enjoying the dancing.

Evangelina Urisosta, her daughter Bernadette Atencio and her grandchild Josie Ocana danced together.

“Mom likes the music, I like the music and so does Josie,” Atencio said. “This is fun for all of us. You can tell mom is having a good time by her big smile and Josie is smiling too. It is a great event and we love it.”

The InnovAge Johnson Adult Day Program, at 3444 S. Emerson St., provides programs for adults with memory loss or physical impairment. The focus is on an individual’s need, with the goal of improving the senior’s quality of life and that of the family and caregivers.

three-acre park.

If the land was sold for residential development, there was a potential to build 18 houses on the site, but area residents wanted the property to remain a park. The neighborhood residents appealed to the city council to preserve the open space and the city bought the property for $1.2 million. The purchase was made in payments, with the final payment in 2010.

Much of the money for the purchase was in the form of grants from Great Outdoors Colorado and the Arapahoe County Open Space Fund. The purchase included the requirement to demolish the Duncan School. The All Souls preschool remained until the building demolition in 2012.

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Blooming up a world record Eagle Scout wants to make Littleton famous for its crabapple trees

By Jennifer Smith

jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Eagle Scout Cole Hancock needs everyone’s help to get Littleton into the record books as the city with the most crabapple trees per capita.

“Why not?” he asks. “We checked, and as best we can tell, no one else has claimed the record. So we decided to count them and make an application.”

To help, go into your back yard and count all the crabapple trees that aren’t visible from the street, then send your address and the number to littletoncrabappletrail@gmail.com or to Littleton Crabapple Trail Inc., PO Box 110, Littleton, Colo. 80160.

Hancock will head up the effort to get the rest of them counted and submit an application to Guiness World Records.

“Who knows? Maybe we can claim the record, and it will be up

to some other city to do their own count and beat us if they can,” he said.

Hancock, 15, has been tending to the trees since 2011, when he took on the cause for his Eagle Scout project. That’s the same year signs went up marking the city’s Crabapple Route, conceived of by former Mayor Vaughn Gardinier. It was his idea 45 years ago to line Littleton’s streets with the hardy, colorful crabapple trees not just to make them pretty, but to give the city something unique.

“Forty years later, people see all those trees and think, `That’s kind of cool. Whoever thought of that?’” said Larry Borger, president of Littleton Crabapple Trail Inc. “Vaughn was the crabapple guy. Sometimes people would say, `Gardinier … they make a mess all over.’ He always had a running battle with the city.”

Gardinier died in 2012, but his wife, Mary, still sits on the board of LCTI. She says he was hoping to arrange for horse-drawn carriages to someday trot the trail.

On April 19, Hancock and others from Littleton Boy Scout Troop 361 were set to plant about 30 more trees along the seven-mile Crabapple Route, adding to the 100 they’ve planted since 2011.

From left, Larry Borger, Cole Hancock, Mary Gardinier and Dick Dugdale display the sign the city presented to Gardinier in honor of her late husband, Vaughn, who created the city’s Crabapple Trail. Photo by Jennifer Smith Borger estimates there is a total of 1,500 to 2,000 existing trees in the city all told. These days, LCTI

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Fred J. Hamm, aka Fred Joseph Hamm, and Fred Hamm, Deceased Case Number: 2014 PR 30248

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF LIENED PROPERTY

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 25, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Alanna Kimmel Personal Representative P.O. Box 22631 Denver, Colorado 80222 Legal Notice No: 4776 First Publication: April 25, 2014 Last Publication: May 9, 2014 Publisher: Englewood Herald PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John Iver Zobens, aka John I. Zobens, aka John Zobens, Deceased Case Number: 2014 PR 79 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 25, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Debra Henderson Personal Representative 3700 Dyanna Drive Thornton, Colorado 80241 Legal Notice No: 4785 First Publication: April 25, 2014 Last Publication: May 9, 2014 Publisher: Englewood Herald PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of George C. Sammeth, aka George Charles Sammeth, Deceased Case Number: 2014 PR 30266 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 25, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

George C. Sammeth, Jr. Personal Representative 8708 Dover Court Arvada, Colorado 80005 Legal Notice No: 4786 First Publication: April 25, 2014 Last Publication: May 9, 2014 Publisher: Englewood Herald

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Notice is hereby given that a public sale will be held on or after May 13, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. at 101 E. Centennial Avenue, City of Englewood, County of Arapahoe, Colorado. BROOKRIDGE SELF-STORAGE will sell to satisfy the lien on the property stored at 101 E. Centennial Avenue, Englewood, CO 80113 by the following persons. The inventories listed below were notated by the tenants at the time of rental. BROOKRIDGE SELFSTORAGE makes no representation or warranty that the units contain said inventories.

C003: DARLA A. BELL P.O. Box 631501, Littleton, CO 80163 Furniture, Mattresses, Misc Boxes, Bags D009: LUCAS B. MURRAY 5015 Delaware St., Englewood, CO 80110 Misc Household, Van Backseat, Tire, Cooler E016: PHILLIP K. EWING 6863 S. Buffalo St., Littleton, CO 80122 Furniture, Bedding, Misc Boxes, Bags E273: MELISSA K. STRETZ 3565 S. Marion St. #201, Englewood, CO 80113 Furniture, Toys, Misc Boxes, Tubs F005: BRIGETTE G. DOLPH P.O. Box 9714 Denver, CO 80209 Misc Boxes, Bags, Tubs F034: JONATHON FRANCIS MARTINEZ 5130 S. Washington St. Littleton, CO 80120 Furniture, Car Parts, Tubs, Misc Boxes Purchases must be made with cash and paid for at the time of purchase. No one under the age of 18 is allowed to attend the sale. The landlord reserves the right to bid at the sale. All purchased goods are sold “as is” and must be removed by 6:00 PM on the day of the sale. Buyers must provide a current original or a photocopy of their original resale permit at time of sale in lieu of sales tax. This sale is subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between landlord and obligated party.

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On the 14th day of April, 2014, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance:

The regular meeting of the Board of Adjustment and Appeals is scheduled for May 14, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado.

Case #2014-002. APPLICANT: Signature Senior Living, LLC The applicant is requesting a variance to reduce the required 1,250 foot distance between group living facilities to 375 feet. This is a variance to Section 16-5-2.A.1 of the Englewood Municipal Code.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5-2014 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY, REENACTING AND RETITLING ARTICLE X, CHAPTER 46, MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND PERSONAL USE GROW RESTRICTIONS, AS ARTICLE X, CHAPTER 46, MARIJUANA RESIDENTIAL CULTIVATION RESTRICTIONS Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.

PREMISES: 3590 South Clarkson Street Copies of the application is on file in the Community Development Department and may be reviewed upon request. Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing at the previously cited location, date, and time.

Legal Notice No.: 4787 First Publication: April 25, 2014 Last Publication: April 25, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

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Legal Notice No.: 4777 PUBLISHED: April 25, 2014 First Publication: April 25, 2014 Last Publication: April 25, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

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Public Notice Dental patient record destruction notice: This is a notice that Dr. Steven J. Yamamoto will be destroying dental records for patients who have not visited his office for the years between 2004 through 2007. If you desire your records, please contact him prior to June 7, 2014 when these records will be destroyed. E-mail gpagolfer@aol.com

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Southgate at Centennial Metropolitan District of Arapahoe County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the regular election to be held on May 6, 2014, is hereby canceled pursuant to Section 1-13.5-513(6), C.R.S. The following candidates are hereby declared elected: Patrick F. Mulhern to a 4-year term until May 2018 Nancy H. Bell to a 4-year term until May 2018 Robert A. Koontz to a 4-year term until May 2018 Dated this 15th day of April, 2014.

SOUTHGATE AT CENTENNIAL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Susan J. Schledorn Designated Election Official Legal Notice No.: 4778 First Publication: April 25, 2014 Last Publication: April 25, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

On the 14th day of April, 2014, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 6-2014 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTION 56-112 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING HOME-BASED BUSINESSES Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.

Legal Notice No.: 4788 First Publication: April 25, 2014 Last Publication: April 25, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald ________________________________ Public Notice CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 14th day of April, 2014, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 7-2014 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, ZONING PROPERTY AT 3371 WEST HAMPDEN AVENUE; APPROVING WITH AMENDMENTS THE ASSOCIATED PUD OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.

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Electricians

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HOUSE & HOME Electrician_____________________ Garden Landscape Center ______________________________ Hardware Store ________________ Heating & A/C Company ______________________________ Home Repair/Remodeling ______________________________ Hot Tub/Spa Retailer ______________________________ Roofer/Roofing Company ______________________________ Windows ______________________ Maid/Cleaning Services ______________________________ Plumber ______________________ Garage Door Service ______________________________ Kitchen/Bath Contractor ______________________________ Trash Service __________________

AUTOMOTIVE Autobody _____________________ Auto Repair/Service ____________ Carwash/Detailing _____________ Towing _______________________ Auto Dealer ___________________ Tire Dealer ____________________

ENTERTAINMENT/LIFESTYLE PETS & ANIMALS

FOOD/BEVERAGE

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MEDICAL Audiologist/Hearing Aids __________________________________ Chiropractor_______________________ Cosmetic Dentist ___________________ Cosmetic Surgery __________________ Dentist ___________________________ Eye Care Provider __________________ Hospital __________________________ Urgent Care _______________________ Orthodontist ______________________ Pediatrician _______________________ Physical Therapist __________________ Women’s Healthcare ________________ Wholistic/Naturopathic __________________________________ Acupuncture ______________________ Home Care Assistance_______________

RETAIL Book Store ________________________ Bike Shop _________________________ Clothing Store/Boutique __________________________________ Consignment Thrift Store __________________________________ Dry Cleaner _______________________ Florist ____________________________ Gift Shop _________________________ Sporting Goods Store _______________ Western Store _____________________ Jewelry Store ______________________ Kids Store/Toy Store ________________ Liquor Store _______________________ Music Store _______________________ Antique Store ______________________ Alterations ________________________ Shoe Repair _______________________

Veterinarian ______________________ Groomer _________________________ Boarder __________________________ Pet Supply Store __________________ Dog Park _________________________

REAL ESTATE Agent/Realtor ____________________ Real Estate Company ______________

RETIREMENT Retirement Community ____________

TRAVEL Travel Agency ____________________

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Day Spa_________________________ Acupuncture ____________________ Haircut/Salon ____________________ Weight Loss Center _______________ Workout/Fitness Center ___________ Martial Arts _____________________ EVENTS Annual Event _____________________ Massage Therapist________________ Nail Salon _______________________ Aestetician ______________________ FINANCE Accountant_______________________ Waxing Services__________________ Bank/Credit Union_________________ Massage Company _______________ Financial Planner __________________ Mortgage Company _______________ Mortgage Agent/Consultant _________________________________

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