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School’s 6th grade in quarantine over COVID-19 test Classes ‘will transition to virtual learning’ A group of protesters supporting the U.S. Postal Service stands outside of the Highlands Ranch USPS at University Boulevard and Quebec Street on Aug. 22. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER
George Teal in contributions. In the District 3 race, incumbent Republican Commissioner Lora Thomas is trailing by more than $17,200 behind her Democrat opponent, Darien Wilson. Updated campaign finance reports reveal who is funding these campaigns and how successful each candidates’ fundraising efforts have
Sixth-grade students and teachers at Sand Creek Elementary School in Highlands Ranch are under quarantine for two weeks after someone in the grade tested positive for COVID-19, the Douglas County School District said. The district was notified Aug. 22 that someone had tested positive, said Paula Hans, a spokesperson with the district. “They will transition to virtual learning for two weeks and then return on or after Sept. 8,” she said Monday. Students at the school are split into two cohorts, with half the students attending school in person Monday and Wednesday and the other half attending Tuesday and Thursday. All students have online learning on Fridays. That’s why some students will return from quarantine Sept. 8 and the rest Sept. 9. The school district did not specify if it was a student or teacher who tested positive. However, the TriCounty Health Department, which the district is following for its quarantine protocol, asks people to quarantine if they have been within 6 feet of, or have spent 15 minutes or
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Highlands Ranch residents rally for Postal Service Protest was one of many across state and country BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
About 50 Highlands Ranch residents gathered at the local post office
on University Boulevard and Quebec Street Aug. 22 carrying signs of support for the U.S. Postal Service and asking for honks of encouragement from drivers. The rally, organized by a variety of local advocacy groups including Indivisible Highlands Ranch, a progressive activist group, was publicized through Facebook and
Nextdoor, said Karen Duggan, communications coordinator for the Douglas County Democrats. “It’s absolutely ridiculous that this institution is under fire,” Duggan said. “This isn’t a company and I don’t think people understand that.” SEE RALLY, P8
Dems keeping up with GOP in commissioner fundraising $166K raised so far in contest for open District 2 seat BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
While it’s unusual in Douglas County commissioner elections for
Democrats to be competitive with their Republican opponents in campaign fundraising, so far that’s the case for both open seats. That’s rare, according to a Colorado Community Media analysis of the past 18 years of campaign finance reports in county races. With the election still several weeks away, District 2 Democratic candidate Lisa Neal-Graves is only $3,000 behind Republican opponent
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State cracks down on large events, not protests Conservatives see ‘clear double standard’ in protest policy BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Colorado officials in recent weeks took enforcement action against events that threatened to overrun the state’s limits on crowd sizes, but the crackdown called attention to the lack of similar enforcement regarding racial-justice protests around metro Denver in recent months. The office of Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser issued a ceaseand-desist letter in late July to Live Entertainment, the company behind a planned July 26 rodeo in Weld County and at least one other event that have drawn as many as thousands. The office proactively sent cease-and-desist orders to an organizer, Adixion Music, as well as a venue, Imperial Horse Racing Facility, to stop such events in the future, according to a governor’s office news release. Gov. Jared Polis called such gatherings “dangerous superspreader events” at an Aug. 4 news conference, referring to large crowds’ ability to spread coronavirus. “People who put themselves at risk aren’t just putting themselves at risk — they’re putting their family, their neighborhood and community at risk, and we cannot stand for that,” Polis said at the news conference. In all, Weiser’s staff has sent four cease-and-desist orders to organizers for violating size limits on large events, said Weiser spokesman Lawrence Pacheco on Aug. 19. ‘Double standard’ alleged The state’s response to the Weld County rodeo prompted a conservative blog, Colorado Peak Politics, to argue that protests received a “free pass” on crowd-size enforcement and that Polis looked the other way when it came to “mobs rallying their Democrat base.” That complaint echoed other conservative writers in recent months, including in an op-ed piece in Colorado Politics magazine by businessman Barry Farah, a 2018 Republican candidate for governor, that spoke of a “clear double standard” in the state’s treatment of protesters. An opinion piece by U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Republican of Windsor, made a similar point about protests nationwide. Protests amassed in the downtown Denver area for at least two weeks in late May and June following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a Minneapolis police officer, an incident that sparked nationwide unrest. Protests that also focused on criminal justice issues in Colorado — such as the death of Elijah McClain in August 2019 following an encounter with Aurora police — continued into at least late July in the metro area. In some cases, the demonstrations saw crowds of thousands. Denverarea protests are often organized and advertised on social media. Under Colorado’s safer-at-home order, gatherings of more than 10 people in public and private spaces are prohibited, but crowd sizes can be larger in numerous circumstances depending on the activity or business, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Under the safer-at-home order, out-
A crowd of about 200 gathered in O’Brien Park in Parker on June 4 for a demonstration protesting the death of George Floyd and racial injustice in America. The protesters lay down for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time Floyd was pinned down by his neck while in Minneapolis police custody. PHOTO BY NICK PUCKETT
Demonstrators gathered May 28 at the Colorado state Capitol in Denver to protest the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.
An event decrying racial injustice gave way to protests in Castle Rock on June 2.
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door events — including receptions, fairs, rodeos and concerts and others — can allow up to 175 people, excluding staff, per designated activity with a minimum of 6 feet between individuals or non-household contacts. ‘Right to protest’ Weiser’s office and the state publichealth department declined to respond to questions from Colorado Community Media about complaints of political bias and why protests should be treated differently than other types of large gatherings. Polis’ office did not directly address those questions but provided a statement in response. Polis “respects every Coloradan’s right to free speech. The governor has been very clear that we are still experiencing a global pandemic, and if people choose to exercise their right to protest, they need to wear masks, practice social distancing, and get a free and easy test afterwards,” said
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Conor Cahill, a spokesman for Polis. Despite Polis’ support for the motivation for protests, he worried about the effect of large demonstrations on the spread of COVID-19 and encouraged participants to get tested. The governor stressed the importance of wearing masks and staying 6 feet from others. “Health experts tell me (the protests) could result in hundreds of new cases,” Polis said at a June 2 news conference. As a dramatic rise in the state’s rate of new COVID-19 cases took shape in June, Polis pointed partly to protests as a driving factor. “Our uptick, like the major spikes in other states, is largely among the younger demographic,” Polis said at a June 30 news conference. “I think it is partially attributable the bars and nightclubs and also potentially to the large public gatherings and the protest movements that we’ve seen outside.”
Earlier that month, Polis didn’t characterize the protests as playing a large role in Colorado’s outbreaks, saying “there’s some evidence that” some of the people involved in a Boulder outbreak attended marches. “We don’t necessarily have that same information from Denver,” Polis said at a June 24 news conference. “We believe it was associated with large get-togethers and parties.” Asked how large a role protests played in Colorado’s June and July spike in COVID-19 cases, the state public-health department put the focus on Coloradans’ wider socializing compared to earlier in the pandemic. “The increase in cases last month is likely due to a change in behavior, including socializing in larger groups, especially if without proper physical distancing or mask-wearing,” said an Aug. 20 statement from the Colorado State Joint Information Center, which includes staff from the state publichealth department.
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Help keep our community strong during COVID-19 Concerns about COVID-19 shouldn’t stop you from getting needed medical care for yourself or your family. Don’t hesitate to visit your doctor for preventive care or call 911 if you have an emergency. Sometimes it’s the little things that can keep us all safe and healthy. Following COVID-19 safety precautions at home and when out in public whether shopping, at a restaurant, or meeting up with a few friends helps keep our community strong. Review ways to stay safe and healthy at tchd.org/coronavirus
Sheriff Tony Spurlock poses for a portrait outside of the Justice Center Aug. 13. PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER
Sheriff celebrates 40 years with county Spurlock’s first day with agency was Aug. 1, 1980 BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
When Sheriff Tony Spurlock started as a dispatcher with the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office, the office was just getting ready to move into a new building at 355 S. Wilcox St. in Castle Rock. Back then, “Douglas County was small,” Spurlock said. Since then, the office has moved again to its current Justice Way location. This month marks 40 years since Spurlock started with the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office, and the county commissioners recognized his work anniversary in their Aug. 11 business meeting. “We are so thankful to have you represent what good law enforcement looks like in this county,” Commissioner Abe Laydon said to Spurlock in the meeting. Spurlock’s first day of work was Aug. 1, 1980. Since then, he has served in almost every unit of the office, including patrol, detentions and SWAT, Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth said in the meeting. Throughout his career, Spurlock
worked under four sheriffs and served as a sergeant, lieutenant and captain. In 2005 he became the undersheriff for Sheriff Dave Weaver and in 2014 was appointed as sheriff. He was then elected in 2015 as the county’s 33rd sheriff. In a speech about the sheriff, Nicholson-Kluth outlined some of the major events that have occurred while Spurlock has been leading the department, including the on-duty death of Deputy Zackari Parrish, the suicide of a sheriff ’s office sergeant and the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch. “He leads us and the community with compassion and poise,” Nicholson-Kluth said. “He leads with his heart. He does what he believes is right.” Spurlock also spoke in the meeting about what it has been like to work in the sheriff ’s office for 40 years. “I’ve had a good time,” he said. “It’s been an incredible ride and an incredible pleasure.” Spurlock’s term as sheriff is set to run until January 2023. “I have a few things left I want to do,” he said. “I’ve got a little bit of time left and a lot of ideas I think that we can do to not only better the county but to better the employees that work here in Douglas County and to encourage them to stay.”
Douglas County mobile COVID-19 testing locations open Sept. 1 STRIDE and Douglas County will begin offering mobile testing in Douglas County starting on Sept. 1 through Dec. 31. Swabbing and antibody testing are available to individuals with or without health insurance. To preregister, learn when and where testing is available, and more please visit douglas.co.us/covid19-testing/events For information about other testing providers near you visit douglas.co.us/covid19-testing-locations
Election Year 2020 Student Art Content The Douglas County Elections Division invites local youth to submit their original drawings, paintings, or graphic design to express what America and our democratic process mean to them. Deadline is Sept. 18, for the rules and an entry form visit douglasvotes.com
US Highway 85 improvements Construction is under way to widen and improve US 85 between Sedalia (SH 67) and Louviers in Douglas County. The project will ease congestion, improve access to side streets and left turn lanes, improve drainage, enhance safety, add wildlife fencing and build a new bridge. For more information and a schedule of work visit douglas. co.us and search for US 85.
Labor Day holiday closure Douglas County offices will be closed Sept. 7 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Visit DoItOnlineDouglas.com for a list of online services.
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County schools delay launch of online instruction Teachers union says district was ‘ill prepared’ for start BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
As the Douglas County teacher’s union raised alarms about the readiness of schools to launch online instruction for the new school year, the school district announced it was delaying the start for some students enrolled in its “eLearning” program by one week, to Aug. 31. Before the Aug. 21 announcement, Douglas County Federation President Kallie Leyba said that some union members who are assigned to online teaching positions were reporting they did not yet know what classes they are instructing and did not have final student rosters. As of Aug. 21, other teachers had not received login information needed to begin using the online teaching platform purchased by the district for the 2020-21 school year, called Edgenuity. That meant teachers could not begin familiarizing themselves with the program or begin to build classes, the union said. “I am just stunned at what’s going on with the in-person learning and the eLearning,” Leyba said. “I can’t even believe how ill-prepared our district is to go back to this eLearning, and unfortunately, it’s not what they are telling parents and it’s not what they are telling the board.” At the time Leyba spoke to Colorado Community Media Aug. 21, the
Douglas County Federation President Kallie Leyba poses for a portrait with union members at a rally for the safe return for school on July 22. PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS district was still slated to fully launch its online learning program on Aug. 24. But the district announced later that it was delaying the start to online classes for high school students until Aug. 31. In response to an interview request with Superintendent Thomas Tucker regarding concerns raised by the union, a spokeswoman provided a let-
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ter sent to high school families from Director of eLearning Diane Smith announcing the delay. “Getting our eLearning platform up and running in a short period of time has been challenging, but even more so at the high school level,” Smith said in the letter. The delay would give the district time to hire additional teachers for online learning and complete scheduling, Smith said. The district is offering 100% online education as an alternative to its “hybrid” learning model. Under hybrid learning, students attend two days of class in-person and three online. About 6,300 students have enrolled in the 100% online program for the first semester. Both hybrid and online students underwent orientation the week of Aug. 17. Push back on COVID The union also pushed back against comments Tucker made during the Aug. 18 school board meeting regarding 100% in-person learning. Tucker said if local COVID-19 data
such as case positivity and incidence rates stay low after Labor Day, the district can examine transitioning to full in-person learning, beginning with elementary school students. Leyba said the union wants the district to continue operating on a hybrid model for another four weeks so it can gather more data about how hybrid learning is affecting local virus trends. That time would also allow students more practice at mastering social distancing procedures, she said. Leyba also criticized online teachers’ class sizes, saying some union teachers assigned to online learning report having between 40 and 50 students in a class. Online teachers are teaching six classes while in-person teachers are managing five, she said. “We really want our district to put out some transparent communication to our parents about e-learning. Our parents are being told that electives will be offered but our teachers are being told that we are not offering electives,” Leyba said. The union had asked its members to send a letter to Tucker and board directors with a number of requests before the high school delay was announced. The letter, provided to Colorado Community Media, states online teachers have not been given enough time to learn the online platform and create the “‘robust’ education promised by our district.” “The teachers who are conducting the e-learning this year are expected to have unreasonable number of students (some over 300!) and teach six of eight classes (and an additional advisement class) with no additional compensation,” the letter states. The union requested additional pay for online teachers instructing more than five classes, that online class sizes not exceed in-person class sizes, and a delay to online learning. Leyba initially said union teachers were willing to speak about their concerns with online learning, but later said the union was asking members not to give interviews because of a Douglas County School District policy requiring that media requests go through the district. “I wasn’t comfortable referring (Colorado Community Media) to a teacher because the district has asked teachers not to talk to the media,” she said.
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more, with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. If any of the students or teachers in quarantine test positive in the next two weeks, the district will consult Tri-County about next steps, Hans said. “If someone is a sibling of a sixth grader (at Sand Creek), they can still attend school as long as the sibling doesn’t show symptoms or test positive,” she said. Over the weekend, the school was fully sanitized, Hans said. The rest of the school will continue hybrid learning this week. When asked if there have been other positive cases in the district, Hans said “We are monitoring that on a regular basis.”
Sand Creek Elementary School in Highlands Ranch. PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS
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Castle Rock man indicted in border-wall case Shea tied to ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon in counts BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. PHOTO BY GAGE SKIDMORE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
A Castle Rock man has been indicted and arrested with three other men, including former White House adviser Steve Bannon, on charges of fraud stemming from a campaign that raised millions to build a southern border wall. Timothy Shea, 49, of Castle Rock was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Both charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Brian Kolfage, 38, of Miramar Beach, Florida; Andrew Badolato, 56, of Sarasota, Florida; and Bannon, 66, of Washington D.C., face the same charges. All four men were arrested on Aug. 20, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York. Shea appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix in Denver federal court that afternoon. In the virtual court hearing, Shea was granted a $250,000 unsecured bond under numerous conditions. Shea can travel in Colorado and New York, where his court hearings will be held, but cannot travel internationally and must surrender any passports he possesses.
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‘If I can beat that, nothing scares me’ Jason Jahanian on his near-death experience with COVID-19 BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Alone and isolated in an ICU bed, stuck with three IVs, a feeding tube and connected to a ventilator, Jason Jahanian prepared himself to die. “I was in a bad place,” Jahanian said. Just two weeks prior to being admitted to the hospital for COVID-19, Jahanian thought he could beat it. “I thought, ‘I’m a healthy guy, no preexisting conditions or anything. I’m going to get this knocked out in a week or two,” Jahanian said. One evening, while Jahanian still battled the disease self-quarantined from his home, he noticed his hands turned white after washing them. At that moment, he said, he began to quietly panic. “I don’t fit the normal demographic (of being at-risk). That was the confusing thing about it,” Jahanian said. “I was very surprised, more than anything, ‘How is this really happening to me?” The 41-year-old resident of Lone Tree is an avid runner with a love for the outdoors. He boasts a garage full of mountain bikes, dirt bikes and kayaks — just about anything that can move and can fit. He runs marathons, triathlons and a variety of races as well. Jahanian developed symptoms March 23. Six days later, he was admitted to Sky Ridge Medical Center in
Jason Jahanian, 41, considers himself an active person and in relatively good shape. When he learned he tested positive for COVID-19, he figured his immune system would fight it off with no problems. A few weeks later, Jahanian found himself fighting for his life. Lone Tree. Before he left, he said goodbye to his daughter and son, who are 8 and 4, not knowing if he would see them again. Jahanian said he avoided that mindset and tried hard to not panic. He asked his wife, a nurse, what to expect. Maybe he’d be put on oxygen for a few days and come home. When he said goodbye to his wife in the car before being taken in at Sky Ridge, Jahanian thought he couldn’t get much worse. “I was scared, but I did not want to get myself into a panic mode. I was cautiously optimistic, but who knows?” Jahanian said. ECMO treatment helped save his life Jahanian is alive today thanks to a
Jason Jahanian poses with a T-shirt celebrating his comeback against COVID-19, a battle that took a month and nearly took his life. PHOTOS BY NICK PUCKETT treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMO treatment pumps and oxygenates blood outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest. “I tell patients and their families it’s similar to treating failing kidneys with dialysis,” said Dr. Michael Firstenberg, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Medical Center of Aurora. The treatment has been recently used as a last resort for patients with a fighting chance of surviving COVID-19. “It doesn’t cure the problem, but it allows the body to rest and the body gets enough oxygen while the body is healing up from the infection,” First-
enberg said. The technology to perform ECMO treatment has been around for several decades. In 2009, the treatment was used more to treat patients suffering from H1N1. It is typically used to treat severe lung diseases. The treatment is not found everywhere; the Medical Center of Aurora is the only area hospital with a fully developed program. ECMO is used about a couple thousand times a year nationwide, Firstenberg said. It is resource-intensive and difficult to do without a proper cardiac surgery department. SEE JAHANIAN, P15
Polis extends ‘last call’ drinking order, but allows extra hour Governor said he could soften rule if disease trends improve
Gov. Jared Polis at an Aug. 21 news conference announces an extension of the state’s “last call” rule on serving alcohol.
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Gov. Jared Polis has extended for another 30 days the July 21 executive order mandating a “last call” for breweries, restaurants and similar establishments to serve alcohol. The new order, which went into effect Aug. 22, changed “last call” to 11 p.m., an hour later than the previous executive order. In his Aug. 21 announcement, Polis said that if the data continues to show positive COVID-19 trends, within a month he could change the cutoff time to midnight, which is what restaurant owners are calling for. The data being used to make decisions about restaurants and bars are “across the board,” Polis said, including epidemiological data and scientific studies that show how it spreads in different environments, as well as contact tracing and where people have likely contracted the virus. State epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said that there has been a substantial decrease in COVID-19 cases among 20- to 29-year-olds, the age group “we know spends more time in bars and restaurants and later into the evening.”
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Chris Fusilier, owner of Blake Street Tavern in Denver and a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed on behalf of restaurants and bars against the state challenging the last call order, said Polis’ change would not stop efforts to move forward with the lawsuit. The Denver judge hearing the lawsuit has ordered the two sides to go to mediation, and the plaintiffs are seeking an expedited process, Fusilie said. The lawsuit also challenges an order reducing restaurant capacity to 50 people per room; Fusilier said that for his business, that’s a maximum of 17% of his total capacity of 900. “I’m fighting for my life” right now, said Fusilier, who also is concerned about what happens once the fall and cold weather begin to set in, and they can no longer offer patio seating. The governor on Aug. 21 also announced a revamping of the Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment’s website offering COVID-19 data. Herlihy said the changes consolidate data in one place, and among the most significant changes, the site will provide “patient-level demographics” -- age, race, sex and ethnicity information, and how it’s changed over the course of the pandemic. That also includes demographic information for hospitalized patients and where they went after discharge, such as going home, a skilled nursing facility or long-term care, she said. According to the Aug. 19 outbreak report from CDPHE, 561 outbreaks (defined as at least two positive cases) have been reported since the pandemic began. Among the 561 outbreaks, 32 were at sit-down restaurants; an additional five are breweries or bars. Half of the restaurant outbreaks are
marked as “resolved,” meaning those outbreaks have been investigated and are considered over. Not one lists a customer who said they contracted COVID-19 at a restaurant or bar. The 150 positive or presumed positive cases are all for employees. The original “last call” order applied to restaurants, bars with food service, breweries and tap houses and liquor stores. However, Polis amended the order on July 23 to allow liquor stores to remain open until midnight. Restaurant owners alleged in the lawsuit that he did so under pressure from industry lobbyists. The lawsuit, filed by the Tavern League of Colorado, initially sought a temporary restraining order putting the “last call” on hold until a trial could be held. In court documents, the league said Polis’ decisions around limiting customer capacity on June 30 and the “last call” order on July 21 were arbitrary and not based on any scientific data, in contrast to other public health orders that the governor has said rely on science. On July 30, after a two-day hearing, Denver District Court Judge Brian Whitney denied the restraining order. While calling the selection of 10 p.m. “arbitrary,” Whitney said people left to their own devices won’t take necessary precautions and the virus will get out of control. This story is from Colorado Politics, a statewide political and public policy news journal. Used by permission. For more, visit coloradopolitics.com.
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The protest was one of many across the country in support of USPS. The rallies came after weeks of the Postal Service being thrust into politics as federal funding for the institution remains up in the air. “We feel like we have to do something,” said protester Karalee McWhorter. McWhorter, 84, has lived in Highlands Ranch since 2007, she said. “This is a direct assault on voteby-mail,” she said. “I’ve voted by mail for years and years.” David Steinbach, president of the American Postal Workers Union in Littleton, also attended the rally wearing a “save our Postal Service” face mask. “I was a window clerk here for 20 years,” Steinbach said, pointing to the nearby post office. “(Workers there) are scared, management is scared.” The staff at the Highlands Ranch post office hopes to be able to return to working overtime as mail begins to get backed up, Steinbach said. “Out here in Highlands Ranch (mail carriers) are out there 12 hours a day because we haven’t lost a great amount of (mail) volume,” he said. Many protesters voiced concerns about slowed mail deliveries affecting citizens’ medications, vital communications and the November election. “Voting by mail in a pandemic is essential for our democracy,” said protestor Dana Grant. “Either side that’s you’re on, it affects your voice in democracy.” Protesters at the Aug. 22 event were met with many honks and waves of support but also some negative feedback. At one point, a counterprotester carrying a “Trump 2020” sign arrived at the rally and clashed with the group. When asked why he came out to the rally, he said “Because I’m a part of this community and I’m not going to live in fear for supporting Trump.” The man, who would only give a first name, Greg, 46, said he is a
Carla Farris and daughter Hannah Farris participated in a protest in support of the United States Postal Service in Highlands Ranch on Aug. 22. Carla carried a sign that read “this is the last straw” and Hannah carried a giant straw. PHOTOS BY ELLIOTT WENZLER Highlands Ranch resident. “I don’t think you know where you are in Douglas County,” the man said to one protester. “This is Trump country.” Greg said he also is in support of saving the Postal Service. One of the original protesters, Kitty Marini, approached Greg after seeing conflicts with other protesters and attempted to soothe tensions. Marini asked her fellow protesters not to engage with Greg. “We’re all human beings and if we don’t learn to cross the aisle we’re not going to get anywhere,” she said about speaking with Greg. “I found out he’s somebody’s son, he’s somebody’s father ... I’m tired of showing up with a good purpose in mind and it getting ruined because we can’t talk.”
A group of protesters stands outside a post office in Highlands Ranch.
Kitty Marini, left, stands with a counterprotester who only gave his name as Greg during a rally in support of the U.S. Postal Service on Aug. 22. Marini, a self-described liberal, approached Greg, a supporter of President Trump, in an attempt to have a civil discourse when he arrived to counterprotest, she said. “We’re all human beings and if we don’t learn to cross the aisle we aren’t going to get anywhere,” she said.
David Steinbach, president of the American Postal Workers Union in Littleton, also attended the Highlands Ranch rally in support of the United States Postal Service Aug. 22.
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Lesson still unknown as pandemic year schools us all
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he title of the assignment was intentionally dumb: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation,” a holdover from the grade school writing projects many of us QUIET were assigned. DESPERATION It was the first assignment in the fall semester of the advanced drawing class I taught for years as a university professor and it was always a success. It was a perfect introduction to the top Craig Marshall drawing students in the school. Or an Smith immediate indicator that a student had reached a level they were incapable of maintaining for 16 weeks. I’ve reminisced about that project this summer and wondered what a wall of drawings might look like, were I still teaching. Masks and ventilators? Street pro-
The intimacy of instruction in an art room is absolute, I thought: no exceptions. Now look. Almost everything we once considered normal is now something else, and that includes schools and schooling. What if school buildings disappeared and all students were educated at home? Or not? Truancy would be easy as pie. Ferris Bueller could take off for months at a time. I know someone who teaches at Overland High School. My best friend is a dean at the University of North Texas. That’s as close as I am to what the school year might actually mean. I hope to be around long enough to find out what the 2020 educational data that was collected and analyzed determined. That’s something the National Center for Education Statistics will do. Is it possible our children will be better educated at home or in environments outside of a typical classroom?
tests? Empty stadiums? Cabin fever in quarantine? Believe or not, the project was very challenging. Every day, we do a hundred or more things that might become a memory. Any memory can become an image in the hands of someone who is creative. Sifting through ideas is what all artists do. “Artists” includes inventors, lyricists, architects, and anyone else who has to make choices for a living. If you were asked to sift through your 2020 summer and represent it with a drawing on a single piece of paper, what would it look like? Generally, the drawings I looked at were scenes from a vacation, something like that. Rarely were they dark. One young woman had the temerity to depict her breakup with a married man. After I retired I was asked now and then to sub or make an appearance as a guest artist. And once I was asked if I would be interested in teaching an online drawing course. It sounded like madness and I said so.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Keep Van Winkle on the job I was very excited to see that Kevin Van Winkle, our state House representative, received the “Hero in Health” award from Healthier Colorado for his leadership on pro-health bills this legislative session. It’s encouraging to know that we have a leader like Kevin representing our Highlands Ranch voices and values on this important topic. On this occasion, Kevin Van Winkle received the “Bridging the Gap” Award recognizing his work to ensure every Coloradan can lead a healthy life. For example, he championed expanding telemedicine capabilities so that people who aren’t able to visit a doctor in person can still speak with one via webcam and receive prescriptions, instead of requiring an in-person visit. Examples like this demonstrate Kevin’s commitment to supporting common-sense health care reforms that will lower costs, promote quality, and preserve our health-care choices. To that end, he knows how important the patient-doctor relationship is and that government should not interfere in it. In fact, Kevin twice earned the Colorado Medical Society’s Legislative Champion award recognizing of his leadership in these areas. Kevin’s commitment to health extends to the classroom as well where he’s fought tirelessly for improved mental health resources for our children. Now more than ever, we need bipartisan leadership on health care and ethics. We need more balance
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It seems very unlikely, doesn’t it? Further, the absence of socialization might have a huge impact on, well, learning how to socialize, get along and coexist. Have you ever wanted to flip a switch and see the future? Where’s Rod Serling? My friend in Texas does not foresee higher education ever being the same again. What else? Anyone who experienced depression before the pandemic isn’t likely to be singing show tunes right now. Every day I ask myself, “What can I do?” Realistically, this is about it. Along with journalists all over the country, I am trying my best to continue to provide crucial information to our readers. Have you heard about that new corduroy pillow? It’s making headlines. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.
The positive evolution of professional selling
hink about a time when you decided not to get behind a cause, chose not to buy into an idea or plan, or decided not to make a purchase of a product or service. When I ask people why they chose not to participate, buy in, or make WINNING the purchase, one WORDS word comes up most of the time: trust. Or rather a lack of trust. They either didn’t trust or believe in the cause, they didn’t trust the plan, they didn’t trust the person selling them the product, they didn’t trust the product or Michael Norton service, or they didn’t trust the company to stand behind the product or service. In a recent virtual sales training session that I participated in, the facilitator shared a graphic showing how people viewed certain professions regarding trustworthiness. Would it shock you to learn that salespeople were seen as the least trustworthy of all the professions listed? It did and it did not shock me. It did not shock me because salespeople have endured a negative stigma for a very long time. Whenever a group of people are asked for words that they think of when they think of sales-
people, they typically come up with words like: slimy, sleazy, dishonest, liar, unprofessional, and many more derogatory characterizations. It did shock me because I have been around a lot of salespeople over the past three decades. And as I look back at the evolution of professional selling, I have seen how salespeople have evolved, and how companies have become increasingly selective in making sure they hire and develop professional salespeople. More and more companies are investing in the people they hire in providing the right skills-based training. They provide them with industry and product knowledge to make sure that they represent themselves and the company professionally. I meet with salespeople every day. These meetings take place virtually and the salespeople are trying to sell me something that they believe I might need or want. When I agree to take a meeting, I do so for two reasons. First, I may actually have a need or desire for a product or service they are selling. Second, I like to see how salespeople are selling. Are they connecting with me, are they professional, are they actively listening, do they ask me relevant questions, do they have their facts and data right? Are they earning my trust? And I have to tell you that for the most part, today’s salesperson is very
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and creative governance model with TCHD where they’ll continue delivering public health services to Douglas County. This new model won’t raise taxes and would preserve and improve services for our community. As county commissioner, Lora Thomas’ first priority is the health and safety of our community. To achieve this, she knows we need freedom to make the right decisions for our county. Our performance proves she and the other commissioners made the right call and their creative problem-solving gives us a better future. Let’s reelect Commissioner Lora Thomas to continue standing up for Douglas County! Will Johnson Highlands Ranch
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Place debt spotlight on colleges Got a college loan you can’t pay because you can’t find a good enough job? Your beef should be with the college that you paid for your education, not the taxpayer. In 2014 the Obama administration clamped down on for-profit colleges. The Department of Education said too many students were leaving the institutions with inadequate training and too much debt, making loan repayment difficult or impossible. According to a recent letter to the editor, many college graduates still have the same problem with too much debt. However, the conclusion that taxpayers should provide loan relief in this situation does nothing to cure the root issue. Schools need to be held to the same standard as every other service provider. If they sell students an education that does not deliver employment sufficient to pay back the loan then the school needs to be held accountable for that, up to and including a full refund. Might this adversely affect some school’s finances? Yes, the ones that are producing graduates who cannot pay back their loans. Colleges must be fully vested in the outcome of the education service they provide. Having taxpayers forgive college loans only encourages colleges to continue to charge more each year and sell education services that may not deliver good-paying employment because they have no financial responsibility for the results, and they can pawn any losses off on blameless taxpayers who had nothing to do with creating the problem in the first place. William A. Henning Highlands Ranch
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professional, they are well educated on their offerings, even in a virtual setting they are engaging and making great eye contact. They ask relevant questions and take good notes. And they follow up, doing what they said they would do, when they said they would do it. All of this contributes greatly to earning my trust. It has been said that there are five primary reasons people choose not to buy something, or not to buy into something. No Time, No Want, No Money, No Need, but the number one reason is No Trust. So now when I am on a virtual sales training session, I ask everyone to make sure their cameras are on, and I ask them a different question. I ask them what they see as they look around at all the faces on the screen
Stand up against commissioners In 1940, when I was 7 years old, my 4-year-old brother contracted polio. When he started first grade, and it became known he had the disease, fear had already enveloped the community. The cause was unknown and people reacted in different ways. Discrimination was the most common. Words like “crip” and “gimpy” were used and not always by children. Our mother dismissed these people as “white trash,” but my older brother and myself bloodied noses and split lips when we heard those words. By the grace of God, and the March of Dimes charity that paid for numerous operations, my brother become the proud wearer of an Air Force uniform when he became 18. He is 84 years old now and the acknowledged hero of his four living siblings. Sadly, this story does not end with my brother. Unlike the Appalachian county of my youth, Douglas County is the healthiest and wealthiest county in Colorado. But fear, ignorance and white-trash behavior is not uncommon here. Three of these people hold the elected title of county commissioners. The COVID-19 pandemic brought out the worst in many people. Challenging Governor Polis at every turn on his efforts to make Colorado safe and finally firing the Tri-County Health Department is white trash behavior pure and simple. Roy Legg Highlands Ranch
I began attending the weekly TriCounty Health town-hall calls. Over time, the commissioners became more impatient with the Tri-County Health board’s unwillingness to push for the reopening of Douglas County businesses when scientific evidence deemed that it was not safe to do so. The current commissioners were dismissive of the science and began espousing their personal views about personal liberty. Well, it is my right to be safe in my community. Lora Thomas stated, “We have a representative form of government and is imperative that our citizens have their needs recommended.” She is exactly right. Did I miss the conversations between the current commissioners and our residents about leaving Tri-County Health? Ms. Thomas needs to show us what discussions she and the other commissioners have had with Dougco residents that led her to conclude that this move is in the best interests of our residents. I want to hear the justification and have the current commissioners defend their decision when asked tough questions by our citizens. As our elected representatives, that is their job. Gail Frances Highlands Ranch Some observations on the news I feel compelled to comment on three things in your Aug. 6 issue. First, as a journalist trained at the
University of Florida, I got a kick out of Craig Marshall Smith’s column “Here’s an opportunity to err dirty laundry.” As promised it was replete with typographical and grammatical errors, and many gave me a chuckle. Secondly, I suppose that Elliott Wenzler was raised far from a farm or ranch. In her article on the Douglas County Fair, Wenzler writes, “The grand champion for market beef, a 1,200-pound cow, sold for $18,000. James Mullins, 12, who brought the cow to market, said he was shocked and excited when he found out he won first place. Every day I wash him twice a day ...” You get the picture. Thirdly, I like to think I respect every opinion, but when one of my Highlands Ranch neighbors believes “calls to close schools politically motivated” and “said he does not believe children can contract or spread COVID-19,” I have to call foul. His first point is open to debate, but it’s a FACT that children have contracted and, very sadly, died from COVID-19. Later on in the article, this appears: “The (teachers’) union, known locally as the Douglas County Federation, has not advocated shutting down schools, said its president, Kallie Leyba ...” Thanks for the good work you do. I don’t read every issue, but I’m far from complaining like some of my neighbors on Nextdoor about “the blue wrappers trashing up driveways.” David Churchill Mathews Highlands Ranch
Back troops, not Trump The greatest insult from Trump’s actions to disrupt processing and delivery of the mail is that in so doing he is disenfranchising our troops. Never mind us here at home, our military personnel serving in far-flung places around the world have only one way to vote, by absentee ballot through the mail. Considering this, it should be clear to all where Trump’s interest lies. How can any patriotic citizen vote for such a person? Dwight Roinestad Highlands Ranch Decision was Dougco dud The decision made by the current Douglas County commissioners to abruptly terminate our relationship with Tri-County Health is reckless, selfish and a waste of taxpayer money. The current commissioners do not seem concerned with their impulsive, unilateral decision to terminate a 50-year relationship with Tri-County Health without gathering feedback from the 351,000 residents of Douglas County. I, for one, have many questions. At the beginning of the pandemic, and how they would describe the salespeople on their team. What I hear from people these days are words like: professional, honest, integrity, successful, great attitude, achiever, smart, and more positive and affirming words. The world has changed, and so has the profession of selling. The world will continue to change, and so will the salespeople as they work towards earning and maintaining our trust. How about you? Have you seen how salespeople have grown and changed? Are you in sales, and if so, have you noticed the positive difference in yourself and in your team? I would love to hear your trust story at mnorton@ tramazing.com, and when we live and work from a foundation of trust, it really will be a better than good week. Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.
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Virtual learning provides challenges for dance instructors BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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nstructors at the Parker Dance Academy are getting better at using their words. Studio director Lexie Steinhauser has danced and taught dance for years. But even she struggled when it came to teaching through a computer screen. “Usually, as you’re teaching the technique of dance, you go around and touch their shoulders, tell them to go back, tell them to fix their foot,” said Steinhauser. “We’ve gotten really into imagery with our students, and with movement, how you utilize different body parts.” Without the ability to get up close with their students to adjust an elbow here or a plie there, dance teachers are adapting their methods to reach students beyond the studio. “As dancers, especially dance teachers who have worked all over the world, you have to learn how to adapt to a situation no matter what,” Steinhauser said. “It’s part of the gig. If someone goes the wrong way, makes a wrong step, gets too close to another dancer, the music stops, the audience throws something at you — you have to adapt to that situation and make it seem like nothing has gone wrong.” Dance instructors throughout Denver are finding new ways to reach their students and picking up new tricks themselves along the way. Allison Jaramillo, co-director of the Littleton Ballet Academy, said the instructors found some new tools while learning to teach virtually. The angle with which the students position their web cameras can sometimes help instructors visualize a student’s form. The shy students in class have been noticeably more engaged. Less-advanced dancers don’t feel left behind in a big group and end up discouraged. “They knew they weren’t the best in the class, but all of a sudden they were the best in their house,” Jaramillo said. They say dance like no one’s watching, Jaramillo said. “For some of them, it was actually true.” The pre-ballet students, from ages 3 to 6, have been the most difficult to engage. Students are sometimes left without a parent watching at home and become distracted. Instructors have to be more expressive and praise the students as much as possible. Lisa Leafgreen, director of education at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, said the instructors have to give twice the effort to get half the output from the students. “It’s just not an ideal format for a performing art,” Leafgreen said. “But we adjusted. They pivoted their teaching style like we all did to put more into their teaching. It’s not that they didn’t before, but it takes more excitement and exuberance.” Jaramillo said the Littleton Ballet Academy may not be back to full inperson teaching for several months. The academy is operating under a “hy-
Students at the Parker Dance Academy do plie squats led by Studio Director Lexie Steinhaus. Some students say their strength has improved over the months because they have been forced to relearn some of the basics from home. PHOTO BY NICK PUCKETT
Students at the Parker Dance Academy are back in the studio, and some say in better shape than when they left. Being away and struggling with learning how to improve from home, some say they’ve gone back to basics, and are better for it. PHOTO BY NICK PUCKETT
brid” model, letting students choose to stay home or find spots in a class. The school won’t be holding any performances until at least spring, hoping to perform “The Nutcracker” as soon as they can. “The ones that started coming every day because they had nothing else to do realized they started improving, which helped them keep up,” Jaramillo said. High school students lost their proms, graduations and most of their spring semester. Lisa Leafgreen, director of education at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, said the center set out to make sure its art programs were one of the few things that didn’t close or cancel. “As writers need to write, dancers need to dance,” Leafgreen said. “It is such an important time to stay connected.”
The Arvada Center is offering in-person classes for its all its usual dance courses. Capacity is limited to about half as many students with social distancing maintained. Lessons are available online as well. Leafgreen said the shift to a virtual teaching format has given the center more opportunities to reach a wider range of people as well. Leafgreen said the center has had people take virtual lessons from across the country. One person tuned in from Guatemala. “As a director of education, that was something that wasn’t on my trajectory of what I thought our program would be doing, but we shifted, we pivoted, we’re nimble and it opens different possibilities,” Leafgreen said. Dance instructors are just beginning to venture into this world of virtual
Students at the Parker Dance Academy take part in an outdoor lesson in a parking lot near the studio. Dancers and teachers are adjusting to virtual and socially distanced learning, creating unique obstacles and opportunities. COURTESY PHOTO
teaching, Leafgreen said. “I wake up each day thinking, ‘OK, is this going to happen? Is that going to happen?’” Leafgreen said. “How do we stay relevant here? How do we continue to keep kids engaged? It’s rethinking everything we do.” Without any competitions to work toward, no thunderous applause to look forward to and no “The Nutcracker” over the holidays, instructors are also finding new ways to motivate their students. Steinhauser says she tries to remember what makes dance important to the kids. “A lot of these kids, the reason they dance is for the friends and community and the relationships you only get with someone in an artistic way,” Steinhauser said. “We’ve been continuing to think outside the box to move together.”
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‘Vibrant Bounty’ offers rich glimpse into culture Folk art from China’s Shaanxi Province at Littleton Museum BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
New at the Littleton Museum — and clearly worth more than one visit — is a collection of Chinese folk art from the Shaanxi Province called “Vibrant Bounty.” It will engage art lovers from 8 to 80 with its detailed presentation of rural scenes via tempera paintings, plus a collection of charming fabric toys certain to make one smile. The exhibit, organized by Exhibits USA, a program of Mid America Arts Alliance, will be at the museum through Oct. 17, open during museum hours. It shares works from a region of China, near the beginning of the fabled Silk Road, that has many similarities to rural America, with its sturdy, hard-working people. (Readers may be familiar with the famous nearby archaeological find, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and his Terracotta Army.) In the center of the gallery are glass cases with colorful crittters — we especially loved the gray-green embroidered silk toad, with its googly eyes and pink nose ... close to a bright redcrested rooster and an embroidered
IF YOU GO “Vibrant Bounty” will be exhibited through Oct. 17 at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. Open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Reservations required: 303-7953950; www.littletongov.org/city-services/ city-departments/museum. (Limit on number of people in a group: 10) piggy with flowers and a smile. Paintings in a uniform size and style circle the room, depicting rural customs and scenes many Americans will relate to. They were created between 1958 and 1961, and were part of the Communist Party’s “Great Leap Forward.” To the right of the entrance is a painting by Shengtao Zhao, called “Harvesting Sugar Cane in the North,” which establishes the folk art style that carries throughout the exhibit. It relates to American “Grandma Moses” folk art, with a rhythm of rows of people and plants, and bright colors. Next is one by Quan Tang called “Making Paper by Hand,” illustrating the way it’s been done for centuries. China is widely credited with development of papermaking techniques and one can buy a similar handmade paper today. It’s popular with some watercolorists. Third is “Rinsing Cloth on the River” by Zijian Lui, followed by “Hoeing in Spring” and “Picking Lotus
Chinese folk art from Shaanxi Province is on display in the “Vibrant Bounty” exhibition at Littleton Museum. PHOTO BY MOIRA CASEY/COURTESY OF LITTLETON MUSEUM Seedpods.” (This one brought to mind the giant Lotus Pods now in the Water Gardens at Hudson Gardens.) While different artists are presented, the paintings are the same size, created with a similar palette of paints and in a related folk style. They go on to show drying tobacco leaves, and several especially bright ones focused on drying peppers — one can almost smell the hot peppers in Szechuan foods. Several elaborate opera masks by unknown artists stand out in mid gallery. Perhaps readers have seen performances of Chinese opera, with elegant costumes, grotesque masks and villains shouting lines and bran-
dishing swords? A case on the wall holds “Hanging Crab With 12 Animals,” illustrating the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac that symbolize “The Happy Cycle of Life” and are said bring good luck to a home where they are displayed. Near that crab is a painting of a flutist sitting on the back of a “Grazing Cow,” characterized as a “poetic scene of country life.” Also included in this rich exhibit: New Year prints of Chinese deities, embroidered shoe pads, a baby quilt and a painting showing children floating lanterns in a festival, celebrated on the fifth day of the Chinese New Year.
‘The Walls Between Us’ shares works by collective
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itness,” a painting by Patricia Aaron of Greenwood Village, hangs in Metro State University’s gallery, Center for Visual Arts, at 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, in a new exhibit called “The Walls Between Us.” The exhibit is a collection of works by the artist collective Artnauts. The exhibition explores “walls, SONYA’S whether emotional barriers, physical SAMPLER structures, implied boundaries or heavily guarded barriers ...” according to a statement from CVA. The collective focuses on social justice. The exhibit runs through Oct. 17. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 Sonya Ellingboe a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday: noon to 5 p.m. Admission: free. 303-294-5207, www. msudenver.edu/cva. Free parking by entrance or on the street nearby. Virtual quilt show In normal summers, Littleton celebrates the summer, and part of that celebration is a beautiful quilt show at First Presbyterian Church, where church members share quilts: some crafted by the exhibiter and others passed down in families, from a mother, grandmother or aunt, perhaps. And then there are some, like those shown by the show’s organizer, Jennie Staritzky, which belong in her personal collection. “This year’s show is online, produced by Pastor Cody Sandahl,” Staritzky writes. “Access through the church website: littleton-
can be involved? The museum will send a video invitation. To be exhibited May 21 to Aug. 22, 2021. Littleton Garden Club Members of the long-running Littleton Garden Club have decided to cancel meetings through 2020. If there’s to be a January 2021 meeting, we will hope to publish a notice. This local group hopes members will create gardening videos to share and seeks new computer-savvy members — and any others interested. See littletongardenclub.org. The group maintains a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ littletongarden.club. (It may be a long winter!)
Patricia Aaron’s painting “Witness” was created with beeswax, pigment and mixed media. It is being shown in the Center for Visual Arts’ exhibition “The Walls Between Us.” COURTESY PHOTO presbyterian.org/quilt. There are two formats: a 5 minute video with music, or you can click through at your own pace and enjoy the fascinating tidbits the owners have shared about their quilt’s history.” ‘Vibrant Bounty’ On Wednesday, Sept. 2, there will be a family program on crafting that will tour the Chinese exhibit at the Littleton Museum with exhibit-related child-friendly crafts. Visit facebook. com/LittletonMuseum/videos to see a video with Littleton Museum Curator of Collections Jenny Hankinson and Curator of Exhibits Moira Casey as they guide you through some exhibit-
related, kid-friendly crafts. Denver Art Museum With a future exhibit in mind, Denver Art Museum announces “Each/ Other”, a collaboration between two leading Indigenous contemporary artists: Marie Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European), whose practices both focus on collaborative art-making. The exhibit will include 24 mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings and largescale installation works. In addition, there will be a “new artist-guided community artwork.” Watch for more news about this — perhaps readers
Littleton author David Weiden of Littleton announces publication of a debut novel: “Winter Counts,” a “literary thriller set on the Rosebud Indian Reservation,” he writes. He is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, he writes. (Will hope to read and review soon — publication date is Aug. 25.) Highlands Ranch history Mark Stevenson of the Highlands Ranch Historical Society met with Gary Debus, original Highlands Ranch manager to record an oral history. Look for it on the website, thehrhs.org, where the society’s other videos are available ... DMNS A new film, “Superpower Dogs 3 D” is available at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, to compliment the exhibit, “Dogs: A Science Tail.” DMNS is located at 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. See dmns.org for information. 303-370-6000.
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Equine event is special for school for the blind In 1st outing since February, students meet mounted unit BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
In their first outing in months, students and staff from Littleton’s Colorado Center for the Blind got in touch with their equestrian side on Aug. 3, grooming horses from the Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Mounted Patrol at Sterne Park. “It’s really calming,” said Derek Roberts, a student at the renowned school that teaches blind people skills in self-reliance, as he ran his fingertips along the back of Ruthie, a 22-year-old mare. “I try to be a calm person myself. I’d like to think we’re making a connection.” The visit from the Sheriff ’s Mounted Patrol was the center’s first outing since Feburary, said Dan Burke, the center’s spokesperson. Normally, summers at the Center for the Blind would be filled with activities like whitewater rafting and rock climbing, he said, but amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a lot of programs are on hold. Summer camps for teens are on hiatus, as are classes for seniors. The center is down to 18 students in its main program, from 28 to 30 normally. “It’s going to be this way for a while,” Burke said. “We’re adjusting to the limitations.” The event was a natural fit for the mounted patrol, said Lt. Rich Anselmi, who heads the unit. “We really cherish opportunities to
Eliza Portugal pets Love Bug, a miniature therapy horse. go out and connect with the community,” Anselmi said. “Grooming a horse
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“It’s not like every hospital is going to offer it, although that is changing over time,” he said. ‘I just skyrocketed from there’ Jahanian said he remembers bits and pieces of his first day at Sky Ridge. Twenty-two hours after being admitted, doctors hooked him up to a ventilator. Jahanian’s condition continued to worsen in the next few days. On April 7, he transferred to the Medical Center of Aurora. Jahanian spent one week on ECMO and a ventilator. After the first day of treatment, he began to show signs of slight improvement. The one-week mark is usually where doctors need to determine if the treatment is working or not. After two weeks of the treatment, other vital organs can begin to shut down. Doctors told Jahanian later that, essentially, his immune system was so good, it continued to attack his organs when the virus was no longer a threat. “It was my own body doing a lot of the damage to my own body,” Jahanian said. After nine days on ECMO, doctors gave Jahminin an immune-supressing drug to allow his organs to heal. One day later, Jahminin showed signs of improvement. The day after that, Jahanian received an injection of convalescent plasma with antibodies. “I just skyrocketed from there,” Jahanian said. Jahanian stayed five more days at the hospital before he was released. For 14 days at the Medical Center
Jason Jahanian, 41, runs marathons, triathlons and Tough Mudders. He and his family spend hours together outside on dirt bikes, mountain bikes, kayaks-and pretty much anything they can get in and ride.
A poster board full of photos of Jason Jahanian hangs in the family’s garage in Lone Tree. Jahanian said the poster board reminded him of what he was fighting for when he was isolated in the ICU for COVID-19. PHOTOS BY NICK PUCKETT of Aurora, Jahanian was asleep. He woke up periodically and believes he captured some images in his dreams. The dreams were the longest and most vivid he’s ever had, he said. Every time, he would dream of his kids and his wife. Sometimes they were nightmare scenarios, where he lay on his deathbed or his entire family died. “Those dreams hit me pretty hard,” Jahanian said. The dreams were so powerful, he still has to hold back tears when describing them. Jahanian calls the moment he finally came to after his ECMO and ventilator treatment the moment he “woke up.” When the doctor awakened him, Jahanian believed he was still dreaming. He heard the voice of a doctor telling him where he was and why
he was there. He heard his wife and kids were excited to see him, and he shot up in his bed. “It was the single best moment of my life. Like ‘Oh my God, everything is back. My family is back. Everything is normal,’” Jahanian said. Jahanian lost 30 pounds. He didn’t have the strength to lift his arms above his head or stand up. After four days of recovery, Jahanian said he shifted his mentality to regain control of his own body again. “Yes, I was out of it, but I had this phrase going through my head — ‘You want to feel alive? Look alive!’” Jahanian said. “I said ‘I’m owning this thing. If I’m really doing better, I’m owning it.” Still COVID-isolated, he walked laps
in his hospital room — after three laps he would collapse in his bed for three hours. He looks at a picture of himself at the time, almost unrecognizeable to the clean-cut, built man who came out on the other end. Jahanian set goals to get back to his old self. He considered it a win when he walked around the block without a walker. He relished saying goodnight to his kids again. He broke down crying when he reached the top of the Bluffs in Lone Tree because he never thought he’d be there ever again. “I look at that picture at least every other day, and I’m owning it—I’m owning it in the sense that if you can make it through that, you can make it through anything, and it gave every sort of accomplishment so much more meaning,” he said. Jahanian is back to running and finished his first self-timed marathon Aug. 22 since COVID hit. “I’m not afraid of anything anymore, in a way,” Jahanian said. “If I can beat that, nothing scares me.”
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July 29 was the 10th day I had been feeling sick with COVID-19, and by that time, I had all the symptoms you’ve read or heard about. I had a fever. I could feel myself losing my breath if I did something as simple as make my bed. I had a cough, and I could barely walk around my tiny apartment or walk outside to go throw out the trash. But it wasn’t until July 29 that I really realized that I was sick with COVID-19. I was watching the Colorado Rockies play against the Oakland Athletics, and I saw the cardboard cutout fans placed in the stands of the ballpark and the players and coaches in masks. I heard the artificial crowd noise at the game, and it may sound goofy, but watching the Rockies that day is when I started to mentally feel like I had the virus. Watching the “new normal” Rockies game with all of its changes and precautions to protect people from the virus drove home the fact that I was sick with a deadly virus that has been the cause of at least 167,000 deaths in America. It made it more real than my July 25 positive COVID-19 test, it made me fearful, and it made my anxiety about my illness worse.
There is a big difference between having COVID-19 and reading or hearing about it. I had spent every week since the pandemic started writing about the virus, and even interviewed people who were sick with it — but I still didn’t realize how mentally challenging it would be to have COVID-19. You start to wonder if your symptoms will ever go away. I worried most about all of the people I had come into contact with before I tested positive. I thought about my coworkers and tried to remember everything I could’ve touched in my office to warn them. I thought about my 65-year-old father who is high risk and whom I had seen only a few days before I had symptoms. It’s hard having thoughts rush through your mind about the idea that you could have infected someone with a deadly virus that we don’t have a cure for. If I had gotten my father or any of my family or friends sick, and something bad happened to them, I don’t know how I could have lived with myself. I don’t want you to have those thoughts. I don’t want you to have to worry about getting your friends or family sick. Most importantly, I don’t want you to get COVID-19. It is scary when you’re lying in bed with the virus, and you can feel yourself having trouble breathing. It’s scary when you can barely walk because you’re so sick, and it’s scary not knowing what kind of impact COVID-19 will have on your long-term health. It took me 16 days to fully feel like I
Reporter Joseph Rios found that his recovery from COVID-19 took time. had recovered from the virus. I can’t move around as fast I used to, and I feel out of shape after being sick for so long, but I’m thankful I can carry on with my life and that I didn’t get anybody sick that I know of. I had thought I was doing everything right to prevent myself from getting sick. I religiously sanitized my hands whenever I had a chance. I wore a mask everywhere I went, I stopped
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He is also prohibited from raising any money for the We Build the Wall campaign or transferring money in accounts associated with the fundraiser. Bannon is the best known of the men who were indicted. Bannon, former executive of conservative media outlet Breitbart News, was a leader of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and later served as chief strategist during the first year of the Trump presidency. An indictment unsealed in New York alleges the men “orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors” through an online crowdfunding campaign called “We Build the Wall,” which raised more than $25 million. The indictment alleges all four men “collectively received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall,” despite Bannon and Kolfage claiming the fundraiser was run by a volunteer organization and that Kolfage would “not take a penny in salary or compensation,” according to the indictment. Shea allegedly controlled a shell company the men used to funnel We Build the Wall money to Kolfage, according to the indictment. The indictment alleges Kolfage took more than $350,000 in donations for personal use. Bannon controlled a nonprofit which he allegedly used to “secretly pay Kolfage and to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bannon’s personal expenses,” the indictment says. “To conceal the payments to Kolfage from We Build the Wall, Kolfage, Bannon, Badolato and Shea devised a scheme to route those payments from We Build the Wall to Kolfage indirectly through (Bannon’s nonprofit) and a shell company under Shea’s control, among other avenues,” the indictment says. The men allegedly used fake invoices and “sham `vendor’ arrange-
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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE DOUGLAS COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A public hearing will be held before the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, at 2:30 p.m., in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, concerning the adoption of the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. O-020-001 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION OF TRAFFIC AND PARKING; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. WHEREAS, pursuant to C.R.S. § 30-15-401(1) (h), the Board of County Commissioners (“Board”) is authorized to adopt ordinances to control and regulate the movement and parking of motor vehicles on public property; and WHEREAS, pursuant to C.R.S. § 42-4-111(1)(a) and (c), the Board is authorized to regulate or prohibit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles and to regulate traffic by means of Official Traffic Control Devices; and WHEREAS, C.R.S. § 42-4-1210(1), provides that the owner or lessee of any private property available for public use in the unincorporated areas of a county may request in writing that specified areas on such property be designated by the Board for use only by authorized vehicles; and WHEREAS, C.R.S. § 42-4-1210(1), further provides that said areas, upon acceptance in writing by the Board, shall be clearly marked by the owner or lessee with Official Traffic Control Devices, as defined in C.R.S. § 42-1-102(64); and WHEREAS, C.R.S. § 42-4-1210(2), provides that it is unlawful for any person to park any vehicle other than an authorized vehicle in any area designated and marked for such use as provided therein; and WHEREAS, C.R.S. § 42-4-110(1), authorizes all local authorities, including counties, to adopt by reference all or any part of a model traffic code; and WHEREAS, the Board has previously adopted the 2010 edition of the “Model Traffic Code for Colorado” and desires to replace the 2010 edition with the recently published 2020 edition; and WHEREAS, the Board has previously adopted the “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices” as authorized by C.R.S. § 42-4-104, which addresses all aspects of “traffic control devices”; and WHEREAS, the Board desires to adopt this ordinance establishing consolidated parking and traffic enforcement and establishing the current authorities and priorities thereof on which Douglas County will rely, hereby superseding and revoking all prior ordinances and resolutions inconsistent or overlapping herewith; now therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS as follows: PART I: GENERAL Purpose. The purpose of this ordinance is to promote the general public welfare and safety by imposing and enforcing reasonable and necessary traffic and parking restrictions in the County. Definitions. Unless otherwise specified or the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings throughout this ordinance. “Authorized Emergency Vehicle” means such vehicles of the fire department, police vehicles, ambulances, and other special-purpose vehicles as are publicly owned and operated by or for a governmental agency to protect and preserve life and property in accordance with state laws regulating emergency vehicles; said term also means such privately owned vehicles as are designated by the state motor vehicle licensing agency, necessary to the preservation of life and property, to be equipped and to operate as emergency vehicles in the manner prescribed by state law. “Automobile” means any motor vehicle. “County” means Douglas County, Colorado. “Law Enforcement Officers” shall mean the Douglas County Sheriff, Undersheriff and his or her deputy sheriffs. “Official Traffic Control Device” means all signs, signals, markings, and devices, not inconsistent with Title 42 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, placed or displayed by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating warning, or guiding traffic.
“Owner” means a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle; or, if a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee or if a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for purposes herein. The term also includes parties otherwise having lawful use or control or the right to use or control a vehicle for a period of thirty days or more. “Park” or “parking” means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, other than very briefly for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers. “Private Property” shall mean private property available for public use within the meaning of C.R.S. § 42-4-1210. “Residential Parking Permit Area” means a contiguous or nearly contiguous residential area containing public streets more particularly described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein, on which motor vehicle parking is prohibited at certain times, except for vehicles displaying a parking permit as provided in this ordinance. “Stand” or “standing” means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, other than momentarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers. “Stop” or “stopping” means, when prohibited, any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a Law Enforcement Officer or Official Traffic Control Device. “Vehicle” means any device which is capable of moving itself, or of being moved, from place to place upon wheels or endless tracks. Enforcement. This ordinance shall be enforced by the Douglas County Sheriff. Violation. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this ordinance or to disobey any Official Traffic Control Devices referenced herein. In any prosecution for any violation of this ordinance wherein the identity of the violator is in question (such as parking citations issued when the driver of the vehicle is not present), there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the violation was committed by the Owner of the motor vehicle in which the violation occurred. Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures. Unless otherwise provided by law, all fines and penalties, and the surcharge thereon, for the violation of this ordinance shall be paid into the treasury of Douglas County. Surcharges. In addition to the fines and penalties prescribed in this ordinance, any person convicted of a violation of this ordinance shall be subject to the statutory surcharges of ten dollars ($10.00) for the Victims and Witnesses Assistance and Law Enforcement Fund, and ($22.00) for the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund. Effective January 1, 2013, Colorado requires law enforcement to collect a $1 surcharge to supplement the Family Friends Fund. These surcharges shall be paid to the clerk of the court by each person convicted of violating this ordinance. The clerk shall transmit the moneys to the respective funds in accordance with C.R.S. § 30-15-402(2). Scope. This ordinance shall apply to every street, alley, sidewalk, driveway, park, and to every other public way or public place, or public parking area (except where such application is prohibited by C.R.S. § 30-15-401(9)(a) and § 42-4-111(1)), or private property as specifically designated herein, within the unincorporated territory of Douglas County and to all other areas designated herein. This ordinance shall in no way limit application and enforcement of any statutes of the State of Colorado but shall be in addition thereto. Severability. If any part or parts of this ordinance are for any reason held to be invalid, such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The Board of County Commissioners hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part or parts hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one part or parts be declared invalid. Repeal. All ordinances and/or resolutions or parts or ordinances and/or resolutions inconsistent with provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed, except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the effective date of this ordinance. PART II: TRAFFIC Section 1. Adoption. Pursuant C.R.S. §§ 42-4-110(1) and 30-15-401(1)(h), there is hereby adopted by reference Articles I and II, inclusive, of the 2020 edition of the “Model Traffic Code for Colorado,” promulgated and published as such by the Colorado Department of Transportation, Staff Traffic and Safety Projects Branch, 4201 East Arkansas Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80222. The subject matter of the Model Traffic Code relates primarily to comprehensive traffic control regulations. The purpose of this ordinance is to provide a system of traffic regulations consistent with state law and generally conforming to similar regulations throughout the state and nation. Copies of the Model Traffic Code adopted herein are on file in
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the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Douglas County, Colorado, and may be inspected during regular business hours. Section 2. Deletions. The 2020 edition of the Model Traffic Code is adopted as if set out at length save an except the following articles and/or sections which are declared to be in applicable to be inapplicable to Douglas County and are therefore expressly deleted: (a) Section 107 (b) Section 203 Unsafe Vehicle- spot Inspections (c) Section 227(3)(b) (d) Section 228 (7) (e) Section 233 (f) Section 235 (g) Section 238 (h) Section 241 (1) (i) Section 507 (j) Section 508 (k) Section 509 (l) Section 510 (m) Section 607 (2)(b) (n) Section 611 (o) Section 705 (2) (p) Section 1008.5 (q) Section 1101 (12)(b) (r) Section 1105 (s) Section 1401 (t) Section 1402 (u) Section 1406 (1)(b) (v) Section 1407 (3)(c) (w) Section 1409 (x) Section 1412 (y) Section 1413 (z) Section 1415 (aa) Section 1701 (bb) Section 1705 (cc) Section 1706 (dd) Section 1707 (ee) Section 1708 (ff) Section 1709 (gg) Section 1710 (hh) Section 1711 (ii) Section 1712 (jj) Section 1713 (kk) Section 1714 (ll) Section 1715 (mm) Section 1716 (nn) Section 1717 (oo) Section 18 Abandoned Vehicle (pp) Section 1901 (qq) Section 1902 (rr) Section 1903 (ss) Section 1904 Section 3. Penalty Assessment Procedure and Penalty Schedule. (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Part II commits a traffic infraction, pursuant to C.R.S. § 30-15-402(1). The penalty assessment procedure provided in C.R.S. § 16-2-201, shall be followed by the arresting officer for any such violation of this ordinance. (b) The County hereby elects to have the provisions of C.R.S. § 42-2-127(5.5)(b), apply to violations of this ordinance. If a violator receives a penalty assessment notice for a violation of this ordinance, and such person pays the fine and surcharge for the violation on or before the date the payment is due, the points assessed for the violation are reduced as follows: (1) for a violation having an assessment of three or more points, the points are reduced by two points; (2) for a violation having an assessment of two points, the points are reduced by one point. (c) For its schedule of fines and penalties, the County incorporates by this reference the schedule of fines and penalties set forth in C.R.S. § 42-41701(as that section may be amended), as those fines and penalties correspond to the sections of the Model Traffic Code adopted by this ordinance, for all cases wherein the alleged violator acknowledges guilt or liability, is found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction, or has judgment entered against him/her. If the penalty assessment procedure is not used, and the alleged offender is found guilty, court costs may be assessed in addition to the fine and penalties set forth in C.R.S. § 42-4-1701, and surcharges. (d) In the case of multiple traffic offenses involving aggressive driving, the applicable penalty or penalty assessment shall be doubled for each traffic offense. For purposes of this subsection, “aggressive driving” means committing any two or more of the following violations in a single act or series of acts in close proximity to another motor vehicle: 1) exceeding the speed limits (1101); 2) following too closely (1008); 3) failure to obey official traffic control devices (603); 4) passing on shoulder of road (1004(2)); 5) failure to give an adequate signal (903); 6) failure to yield right-ofway (701, 702, 703); and 7) unsafe lane change (903). (e) The imposition of any penalty imposed pursuant to this Part II shall not preclude impound where appropriate pursuant to Part IV. PART III: PARKING The restrictions, procedures and penalties provided in this Part III shall be in addition to those provided in Part II.
polluted air, excessive noise, and refuse caused by the entry of nonresident vehicles; to protect residents from unreasonable burdens in gaining access to their residences; to preserve the character of residential areas; to promote efficiency in maintaining streets in residential areas in a clean and safe condition; to preserve the value of the property in residential areas; to promote traffic safety and the safety of children and other pedestrians in residential areas; and to promote the peace, comfort convenience, and welfare of all residents of the County. Establishment. The Board hereby establishes Residential Parking Permit Areas in the areas more particularly described in Exhibit A and Exhibit C as may be amended from time to time by motion of the Board of County Commissioners, attached hereto and incorporated herein. Parking Without Permit Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to be parked on a public street within the Residential Parking Permit Areas, more particularly described in Exhibit A, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. on weekdays, excepting holidays, from July 30 through May 30, inclusive, unless the vehicle properly displays a parking permit authorized by this ordinance. It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to be parked on a public street within the Residential Parking Permit Areas, more particularly described in Exhibit C, between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. on weekdays, excepting holidays, from July 30 through May 30, inclusive, unless the vehicle properly displays a parking permit authorized by this ordinance. Posting of Signs. The Division of Engineering Services shall post appropriate signs within the areas more particularly described in Exhibit A, advising motorists of the days and hours when motor vehicle parking within said area shall be prohibited except by permit. The Division of Engineering Services shall post appropriate signs within the areas more particularly described in Exhibit C, advising motorists of the days and hours when motor vehicle parking within said area shall be prohibited except by permit. Penalty. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Part III on any public street or public facility commits a Class A Traffic Infraction, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of seventeen dollars ($17.00) for each separate violation. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this ordinance on any private road or private facility commits a Class 2 Petty Offense, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each separate violation. The penalty assessment procedure provided in C.R.S. § 16-2-201, may be followed by the arresting officer for any such violation of this ordinance. In the event that a violation of the Part II exists which is outside the scope of this Part III, the violations may be treated as two separate violations and two penalties may be assessed. The penalties prescribed in this Part III shall not preclude impound where appropriate pursuant to Part IV. Defenses. It shall be a defense that the area was not properly marked with the relevant restriction at the time the violation notice is issued. It shall further be a defense that the violation was the result of direction of a Law Enforcement Officer or at the direction of an Official Traffic Control Device. It shall not be a defense to a violation otherwise contained herein if the property is improperly or not designated in the attached exhibits so long as the County was authorized to restrict and/or enforce parking restrictions in such area. It shall not be a defense that the Owner of the vehicle was not the person who placed the vehicle or allowed the vehicle to be placed in the restricted area(s) and such Owner shall be responsible for all violations involving the owner’s vehicle(s). It shall not be a defense that an Official Traffic Control Device was not placed pursuant to a designated procedure so long as the location and nature of the restriction is clearly posted.
E. Resident permits shall be numbered and shall not be transferable from one residence or vehicle to another.
F. Resident and visitor permits shall remain the property of the County. Where the maximum number of resident permits have been issued for a residential unit, a resident permit shall be voided by the County for each new resident permit issued. Section 2. Private Property Parking Restrictions
Private Property owners may request and the Board may accept designation of specified areas for use only by authorized vehicles pursuant to C.R.S. § 42-4-1210. Upon acceptance in writing by the Board, the owner of such private property is required to clearly mark the area with Official Traffic Control Devices. Such areas are listed in Exhibit B, as may be amended from time to time by motion of the Board of County Commissioners, attached hereto and incorporated herein. Violations of such postings shall be a violation of this Part III. Section 3. Public Property Parking Restrictions
The Director of Engineering Services or his/ her designee shall have the authority to direct the installation of any “traffic control device” which is warranted in accordance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, as revised. Violations of such postings shall be a violation of this Part III.
PART IV: IMPOUNDS In addition to the penalties and procedures set forth hereinabove, the Sheriff, or any person acting under his direction, is authorized to impound Vehicles, by means of towing or installation of an immobilizing device or “boot”, under the following circumstances:
(a) if the registered Owner of said Vehicle has been issued three or more traffic or parking citations that remain outstanding. For purposes of this Part IV, “outstanding” shall mean that the Owner has: failed to pay the fine or penalty imposed under said citation by the date set forth in the citation and, without prior authorization, failed to appear in court on the date set forth in the citation; or
(b) if the Vehicle has been abandoned on a public right-of-way. For purposes of this Part IV, a Vehicle shall be deemed “abandoned” if it is inoperative (regardless of registration status) or if, after an abandoned vehicle notice has been placed on the Vehicle requiring that it be moved, the Vehicle has not been removed within 72 hours; or
(c) if the Vehicle is illegally parked, for any length of time: (1) in a manner that obstructs any roadway or emergency access; (2) in a fire zone or in front of a fire hydrant; (3) in a manner that prevents any other Vehicle from being able to move; (4) in any area marked by appropriate signage as a tow away zone; or (5) in any other circumstance where the sheriff or a person acting under his authority determines that it would be unsafe for the Vehicle to remain illegally parked.
The cost of recovering an impounded Vehicle shall be the responsibility of the Owner of the Vehicle and shall be in addition to any other fines or penalties that may otherwise apply.
PART IV: CERTIFICATION. The Douglas County Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall have on file copies of this ordinance and the adopted Model Traffic Code available for inspection by the public during regular business hours. PART V: EFFECTIVE DATE.
This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after publication after adoption on second reading and shall apply to traffic offenses occurring or committed on or after said date.
INTRODUCED, READ AND ADOPTED ON FIRST READING on August 11, 2020, and ordered published in the DOUGLAS COUNTY NEWS-PRESS.
Permits. A. The owner, owners, lessee or lessees of each residential unit within the residential parking permit area may be issued one or more permits which shall allow a motor vehicle to which it is affixed to be parked within the area without regard to the parking restrictions imposed by this ordinance. No more than three permits may be issued for each residential unit, unless good cause is shown for issuance of additional permits. A resident permit shall consist of a numbered decal which shall be permanently affixed to the lower left corner of the rear window of the motor vehicle.
THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO
B. The owner or owners of each residential unit within a parking permit area may also be issued up to five (5) visitor permits. A visitor permit shall allow the motor vehicle in which it is displayed to be parked within the area without regard to the parking restrictions imposed by this ordinance. A visitor permit shall be placed on the front dash of the motor vehicle.
All or portions (as posted) of the following streets in Douglas County:
Section 1. Residential Parking Permit Areas
C. Permits shall be issued by the Division of Engineering Services based on satisfactory evidence of residency within the area.
Purpose. Sometimes persons in residential areas request assistance reducing hazardous traffic conditions resulting from nonresidents competing with residents to park their vehicles in certain residential areas; to protect those residential areas from
D. Temporary permits. A contractor may obtain, at no cost, a reasonable number of temporary permits for vehicles of the contractor and the contractor’s employees for the period of time that the contractor is engaged in work within a residential parking zone, as specified on the permit.
By:/s/ Roger A. Partridge Roger A. Partridge, Chair ATTEST: /s/ Kristin Randlett Kristin Randlett, Deputy Clerk EXHIBIT A RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT AREAS
Highlands Ranch High School: East of the school: Morning Glory Court Morning Glory Place Morning Glory Lane Morning Glory Way Weeping Willow Circle (as posted – Cresthill Lane to Morning Glory Way) West of the school: Lark Sparrow Drive (as posted – Fallbrooke Drive to Sand Hill Way) Sand Hill Court Sand Hill Street
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Hard-fought softball game shows determination Coaches pleased with what they see amid unusual season BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Valerie Warszawski was in Buffalo, New York, two weeks earlier but on Aug. 19 she was playing for Mountain Vista High School for its seasonopening home softball game against Continental League rival ThunderRidge. Warszawski might not have been well-versed in the rivalry between the two Highlands Ranch schools but she singled home the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Vista’s Golden Eagles an 8-7 victory. “I was just trying to get a base hit in the outfield to score the runner,” said Warszawski, a slap hitter who was 3-for-5 in the game with two runs batted in. “I was very nervous. I really didn’t know what to expect and what the competition was going to be like. I was excited. I’m happy. We won.” Skylar Standen led off the bottom of the seventh with a single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Sydney Butler to bring up Warszawski, who claims softball in Buffalo is no different than in Colorado. “It’s windy and harder to breathe here, like for running,” said Warszawski who is a junior and has an older sister, senior Julia, who also plays on the Mountain Vista team. “Overall the softball is pretty similar. We moved like two weeks ago I just got here.” There were a combined 23 hits in the game, 14 by Mountain Vista and nine by the ThunderRidge Grizzlies. Rachel Lowrey had a solo home run and a two-run double for the Golden Eagles. Julia Warszawski and Ella Costa hit solo home runs while Lowrey, Lauren Falk and Morgan Hoselton
ThunderRidge starting pitcher Alyssa Hunter offers a first inning pitch during the Aug. 19 game at Mountain Vista against the rival Golden Eagles. Hunter had two hits during the game including a two-run homer but Mountain Vista scored once in the bottom of the seventh to pull out an 8-7 win. each had two hits. ThunderRidge scored three runs in the sixth inning and two more in the top of the seventh to tie the game at 7-all heading into the home half of the frame. Freshman starting pitcher Alyssa Hunter went 2-for-4 and belted a two-run homer in the seventh to tie the game. Jorja Sierra had two ThunderRidge hits and drove in two runs and Payton Pacheco also had two RBI for the Grizzlies. “Hitting is not ahead of pitching this early,” said Vista head coach Bret Grammerstorf. “When we scrimmage ourselves on Saturday, we didn’t score a lot of runs so I think pitchers are still a little bit ahead. You get a mistake and we made them pay for it, that’s for sure. “There was an outstanding effort by all the girls, a little nerve-wracking, I’m sure, because we didn’t even get to scrimmage this year, so this was our first time with live bullets. All in all, I was just telling them I’ve never
Mountain Vista starting pitcher Morgan Hoselton delivers a first inning pitch during the Aug. 19 game against rival ThunderRidge. Hoselton had two hits including a solo home run as the Golden Eagles scored a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to pull out an 8-7 win in the season opener for both teams. PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON seen six of these girls play. I got six girls returning and the rest of them I didn’t know what they could do. I was impressed. I like what they can do.” ThunderRidge coach Kevin McAllister liked the spirit he saw with his team. “It was a great game,” he said. “It was a rival battle which never seems to disappoint. Our kids kept fighting their way back in. I like the fight in our kids. We were up for a little bit and got down and fought our way back. It was a good fight between two pretty good teams. Seemed like we
were working a lot harder to get our runs. “We’ve just had two weeks of practice and a few optionals. The whole COVID thing has definitely put a strain on us. We had no scrimmages. We’re seeing what we really have. There is so much more this year because of the reduction of games. The majority of games we are playing are league games and there’s no regional tournament. So every game means that much more. We’ve got to ingrain that in the kids’ heads. We need every pitch and we need every win.”
Public Notices South of the school: Townsville Circle (as posted – 9614 Townville Circle to Griffith Place) Griffith Place (as posted – Newcastle Drive to Cresthill Lane) Queenscliffe Drive (as posted – Townsville Circle to 9688 Queenscliffe Dr) Queenscliffe Court Canberra Dr (as posted- northbound from 9687 Canberra Dr, including the cul-de-sac) Canberra Court Parramatta Place (as posted – Queenscliffe Dr to Rockhampton Way) Redstone Elementary South of the school: Brady Place Ponderosa High School North of the school: Meadow View (as posted – to Pine Forest Lane on east and west ends of Meadow View) Tamarac Court Red Oak Way (as posted – Meadow View to Pine Forest Lane) Bur Oak Lane (as posted – Meadow View to Pine Forest Lane) Honey Locust Court Chaparral High School South of the school (Stonegate Terrace Subdivision) bounded by Lincoln Avenue, Stonegate Parkway, Brookstone Drive and Chambers Road: As posted: Brookstone Drive Greenstone Circle Greenstone Lane Hedgeway Drive Crystallo Drive Crystallo Court Citrine Court Alabaster Court Malachite Court Tourmaline Court
EXHIBIT B PRIVATE PARKING RESTRICTED AREAS Highlands Ranch Recreation Center at Northridge, 8801 South Broadway, Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Highlands Ranch Recreation Center at Southridge, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road, Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Highlands Ranch Recreation Center at Eastridge, 9568 South University Boulevard, Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Highlands Ranch Recreation Center at Westridge, 9650 South Foothills Canyon Boulevard, Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Backcountry Parking Area, 11950 Monarch Blvd., Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Pinewood Townhome Association, Inc. (Pinery) 6500 North Pinewood Drive Athletic Club at Inverness 374 Inverness Drive South. Hydrogen Components, Inc., 12420 North Dumont Way, Littleton, Colorado Highlands Ranch Learning Center, 405 Dad Clark Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado. AMC Highlands Ranch 24, 103 West Centennial Boulevard, Highlands Ranch, Colorado Valor Christian High School, 3775 Grace Boulevard, Highlands Ranch, Colorado EXHIBIT C RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT AREAS Chaparral High School area more particularly de-
scribed as Onyx St, Greenstone Cir, Malachite Ct, Greenstone Ln, Crystallo Ct, Crystallo Dr, Verdigris St, Alabaster Ct, Tourmaline Ct, Citrine Ct, and from the intersections of Stonegate Parkway to Greenstone Cir on Hedgeway Dr as well as from the intersection of Brookstone Dr to Greenstone Cir on Onyx St. Legal Notice No. 937805 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A public hearing will be held on Monday, September 14, 2020, at 6:00 PM, before the Douglas County Planning Commission and on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, at 2:30 PM, before the Board of County Commissioners in the Commissioner’s Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO, to consider a Zone Map Change for El Dorado Acres, Lot 32 (15599 Arfsten Road) from Rural Residential (RR) to Large Rural Residential (LRR). The property is generally located 1800 feet north of the intersection of Palmer Divide Road and Arfsten Road. For more information call Douglas County Planning, 303-660-7460. File No.DR2020-001. If public meetings are restricted on these dates, hearings may be held online. See the County website or contact the Planning Department for instructions on how to participate virtually. Legal Notice No. 937836 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publ isher: Douglas County News-Press
Bids and Settlements PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the 21st day of SEPTEMBER 2020, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and ACADEMY SPORTS TURF, LLC for the BAYOU GULCH REGIONAL PARK SYNTHETIC TURF REPLACMENT PROJECT (PO#40287); and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said ACADEMY SPORTS TURF, LLC for or on account for the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 21st day of SEPTEMBER 2020, to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Douglas County Government, Board of County Commissioners, c/o Parks, Trails & Building Grounds, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant’s claim. The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Carolyn S. Riggs, CPPB, Purchasing Supervisor, Douglas County Government. Legal Notice No. 937799 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT
COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on September 27, 2020, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and American Civil Constructors, LLC for the Southern Connector Project; CI 2011-024 in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said American Civil Constructors, LLC for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said September 27, 2020, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Manager, Sean Owens, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104. Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant’s claim.
The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Janet Herman, P.E., Director of Public Works Engineering. Legal Notice No.: 937838 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Second Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
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been in recent months. The latest contribution reports, which cover June 22 through July 25, are available on the Colorado secretary of state’s TRACER website. To date, the District 2 race between Teal, Neal-Graves and Libertarian Victoria Reynolds has been the most costly race. Of the more than $166,000 raised in total through July, about $103,000 was spent among the three. District 2 encompasses southern and western Douglas County, including Castle Rock, Castle Pines, Larkspur, Perry Park and Roxborough. However, Douglas County elects its commissioners at large in a countywide election. The winner in November will succeed current Commissioner Roger Partridge. Teal alone has raised $82,300 for his campaign and spent $85,500. Neal-Graves is close behind in contributions with $79,300 but has only spent about $15,000. Reynolds has raised $5,190 and spent $2,760. In just the late-June-through-July period covered by the most recent contribution report, Teal raised $29,555 and spent $21,864. Among Teal’s contributors in that period were Frank McNulty — a former Republican speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives — as well as Douglas County Clerk and Recorder Merlin Klotz and Republican State Rep. Kim Ransom. The latest
report said Teal had 52 individual contributions, many of which were for at least $500. Teal, a Castle Rock town council member, has focused his campaign on conservative policies, including promises to cut taxes, support gun rights and advocate for free-market principles. His website also includes water manageTeal ment, transportation and responsible growth as priorities. Contributions to Teal’s campaign have all been from state residents, many coming from Douglas County and Denver but also some from other parts of the metro area. Neal-Graves, the former chief innovation officer for state Attorney General Phil Weiser, has a platform centered around creating local jobs, forming a youth commission to discuss local policies and supporting working-poor in Neal-Graves the county. She raised $20,000 in the late-Junethrough-July period covered by most recent report and spent $6,150. Former Governor John Hickenlooper, Adams County commissioner Emma Pinter and state Rep. Jeni Arndt, D-Fort Collins, are included in Neal-Graves’ benefactors. In her latest campaign finance report, she had about 220 contributions, virtually all of which were donations
below $500. Contributions to her campaign have come from across the county, state and country, including California, New York, Oregon and Texas. Reynolds, the chairperson of the Libertarian Party of Colorado, raised $730 in the most recent period and spent $1,370. Her contributions in this period have come from Douglas County, Denver and other parts of Colorado along with Reynolds Connecticut, Georgia and California. She had nine benefactors in the latest period with all donations under $200. Meanwhile, in the District 3 race, Democratic challenger Wilson has raised a total of $75,500 since entering the contest and spent $13,300 while her opponent, Thomas, has brought in about $58,300 and spent $8,233. District 3 includes Highlands Ranch and Wilson the area of unincorporated Douglas County south of Highlands Ranch between Castle Pines, Sedalia and Louviers. Wilson, an entrepreneur, says she plans to prioritize the community’s health, safety, transparency, representation, conservation and economic development if elected as commissioner. According to the most recent report, she raised $12,380 in the lateJune-through-July period and spent
$1,000. The vast majority of her 175 contributions in this period were under $500 each. People from Douglas County, the Front Range and some other states including Texas and Oregon donated to her campaign. Thomas, who has also served as the county’s coroner and as a state trooper, says she will focus on wastewater solutions, mental health support and economic development if she wins a second term. Thomas had 47 contriThomas butions in the latest period, also with most donations under $500 each. She raised $9,380 and spent $100. Included in these contributions were donations from Ransom, Parker town councilmember Jeff Toborg and Douglas County treasurer Dave Gill. Her contributors this period came mostly from Douglas County and other Front Range communities. As the COVID-19 pandemic has surged throughout the country, issues related to that have taken center stage in the election. Teal and Thomas, for instance, have voiced support for the current commissioners decision to divorce from Tri-County Health Department. Neal-Graves and Wilson, however, have criticized aspects of the move. Ballots for the commissioners race, along with the presidential, U.S. Senate and other elections will be sent out Oct. 9. Election day is Nov. 3.
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