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VOLUME 33 | ISSUE 49

DCSD changes quarantine protocols School district staffers hope new guidance will decrease disruption to learning

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A Douglas County resident gives a thumbs up as he submits his ballot at the Douglas County Parks and Trails Division in eastern Highlands Ranch Oct. 21.

PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER

Voter turnout rises inREGISTRATION DouglasBY CITY County That’s due in part to ballots going out earlier, officials say

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County is seeing a higher volume of ballots cast compared to the same period in 2016, according to county officials.

As of Oct. 23, about 58,500 more ballots had been returned in Douglas County compared to the same period in 2016, said county Clerk and Recorder Merlin Klotz.

“Volume is higher, there’s no

PARTY REGISTRATION

BY COMMUNITY IN DOUGLAS COUNTY

Here is a breakdown of the voter registration figures in the most populous communities in Douglas County as of Oct. 21, according to numbers compiled by the county: REPUBLICAN

DEMOCRAT

UNAFFILIATED

Castle Pines

41.9%

19.2%

37.9%

Castle Rock

41.0%

17.8%

39.5%

Highlands Ranch

35.2%

22.8%

40.7%

Lone Tree

37.1%

21.9%

39.8%

Greater Parker area

38.4%

19.4%

40.8%

COUNTY TOTALS

38.2%

19.6%

40.8%

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The Douglas County School District is changing its approach to COVID-19 quarantines — under the blessing of new state guidelines — in hopes the new protocols will lessen the scope of quarantines and as a result, lessen the disruption to students’ education.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment relaxed guidance for quarantines after the first several weeks of school resulted in thousands of students in the state being sent home and asked to quarantine.

School board President David Ray said the changes were “a wow moment” that would bring some relief with this whole quarantining.”

Douglas County School District Personalized Learning Officer Nancy Ingalls said the district can now choose between implementing what’s called “standard contact identification” and “targeted contact identification” when deciding who needs to quarantine.

The standard process is used when a class or cohort stay together for more than one class period.

“Which means that when we’ve had a positive case in a school, the entire classroom or classrooms have been in SEE PROTOCOLS, P10

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Highlands Ranch releases Halloween decoration map The list includes 10 homes across the community

HOMES LISTED ON HRCA’S MAP • 1524 Spring Water Way • 1555 Spring Water Place • 531 Mountain Chickadee Road • 10012 Hughes Way • 10230 Fairgate Way • 9739 Gatesbury Circle • 9381 Lark Sparrow Drive • 5280 Wangaretta Way • 9973 Blackbird Place • 10622 Jewelberry Trail

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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ighlands Ranch residents now have a list of some of the bestdecorated Halloween houses in the area after the Highlands Ranch Community Association released its annual map.

As of Oct. 21, the list included 10 homes across the community.

Megan DePoty’s home in eastern Highlands Ranch, which is one of the homes listed, has been decorated since the first of the month, she said.

DePoty, 36, and her husband Ron, 38, like to go big on decorations every year for both Halloween and Christmas, she said. Their kids, ages 4, 8 and 10, help out as well.

“We just think it’s fun,” she said. “We like driving around looking at other houses’ decorations so we like to do the same.”

The front and backyards are full of gravestones, hanging ghouls, ghosts, skeletons and all sorts of other monsters.

The Depotys’ front porch, in eastern Highlands Ranch, has multiple spooky figurines on it.

PHOTOS BY ELLIOTT WENZLER

“Every year it gets bigger,” DePoty said.

The day after Halloween, the Depoty family likes to goes out and buy new decorations for their home’s deco-

rations the next year. Then, come Oct. 1, the family spends a weekend getting everything ready for trick-or-treaters and passersby.

Anyone interested in adding

their home to the list can fill out a form at hrcaonline.org.

The link to the page is also available on the Highlands Ranch Community Association’s Facebook page.

Since about 2007, the Depotys have taken a full weekend at the beginning of October every year to put up all their Halloween decorations.

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Douglas County asked to submit another mitigation plan The plan will focus on encouraging remote work and improving public education

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As the state continues to be concerned about surging cases of COVID-19 in Douglas County, officials have asked the county for the second time this month to provide an update to the plan on decreasing the spread.

Douglas County planned to submit their new plan, with a heavy emphasis on public education, Oct. 23.

The county’s mitigation efforts are also focused on increasing remote work for non-essential businesses and outreach to businesses and communities, including giving warnings to these entities when public health requirements have reportedly not been followed, according to the plan.

The main focus of the plan is a 10-week regional public education and citizen engagement campaign, beginning the week of Oct. 26. The plan is in partnership with TriCounty Health Department, Douglas County’s municipalities, the library district, Highlands Ranch Metro District and the Highlands Ranch Community Association. It will be funded by the county’s allotment of federal CARES Act funding.

It will consist of live town halls, digital and print advertising and social media messaging, according to the document.

“There is substantial evidence of the continued spread of COVID-19 throughout Douglas County,” according to the county’s mitigation plan, which is signed by all three commissioners.

As of Oct. 26, Douglas County was under the state’s “Safer Level 1,” which is the second most lenient after “Protect Our Neighbors.” Arapahoe, Elbert, Teller and El Paso counties all sit at this level while Denver and Jefferson are more restricted at “Safer Level 2” and Adams County at “Safer Level 3.”

The county exceeded the “Safer Level 1” incidence threshold on Sept. 18 and was notified Oct. 2 that its status under that level was in jeopardy. The county has requested that the state consider a new “severity metric” — which takes into account both incidence rates and hospitalizations — for future decisions around which level of restrictions the county will have.

As of Oct. 26, the county had 3,810 positive cases, with a two-week incidence rate of 182.3 cases per 100,000 people, according to Tri-County. On Oct. 24, the county had its highestever day of positive case with 85 new infections confirmed. Daily hospitalization rate also appears to be going up for the first time since March with a seven-day rolling average rate of 0.583 as of Oct. 20.

The county has seen one death in the month of October, according to Tri-County’s data.

County commissioners say they would accept Tri-County draft proposal

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County commissioners announced in a statement the afternoon of Oct. 22 that they would accept a recent draft proposal from the Tri-County Health Department and may stay with the agency through at least 2022.

Commissioners met in an executive session earlier Oct. 22 to discuss the proposal, which has not yet been approved by the Tri-County board of health.

“If the Tri-County Health Department board of health adopts the policy granting each county increased control over local public health decisions, Douglas County is willing to remain in the current three-county district relationship at a minimum through at least the end of 2022 while we collectively continue to examine our partnership,” according to the statement, released through the county’s spokesperson.

That proposal has not been made public. A spokesperson for Tri-County did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

It has not been announced when Tri-County’s board will review the draft proposal.

Douglas County was set to break up with the health department in July 2021 after commissioners voted to send a formal letter of departure to the agency over the summer, citing a desire for more local control in public health decisions.

“I’m very pleased with what has been brought before us,” Commissioner Lora Thomas said in the public portion of the Oct. 22 meeting. “Because what it does is it gives elected officials a very important role in public health orders that considers not only public health, but also livelihoods and local economies.”

The board of commissioners have not yet taken a formal vote on the matter.

Ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3.

VOTE EARLY. NEAR YOU. 20 ballot drop box locations countywide. Find yours at DouglasVotes.

Need assistance? Voter Service and Polling Centers are now open. » Register to vote » Replace a ballot » Vote in person » Use an ADA-accessible voting machine Visit DouglasVotes.com or call 303.660.7444 for locations and hours and the most up-to-date Nov. 3 Election information

Douglas County motor vehicle offices closed on Election Day, Nov. 3 Douglas County motor vehicle offices will be closed Tuesday, Nov. 3, Election Day, as all motor vehicle staff transition to assist with election duties. All County motor vehicle offices will re-open to provide motor vehicle services on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

Slash-mulch site closing for the season Oct. 31 The County’s main slash-mulch site, at 1400 Caprice Drive in Castle Rock, is open from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Saturdays only through Oct. 31. For more information, directions and a list of acceptable items visit douglas. co.us and search for Slash Mulch.

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Eligible low-income households in Douglas County may apply for energy assistance through the Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) beginning Nov. 1. For more information or an application, please visitdouglas. co.us and search for LEAP or email LEAPHELP@ discovermygoodwill.org

Online Tax Lien Sale Nov. 5 The annual Tax Lien Sale will be held via internet auction on Nov. 5. Visit www.zeusauction.com for rules, guidelines and registration information. The statutory interest for the 2020 Tax Lien Sale is 9%. For more information visit douglas.co.us/treasurer or call the Treasurer’s Office at 303.660.7455.

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Future voters participate in art contest focused on democracy The firstplace winner in the division four competition was “Boosted to the Ballot Box” by Erika Olson, a senior at Douglas County High School.

The firstplace winner in the division three competition was “What it means to be a good citizen” by Siddhartha Aradhya, an eighthgrader at STEM School Highlands Ranch.

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The first-place winner in the division two competition was “My American Dream” by Krishanika Paramasivam Vijayalakshmi, a fourthgrader at STEM School Highlands Ranch.

The first-place winner in the division one competition was “Faces of America” by Anirudh Rao, a third-grader at STEM School Highlands Ranch.

The winning artwork will be displayed throughout the county

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

More than 100 students from across Douglas County participated in a local art contest this year focused on depicting democracy.

The participants, from kindergarten through high school students, used multiple mediums, including traditional and electronic methods for their submissions.

The contest was broken up into four divisions based on grade levels, with each having a different theme. Three winners from each division were chosen by a panel of judges and their artwork will be displayed in Douglas County government and school buildings until the next presidential election in 2024.

The judges included clerk and recorder Merlin Klotz, clerk and recorder chief deputy Codie Winslow and deputy of elections Jack Twite.

“These students really took the four civic themes of this contest to heart.

You can see it in their thoughtful and unique artwork,” Klotz said, according to a release from the county. “We are truly proud to see this level of creativity, awareness and engagement from the young people in our community.”

The theme for division one, which includes kindergarteners through third graders, was “American the Beautiful,” and asked artists to choose their favorite landscapes and places.

There were 50 entries.

The theme for division two, which included fourth through sixth graders, was “What does America mean to you?” They received 36 entries.

The theme for the third division, made up of seventh through eighth graders, was “Citizenship in my Community” and artists were given the additional prompt of “What does

it mean to be a good citizen?” There were 16 entries.

Division four, consisting of all high school students, worked on the theme “My vote, my voice” and were asked to create something that answers “Why is the right to vote important?” They received six entries.

All students who participated will receive an honorable mention certificate, according to the release.

The winners are listed below: Division one: First place — “Faces of America”

by Anirudh Rao, third grader, STEM School Highlands Ranch Second place — “Our Beautiful Oceans” by Daisy Pitts, first grader, Platte River Academy Third place — “Freedom and Unity.

The American Dream” by Aubrey Wilson, third grader, Mammoth Heights Elementary Division two: First place — “My American Dream” by Krishanika Paramasivam Vijayalakshmi, fourth grader, STEM School Highlands Ranch Second place — “9-11 Memorial” by Jamie Ardoin, fifth grader, Redstone Elementary Third place– “The Valley of America” by Caden Laflin, sixth grader, Cloverleaf School Division three: First place — “What it means to be a good citizen” by Siddhartha Aradhya, eighth grader, STEM School Highlands Ranch Second place — “Untitled” by Angadresma Deodatus, seventh grader, home school Third place — “Want to be a good citizen? Here are 4 easy steps…” by Samuel Wolfe, seventh grader, Cloverleaf Home Enrichment Division four: First place — “Boosted to the Ballot Box” by Erika Olson, senior, Douglas County High School Second place — “Everyone’s Vote Matters” by Gitanjali Rao, sophomore, STEM School Highlands Ranch Third place — “A Vote of Values” by Kyliah Edmonds, junior, Castle View High School

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Health department extends mask order Requirement lasted 90 days, now to continue until pandemic ends in metro area

WHO OPTED OUT OF TRI-COUNTY’S MASK ORDER?

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The following cities, towns and county areas opted out of Tri-County Health Department’s order requiring mask-wearing: • Town of Bennett • City of Brighton • City of Castle Pines • Town of Castle Rock • Town of Columbine Valley • Town of Deer Trail • City of Glendale • Town of Parker • Douglas County (Only areas outside of a municipality — unincorporated areas — were opted out) • Arapahoe County (Unincorporated areas east of Watkins Road all the way to the eastern county line — generally east of Aurora — were opted out) If a municipality or county opted out in July, they remain opted out of Tri-County’s extended order, but Gov. Jared Polis’ statewide mask order still applies in those areas.

Colorado requires masks for all “outdoor events” under the state’s safer-at-home order, so individuals in cities and counties that opted out of Tri-County’s order must still wear a mask outdoors when attending such events.

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Tri-County Health Department will extend its public health order requiring mask-wearing in public spaces “for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the agency has announced.

The order on mask-wearing initially took effect July 24 and requires masks in indoor public spaces. It also requires them in outdoor spaces whenever 6-foot distancing from those who are not members of a person’s household cannot be maintained.

Tri-County is the local health agency for Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

No other changes were made to the order other than the extension, according to an Oct. 20 news release. The July order was set to expire at the end of Oct. 22.

The extended order will last until the pandemic ends in Tri-County’s area or until Tri-County possibly amends or cancels it for other reasons.

“This approach is consistent with the one taken by many counties and municipalities in the Denver metro area,” John Douglas, the health agency’s executive director, said in the release. “As we enter our ‘third wave,’ we believe this is the best course of action since masks remain one of our most important tools in the fight

against the spread of COVID-19 and will likely be needed until effective vaccines are widely available and utilized.”

If a municipality or county opted out in July, they remain opted out of the extended order, according to the news release, but Gov. Jared Polis’ statewide mask order still applies in those areas.

Colorado requires masks for all “outdoor events” under the state’s safer-at-home order, according to a Tri-County fact sheet. Individuals in cities and counties that opted out of Tri-County’s order must still wear a mask outdoors when attending such

events, according to the sheet.

Read more about Tri-County’s mask order, how it is enforced and who is exempt at tinyurl.com/MaskOrderComparison.

“Any municipality or county that opted-out of (Tri-County)’s order can always opt back in as a means to help contain the spread of the virus,” TriCounty said in the news release.

How orders compare To avoid confusion, Tri-County amended its mask order in July to mostly align with the statewide mask order that took effect July 16. TriCounty’s order, like the governor’s

order, requires people to wear masks in public indoor spaces.

The difference between the TriCounty and state orders is still the duration — Tri-County’s mask order initially lasted 90 days rather than the state’s 30 days. The state’s order has been renewed monthly.

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Colorado lowers limit on gatherings from 25 to 10 people Douglas County among those affected by action

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Roughly a month after raising the limit for personal gatherings in some counties to 25 people, Colorado has cut that number back down to 10 for the vast majority of counties in the state, citing “an alarming increase in hospitalizations due to COVID-19,” the state public-health department announced in a news release.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Oct. 23 again amended its safer-at-home order to change the limit on personal gatherings in counties at all levels of the safer-at-home restrictions. Only a handful of Colorado counties have qualified for the looser “protect our neighbors” phase of restrictions, which leaves personal gathering limits up to local guidance.

The state’s Oct. 23 action also limits personal gatherings to people from no more than two households, according to the news release.

“Recent case investigation data show that since July, attending social gatherings and community exposures have become more common among new cases,” the department said in the news release. “This suggests people have relaxed their precautions and are interacting more closely with a greater number of households.”

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Qualified applicants must demonstrate their needs are a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Oct. Effectively, the 10-person limit already applied in many counties, such as Jefferson County, one of many that the state lists as under safer at home “level 2.” In mid-September, the state broke the safer-athome policy into three levels that counties are placed under based on local COVID-19 spread.

Arapahoe, Douglas and Elbert are among counties that qualified for the new least-restrictive “level 1” of the new safer-at-home rules as of Sept. 16. In that level, the state allowed personal gatherings of up to 25 people.

But amid a sustained increase in cases in Arapahoe, Tri-County Health Department issued a public health order on Oct. 16 that cut the limit on personal gatherings in that county back to 10 people. That department — the local health agency for Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties — also issued an order for Adams County that restricted personal indoor gatherings to five people and outdoor personal gatherings to 10.

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Applications are also available through Douglas County Human Services and many community partners, the release states. For questions or help completing the application, call 303-688-4825.

Return completed applications via email to DHS.inbox@douglas.co.us or drop off at the Douglas County Human Services offices at 4400 Castleton Court in Castle Rock.

See which safer-at-home level each county is under at covid19.colorado. gov/data/covid-19-dial/covid-19-dial-dashboard. See what restrictions each level includes at tinyurl.com/ SaferAtHomeLevels.

Denver announced a new public health measure that reduces the limit on gatherings from 10 people down to five, according to an Oct. 16 news release.

Tri-County Health did not issue an order for Douglas County on Oct. 16, saying that its trend is more concerning than the agency would like but that it wasn’t alarming enough to warrant a new public health order there.

The state’s new action moves the limit back down to 10 for many counties across the state, including Douglas and Elbert counties in the greater metro area.

Before the state broke the saferat-home restrictions into three levels in mid-September, Colorado had maintained the limit of 10 for personal gatherings since spring after it lifted the statewide stay-at-

home order.

Limit of 25 people short-lived Colorado’s move to raise the gatherings limit to 25 people for some counties where the virus’s spread was less dire came amid public officials continuing to caution Coloradans against attending large gatherings.

Gov. Jared Polis and Rachel Herlihy, state epidemiologist, pointed to the rising number of COVID-19 cases among 18- to 25-year-olds, as well as all other age groups in Colorado, emphasizing the importance of avoiding large crowds and not attending parties, according to a Sept. 22 news release, the type that generally follow Polis’ regular news conferences.

Asked why the state public-health department had chosen to raise the personal gatherings cap to 25 people for some counties, a Sept. 25 statement from the Colorado State Joint Information Center, which takes questions for the health department, said the following: “Guidance for gatherings is based on the county’s disease transmission level, positivity rate and hospitalizations. In counties with low disease transmission, slightly larger gatherings are (OK) if attendees are wearing masks and practicing physical distancing. If possible, gatherings should be outside.”

If virus spread in a county becomes dire enough, it could ultimately be placed under a stay-athome order like the ones in effect last spring.

Tri-County Health Department has extended an order requiring maskwearing in public spaces “for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Tri-County’s order also continues to require masks outdoors when social distancing cannot be maintained, said Douglas, the health chief. That’s the other key difference from the state’s order.

Tri-County’s order aligns with the governor’s order on all aspects aside from the duration and the outdoor requirement. That includes exempting children 10 and younger from wearing a mask.

Tri-County will continue to monitor the science and data pertaining to mask-wearing and its impact on the pandemic and will adjust the order as needed, the release said.

Agency responds as cases spike New social distancing restrictions for Adams and Arapahoe counties, announced on Oct. 16, marked the first public health orders Tri-County

Health Department had issued regarding COVID-19 since its order on maskwearing in July.

Tri-County issued the new orders for those two counties in an attempt to slow the spread in Adams and Arapahoe and keep them from moving to even more restrictions under the state’s safer-at-home order, which would mean reduced capacity for businesses, places of worship and gatherings. If virus spread in a county becomes dire enough, it could ultimately be placed under a stay-at-home order like the ones in effect last spring.

Douglas County’s trend is more concerning than Tri-County would like, but it wasn’t alarming enough to warrant a new public health order there, Douglas, the health chief, said.

Since early September, Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties saw their first notably sustained increases in rates of new COVID-19 cases since July, according to Tri-County data.

The agency warned earlier in October that the three counties must slow the spread or face tighter restrictions.

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Suburban women are key in 2020 political races Demographic has shifted between parties in past elections

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Cathy Lees, a stay-at-home mom in Highlands Ranch, is picking candidates this year based on her values, and that includes how they treat people. She’s been put off for four years by President Donald Trump’s language and demeanor.

“I have a 14-year-old daughter, and I would never want her to put up with someone speaking to her like he speaks to women,” she said. “Nor would I want my 16-year-old son speaking to anyone the way he speaks to people.”

In Grand Junction, Rose Pugliese is voting with her two children in mind, too. But two of her biggest concerns are the economy and law and order.

“Grand Junction hasn’t had quite the protests or the riots, but we are still watching it as moms and we want to make sure that it doesn’t come here,” said Pugliese, a Republican Mesa County commissioner who lives on the outskirts of Grand Junction. “We want to be prepared if it does.”

The two suburban women are a target demographic for candidates from the top of the ticket down to the local contests, and the way candidates try to sway them is often through concern for their kids. That’s nothing new. But while their top worries in past years

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were school shootings, gun laws and foreign terrorism, in the 2020 election candidates are trying to woo the women by talking about COVID-19 and public safety in the wake of sometimes violent protests.

One campaign flier mailed to women from the Colorado Republican Party features a picture of a woman with scrunched eyebrows and a worried expression and it says former Vice President Joe Biden will cut funding to police, though Biden has said repeatedly that he would not defund the police if he is elected. “The Democrats have moved way too far to the left and that worries me,” the mailer says. “We

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The Colorado Democratic Party, meanwhile, called out U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner with a mailer on abortion rights. “Cory Gardner supports criminalizing abortion and putting doctors in jail for up to five years,” it says, referring to a failed Senate vote. “Four years of medical school. Five years in jail.” The mailer refers to 2018, when Gardner voted in favor of opening debate on a proposal to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The suburban-women vote — also known as the middle-class, whitewomen vote — is a target because it’s traditionally a persuadable group that can swing between party affiliations.

And this election cycle, the suburbs are more racially diverse than they were four years ago.

In 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton barely won the suburban-women vote, according to Pew Research Center. And research shows that the portion of women identifying with the Democratic Party has increased significantly since Trump’s election.

In general, more women vote than men. In the last presidential election, 63% of eligible women voted, compared with 59% of men, according to Pew. Trump made it clear during a rally in Pennsylvania last week just how much he needs their support. “Suburban women, will you please like me? I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?” he said in front of a cheering crowd.

“We saved suburbia.”

So far the message is not resonating in Colorado. Two polls in recent months showed a substantial gap in the women’s vote for president, with Biden receiving 58% support and Trump at 36% or less.

The gap is even more pronounced among suburban women — upwards of 36 points more support for Biden than Trump, according to a survey conducted recently by Keating Research, a Democratic firm that is one of the state’s leading pollsters.

And Rick Ridder, a veteran Colorado pollster, said a survey he released recently showed Biden with a major advantage in Colorado — one built on the women’s vote. For women under age 50, he said, Biden gets 69% support and Trump 25%. “That’s a stunning number,” Ridder said. “This is one of the most amazing polls I’ve ever done. These people have made up their minds.”

Seeking mothers’ votes In the 1990s, the target was socalled soccer moms — the suburban women hauling their kids and gear bags to practice, many of whom were persuaded to vote for former Democratic President Bill Clinton. Security moms were the post-9/11 mothers concerned mainly about terrorism as they went to the polls and favored former Republican President George W. Bush.

More recently, in 2016, “Walmart moms” were defined as those with kids at home who shopped at Walmart at least once a month. Now “rage moms” are the ones so fed up with racial injustice and Trump that they’ve joined the street protests. And then there are “Zoom moms,” the women bearing the brunt of the pandemic as they manage online work meetings alongside their children’s cyberlearning.

The buzz term this election cycle, though, is the more general: “suburban women.” It’s inclusive of women without children, and moms who aren’t soccer moms or, as former Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin used to call them, hockey moms.

They’re all pretty much the same demographic.

“It’s a coded way to say middle- and upper-class white women,” said Sara Chatfield, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Denver. “The way Trump has used this term has been very racialized: `You don’t want minorities moving into your neighborhood and ruining them’ seems to be his underlying message.”

Research has shown that moms — more than women who are not moms — are more concerned about law and order, and more supportive of police, said Chatfield, who teaches a course on women and politics.

And while moms in the past several years have been concerned about gun laws and protecting kids from school shootings, 2020 has pushed other problems to the forefront. “They are more worried about whether their kids can go to school at all,” Chatfield said.

This is why Democrats are focusing much of their messaging on the pandemic and how they will get kids back in school, and why Republican candidates are amplifying the violence in the streets, including some of the Black Lives Matter protests across the country.

Abortion rights are on the line this year, too, as Colorado votes on a proposal to ban abortion after 22 weeks of gestation, without exception for a lethal fetal diagnosis or the health of the mother, and as the U.S. Senate decides whether to confirm a new U.S. Supreme Court justice to replace abortion rights advocate Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But contrary to assumptions, Chatfield said, the abortion divide in the United States is not based on a gender gap — it’s primarily a Democrat-Republican line.

Outgoing state Rep. Lori Saine, who is knocking doors in Weld County as she competes for a spot on the county commission, said the potential for violent protests is “the No. 1 concern I’ve heard at the door lately.”

Saine, a Republican, said she keeps hearing from “women who are pretty afraid the riots are coming up here to their neighborhood.” They are looking at local and national news footage and feeling anxious. Many are talking about getting trained to carry a gun, she said.

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Health insurance rates in Colorado hold steady Numbers barely budge amid uncertainty linked to pandemic

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

Amid a historic public health crisis, something curious has happened with health insurance prices: Nothing.

When state officials this month unveiled the approved rates for next year’s health insurance plans, they announced the smallest change in years. Average prices for plans in the individual market — where people shop for insurance if they don’t get coverage through an employer — are set to decline by 1.4%. Average prices in the small-group market — where small employers buy plans for their workers — are set to rise by 3.8%.

Given that prices in both of these markets were increasing annually by double-digit percentages not long ago, the non-news of next year’s rates comes as welcome news for consumers. But it also raises a question. Why hasn’t the coronavirus pandemic — and all the costly medical care that can go along with it — led to higher insurance prices?

The answer can be found in dozens of pages of regulatory filings that insurance companies submitted to the state when seeking approval for next year’s rates. The upshot is that health insurers seem to be as unsure as the rest of us about what next year will look like.

Some companies project a modest increase in the amount of medical care they will have to cover due to coronavirus — on the order of 1% or so. Others think people will continue to avoid seeking treatment for nonurgent conditions, resulting in lower

expenses. And some companies openly say they don’t know and don’t want to guess.

“It kind of nets out once you look at the savings that came from this year and you try to forecast that forward,” said Michael Conway, Colorado’s insurance commissioner.

Nationwide trend What’s happening with health insurance prices in Colorado matches what’s happening nationwide. When the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health-research organization, looked at filings across the country, it found an average 1.1% increase in prices for individual market plans next year. Digging deeper, the organization found that COVID-19 had an average 0% impact on next year’s prices.

“The term `uncertainty’ came up a lot,” said Nisha Kurani, a senior policy analyst at the Kaiser Family

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quarantine, and as you know that has made a big impact on our school district as well as others,” Ingalls said.

With standard contact identification, people need to quarantine if they were in the same classroom with a sick individual for more than one period, if they were within 6 feet of the individual for at least 15 minutes while both parties wore masks, or if they were within 12 feet of the individual for at least 15 minutes while either party was unmasked.

With targeted contact identification, people need to quarantine if they are identified as a “close contact” — where they were within six feet of the individual for at least 15 minutes while wearing masks or within 12 feet of the individual for at least 15 minutes without masks.

A number of requirements need to be met to use the targeted process.

The county must be at level 1 or 2 of Safer at Home, there can’t be an additional positive case in the same classroom, and classrooms have to use seating charts. Staff will use seating charts to determine who had close contact with a sick individual, Ingalls said.

Ingalls said the targeted approach

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Part of that uncertainty is trying to figure out how much medical care unrelated to coronavirus people are going to need next year. When the pandemic hit this spring, hospital and doctor’s office visits for elective and non-urgent medical care plummeted.

Even people potentially experiencing heart attacks stopped showing up at hospitals — possibly leading to an increase in cardiac arrests at home.

Michael Kleinrock, a research director at the health care analytics company IQVIA, said hospital patient volume nationwide has rebounded after steep drops earlier this year.

Overall for the year, the system is seeing about 20% less utilization than expected pre-pandemic. Patient volume is close to normal but not enough to make up for all those missed visits earlier in the year.

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will not be used at elementary schools because they do not meet all the requirements.

Elementary schools returned to full in-person learning on Oct. 19 and now group classes into their own cohorts.

Previously, the “standard contact identification” was applied to any situation in which quarantines were needed. Numerous district schools experienced quarantines following known or presumed COVID-19 exposures.

Some exposures left so many staff and students quarantined that schools transitioned to full virtual learning for two weeks. A substitute teacher shortage also contributed to the decision to switch schools to temporary virtual learning, when not enough substitutes were available to work for quarantined teachers.

Ingalls said the targeted approach will no longer require quarantining an entire class. In some situations, a teacher may not need to quarantine either. The district will still need to use the standard approach in some circumstances.

The district hopes that means fewer interruptions to students’ learning and possibly some relief to the district’s substitute teacher shortage.

“We hope to see an improvement in our in-person attendance for students,” she said.

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‘Law and order’ debate Pugliese, who has two kids ages 9 and 6, said the Mesa County women working to reelect Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and elect 3rd Congressional District candidate Lauren Boebert are concerned about the riots and protests.

“Obviously, law and order,” she said. “They want to make sure their kids are safe when they drop them off at school.”

Her Western Slope community has a big “back-the-blue” effort to support law enforcement, and that matters to moms who see firefighters and police officers coming into schools to talk about safety, she said.

As for the coronavirus pandemic, it’s a concern, but Pugliese doesn’t blame Trump.

“This pandemic was unprecedented and nobody was prepared for it,” she said. “People may not agree with how the president handled it. There are people who don’t agree on how the governor handled it.”

The issues she hears women talk about most often, she said, are the economy and transportation because they drive their children to various activities across town. “They want to make sure they can take care of their family,” she said.

Mary Dambman, president of the Republican Women of Broomfield, said COVID-19 is the latest fear tactic in politics. The mother and grandmother, and lifelong Republican, has been around long enough to see how candidates have used fear of war, terrorism, the county’s direction and

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now the pandemic to sway voters, she said.

“I think I share with everyone, no matter what her age, the economy is No. 1,” Dambman said. “You are concerned about the needs of the family.

As you grow older, you think of your retirement. You hope that the cost of living doesn’t go crazy.”

“COVID is the fearmonger at the moment,” she added. “It will pass when we get a vaccine.”

But Lees, the Highlands Ranch mom, said she’s annoyed that conservative candidates, as she views it, are trying to use the protests around racial reckoning to evoke fear in women. “I’m not scared of violence in the streets,” she said. “I’m not scared of it coming to the suburbs.

“They are not here to take away my stuff,” continued Lees, who has taken her children to some of the Black Lives Matter protests in Denver and Highlands Ranch. “They are protesting because they don’t have the same options that we do.”

And whether or not candidates are talking about it, Lees is still concerned about gun violence. “We haven’t been in school so there haven’t been any school shootings,” she said, noting that Americans typically talk gun politics in the wake of a mass shooting.

Darien Wilson, also a Highlands Ranch mom, first became involved in politics five years ago by working to replace Douglas County School Board members who enacted a nowrepealed school voucher program.

Then she signed up to help elect Democratic U.S. Rep. Jason Crow in 2018. And this year, she put her own name on the ballot, for Douglas County commissioner.

Wilson calls 2016 “a dark time”

— the year her dog died, a family member was struggling with mental health issues, and Trump was elected. “I literally woke up every day after the election for months just nauseated to realize how many people are OK with sexual assault and how my daughters are not safe,” she said, refering to the then-candidate’s comments on an “Access Hollywood” tape.

As a candidate for commissioner, she tweeted in support of Black Lives Matter. In return, Wilson said, she’s been called a Marxist and a communist by supporters of her opponent, incumbent Republican Commissioner Lora Thomas. “The fear of this rioting is all about racism,” Wilson said. Scaring voters about riot violence works only if they are “primed for it,” she said.

Wilson’s campaign wasn’t getting that much traction until the current commissioners moved to withdraw from Tri-County Health Department after the department ordered a COVID-19 mask mandate. “My campaign just blew up,” she said. “I didn’t sleep for two weeks.”

Her campaign has focused on the pandemic and science, which is a “huge divide right now,” she said.

“Imagine if a terrorist had killed 60 people in Douglas County since March?” referring to the 63 coronavirus deaths in the county.

Thomas said her constituents aren’t concerned about whether Douglas County breaks up with TriCounty Health Department — they want to talk about how to keep the historically conservative county safe, she said.

“I have had many people ask me if they are safe here” and whether the protests will move to the suburbs,

she said. Thomas, a former county coroner now fighting her first competitive race against a Democrat, said voters care most about “quality of life,” including public safety and open spaces.

“I’ve been knocking on doors since 2004 and what I’ve found through all of my years knocking on doors and talking to voters, is that there is no one-size-fits-all for a suburban woman voter,” she said. “They’re conservative, they’re liberal … They love Douglas County the way it is.

And they want to keep it that way.”

Karen Middleton, president of the abortion rights organization Cobalt, has been making phone calls to women in the suburbs to ask if they will vote against Proposition 115, the abortion ban measure.

One woman cut her off and said, “I’m not at all into politics,” before hanging up. Middleton felt like the woman meant “politics is a yucky thing that other people are involved in,” and it reminded her of the times she’s knocked on doors for various campaigns — including her own for state representative in 2008 — and women would take her fliers and promise to ask their husbands.

This year, though, Middleton has been encouraged not just by the numbers of women fired up about politics, but by their enthusiasm.

“This time,” she said, “I’m seeing people come out of the woodwork.”

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Campaign contributions in races for the state Legislature STAFF REPORT

The following is a comparison of campaign contributions made to Democratic and Republican candidates for south metro-area seats in the state Legislature through the Oct. 19 reporting period.

(Source: tracer.sos.colorado. gov) Senate District 4 Jim Smallwood, Republican, Parker — $50,889 Elissa Flaumenhaft, Democrat, Parker — $2,911 Senate District 26 Jeff Bridges, Democrat, Greenwood Village — $242,783 Robert Roth, Republican, Aurora — $38,141 Senate District 27 Chris Kolker, Democrat, Centennial — $182,385 Suzanne Staiert, Republican, Centennial — $82,902 House District 3 Meg Froelich, Democrat, Englewood — $138,469 Dean Titterington, Republican, unincorporated Arapahoe County — $1,645

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House District 37 Tom Sullivan, Democrat, Centennial — $150,760 Caroline Cornell, Republican, unincorporated Arapahoe County — $51,521 House District 38 David Ortiz, Democrat, Littleton — $202,838 Richard Champion, Republican, Columbine Valley —$53,525 House District 39 Mark Baisley, Republican, Roxborough Park — $24,317 Ian Chapman, Democrat, Florissant — $2,808 House District 43 Jennifer Mitkowski, Democrat, Highlands Ranch — $82,823 Kevin Van Winkle, Republican, Highlands Ranch — $69,155 House District 44 Kim Ransom, Republican, Lone Tree — $29,359 Kyra Storojev, Democrat, Parker — $19,403 House District 45 Katie Barrett, Democrat, Castle Rock — $39,051 Patrick Neville, Republican, Castle Rock — $0.00

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question about it,” Klotz said.

That could be in part because of ballots going out nearly a week earlier this year, Klotz said. The county used a new, faster printer service for ballots and the post office “knocked it out of the park,” he said.

There’s also been a higher emphasis from each political party on voting early.

“That I appreciate,” Klotz, a Republican, said. “Our first counts are better when people vote early.”

The county’s increase in population is also likely responsible for the higher turnout, with about 36,000 new voters registered this year.

In-person voting has also seen more turnout than in years past, with 419 people coming out for the first day of voting this year compared to 113 coming out on the first day in 2016.

“One of the parties has been advocating voting in person,” Klotz said. “There’s no reason for anybody who doesn’t have a problem with their ballot to go vote in person.”

Klotz expects about 200,000 of the county’s 277,850 voters to participate in this election, he said.

“Traditionally I could expect 30% of votes to come in initially, another 30% in the middle and another 40% in the last two days,” Klotz said. “I would expect this year...maybe we will see 30% in the last two days.”

The state has also seen higher turnout than in years past, according to Secretary of State Jena Griswold.

“More than 1.4 million Coloradans have already voted, over 50% percent of Colorado’s total 2016 vote,” Griswold said in a Tweet Oct. 23. “When every registered voter is mailed a ballot, it’s easier to have our voices heard. Let’s keep the high turnout and momentum going, Colorado!”

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arge dark dog, running unleashed through front yards, zoomed to the greenbelt trail and out of sight.

Way behind, dog’s owner lopes along.

QUIET Small child on DESPERATION her first bicycle encounters the dog, is frightened, falls off her bicycle and is seriously injured.

Father rushes up, spots the owner, an argument ensues.

Unattended dog runs to the other end of the greenbelt and Craig Marshall into the street.

Smith High school girl taking a driving lesson with her father runs over and kills dog.

The argument on the greenbelt escalates into a fistfight.

The daughter screams in pain and fear, watching her father being beaten

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Prop 113 is flawed idea If Proposition 113 was actually good for Colorado, why would 95% of its funding come from out of state, with the vast majority coming from California? Instead of giving our electoral votes to the candidate who wins Colorado, Prop 113 wants to cede them to whichever candidate wins the most votes nationally. It’s no wonder then that California is trying to buy our votes and diminish Colorado’s national voice.

Indeed, Prop 113 ought to be named, “Should California elect the president for the other 49 states?”

Here are three main reasons to vote NO on Prop 113: Preserve Colorado’s national voice: If big coast population centers can decide the president for the rest of the country, candidates will only cater to those areas. Colorado’s needs and priorities will therefore be overlooked since our voice will be overwhelmed by much larger populations elsewhere.

Recognize our nation’s diversity: To reflect our nation’s diversity of thought and experience, we don’t just need agreement from a lot of people, but agreement from a lot of people in a lot of different places. That’s why it’s important for a president to earn not just the coastal population vote but the vote of those throughout the country.

Discourage voter fraud: Today, voter fraud must occur in the “right” states to swing the election. In a popular vote, it doesn’t matter where the voter fraud occurs, therefore increasing the chances that voter fraud can impact the election.

Let’s preserve Colorado’s voice and vote NO on Prop 113!

Clifford Ard Highlands Ranch Vote Democratic in Douglas Signs of growth and change in Douglas County are everywhere. Equally clear is that this evolution is our future.

To effectively navigate these changes and plan for that future, our leadership must also evolve. Our current Board of County Commissioners has not demonstrated an aptitude for vision-driven leadership and citizen-based decision making.

A salient example of these failures is their reaction to SEE LETTERS, P15

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things. Maybe you’ve noticed your tolerance for failures in civility and common sense has diminished in 2020?

There’s a dog that’s let out at night and yaps about the time I’m writing or painting.

And yaps.

The yap is piercing; it penetrates walls — solid walls — and enters my eardrums like darts.

These are, mostly, little things. But an accumulation of little things can become a problem.

Richard Carlson beat me to it. He’s the author of “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It’s All Small Stuff.” It was published in 1997.

It spent over 101 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.

In December 2005, on his way to promote “Don’t Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant and Downright Mean-Spirited People” he suffered a pulmonary embolism on

by the dog’s owner.

Fortunately, only sentences one and two actually happened.

Unfortunately, we’ve already had one unhappy ending on the block.

Loose dog attacked a neighbor’s dog. The neighbor’s dog had to be taken to the Emergency Center. She survived. The attacker dog was euthanized.

“Dogs must be on a leash when off the owner’s property except when walking in a designated off-leash area.”

Of course, regulations are restrictive, just like the ones about masks and social distancing.

With people dying left and right and riots and protests ongoing, an unleashed dog here and there doesn’t seem like much.

And maybe it isn’t as long as no one gets hurt.

Unless you’re the perpetrator or someone who’s immensely tolerant, it’s one more thing in a year of

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a flight from San Francisco to New York. Age 45.

There is “small stuff ” everywhere.

Unless someone isn’t paying attention, there are at least “Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door.”

That’s the subtitle of Lynn Truss’ book “Talk to the Hand.” It was published (2005) long before COVID-19; none of the six, therefore, is related.

Quoting from it would only depress me — and you too. I bought it knowing it would only deepen my existing grievances.

That’s called “confirmation bias.”

While it is reaffirming, it generally leads to a limited view of things.

Truss has a sense of humor, so her complaints about the “apparent collapse of civility” are both insightful and entertaining.

Unless you’re one of the perpetrators.

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Oriented toward action and focused on results

roactive or reactive. I did or did not. I can or cannot. I will or will not. When we look at those statements quickly, which words resonate with us personally? What I typically see is that people who connect with the words “proactive,” “I did,” “I can” WINNING and “I will” tend to be more WORDS action-oriented and resultsfocused.

There is no right or wrong answer here. Those of us who may have felt more comfortable with the words “reactive,” “I did not,” “I cannot” and “I will not” are sometimes less actionoriented and not as worried about the results. Some of us Michael Norton in this group are comfortable letting others take the actions necessary to achieve the results we are seeking.

One of the best lessons that I have learned that has impacted my personal life and my career has been to understand the difference between “Will” and “Skill.” In most cases, “Skill” can be something we acquire over time. Yet no matter how proficient we become at a certain “Skill”, if we do not have the “Will” to actually use the skill, we will always come up short when it comes to the achievement of our goals and dreams. Action orientation begins with “Will.”

“Skill” without “Will” usually manifests itself with poor performance and low productivity. “Will” without “Skill” does not really help either. We would be left with awesome desire and a positive attitude, but no knowl-

edge of what to do and how to get things done.

When this happens, it could lead to inaction, which consequently compromises our results.

Over the years I have interviewed, hired, trained, managed and led hundreds of people.

And I would say that more often than not, when a new hire didn’t work out, as I looked back at the reason why, it was because I hired based on perceived “Skill” instead of “Will.”

If given a choice today, I would always hire for “Will” before “Skill” assuming that there was the right onboarding and learning pathway to help develop the skills necessary for success.

As an example, when I interview people today, for any role or position in a company, I try and get to both “Skill” and “Will.” Skill shows up easily in resumes, on LinkedIn profiles, in certifications, and in reference checks. And the way I try and identify “Will” is to ask questions like, “Tell me about a time where being proactive helped you in your previous position.” “Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make a decision to take action or choose not to take a specific action?”

“Can you share a time where having a ‘can do’ attitude made a difference for you and the results that you achieved?”

This applies to our personal life as well.

How many times have we looked back on a time in life where we said things such as, “I wish I had said …” or “I could have asked …” or “If only I had done …” This type of reflection usually occurs when we choose inaction over taking action. Or when we were reacting instead of being proactive. And in our “woulda,” “shoulda” and “coulda” moments,

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the mask mandate. Disregarding science in favor of politics, blatantly ignoring constituent health and input, they exempted Douglas County from our own health department’s recommendation. As an active, concerned resident, along with my neighbors, I immediately communicated my disagreement with their policy and backed my assertions with supported research. What was the reaction of the commissioners to our input?

Dead silence.

Then, the same commissioners decided that the best course of action to show their disagreement was to consider terminating our relationship with the health department.

In the middle of an economic recession. While in the throes of a global pandemic.

Douglas County — we can do better.

Please join me in voting for commissioner candidates who are problem solvers. Consensus builders. Listeners. Candidates who will use science, logic, and citizen input to intelligently bring Douglas County safely into the future. This year, the only candidates who meet these criteria are Democrats. By Nov. 3, please vote Democrat.

Laura Reeves Highlands Ranch Keep our county great When we vote, we make a statement about what principles we want guiding our community. While each candidate has their own priorities, there

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our regrets become real when we realized that we placed our desired results in the hands of someone else.

Here’s the thing, inaction and taking action are both a choice. We can sit back and hope that the outcome or result is something that we can accept or just live with. Or we can get in the game and be a part of the achievement and success that we have dreamed about.

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are general truths about Republican and Democrat principles and the different visions each have for government’s role in our lives. Republican principles recognize government’s role in providing important services like infrastructure, public safety, and education, but believe that we should decide how to live our lives. Democrat principles want government to expand further into our lives—believing government knows best what’s right for us. But when government expands, the individual shrinks.

For decades now, we in Douglas County have chosen those Republican principles — a responsible and limited government, freedom of choice and respect for law enforcement.

These principles translate into low taxes, a thriving economy and a safe community. And the quality-of-life this creates is the main reason why Douglas County is nationally recognized as one of the best counties in the country!

Yet Democrats are funneling large amounts of money into Douglas County to try to change our guiding principles. They currently dominate our state government and control multiple counties near us but want to continue their government expansion into our community. With this comes higher taxes, more burdensome regulations and less personal choice.

Do we want to become more like Denver and other surrounding counties or do we want to preserve and improve what makes Douglas County great? Let’s continue choosing the Republican principles that are at the heart of our great county.

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Every time I see him, unleashed, dashing from yard to yard and his too-cool owner walking behind, I’m angered.

Why? Because we also have unleashed drivers.

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Englewood wine-tasting will aid ACC students One Barrel American Bistro and Wine Bar on Broadway is venue for fundraiser STAFF REPORT

The Arapahoe Community College Foundation will host a “Grapes to Grads” wine-tasting fundraiser, an opportunity for local residents to support Arapahoe Community College students, according to a news release.

At the event, participants can order holiday wine from the foundation’s partners at Lido Wine Merchants, a Littleton business, and learn how best to pair wine with holiday meals, according to the release.

“ACC students still need us. More than ever, actually,” the release said. “They are facing unprecedented challenges yet are digging deep to move themselves and their

families forward.”

The in-person, socially distanced event will take place at One Barrel American Bistro and Wine Bar on Nov. 14, with 45-minute tastings that can accommodate 30 people per hour. A cheese platter will be served.

Lunch reservations, not included in ticket price, will be available after the tastings. Tastings are set for the start of each hour from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

One Barrel American Bistro and Wine Bar is at 3401 S. Broadway in Englewood’s downtown area, at the corner of Broadway and Englewood Parkway.

Register at tinyurl.com/GrapesToGradsRegister. Groups must purchase tickets together.

Masks must be worn until seated at designated tables, and attendees will remain seated for the duration of the event. Tastings will be brought to tables by staff.

Those who cannot attend but would like to donate can do so at tinyurl.com/GrapesToGradsDonate.

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Underprivileged youths earn bikes, skills, hope

Making wheel change

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

F

ernando Ibarra couldn’t figure out how to fix his bike.

So he took it to Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery, a nonprofit community bike shop a block from his house in west Denver.

He couldn’t afford the repair price, but the shop manager offered another option. Ibarra, then 15, could volunteer around the shop, work off the cost of the parts he needed, and learn how to do the repair himself.

“I came in every day after school and kept at it, and before long I had a great bike,” Ibarra said.

Now 20, Ibarra works as a mechanic at Lucky Bikes, and said the shop brought far more to his life than just a couple wheels under his feet — he calls his coworkers his “bike family.”

“The folks here got me into mountain bike racing,” he said as he ran new brake lines on a BMX bike. “I’ve raced in Leadville, Granby — beautiful places I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

I’m so grateful for this place.”

Lucky Bikes is one of several nonprofit bike shops in the Denver metro area, working to connect underprivileged youths with their own transportation, the skills to repair bikes themselves, and even start careers.

Bringing bikes to the masses Bicycles can be transformative for young people, said Jon Pasquini, the executive director of Lucky Bikes and its sister organization, Trips For Kids.

“There’s a sense of adventure on a bike,” Pasquini said. “As a kid, that freedom is amazing. There’s independence, there’s health and exercise, and it’s good for the environment, too.”

A former teacher, Pasquini wrote a curriculum for Learn to Earn a Bike, a 10-hour program where youngsters learn not just how to repair a bike, but also about the physics behind biking — levers, pulleys, force — and at the end get to keep their bike, a helmet and a set of tools.

The shop has lots of other programs, including three-month internships where local youth can learn customer service skills in addition to repairs. The pandemic put the kibosh on many of the shop’s fundraising efforts, but thankfully a boom in sales of refurbished bikes is keeping the shop afloat.

Now, Pasquini is working on a mountain biking team for local kids.

“Cycling is seen as an elitist sport,” he said. “Lots of kids on those teams are riding $10,000 bikes. We’re going to provide kids with bikes on that level.

We’re bringing it to the masses.”

‘It kept me going’ For others, nonprofit community bike shops are an integral part of the community, and a lifeline in tough times.

Julie Messa of Golden found herself out of work in mid-March as the pandemic forced the shutdown of the Golden Community Center’s senior program. Facing an uncertain future, Messa wanted to fall back on her favorite pastime of biking, but her bike was in shambles.

“Since I was out of work, I didn’t want to spend a bunch of money on a new bike,” she said.

That’s where the Golden Optimists

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Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery is one of numerous nonprofit community bike shops in the Denver area that provide low- or no-cost bikes to underprivileged youths.

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Fernando Ibarra works on a bike at Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery. Ibarra said working at the shop has given him skills, friendships and life experience.

Bicycle Recycle Program came in. For years, Messa had bought bikes for her two children from the program, dropping off their old ones as they outgrew them.

The bike she picked up at the beginning of the pandemic “kept me going,” she said.

Messa wasn’t alone, said Carol Cameron, the group’s president.

“Bikes are the new toilet paper,” Cameron said. “Bikes and parts are in super high demand right now.”

The pandemic kept the shop from with local schools to donate bikes to holding one of its key events this year: underprivileged students who show driving refurbished bikes improvements in “academdown to the Navajo ics, attendance and IF YOU GO Nation in the Four attitude.”

The Denver area’s Corners region.

“Research has nonprofit community bike The silver lining, shown that in shops have a wide variety of programs she said, is that material povand services. Many are looking for volunmore elite erty, there are teers and donations of bikes or money. And, of cyclists dounderdevelcourse, they have plenty of bikes for sale, and some nated a good oped plans available free of charge to qualifying clients. number for the Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery: 3150 W. Jewell Ave., Denver. of highfuture,” TripsForKidsDenver.org or 720-454-9722 end used Buck said.

Golden Optimists: 1200 Johnson Road, Golden. Goldbikes and “We try to enOptimist.org parts in give kids a the spring chance to Project reCYCLE: 3279 S. Santa Fe Drive, Suite C, Englewood. ProjectReCYCLE.org or 720-387-7904 and sumbelieve in mer as they themselves Bikes Together: 1060 Osage St., Denver. Bikesupgraded. and realize Together.org or 720-403-8757 The prothey can plan Second Chance Bicycle Shop: 4122 S. gram, among for the future Parker Road, Aurora. SecondChancethe older in and achieve it.”

BikeSC.wixsite.com/colorado the Denver area, Buck, a former or 720-270-5731 operates on an allpastor, said that volunteer basis, selling while the group is nonrefurbished bikes to cover religious, he personally finds the cost of tools and rent. They work a sense of spiritual fulfillment in his with local social services agencies to work. donate bikes to locals experiencing “If I have to choose between talking homelessness. about what Jesus said but not doing “If someone just needs a bike but the work, and doing the work but not can’t afford one, we’ll donate one,” talking about it, I’ll choose the latter,” Cameron said. “We have no means he said. testing. We get taken advantage of Buck is involved in a wider range of sometimes, but hey, we’re Optimists.” local efforts to boost bicycling, including sitting on the City of Littleton’s Doing the work transportation board, where he advoConnecting people with bikes can be cates for more and better bike lanes a means to personal growth, said Jon around town.

Buck, the executive director of Project Buck said bikes are bringing light to reCYCLE, a nonprofit community bike dark times. shop in Englewood.

“This is tangible, simple, and it can The group, which is in the process change lives,” Buck said. “People need hope now more than ever.” of rebranding as HopeCycle, works

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Gallery reopens with members’ exhibit Guild makes home in restored depot with accompanying caboose

IF YOU GO

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Photographer Peggy Dietz’s thoughtful “2020: a Lost Year,” with bare trees stretching toward the sky, where a feather-shaped cloud floats, reflects a wistful image that will invite a close look. Painter Pat Dall has created images of some of her glass and pottery treasures from her home. Both are longtime Littleton Fine Arts Guild members and former presidents of the organization, which started to gather and paint in the 1950s in the now-gone Grange Hall that once stood at Orchard Road and University Boulevard.

The Littleton Fine Arts Guild raised money and restored the 1899 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot to its happy red color in 1976, with a Bicentennial grant and help from the late Varian Ashbaugh, who moved it over from a location where is sat, empty and languishing, in Bega Park. It once was busy as daily trains carried people and freight, including milk cans.

The Depot Art Gallery is at 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton (just northwest of the old Littleton Municipal Courthouse). Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Guild members take turns keeping the gallery open and are happy to greet you. Free admission. 303-795-0781, depotartgallery. org. The current “Best of the Best” show can also be seen online at depotartgallery. org/best-of-the-best.

Artist/member Brigitte Runnals, who lives in Castle Rock, is featured as “Artist of the Month” at the Depot Art Gallery, since the downtown Littleton gallery opened again Oct. 2, with a “Best of the Best” exhibit of art by Littleton Fine Arts Guild members, who responded to a call to “bring in an example of your work,” once there was permission to reopen — with masks required, of course.

The adjoining Caboose gallery is also open — both from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at present.

Colorful, playful paintings by Runnals, exhibited on a wall in the back room, feature feathers, marbles, flowers and more. ( I especially would love to see them where young children could enjoy them — in the meantime,

The Depot Art Gallery in Littleton has reopened three days a week, with masks required, and is currently hosting its “Best of the Best” exhibit of artworks by members of the Littleton Fine Arts Guild.

PHOTO BY SCOTT GILBERT bring kids down to the Depot to view these and other images that should delight them!)

As one enters the Depot, color surrounds you and a large oil painting on canvas (40”x60”) of Brooklyn by accomplished artist Jeff Velarde is at your left, near the steps up to the baggage area. Velarde, a local graphic artist, has won numerous area awards, including several in Littleton’s annual “Own an Original” exhibit. He was featured in a solo show at Town Hall

Arts Center’s Stanton Gallery and has exhibited at CORE New Art Space gallery, which was on Santa Fe Drive for years and is now on West Colfax in Lakewood — as well as at other area locations, such as Curtis Arts Center.

The Littleton Fine Arts Guild has added the Stanton Gallery at Littleton Town Hall Arts Center to its list of places for ongoing exhibits and well as Englewood’s Nixon’s Coffee House, Arapahoe County Justice Center, and the Vita building in Littleton.

Exhibit aims to express experiences of women

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urtis Center for the Arts, 2349 E. Orchard Road, in a historic schoolhouse in Greenwood Village, will present an exhibit by the Colorado Women’s Caucus for the Arts SONYA’S called “Old Myths, New Stories” from SAMPLER Nov. 2 to Dec. 23.

It is described as: “expressing ideas about the experience of women in the arts through time and today.” Center hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 303-797-1779.

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Littleton’s OAO Littleton Museum’s annual “Own an Original,” with a theme of “Liberating Humor,” will be held Nov. 20 to Jan. 3. Registration via CAFE. More details coming soon.

Girard Avenue and South Broadway, with a time-lapse piece by Amanda Wolf.

Aurora’s Vintage Theatre We had recommended Vintage Theatre’s “Murderers,” which was to open last weekend, but county orders closed it and they now say they will not open until 2021, alas! We will let readers know when they can enjoy this theatre in Aurora again.

singer/songwriter Rodney Rice, who has recently moved to Littleton. His sophomore album was produced by Andre Moran at Congress House Studios in Austin, Texas, where Rice recorded his 2014 album, “Empty Pockets and a Troubled Mind.” Visit rodneyrice.hearnow.com.

Pollinator summit Professor Dave Goulson, University of Sussex, England, will be keynote speaker at a daylong virtual meeting, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 5, hosted by the Colorado Pollinator Network.

Tickets cost $20. Topics for the day include: Education, Engagement, Equity; Creating and Implementing Policies That Accelerate Pollinator Conservation; Colorado’s Pollinator Research ... Visit butterflies.org/copollinatornetwork.

CORE New Art Space “Small Works,” a juried open call show, juried by Valerie Savarie, artist/ owner of Valkarie Gallery in Lakewood, runs Nov. 13 to 29 at CORE New Art Space, 6851 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood. Reception: Nov. 13, 6 to 9 p.m.

303-297-8428, coreartspace.com.

‘This Is Colorado’ show and awards From Nov. 1 to Jan. 30, 2021, the Virtual “This is Colorado” exhibit will be on the Colorado Gallery of the Arts’ Virtual Gallery at Arapahoe Community College. Juror Amelia Furman will lead a Virtual Awards Ceremony at 6 p.m. Nov. 2 to announce winners. Zoom link: https:// arapahoe-edu.zoom.us/j/84033616213.

Meeting ID: 840 3361 6213. For viewing: arapahoe.edu/campus-community/art-galleries.

New Englewood art The long-running Twin Dragon Restaurant, at 3021 S Broadway, Englewood, has a new mural on the north side, painted by Museum of Outdoor Arts’ 2020 Design and Build Fellow A. J. Davis and Amanda Wolf. Also designed by Davis: a new crosswalk at

Cindy Welch classes Cindy Welch, a Castle Rock painter, has started two new six-week watercolor classes on Oct. 20, but can offer them recorded so latecomers could catch up — or just watch the recorded classes. ($150 each.) Email: cindy@ cindywelchartist.com.

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Fast-casual chicken spot to open on Smoky Hill Slim Chickens aims for ‘Southern hospitality’ in east Centennial

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Byron and Kristen Wheeler have been in the restaurant business for years, amassing a large number of fast-food locations they run in the Denver metro area.

“It’s been part of our lives as long as we’ve known each other,” said Kristen Wheeler, 37. “It’s something that is a passion of ours and that we’re good at.”

The husband and wife team’s latest project: bringing a chicken restaurant that’s little known in the Denver area to east Centennial.

The Wheelers, who live in Castle Rock, met the founders of Slim Chickens and “fell in love with the brand and the heart behind it and wanted to bring it to Colorado,” Kristen Wheeler said. Slim Chickens opened in 2003 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The upcoming location at East Smoky Hill Road and South Himalaya Street — expected to open in early November — marks

The new location of Slim Chickens, a fast-casual chicken restaurant, takes shape near East Smoky Hill Road in Centennial on Oct. 26. It’s expected to open its doors in early November.

PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD the brand’s second Colorado location following the Wheelers’ first in north Aurora on Tower Road, which opened last year, according to a news release.

Asked what set the couple’s hearts on Slim Chickens, Kristen Wheeler said: “Oh, gosh, well the food is delicious, first of all. But we love

the atmosphere of the restaurants, the Southern hospitality and really the family feel that Slim Chickens has.”

It’s a fast-casual restaurant — a term that means a server brings the food out to the customer rather than handing it off at the counter as in a fast-food joint — and it offers “100% all-natural chicken

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“The system appears to be learning how to walk and chew gum, learning how to manage COVID in this environment and still deliver necessary health care for other people. Which is positive,” he said. “But there’s still that lingering issue of the where-didthey-go people.”

Colorado hospitals have also seen a rebound in patient visits, but not enough to make up for earlier losses.

Julie Lonborg, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Hospital Association, said inpatient discharges are down 12% for the year and emergency room visits are down around 25%.

Hospitals expect that lower volume to persist through the end of the year and much of next year, far longer than what the hospital association thought when the pandemic first hit the state.

“We all thought at the time, `Oh gosh, surely by October life will be a little back toward normal,’” she said.

“I think we all recognize now that that is not the case and will continue not to be the case for some time.”

The certainty of ‘uncertainty’ But there are also other factors that make it complicated to project how coronavirus will impact medical costs next year. How much will the virus spread? Will there be a safe and effective vaccine and when will it be ready? Will new treatments be approved and how much will they cost?

Will the election mean a change in the White House and a different approach to fighting the virus? Will pandemicrelated job losses cause more people to

tenderloin, and the tenderloin is a very small part of the chicken,” Wheeler said.

The restaurant buttermilk marinates its chicken tenders, lightly hand-breads and fries them, she added.

The Wheelers, who run LOVE Restaurant Group, also plan to open a third Colorado location in Colorado

buy coverage in the individual market — or drop coverage altogether?

“We note,” the Denver Health Medical Plan wrote in a filing with the state, “that there is substantial uncertainty regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on premium rate development, including whether the pandemic will increase or decrease costs in 2021.”

Some of the information that companies provided to the state is redacted to protect business confidentiality, and it is possible that the insurers were more candid with their assessments of the pandemic in those sections. But, just like the Kaiser Family Foundation saw nationally, the word “uncertainty” keeps popping up in insurers’ public filings.

“Due to the limited information available on the pandemic,” the insurance company Oscar wrote in an actuarial memo filed with the state, “any analysis is subject to a substantially greater than usual level of uncertainty.”

Regulatory limitations There’s also one other coronavirusrelated reason that rates will stay relatively flat next year, and it involves regulatory muscle.

When insurers filed their preliminary rates earlier this summer, they asked the state to approve an average 2.2% increase for the individual market and 5.7% increase for the small group market. But the state Division of Insurance, led by Conway, knocked those rates back before final approval.

When coming up with proposed rates, insurers have to make calculated guesses on how much certain components of health care costs will increase or decrease in the coming

Springs before the end of the year. Overall, the brand has opened 100 locations around the United States as well as international locations in Kuwait and London, according to the news release.

In their years in the business, the Wheelers have come to run 13 Burger King locations in the Denver metro area. The Centennial Slim Chickens location is a former Burger King, one of the Wheelers’ locations that closed about half a year ago.

Running fast-food restaurants taught Kristen Wheeler the “value of hard work and the value of people,” she said.

“Our whole philosophy in our company is to love our people,” Wheeler said, adding, “so that our team can extend that same love to the guests. Really learning the value of a strong team and loving them well.”

Food enthusiasts might also catch the Wheelers in their food truck that travels up and down the Denver metro area.

“We hit breweries and neighborhoods and local parks from Denver to Colorado Springs,” Wheeler said.

She, her husband and their team all help operate the truck, which they started up about a year ago, she said.

The truck is branded under the Slim Chickens name too.

year. For instance, insurers will estimate how much rising prices or how much frequency of health care utilization will impact their costs. This is called “trend” in regulatory parlance.

One reason regulators knocked next year’s proposed rates down is that the state imposed a cap on how much of an increase insurers could predict for health care utilization — setting the amount at no more than 1%. Conway said that was done because the state last year approved projected utilization increases that were way higher than what insurers have actually seen, because of the pandemic. That meant rates were likely set higher than ultimately needed last year, which could lead insurers to having to refund money to customers in the coming years.

“It just really hadn’t come to fruition, the increase we had approved last year,” Conway said. “So we didn’t think it would be appropriate to grant a typical utilization trend.”

Amanda Massey, the executive director of the Colorado Association of Health Plans, an insurance industry trade group, said the Division of Insurance also limited how other coronavirus-related costs could be factored into the 2021 rates. She said it’s important that the long-term costs of coronavirus be fully accounted for.

Not doing so, she said, “could have serious consequences for health insurance premiums in the future if not accurately reflected in rates.”

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Used by permission. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun. com.

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Fall colors still impress on these easy in-town hikes Three close-in nature walks let you avoid the traffic and peep the leaves

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Even though the leaves are falling fast, it’s not too late to see some beautiful fall colors on an easy, close-in hike. But you’d better hurry.

If you want to get away from it all for an hour or so, without really leaving the metro area, look no further.

We scouted three trails that might scratch your seasonal itch without spending hours on the road to get there and back.

Waterton Canyon Waterton Canyon still has plenty of autumn vibes to take in as you wind your way around the hiking path.

Aside from the foliage, there are birds and ducks, and you may even see a bighorn sheep if you make it far enough up the trail. It’s a nature walk that may just make you forget how close to civilization you really are. Waterton is easy to find from C-470 or Wadsworth Blvd., and there’s usually plenty of parking to be had, not to mention, a restroom if

Vibrant shades of autumn can still be found while walking the South Platte Park trail in Littleton, one of three easy in-town hikes for the whole family.

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South Platte Park The final spot on our list is South Platte Park. Just a stone’s throw from Santa Fe Drive and Mineral Avenue in Littleton, you can take in some gorgeous views of the foothills to the west, as you stroll through thickets of colorful aspen trees and listen to the stress-reducing sound of water gliding down a sleepy stretch of the South Platte river. There are small footpaths branching off from the main trail if you want to wander, and lots of great vantage points for the aspiring photographer. Parking is free and easy, and can be found just to the north of the park-and-ride lots that sit on the southwest corner of the Aspen Grove shopping center. Just follow the road to the Carson Nature Center and turn right, for plentiful parking and an entrance to the trail. If you go, think about making it a sunset hike.

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Yosemite ‘smart’ traffic signal project finally here

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South metro residents may start to find their commutes home are quicker these days.

The cities of Lone Tree, Centennial and Greenwood Village finished the installation of new “smart” traffic signals at 42 intersections along Yosemite Street last month, capping a milestone project to improve traffic congestion.

“Reducing traffic remains a top priority for our community, and road congestion does not recognize city borders,” Lone Tree Mayor Jackie Millet said in an Oct. 14 news release.

“This innovative partnership with our municipal neighbors provides a regional solution that improves traffic flow along the entire Denver South corridor and increases the efficiency of our existing road network.”

The project is the first multijurisdictional traffic signal project in the region, according to the release.

The adaptive traffic signal system coordinates stoplights along Yosemite from Lincoln Avenue in Lone Tree to Belleview Avenue in Greenwood Village. The system collects traffic data using cameras and in-ground wireless sensors, which connects to an access point attached to the pole. The signals along the Yosemite corridor adjust in real time to optimize traffic flow.

“Improving the safety and efficiency of our roadways, while improving the flow of traffic, are shared challenges among the cities of the south metro Denver area,” Centennial Mayor Stephanie Piko said.

City public works departments, including Lone Tree and Centennial, already use closed-circuit TV cameras to manually adjust signals based on data collected from traffic incidents.

The project began as a pilot program, which finished in 2019, called “Project Mercury.” Installation began early this year.

The multijurisdictional idea to provide smart traffic signal technology dates back to 2017.

Lone Tree contracted with Alpine Signal, LLC for more than $1 million to install equipment at 21 intersections along Yosemite.

Centennial has budgeted $6 million for its Intelligent Transportation System, which includes the adaptive signal project at 20 intersections.

All three cities used the same central software. Lone Tree uses Trafficware technology and Centennial and Greenwood Village use Centracs.

The project was borne out of the area’s worsening traffic problem.

Rather than add more lanes for traffic to move through, the cities chose to experiment with the “smart city” technology.

“Smart city” technology describes devices that collect data to adjust automatically and accordingly to certain situations. More data translates to more accurate signal timings, so every time a person drives down Yosemite Street now, the more efficient a driver’s commute time.

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Balanced approach leads Castle View past Rock Canyon Sabercats win 48-14 against Jaguars at Douglas County Stadium

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Castle View scored early and often as the Sabercats rolled to a 48-14 Douglas County League football victory over the Rock Canyon Jaguars on Oct. 23 at Douglas County Stadium.

The Sabercats, 2-0, used a balanced offensive attack, which featured the running of senior backs Zane Wodark and Noah Jamero along with the passing of quarterback Johnny Colombi to post the easy victory.

“I thought we were balanced,” said Castle View head coach Todd Casebier.

“We have tried to emphasize that this season. We had them guessing on what we were going to do.”

Castle View finished the game with 584 yards in total offense and it was well balanced. The Sabercats gained 292 yards on the ground and 292 via the pass.

Colombi was 10 of 13 passing for 292 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran for a score and had 20 rushing yards to wind up with 312 total yards.

Wodark gained 109 yards rushing with two touchdowns and also had three pass receptions for 38 yards.

Jamero carried the ball 22 times and

Rock Canyon senior Brendan Biodino (2) looks for yardage in the Oct. 23 game against Castle View at Douglas County Stadium. The Sabercats won the game, 48-14.

PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON had 148 yards rushing.

Blake Haggerty had three receptions for 37 yards and one TD. Jens Anderson had two catches for 68 yards and both receptions were for Castle View touchdowns.

“We have two good backs and our quarterback can run too,” said Casebier. “Our quarterback is making good decisions. Our defense got the ball back for us which was important.”

A group of Castle View students were chanting “We want Valor” as the game progressed on the cold evening, Castle View faces the perennial powerhouse and second-ranked Eagles team on Oct. 30 at Valor Christian.

“We’ve got it a lot tougher next week,” said Casebier. “We’ve got to

Castle View senior Zane Wiodark (22) ran for two touchdowns in the Sabertcats’ 4814 football victory over Rock Canyon on Oct. 23. play almost perfect.”

Rock Canyon played better in the second half but could not come back after falling behind 21-0.

The Jaguars scored when Croix Burney returned a blocked field goal for a TD and Vann Schield added a

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Senior running back Brendan Biondino rushed for 124 yards on 19 carries for the Jaguars. Jack Emery and Jack Zilligen led the Rock Canyon defense.

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The boys of Boy Scout Troop 36 prepare to embark on the CROP Hunger Walk at Waterton Canyon on Oct. 24. From left: William Thompson, Gary Doliber, Matthew Dietz, Ben Ryan, Baddy Ntege, Alex Moore and Josiah Myers.

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Boy Scouts take strides for those less fortunate

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For most Americans, food is often no farther away than the refrigerator.

But for people in the developing world, getting something to eat or drink can require walking miles a day.

Those are the people on Josiah Myers’ mind every year as he undertakes the annual CROP Hunger Walk, in which participants walk miles as part of fundraising efforts to feed the world’s hungry.

Myers, 12, has been participating in the walk since he was 4, becoming the star fundraiser of the Littleton chapter — now called the Foothills CROP Walk.

This year, he brought along some friends: his fellow Boy Scouts of Troop 36, who trudged five miles

up Waterton Canyon on Oct. 24 to recognize struggles faced by people far less fortunate — with several of the boys carrying gallon water jugs to symbolize how far people in the developing world must walk for clean water.

“So many people in the world face hardships and hunger, and it’s easy for people who have food to forget,” Myers said. “I’m just trying to do what I can for them.”

The CROP walk, which stands for Community Response to Overcome Poverty, dates to 1947, when it started as an effort to send seeds and farming supplies to war-ravaged Europe. Managed by the Church World Service, the annual walk-a-thon raises money for local, national and international food relief efforts.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2020-0091 To Whom It May Concern: On 8/4/2020 2:35:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Robert Hopp Jr Original Beneficiary: Bank of America, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: LSF9 Master Participation Trust Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/20/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 1/11/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007003360 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $960,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $896,506.67 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: A default in payment required by the Deed of Trust.**Foreclosure Forbearance AgreementFixed signed by Robert Hopp on October 15, 2015 THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: Lot 39, Highlands Ranch Filing No. 134-A, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Which has the address of: 2754 Rockbridge Drive , Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, December 2, 2020, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 10/8/2020 Last Publication: 11/5/2020 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 8/5/2020 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KAREN J RADAKOVICH Colorado Registration #: 11649 4750 TABLE MESA DRIVE , BOULDER, COLORADO 80305-5575 Phone #: (303) 494-3000 Fax #: Attorney File #: 7225-3240 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2020-0091 First Publication: October 8, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Metropolitan Districts Published Notice: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A public hearing will be held before the Planning Commission on, November 16th, at 6:00pm, and before the Board of County Commissioners on, December 8th, at 2:30pm, in the Commissioners’ Hearing Room,100 Third St., Castle Rock, CO, for approval of a preliminary plan located west of the intersection of Moore Road and Waterton Road.

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. For more information call Douglas County Planning at 303-660-7460.

File #: SB2019-073 / Name: Sterling Ranch Preliminary Plan 6.

Legal Notice No. 938142 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Bids and Settlements Public Notice REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) #034-20 ROOF INSPECTION SERVICES The Building Division within the Department of Public Works Engineering of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests responses from responsible, qualified, and reputable firms who will provide certified, trained, skilled, and experienced labor to perform roof inspections, as specified.

The RFQ documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. The RFQ documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

RFQ responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFQ #034-20, Roof Inspection Services” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFQ responses will be received until 11:00 a.m., on Friday, November 13, 2020 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any responses so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all responses, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said response and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the successful firm.

Please direct any questions concerning this RFQ to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 938182 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #039-20 ARBORIST SERVICES The Parks, Trails & Building Grounds Division of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible, qualified firms for the provision of Arborist Services to include, but not limited to, spraying, fertilization, pruning, tree removal, stump grinding, and winter tree watering at buildings, parks, and trailheads throughout Douglas County.

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com.

IFB documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Bid responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 039-20, Arborist Services” and mailed or hand-carried to the address shown below prior to the due date and time.

Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 11:00am, on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so.

Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-6607434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

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Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) #042-20 ON-CALL FENCE SERVICES for the DIVISION OF PARKS, TRAILS & BUILDING GROUNDS The Parks, Trails & Building Grounds Division of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) and pricing from responsible, qualified contractors to provide fence installation and repair services, on an as-needed basis, for various County projects. While the Parks and Trails Division is the lead on this RFQ, there is the potential for other departments/divisions to contract for services, as-needed. Individual projects/services will be discussed, negotiated, and issued as required throughout the 2021 calendar year.

The RFQ documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. The RFQ documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

RFQ responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFQ #042-20, Fence Services” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFQ responses will be received until 3:00 p.m., on Thursday, November 12, 2020 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any responses so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all responses, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said response and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the successful firm.

Please direct any questions concerning this RFQ to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 938193 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) #041-20 ON-CALL CONCRETE SERVICES for the DIVISION OF PARKS, TRAILS & BUILDING GROUNDS The Parks, Trails and Building Grounds Division of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests information from responsible and qualified individuals/firms for the provision of on-call Concrete Services.

Individual projects/services will be discussed, negotiated, and issued as required throughout the 2021 calendar year.

The RFQ documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. The RFQ documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

RFQ responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFQ #041-20, Concrete Services” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFQ responses will be received until 1:00 p.m., on Friday, November 13, 2020 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any responses so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all responses, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said response and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the successful firm.

Please direct any questions concerning this RFQ to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 938189 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: MEADOWS CORPORATE CENTER JOINT VENTURE AKA MEADOWS CORPORATE CENTER JOINT VENTURE A COLORADO JOINT VENTURE - KW LANE LTD - MEADOWS CORPORATE CENTER JOINT VENTURE A COLORADO JOINT VENTURE C/O PATRINELY GROUP INC - C DEAN PATRINELY PRESIDENT OF MEADOWS CORPORATE CENTER PGI LLC A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILTY COMPANY AS MANAGING JOINT VENTURER OF MEADOWS CORPORATE CENTER JOINT VENTURE A COLORADO JOINT VENTURE - MICHAEL E NICHOLLS VICE PRESIDENT OF MEADOWS CORPORATE CENTER PGI LLC A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILTY COMPANY AS MANAGING JOINT VENTURER OF MEADOWS CORPORATE CENTER JOINT VENTURE A COLORADO JOINT VENTURE - OMNIVEST PARK RLLLP A COLORADO REGISTERED LIMITED LIABILITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP C/O OMNIVEST REALTY INC -FREDERICK V MIALE JR PRESIDENT OF OMNIVEST INTERNATIONAL INC A COLORADO CORPORATION A GENERAL PARTNER OF OMNIVEST PARK RLLLP A COLORADO REGISTERED LIMITED LIABILITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - E S ALBA PRESIDENT OF OMNIVEST REALTY INC A COLORADO CORPORATION A GENERAL PARTNER OF OMNIVEST PARK RLLLP A COLORADO REGISTERED LIMITED LIABILITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - JOHN C MITCHELL III REGISTERED AGENT OMNIVEST PARK RLLLP A COLORADO REGISTERED LIMITED LIABILITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OMNIVEST REALTY INC A COLORADO CORPORATION A GENERAL PARTNER OF OMNIVEST PARK RLLLP A COLORADO REGISTERED LIMITED LIABILITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - STEVE GRUENLER REGISTERED AGENT OMNIVEST REALTY INC A COLORADO CORPORATION A GENERAL PARTNER OF OMNIVEST PARK RLLLP A COLORADO REGISTERED LIMITED LIABILITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - OMNIVEST INTERNATIONAL INC A COLORADO CORPORATION AKA CATHAY GLOBAL INVESTMENTS INC A NEVADA CORPORATION A GENERAL PARTNER OF OMNIVEST PARK RLLLP A COLORADO REGISTERED LIMITED LIABILITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - MICHAEL BOYD ANDREWS & KURTH LLP - THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO HIGHWAY OFFICE BUILDING ATTN RIGHT OF WAY SECTION - US WEST COMMUNICATIONS INC A COLORADO CORPORATION - CASTLEWOOD FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT AKA SOUTH METRO FIRE RESCUE - CHERRY CREEK BASIN AUTHORITY AKA CHERRY CREEK BASIN WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY - SOUTHGATE SANITATION DISTRICT - SOUTHGATE WATER DISTRICT SOUTH SUBURBAN PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT AKA SOUTH SUBURBAN PARKS AND RECREATION - OMNIPARK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT C/O BOB BLODGETT DISTRICT MANAGER CLIFTONLARSONALLEN LLP - TST INC OF DENVER AKA TTG ENGINEERS INC TST INC OF DENVER AKA TTG ENGINEERS INC CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY REGISTERED AGENT - DENMAR LLC AN INDIANA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AKA DENMAR LLC - DENMAR LLC AN INDIANA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AKA DENMAR LLC THE CORPORATION COMPANY REGISTERED AGENT - MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL INC AKA SODEXO INC - MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL INC AKA SODEXO INC CORPORATE CREATIONS NETWORK INC REGISTERED AGENT PARKRIDGE CORPORATE CENTER COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION AKA PARKRIDGE CORPORATE CENTER OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC - PARKRIDGE CORPORATE CENTER COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION AKA PARKRIDGE CORPORATE CENTER OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC MOYE WHITE LLP REGISTERED AGENT PROGRAM - LAWRENCE E BURNELL CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER OF DENMAR LLC AN INDIANA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY - WHITE LODGING SERVICES CORPORATION ATTN LAWRENCE E BURNELL - OMNIVEST PARK II LLC A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AKA OMNIVEST PARK II RLLLP - OMNIVEST PARK II LLC A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AKA OMNIVEST PARK II RLLLP JOHN C MITCHELL III REGISTERED AGENT - BRADBURY FAMILY PARTNERSHIP A COLORADO LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - BRADBURY FAMILY PARTNERSHIP A COLORADO LIMITED PARTNERSHIP THOMAS H BRADBURY JR REGISTRANT - BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS - PARK RIDGE ONE LLC AKA PARKRIDGE ONE LLC - PARK RIDGE ONE LLC AKA PARKRIDGE ONE LLC ROBERT P FIELDS REGISTERED AGENT - DENSPRING LLC AN INDIANA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY - DENSPRING LLC AN INDIANA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY THE CORPORATION COMPANY REGISTERED AGENT - LAWRENCE E BURNELL CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER DENSPRING LLC AN INDIANA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY - KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION - KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY REGISTERED AGENT - DEBORAH S PRIDDEN VICE PRESIDENT/TRANSACTION MGR KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION - KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION ATTN CORPORATE REAL ESTATE ADMINISTRATOR PID 6079 - PARKRIDGE

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You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 5th day of November 2015 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to DOUGLAS COUNTY the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit:

ALL MIN INT IN PART SE1/4 10-6-67 MIN INT = 18.78 AM/L

and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to DOUGLAS COUNTY. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2014. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of MEADOWS CORPORATE CENTER JOINT VENTURE for said year 2014

That on the 18th day of June 2020 said DOUGLAS COUNTY assigned said certificate of purchase to KW LANE LTD.

That said KW LANE LTD on the 10th day of August 2020 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 28th day of January 2021 unless the same has been redeemed.

Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 15th day of October 2020 /s/ David Gill Douglas County Treasurer Legal Notice No. 938033 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice DOUGLAS COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, STATE OF COLORADO 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, CO Douglas County, CO 80109 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO In the Interest of: ADAM OCHOA-JUAREZ, D.O.B.: 07/14/2011; Child, And concerning: CRYSTAL OCHOA-JUAREZ, D.O.B.: 07/02/1992, Mother; DANIEL STORTI, D.O.B.: 01/20/1985, Possible Father; JOHN DOE, D.O.B.: Unknown, Possible Father; Respondents, And Bertha Ochoa and Ramon Ochoa, Maternal Grandparents, Special Respondents.

Attorney for Department: John Thirkell, #13865 Lori Kennedy, #53479 4400 Castleton Ct. Castle Rock, CO 80109 (303) 814-5326 Fax: (303) 479-9259 jthirkel@douglas.co.us lkennedy@douglas.co.us CASE NUMBER: 20JV90 DIVISION 8

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0October 29, 2020

Flannel, family and Flat Acres Farm

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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ver the past 11 years, Mike Smith has built Flat Acres Farm into a Parker institution.

The 40-acre property at Dransfeldt and Twenty Mile roads has become an almost indispensable part of thousands of families in eastern Douglas County. Families from as far as Denver travel to Flat Acres Farm. A handful of families come week after week, Smith said.

“This allows families to check out and have some fun with the kids,” Smith said.

He motioned to the entrance of the farm.

“You don’t see too many unhappy kids until they’re right there, and they got to go,” he said.

Flat Acres Farm has been synonymous with fall in Parker since 2009.

The farm has a pumpkin patch with gourds of all sizes, a hay bale maze, haunted house, rubber duck races, a petting zoo, carnival rides and a pony ride.

Caroline Lundstrom, 3, picked a few petite pumpkins from a box at Flat Acres on Oct. 18, showing it off to her mother and aunt, who remember once roaming the grounds of the farm when they were girls.

Caroline did not hesitate when asked her favorite part about the season: “All of it,” she said.

Smith keeps the capacity at 400 people, per state health requirements, and said he sometimes has to turn people away. Half his customers, he said, are first-timers.

“The last three days, we’ve had a line from (the entrance) almost to Twenty Mile Road all day long,” Smith said.

Smith has been enforcing public health guidelines and said he has had one complaint since he opened Sept.

26. The state health department does not require masks to be worn at most of the facility, which is outdoors. Still, about 70% of people wear masks anyway, Smith said.

Flat Acres Farm is open ThursdaySunday through Halloween from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets for people ages 3-64 are $15. Tickets for seniors ages 65 and up are $5. Kids under 2 are free.

For more information, visit flatacresfarm.com.

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Rudolf said Myers is consistently a top fundraiser for the group, and

Caroline Lundstrom, 3, shows off her petite pumpkin at the Flat Acres Farm in Parker Oct. 18. Lundstrom’s parents and extended family grew up with the Flat Acres Farm fall festival. Only removed from Colorado one year, the family came back to the one spot they knew to have the best fall fun.

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Presley Hodges, 3, and Delilah Garcia, 6, of Denver, enjoy a muffin atop a giant spool at the Flat Acres Farm hay bale maze Oct. 18.

this year she challenged him to raise $5,000. She lined up a matching grant of $2,500, meaning Myers was on the hook for the other half. He was at $1,730 by the time the walk started, and had until Nov. 10 to raise the rest.

The money, Rudolf said, will go

The Flat Acres Farm fall festival and pumpkin patch runs from mid-September until Halloween, giving families a chance to pick pumpkins, play games and indulge in dozens of seasonal activities offered at the farm, at Twenty Mile Road and Dransfeldt Road.

to help a variety of groups, including some that combat hunger locally including the Action Center, Love INC and Sharing with Sheridan.

Myers has a consistently giving spirit, said his mom Kim Myers — he came up with the idea to keep chick-

ens and sell their eggs to raise money for an Ethiopian child he sponsors.

“I’m just really thankful to have so many people walking with me this year,” Myers said. “It means a lot, and hopefully it means something to hungry people too.”

Public Notices DEPENDENCY SUMMONS

County Attorney’s Office.

TO: CRYSTAL OCHOA-JUAREZ, D.O.B.: 07/02/1992

A Return of Service and Adjudication Hearing for Respondent Mother and a Permanency Planning Hearing has been set for November 13, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. in Division 8, Douglas County District Court, 4000 Justice Way, Castle Rock, Colorado, 80109. All parties shall be present by calling 720437-6180, extension 75592# unless otherwise indicated by the Court.

TO THE RESPONDENT NAMED ABOVE: You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed which alleges that the above-named child is dependent or neglected as per the facts set forth in the Dependency and Neglect Petition, a copy of which may be obtained at the office of the Douglas

Your presence before this court is required to defend against the claims in this petition. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR, THE COURT WILL PROCEED IN YOUR ABSENCE, WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE, TO CONDUCT AN ADJUDICATORY HEARING AND MAY ENTER A JUDGMENT BY

This Summons is initiated pursuant to Rule 2.2 of the Colorado Rules of Juvenile Procedure, Rule 4 of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, and Section 19-3-503, C.R.S. 2019.

DEFAULT THEREBY ADJUDICATING YOUR CHILD AS A DEPENDENT OR NEGLECTED CHILD. You have the right to request a trial by jury at the adjudicatory stage of this petition. You also have the right to legal representation at every stage of the proceedings by counsel of your own choosing, or if you are without sufficient financial means, appointment of counsel by the Court. Termination of your parent-child legal relationship to free your children for adoption is a possible remedy in this proceeding. If that remedy is pursued, you are entitled to a hearing before a Judge. You also have the right, if you are indigent, to have the Court appoint, at no expense to you, one expert witness of your own choosing at any hearing on

the termination of your parent-child relationship.

If you are a minor, you have the right to the appointment of a Guardian ad litem to represent your best interests.

You have the right to have this matter heard by a district court judge rather than by the magistrate.

You may waive that right, and in doing so, you will be bound by the findings and recommendations of the magistrate, subject to review as provided by sec. 19-1-108(5.5), C.R.S. 2019, and subsequently, to the right of appeal as provided by Colorado Appellate Rule 3.4.

This summons is being initiated by the Douglas County Department of Human Services through its counsel.

Dated: October 19, 2020 /s/ Lori Kennedy Lori Kennedy, #53479 Assistant Douglas County Attorney Legal Notice No. 938179 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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