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VOLUME 34 | ISSUE 21

County opts out of Tri-County dial extension County is no longer under capacity restrictions from regional health department

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Camp O’Donnell, an American installation, was held by Japanese forces during the war. Four years before Francone arrived, it was the final destination for tens of thousands of American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Imperial Japanese Army.

Douglas County commissioners voted to opt out of a one-month extension of the COVID-19 dial during an April 13 meeting.

The three-page resolution, which outlined the commissioners’ stance on the restrictions and the pandemic, was unanimously approved and met with a round of applause from those in attendance.

In his public comments during the meeting, County Commissioner Abe Laydon said he would like for residents to “break the delusion” that there is a need for a continuation of public health orders.

“I want … Douglas County to be the first county in the state to say ‘this pandemic is over,’” Laydon said.

The decision comes as public health experts are concerned about a possible fourth wave of the virus.

As of April 19, Douglas County had the second highest one-week incidence rate, or cases per 100,000 people, in the state — behind Archuleta County, — according to the state’s data.

The statewide dial, which sets capacity and social distancing restrictions for businesses and other

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Frank Francone, center, marches with son Stuart Francone, left, Air Force veteran Mike Simbre, right, and several friends in LittlePHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT ton on April 9. An Army veteran, Francone set out to commemorate the Bataan Death March of 1942.

A march to remember WWII-era veteran Frank Francone marches to remember those who paid ultimate price on Bataan Death March

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Frank Francone was just 19 years old when he first laid eyes on Camp O’Donnell.

The Denver native was drafted fresh out of high school in the summer of 1945, the final months of World War II. By the time he com-

pleted officer school as a second lieutenant, the war had ended, but he was shipped to the Philippines nonetheless.

There he served with the 57th Infantry of the Philippine Scouts, part of the forces conscripted years earlier by President Roosevelt to fight for Uncle Sam in the Philippines, a U.S. territory.

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5 things to know: 2020 saw spike in deaths from Alzheimer’s, dementia Some racial minorities unlikely to seek care for memory problems, national survey says

The Alzheimer’s Association’s 2021 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report provides an indepth look at national statistics about Alzheimer’s disease. New statistics for Colorado included the following:

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

from Alzheimer’s and dementia in 2020 compared to averages over the past five years, according to the news release.

Here’s a look at the findings in the 2021 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report put out by the Alzheimer’s Association, a nonprofit health organization that works to accelerate progress in the prevention and cure of Alzheimer’s.

The broad disruption to Americans’ lifestyles that the coronavirus caused likely led to an increase in deaths among people with Alzheimer’s disease — and that loss of life was not directly due to COVID-19 but, rather, to associated factors such as social isolation, according to an annual report about Alzheimer’s disease.

And although Black Americans are twice as likely as their white counterparts to develop Alzheimer’s — and Hispanic Americans are 50% more likely than white Americans — certain people of color have the most concerns about receiving medical care for dementia, according to the report, which included a special section on race, ethnicity and Alzheimer’s this year.

“Despite ongoing efforts to address health and health care disparities in Alzheimer’s and dementia care, survey results show there is still a lot of work to be done,” Carl Hill, the Alzheimer’s Association’s chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, said in a news release.

Colorado saw 850 more deaths

Pandemic appears to have exacerbated deaths Alzheimer’s disease is a memory-affecting condition that worsens over time, and dementia is a general term for loss of memory and other mental abilities that interferes with daily life.

Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia, but there are many kinds, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.

There were at least 42,000 more deaths from Alzheimer’s and other dementias across the United States in 2020 compared with averages over the previous five years, according to the report. These were not deaths attributed to COVID-19 but to associated factors.

The Alzheimer’s death total for 2020 was 16% higher than anticipated, said Jim Herlihy, a spokesman for the Alzheimer’s Association’s Colorado chapter.

Based on the prior five years, Colorado’s Alzheimer’s deaths in 2020 exceeded projections by about 23%, Herlihy said.

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158,000 Number of Colorado residents serving as unpaid family caregivers way to determine how much different coronavirus-related lifestyle changes affected deaths, researchers believe many factors contributed to the increased death rate.

“Beyond the health implications of the coronavirus itself, people living with Alzheimer’s are at greater risk because of the disruption in their routines, the social isolation from family and friends, the requirement to wear masks and wash hands, and so much more,” Amelia Schafer, executive director of the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado, said in the news release.

“These increased deaths are a clear sign that the disruption in lifestyle and related confusion are shortening the lives of many of our older adults living with dementia,” Schafer continued.

People of color distrust health care, survey says Fewer than half of Black and Native Americans feel confident they have access to health care providers who understand their ethnic or racial background and experiences, and only about three in five Asian Americans and Hispanics likewise feel confident, according to the news release.

Nearly two-thirds of Black Americans surveyed believe that medical research is biased against people of color — a view shared by substantial numbers of Asian Americans (45%), Native Americans (40%) and Hispanic Americans (36%). Only half of Black Americans trust that a future cure for Alzheimer’s will be shared equally regardless of race, color or ethnicity.

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Skepticism about memory care abounds More than half of nonwhite Americans believe significant loss of memory or cognitive abilities is “a normal part of aging,” the news release said.

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Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to say they would not see a doctor if experiencing thinking or memory problems.

What can be done?

If people tell their doctor about thinking or memory issues, the physician can look at different factors besides Alzheimer’s that may be contributing to the situation, Herlihy said.

There are reversible causes of memory loss “that include certain medications, minor head trauma or injury, emotional disorders, vitamin B-12 deficiency and alcoholism,” Herlihy said.

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Diagnosis clears an easier path forward Perhaps the most important step people can take is getting a diagnosis, Herlihy said.

“About half of all Alzheimer’s cases are never diagnosed,” Herlihy said. “That means that loved ones may never fully understand what is happening to the individual, and the symptoms can be mistaken or misinterpreted for personality changes or other things.”

By understanding the disease, family and friends can learn about medications that can help with symptoms, how to practice healthy lifestyles that may help extend a person’s cognitive health, and how to prepare for the future in terms of legal or financial aspects — as well as ensuring the safety of all involved, Herlihy said.

They can also take advantage of resources offered by the Alzheimer’s Association at no charge that include disease information and classes on topics such as communication techniques, legal and financial planning, and care at various stages of the disease, Herlihy said.

For more information, see the Alzheimer’s Association’s website at www.alz.org.

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Looking for COVID-19 vaccine information?

The Tri-County Health Department is your source for COVID-19 vaccine information. Visit tchd.org/ COVIDVaccine or call 303-220-9200.

Decode Douglas County Outdoors Visit eight Douglas County Open Space or Park locations, and look for clues to crack the code. Pick up your 2021 booklet today, discover new places, and decode the secret of Douglas County Outdoors! Visit dcoutdoors. org/decode to start your outdoor adventure.

Community E-recycling Shreya Nallapati.

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Project tries to deter mass shootings Rock Canyon grad works to understand, prevent tragedies

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Wanting to stop her age group from being known as the generation of “mass shootings,” Shreya Nallapati said she has continued to listen, learn and work to find solutions and answers.

Nallapati, a graduate of Rock Canyon High School, has been featured

by Forbes and NPR for her work to use analytics and artificial intelligence to decrease gun violence and prevent future mass shootings.

In 2018, Nallapati started the #NeverAgainTech project. The tipping point came her senior year of high school when 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

She wanted to find answers, create change and rewrite the narrative that mass shootings were a new “normal.”

“We started the project to see if mass shootings are predictable,” she said. “We wanted to see if we can pinpoint the exact time a shooting or violence will occur. What we have found over the years is that mass shootings are very random.”

That does not mean her project was for nothing, Nallapati said she and more than 200 members working with #NeverAgainTech are still working to understand why mass shootings and violence in the U.S. have continued.

“We have pedaled back a bit,” said 20-year-old Nallapati. “Now we are focused on the ideology aspect. We are shifting to a lot more fruitful method to understand mass violence.”

Looking at the U.S. Capitol riot, Nallapati said there is a lot to learn.

With the #NeverAgainTech team spread across the U.S., Nallapati said they have focused efforts on what extremist groups are saying and doing, especially through social media.

With an abundance of misinformation and conspiracy theories spreading freely through social media platforms such as Facebook, Nallapati said #NeverAgainTech is looking at when conversations turn from simple banter and venting to threats of violence and trigger behavior.

“On a temporal level, we are looking at what the tipping point is,” she said. “We watch these discussions where the language changes from what appears to be joking to a more serious tone where they are actively wishing and pushing for violence.”

With the recent shooting in Boulder where 10 people died and the killings of Asian Americans in the Atlanta area, Nallapati said it continues to be “painful” as many of her studies and research over the years have pointed to an increase in violence, especially toward Asians.

Besides watching the online discussions turn more violent, Nallapati said another aspect of #NeverAgainTech is to research gun sales and purchases state by state.

“At the start of the pandemic, people were buying guns like it was toilet paper,” she said. “Pair that with the economic instability, job layoffs — you have a bad situation.”

As she moves forward, Nallapati said #NeverAgainTech will continue to evolve as it needs to. At the beginning, efforts were aimed at predicting future mass shootings.

Now she will continue to research and pinpoint the causes and how to change society to prevent them.

“At the beginning of all of this, I was truly disillusioned with this country,” she said. “... How could we normalize this after Sandy Hook? I will always work to listen and work towards an answer.”

Douglas County residents may dispose of unwanted electronics free of charge at Techno Rescue, 3251 Lewiston St. in Aurora. Drop off weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and occasional Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Proof of residency is required. For a list of acceptable items, Saturday drop-off dates and more information visit douglas.co.us/community-recycling

Skip the trip - motor vehicle services just a click away Renew your driver license or motor vehicle registration and more from the convenience of your smartphone, tablet, desktop or laptop. You can also renew vehicle registrations at MVExpress kiosks. Find information at DouglasDrives.com

Funds available to veterans Emergency assistance is available for veterans struggling with housing (mortgage/rent), transportation, employment, healthcare or other emergency needs. To apply for the veterans assistance funds visit douglasveterans.org or call 303-663-6200.

What’s happening with your County government?

Our commitment to open and transparent government includes online posting of information about public meetings at which the business of government is conducted. To view public meeting agendas, participate in-person or remotely, or watch select meetings via live stream visit douglas.co.us and search for Meetings and Agendas.

What would you do if you suspected child abuse or neglect?

Call 303-663-6270 or 1-844-4CO-KIDS. Visit douglas.co.us and search Child Abuse FAQs for additional information.

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State limits indoor crowds as COVID dial expires Many counties choose to continue dial restrictions on their own

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colorado allowed its “dial” of coronavirus restrictions to expire as expected in mid-April, clearing the path for local public health agencies to decide what limits to enforce on businesses and other public settings.

The stepping back of most state-required limits came even as Coloradans found themselves in a fourth wave of COVID-19, with new cases and hospitalizations on the rise after months of decline.

With increased vaccination rates, “the state’s role in continuing to mandate statewide restrictions is lessening, and the role of local communities to regulate and manage the virus is increasing,” the state public-health department said in an April 16 news release.

The state’s color-coded COVID-19 dial was the set of restrictions counties had to follow based on the local spread of the virus. The system affected capacity at restaurants, other businesses, indoor and outdoor events, and other settings. Colorado originally implemented the dial last Sept. 15.

With the statewide order behind

the dial now expired, Colorado issued a new public health order that maintains some limits on large indoor gatherings.

Meanwhile, most Denver metroarea counties announced plans to continue level-blue limits, which were the second-least restrictive stage of the dial system. Those counties include Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Jefferson, Boulder and Broomfield, according to the state’s news release.

The decision for Adams and Arapahoe came when the TriCounty Health Department extended a modified version of the state’s dial system for one month.

Tri-County Health covers those two counties and Douglas County, whose elected leaders voted to opt out of that extension during an April 13 meeting.

Douglas was expected to no longer operate under any restrictions other than the new statewide order on large indoor gatherings. The county also remains under the statewide mask mandate.

But if a county’s hospitalizations threaten to exceed 85% of hospital capacity, Colorado’s new public health order allows the state to require additional restrictions.

Here’s a look at how the new health order affects large indoor gatherings.

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Counties that indicated that they would maintain level green restrictions, among others, include: • Gilpin Counties that indicated that they would not have local orders, among others, include: • Douglas • El Paso • Elbert • Weld The above lists are not exhaustive.

Counties that have not yet communicated their plans to the state include Park and others. when more than 100 people gather in a room in a public indoor space, the setting may operate at 100% capacity or up to 500 people, with 6 feet required between parties of unvaccinated people or when vaccination status is unknown. The order took effect April 16.

“Public indoor space” means any enclosed indoor area that is publicly or privately owned, managed, or operated that is accessible to the public, serves as a place of employment, or provides services.

The term does not include a person’s residence, including a room in a hotel or a residential room for students at an educational facility.

Under the order, existing “variances” — or exceptions — remain in effect, including 5-Star approvals granted by a county. That’s a reference to Colorado’s 5-Star State Certification Program, which has allowed businesses to operate with expanded capacity if they follow stepped-up COVID-19 safety protocols.

Venues may apply to their local public health agency for a variance to exceed 500 people, which needs to be finally approved by the state public-health department.

Settings that aren’t affected The order’s requirements do not apply to the following settings: • Places of worship and associated ceremonies.

• Retail services.

• Restaurants that run sit-down dining and do not have unseated

areas where 100 or more people could gather, such as dance floors or common gathering areas.

School proms and graduations that wish to exceed the thresholds are subject to approval by local public health agencies in accordance with the state’s prom and graduation guidance.

Stricter previous rules may still apply If a county continues blue restrictions, then those morerestrictive standards still apply.

For a county staying in level blue, the standard wouldn’t change if an event exceeds 100 people — it would still be limited to 50% capacity, not to exceed 175 people, per room, according to the Colorado State Joint Information Center, which takes questions for the state public-health department.

Under level blue restrictions, if the event was a seated event, it could run at 100% capacity with a minimum of 6 feet between groups of up to 10 individuals indoors per room, excluding staff.

That’s according to how the limits were written in the April 4 update to the state dial order.

Under the 5-Star program, certified businesses in level blue could operate indoor events at 50% capacity, not to exceed 500 people, according to the April 4 order.

Other state restrictions still in place Under the new health order, the state public-health department may require counties whose resident hospitalizations threaten to exceed 85% of hospital or hospital system capacity to implement additional restrictions.

The statewide mask order also remains in effect.

In counties with one-week incidence rates — rates of new cases — above 35 per 100,000 people, masks are required to be worn by individuals 11 and older in public indoor spaces where 10 or more unvaccinated individuals or “individuals of unknown vaccination status” are present. That’s according to the text of the April 3 extension of the mask order.

That range for new-case rates corresponded to counties in levels blue, yellow, orange, red and purple under the state’s dial framework.

The list of settings where masks are required in counties with new-case rates of 35 or fewer per 100,000 people — rates that corresponded to level green — now only includes preschool through grade 12 schools, child care centers, health care settings, prisons and jails, and some other facilities.

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Immigrant group’s cookbook seeks to bridge differences ‘Together at the Table’ celebrates global value of good meals with good friends

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The tastes of dozens of countries are collected in “Together at the Table,” a new cookbook from Littleton nonprofit Immigrant Pathways Colorado (IPC).

With recipes like hummus from Lebanon, mojitos from Peru, stew from Ethiopia and egg rolls from Vietnam, IPC board members say they hope the cookbook conveys the diverse backgrounds represented in America — but also commonalities.

“It reflects that common element we all share: sitting down to share a meal with family and friends,” said IPC board member Connie Shoemaker at an April 13 book launch event. “The table is a place of memory, where we become aware of who and what we are. That’s bound up in the food we eat — it’s a way of preserving past and heritage.”

Proceeds from the cookbook go to IPC’s One-Immigrant-At-A-Time program, which provides selfdevelopment grants to immigrants, refugees and asylees who are in the country legally and live below the poverty line. Grants can be used for activities like English classes, applying for citizenship, green card

“Together at the Table,” a new cookbook from Immigrant Pathways Colorado, features recipes from around the globe. Proceeds go to the group’s efforts to help immigrants on PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT their feet.

renewal and seeking professional training. Proceeds will also go toward scholarships to attend Arapahoe Community College.

The cookbook includes 171 recipes from 66 contributors from 43 countries on nearly every continent. Included in the book are eight dividers printed with the stories of immigrants and their descendants, who share how food is woven into their cultural heritage.

Among those is Nisren Hussein,

whose family’s experience inspired the creation of the IPC. Hussein and her husband Raad are Kurds, a long-persecuted ethnic minority in Iraq. Growing up, Hussein’s family of nine had little access to fruit, fresh vegetables and meat as a result of war and economic sanctions.

Hussein recalled her mother spending hours every day making flatbread to sell, often leaving her hands cracked and broken, aching

to the point that Hussein had to lift the oven cover for her mother.

Hussein later married Raad and had two children, but was forced to flee Iraq after anti-coalition forces discovered Raad was working as an interpreter for American troops.

Army Col. Joe Rice, a Littleton resident, arranged for the Husseins to come to his hometown, and tasked IPC founder Susan Thornton and friends with setting the family up with a place to stay, jobs, and money to get on their feet.

The experience inspired Thornton and others to create IPC after realizing that small grants could make a world of difference to immigrants in need as they sought to become Americans.

For Hussein, who contributed a recipe for Iraqi-style stuffed grape leaves to the cookbook, settling in Littleton was a blessing.

“The air smelled beautiful when we walked out the door our first morning in Colorado,” she recalled in her segment in the cookbook. “It was like breathing life.”

Shoemaker said she hopes the cookbook furthers IPC’s goals: “To bridge the gaps between cultures through education, sharing stories and learning about one another.”

“Together at the Table” is available at all Tattered Cover locations, including Aspen Grove. It can also be ordered through IPC’s website at ConnectingImmigrants. org/cookbook. IPC asks for a $20 donation.

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‘In-person learning is here to stay’ Douglas County Schools superintendent vows to carry on with full in-person model

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After a flurry of schools closed amid COVID-19 outbreaks, Douglas County Schools interim Superintendent Corey Wise had a message for the community recently.

“In-person learning is here to stay,” read an April 9 letter from Wise.

The district does not have plans to move all students back to remote education, contrary to “some misinformation that I’ve been hearing,” he said.

Between April 6 and 9, the Tri-County Health Department instructed five middle and high schools to go remote for two weeks after confirming at least five outbreaks in each of the buildings.

Guidelines set out by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment require a school to close temporarily if five or more outbreaks occur within a

became eligible for vaccines on two-week timeframe.

April 2. The Pfizer vaccine is apSchools can also be shuttered if proved for people 16 and older. The 5% or more of students and staff Moderna and Johnson & Johnson test positive for COVID-19. vaccines are approved for people “We are disappointed but will 18 and older. persevere and we look forward Wise also asked families to keep to having the students in those children home affected schools if they show back in two signs of illweeks,” Wise ness and not wrote. return them The district to school until is also moving students have forward with been symptomplans for events free for 48 like graduation hours. The and prom. superintenIn a separate dent warned April 9 letter, against conWise urged fusing mild families to sign COVID-19 up their chilsymptoms with dren ages 16 and older for a Corey Wise, other ailments.

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“The fastest interim superintendent COVID symptoms in most way for us to students who circumvent test positive,” future health the letter said. department directed school cloThe closures came roughly two sures (at the high school level) is weeks after the district launched for students (ages 16+) to begin full, in-person learning at middle accessing COVID vaccinations,” and high schools for the first he said. time in a year, a major milestone All Coloradans age 16 and older

‘We are disappointed but will persevere and we look forward to having the students in those affected schools back in two weeks.’

that came immediately after the district’s spring break. Elementary schools have conducted full in-person learning since Jan. 5.

Since February, Douglas County’s incidence rates have been slowly rising, including among people ages 5 to 18.

Tri-County Health epidemiologist and director of the agency’s COVID-19 Disease Control Branch Jennifer Chase said numerous factors are likely leading to a rise in local cases, including the gradual reopening of the community and pandemic fatigue.

But Tri-County Health highly suspected the new strain called B.1.1.7, first identified in the U.K., was circulating in Douglas County Schools and contributing to outbreaks. Chase said the variant is more transmissible and recent research shows it spreads easier among youth.

Both Chase and Wise said that week the district is seeing spread among students. Previously, district leaders had said most COVID-19 cases originated in the community.

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Olympic wrestler Bracken pays it forward A new mentoring program helps competitors prepare for the world’s biggest sports stage

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Taking his experiences as an Olympic wrestler and paying it forward, Kevin Bracken is serving as a mentor to the young wrestlers who have recently qualified to represent the U.S. in the summer Olympics in Japan.

Currently, Bracken is the head coach of the Olympian Wrestling program in Castle Rock.

In preparation of the summer Olympics, he will be participating in a brand-new mentoring program aimed at helping qualifying wrestlers be prepared for not only action on the matts but strengthening their mental focus to handle the intense pressure of competing on a world stage.

Bracken is no stranger to the world’s largest sports stage. While many know Bracken as the mayor pro tem on the Castle Rock Town Council, he was a top competitor in wrestling for many years.

Bracken, an American GrecoRoman wrestler, competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics where he finished in sixth place. In 1992, he was a third alternate. In 1996, he worked up to earn the first alternate position.

In college, Bracken wrestled for Illinois State University before the school eliminated its wrestling program during his final year.

Bracken holds the record for the most career wins in the school’s history with 127. In 2005, he was inducted into the Illinois State University hall of fame.

Bracken, 49, said he has been wrestling since seventh grade.

He not only knows the stress that goes into preparing for competition but understands the distractions everyday life can bring to the matt, which can cause a competitor to have a bad match on an important day.

“Being an elite athlete has a

Throughout his career, Kevin Bracken has coached athletes at all ages, including this young competitor in Wyoming.

Kevin Bracken competes at the Olympics in Sydney.

lot that comes with it,” he said.

“You still have intense training with our regular daily-life problems. Some competitors grow up without a dad, some struggle with school. We work with them to deal with all aspects and thrive.”

Even after competing, Bracken said his passion for wrestling continued, which is how he found his way from Illinois to Castle Rock. Bracken said the Olympic training facility in Colorado Springs has allowed him to pass on his knowledge and experience to other wrestlers.

“The goal really is to empower (these wrestlers) to be their best,” he said. “We are working with

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the top wrestlers and want to make sure we are fostering their future. Understanding the road to the Olympics is hard. Living that experience is a parallel experience. Being part of the Olympic games is an honor and it is truly exciting.”

With the finalists for the summer Olympics set, Bracken said his job along with other mentors and coaches is to get them ready.

Part of that work includes be traveling to Atlanta in May to work with the wrestlers.

“So many of them have never been on an Olympic stage and don’t know what to expect once they get there,” he said. “The pri-

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orities are to make sure they are levelheaded and keep emotions in check. At the Olympics, it is all a circus. It is a circus in a good way, but it is draining.”

With many of the finalists in their early 20s, Bracken said they are just reaching adulthood. In the end, Bracken said preparing these young men to represent the U.S. on the world stage is an honor and a way he will give back to the sport he loves.

Bracken is also a football coach at Castle View High School.

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One year later: Voices from south metro area Locals, former residents reflect on trials endured, lessons learned, hopes STAFF REPORT

A year after Colorado’s statewide stay-at-home order took effect and drastically changed virtually all aspects of daily life, Coloradans are still grappling with public health orders and — hopefully — nearing the end of the pandemic in sight.

As the state’s health care structure works to vaccinate more Coloradans in the coming months, some may begin to look back at what, one year ago, would have seemed an unthinkable change to society and personal life.

Colorado Community Media spoke with local residents — some of whom CCM also talked to roughly a year ago — to hear what the last year has been like for them.

----Barry Kittay, former longtime Highlands Ranch resident Barry Kittay wishes he could just write off the past year.

After contracting COVID-19 in March 2020, Kittay spent 20 days in the hospital, including 11 on a ventilator. He lost 55 pounds and had to spend months in rehabilitation, relearning how to walk, drive a car and even shower.

“The best way I can put it is it’s kind of a lost year,” he said. “It took a long time to get healthy again …

I would call it a lost year, a wasted year.”

Kittay was a longtime Highlands Ranch resident before he moved during the pandemic to a mountain town.

He was deeply rattled by his bout with the disease and how close he came to death. After leaving the hospital, Kittay said he was generally more nervous than before his illness.

Sharp loud noises still make him jump and occasionally, the fear he experienced shortly after he recovered returns.

“I still go to bed and wonder if I will wake up in the morning once in a while,” he said.

Physically, he hasn’t had many long-term symptoms from the illness, he said.

While he was relieved to learn he still had antibodies for the disease as recently as February, Kittay still decided to get his first of two shots of the COVID-19 vaccine recently.

After spending so much time in the hospital, “I just don’t want to have to ever do that again,” he said.

Kittay lost several friends over the past year, including three who died from COVID-19.

“That’s been pretty tough,” he said.

In the coming months, he’s hoping to be able to attend a Motley Crue concert that was rescheduled last year. He’s also thinking about whether or not he will feel comfortable attending a Broncos game next season.

“I just would like life to be back to normal,” he said. “And it’s not.”

Barry Kittay spent 20 days in the hospital battling COVID-19.

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----Doug Stephens, Littleton Police Department chief “I hope the community truly understands the heroism demonstrated by our officers and professional staff over the last year as they faced an unknown and deadly threat on a daily basis. The men and women of our department have once again proven they can overcome any adversity.

“COVID has presented all of us with unprecedented challenges on a scale no one ever truly anticipated.

Our personnel make a living by being flexible and demonstrating their ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances, however, the pandemic tested these traits on an epic scale. With little known about the virus in the beginning of the pandemic, world health experts cautioned people to isolate at home for their own safety. Our personnel did not have that option and bravely continued to show up every day and night to serve their community while facing a potentially fatal threat. By stepping up and doing

Brian White, owner of Forever Flowers in east Centennial, stands April 1 at the shop PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD near Smoky Hill and Buckley roads.

their duty they placed themselves in harm’s way against an unseen enemy in COVID. “As we come out of the pandemic, I am incredibly proud of the men and women of the Littleton Police Department for their dedication to their community despite great personal risk, that is the soul of a police officer.”

----Brian White, owner of Forever Flowers in east Centennial Brian White’s mom-and-pop flowers shop closed for a month last year in March and April, not taking any orders at all.

“When we reopened, we kind of had to modify our business model.

We used to have people coming in all the time, and we just said we’re going to do nothing but preordered, prepaid pickups and deliveries,” said White, a 64-year-old south Aurora resident.

He runs the shop — a bright spot in the type of strip-mall shopping cen-

ter that’s common to Aurora and east Centennial — with his wife and son and another woman and her daughter. He took it over from the previous owner about 10 years ago, he said.

“This little shop has been here for 30 … years or so. It’s gone through a string of owners but stayed a flower shop,” White said.

It continues to endure in the pandemic economy: The shop didn’t take on any kind of pandemic assistance funding, White said. He paid his regular payroll while the shop was closed for a month. The business sits near Smoky Hill and Buckley roads in Centennial.

Personally, the biggest change for White in the pandemic has been not going anywhere in the evenings.

“We do takeout orders from restaurants, but I haven’t sat down at a restaurant for more than a year,” White said. “Movies and concerts and all that stuff — some of that summer stuff we normally do just SEE VOICES, P20

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A century ago wasn’t just any old time

hings were different one hundred years ago. For example, no one wore flip-flops to the airport.

However, there were no flip-flops and few airports. That makes a difference.

They had a presi- QUIET dential inauguraDESPERATION tion in 1921 too, but not like ours, that’s for sure. The television ratings were terrible. In fact, not a single person watched it on TV. A nickel if you can tell me who was sworn in.

Craig Marshall Hint: He didn’t Smith make it through his term. His pump quit on August 2, 1923.

In 1921, no one on Earth had heard of the Beatles. Imagine that.

Or In-N-Out. But in September of that year, the first White Castle hamburger restaurant opened in Wichita, Kansas.

“The Kid,” starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, was the second highest-grossing film of the year.

Lana Turner was born on February 8 in Wallace, Idaho, a mining town that was known in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth for its “permissive approach” to vice. Wallace’s current population is less than 800.

The Spanish flu had just ended the year before. It infected about one-third of the world’s population.

Until the 1920s started to “roar,” live and recorded music options were limited. It would have been a bad time to be a teenager.

But help was on the way.

Fiszel Czyz was born on March 28, 1921, in Motal, Poland. His brother Lejzor was born in 1917.

The Czyz family moved to New York then to Chicago. Fiszel and Lejzor changed their names to Phil and Leonard Chess and co-founded Chess Records in 1938.

Chess specialized in rhythm and blues as well as jazz and early

rock ‘n’ roll.

Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Dale Hawkins, Howlin’ Wolf, the Flamingos, Bo Diddley, Sonny Boy Williamson and John Lee Hooker all recorded for Chess.

But “Suzie Q” (Dale Hawkins) was a long way off in 1921.

“The Kid,” like all films released in 1921, was silent.

The first feature-length “talkie” wasn’t released until October 6, 1927.

However, by 1931 extraordinary advances had been made in the film industry. That was the year “Frankenstein” was released; a 100% film on Rotten Tomatoes in 2021.

Major League Baseball was being played in 1921, just as it will be again soon.

The 1921 season ended when New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in Game 8 of the World Series.

That year, Babe Ruth led MLB with 59 home runs. Bob Meusel — remember him? — was second on the list with 24.

Ironically, the Baby Ruth candy bar was introduced in 1921. But it

was not named after the baseball player.

It was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter.

Famous people born in 1921: John Glenn, Rodney Dangerfield, Nancy Reagan, Sugar Ray Robinson and Steve Allen, the first host of “The Tonight Show.”

One hundred years seems like a mighty long time, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s not.

“The Maltese Falcon” (movie) is 80 years old. “Dark Side of the Moon” is 48. The final original “Peanuts” comic strip was published 21 years ago.

How is that possible?

Albert Einstein said, “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” That makes (almost) perfect sense to me.

The president’s name? Warren Gamaliel Harding. He was 57 when he died.

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

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his past week I was reminded of something as I once again experienced the intimacy, joy and power found in a whisper.

Although it is just my wife and I who live in our home now, for some reason I paid parWINNING ticular attention to how we were WORDS saying goodnight to one another. I noticed that our voices were low as we whispered softly, “Goodnight, I love you.” This caused me to think about how we wake up together as well, Michael Norton another whisper and soft greeting of good morning.

No one else can hear us. Even if we raised our voices, there is no one in the house that could possibly hear what we say. Yet we whisper. It’s not because we are worried about anyone else hearing us, the whisper just seems to intimately connect us as we begin and end each day.

When it comes to effective communication skills, we know that

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there are several things that we can do to help people hear what we are saying. We can speak faster, which will have some people paying a little closer attention as they try and keep up. We can speak louder, and that sometimes helps bring others back to a conversation if they have drifted off for a moment. Or we can speak quietly, even whispering, which can help those we are trying to reach lean in more to hear what we are trying to say.

In addition to the shared intimacy that comes with whispering, there could also be incredible joy.

It’s like when we have a really good secret to share with someone and we know that when we whisper it in their ear, we will see the joy shine upon their face. Or when someone shares something very important, and they want to make sure that no one else can hear them, but they trust us with whatever important or sensitive information they need us to know, it brings us profound joy knowing how much we are trusted.

Becoming loud or shouting seems to be the go-to for some of us when we are trying to exert

power or make a point. There are some of us who do believe that the only way we can get anyone to listen is by amplifying our voice, both in volume and tonality. Those we are attempting to reach may have no other option as they listen to the shouts, however, that does not mean that they heard what was being said. When shouting and screaming cause others to shut down, become defensive, or simply walk away, the message goes unheard no matter how loud we become.

Some of the most respected leaders learned how to garner respect because of their ability to stay calm and focused when delivering a message or when they tried to influence, inspire and lead those around them. As a matter of fact, they learned the power that comes from whispering. And that power comes because the leader is trying to transfer a feeling by intimately whispering their most sincere words of hope and encouragement.

People who follow such leadership and whispered conversations tend to feel happiness and joy based on the flow and direction of the message.

When we start raising our voices, we are inviting people to turn us off. But when we lower our voices, talk to each other like human beings, even whispering just loud enough so others can hear our words and our intended message, we are inviting them to stay tuned.

If you are looking for a better way to communicate, build winning relationships, lead, or inspire others, try finding the whispers of success.

How about you? Is there a message that you are hoping others will hear? Have you learned or experienced the intimacy, joy and power of whispering? I really would love to hear your story of effective communication and how you have used whispering to make your point at mnorton@tramazing.com. And when we can start engaging others and turning them on instead of turning them off through whispering, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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MY NAME IS

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include attending The Masters, The Kentucky Derby and all of the major league baseball stadiums. I am also waiting for my first hole in one. In addition, I may do volunteer work.

Douglas County pediatrician retiring after decades of care How it began I started Parker Pediatrics and Adolescents in 1982. I was the first pediatrician in all of Douglas County, as there wasn’t another pediatric practice in Parker for almost 20 years. I opened my office there because there was not a pediatrician anywhere south of Hampden Avenue. It seemed like a good opportunity to serve an area that was underserved. Little did I know how Parker would grow. Our office grew too and we remain the largest pediatric practice in the county.

When I started in 1982, there was only one fast food establishment (Dairy Queen), one market (Hill’s) one drugstore (Parker Drug), no high school, no hospital, and no urgent cares.

I grew up in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate, then the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and Graduate School of Public Health.

Memories and accolades There are so many wonderful memories from working at Parker Pediatrics. Seeing the practice and Parker grow has been amazing. I have had the opportunity to see tens of thousands of children, including many second generation ones.

Over the years I have had numerous accomplishments. Besides being the first pediatrician in the county, our office took pride in being ahead of the curve. We had a well and acute side before it was popular. We accepted Medicaid when no one else in the area would. We integrated mental health in our practice and were one of the leaders in the coun-

Dr. Jay Rabinowitz.

try in that area. We were involved in Parker Days for many years, including running the Children’s Fun Festival in the `80s and `90s.

Personally, I was the first president of the medical staff at Parker Adventist Hospital, served on their board of directors for nine years, received their humanitarian award and was their first physician to become an emeritus physician.

I taught students for many years and was appointed Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Medical School. In addition, I received the prestigious Career Teaching Scholars award from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Medical School.

I have been invited as a speaker at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting the past five years, the largest pediatric meeting in the world.

I was team physician at Ponderosa High School in their early days, advisor to the Douglas County schools for many years and spoke at numerous events at schools, daycares and community events.

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Finally, I authored a book, “Cute Kidbits: Funny Conversations Kids Share With Their Pediatrician.”

During retirement I plan of doing a lot of golfing and skiing, as well as traveling. I also enjoy many outdoor activities. With COVID, it has been difficult to plan trips yet, but soon. My wish list would

Little known facts I appeared on the television show “The Doctors” a few years ago. I served as a pediatric expert on one episode.

Also, I have a Masters in Epidemiology, so was frequently asked advice during the pandemic.

Finally, I’m proud that our office only had to close one day in the last 39 years due to snow. We’re Parker pioneers.

I want to thank all of those families who supported me and gave me the honor of caring for their children. I also wish to thank all of my coworkers, without whom I could not have accomplished all of what I did. It has been a special journey watching both Parker and my patients grow and mature.

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“Greetings from Denver,” located at 1695 Platte St., was painted by Victor Ving, who travels the country full-time in his RV creating large postcard paintings on buildings.

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From wall-sized postcards to optical illusions, public art turns Denver into a giant gallery

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or New York-born artist Victor Ving, Colorado looks like craft beer, skiers and Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

“At each stop, I collaborate with local artists, businesses, and residents to create a piece of true public art that engages the local community,” said Ving.

The result of his effort is plain for all to see: His mural “Greetings from Denver” located at 1695 Platte St. is one of 40 murals Ving has created across the country, offering his take — a vintage postcard view painted on public buildings, as a salute to the cities he visits.

It’s one of the many street-facing artworks commissioned by the City

The “Mermaid,” at Ninth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, was painted by Josiah Lee Lopez and Ratha Sok, students of Access Gallery.

of Denver, picked by a local panel and free to see, just for the looking.

The city of Denver holds a collection of over 400 pieces of art in a variety of media — some combine sight and sound, others are light-based works or interactive new media, temporary fiber-based works or performance-based works. The collections are spread throughout the city.

Public art in cities boosts the economy, culturally and socially, according to the City of Denver’s Denver Arts and Venues Public Art program. Public art creates a history of the past, present, and future.

Within a neighborhood, public art creates uniqueness in the space as a community grows.

Established by Mayor Federico Pena in 1988 via an executive order, the Denver Public Art Program sets aside 1% of any capital improvement project over $1 million is set aside for public art. For more than 30 years, the city has developed a collection of artworks and accepted donations of art. According to the city’s rules, the collection must be a permanent structure to amplify the space. The artists represent a wide range of cultural diversity and are

selected in a transparent process by a panel of community members who live and work near the project site.

The panel writes the “call for entry,” reviews the application, and the project site. Then the panel selects the artists and interviews the semifinalist and finalist. Once the artists or groups are selected, the selection is forwarded to the Public Art Committee and the Commission on Cultural Affairs to make the final decision. Denver Arts & Venues plans the public art SEE ART, P15

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program and the Mayor’s Commission on Cultural Affairs administrators the activities and policies regarding public art.

Travels with Victor Ving, from New York City, started his nationwide “Greetings Tour” in 2015. He travels full-time in his RV, working to create the landmark murals in each city. The artwork resembles a postcard capturing the cities and communities.

Ving is a former New York City graffiti artist and the founder of Klughaus, a creative agency specializing in large-scale mural art.

“The ‘Greetings from Chinatown’ mural in New York City was painted in 2014, was the first piece I did where we noticed the potential of how much our artwork can positively affect the community,” said Ving.

“I went on a West Coast road trip later that summer and was inspired by others that I saw living on the road. I decided to take a chance to paint and travel full time. I hit the road in spring 2015 and have been loving the lifestyle since.”

Ving lets his travel schedule determine his next project.

“My travels are loosely based around our commissioned project schedule,” he said. “If there are cities along the way that I connect with, I’ll try to make those murals happen en route to the next destination.

“My current priority is creating murals in states where we have not painted in yet. The larger goal is to eventually paint in all 50 states and then take the project global. This is the way I make a living and it is my full-time job. However, from time to time I have donated my services to some good causes that align with my values and mission.”

The public art show continues.

Just down the street in an alley, a half-block north, is the “Denver 1859” mural. It’s painted by Delton Demarest and Harrison Nealey using an aerosol can with an array of colors to paint the history of Denver since 1859.

Demarest is a graffiti artist and a freelance illustrator working in the commercial and fine arts industries.

Nealey is a metal fabricator by trade and creates abstract art using a variety of mediums and found objects.

Louvered illusion At Larimer and 27th Street, the mural “Larimer Boy and Girl” was painted by artist Jeremy Burns on a building exterior that is a full vertical concrete louver. That means that depending on the viewer’s perspective you either see a boy with a bewildered expression on his face or a gloomy girl. Burns has been living and creating art in the RiNo district since 2004.

Santa Fe Arts District On the corner of 9th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive is the “Mermaid,” painted by Access Gallery students Josiah Lee Lopez and Ratha Sok. Access Gallery is a Santa Fe Drive program for people with disabilities to have artistic opportunities around Denver. The mermaid is painted on the corner of the build-

The mural of George Floyd is painted by artists Detour aka Thomas Evans and Hiero Veiga.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION To tour Denver street art go to www. denver.org/things-to-do/denver-artsculture/street-art ing with colorful flowing hair appearing as though she’s swimming in the ocean.

Lopez has been working for more than 29 years and started his passion for drawing and painting when in high school. He has been a graffiti writer and muralist since mid-1990.

He received his bachelor of fine arts from Metropolitan State University and a master of fine arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Both Lopez and Sok have been students with Access Gallery for about eight years.

“I work at Access Gallery as a mentor and teaching artist and worked at Access for about 11 years,” said Lopez.

Lopez said gallery managers simply wanted the pair to create something colorful.

“So we came up with the ‘Sirens’ of Ninth Avenue,” Lopez said. “The Ninth Avenues Sirens, awaking from slumber, observing from afar, and emerging from oceanic morning tide. Their colorful tresses are the protectors of the ever-changing West Side.”

Lopez paints a mural every five years at 10th and Santa Fe in the alleyway behind Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Arts and another mural under the Sixth Avenue bridge at Sixth and Lipan.

His website is www.josiahleelopez. com, said Lopez.

Farther down in the next block off Santa Fe Drive is the “Smiling Boy” in an alley between Santa Fe Drive and Inca Street. The artist goes by the street name B.L.V.D. Artist B.L.V.D painted a stunning large mural of a boy with his arms extended across the outside of the building.

On the east side of Denver at East Colfax Avenue and High Street, a mural of George Floyd was painted

“Larimer Boy and Girl” was painted by artist Jeremy Burns on a building exterior that is a “fit vertical concrete louver,” at Larimer and 27th streets.

“Denver 1859” was painted by Delton Demarest and Harrison Nealey using an aerosol can in an alley half a block north near 15th and Platte streets.

by artists Detour aka Thomas Evans and Hiero Veiga. The mural was painted after Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. Evans is an artist with a focus on the innovation of art. Veiga is a graffiti artist from the South

Shore of Massachusetts traveling the world creating murals.

For information to apply for Denver Public Art opportunities, visit www.callforentry.org or call the Public Art Program at 720-865-5563.

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Show is stuff of ‘Myths and Legends’ April 24 is final day of photo exhibit with 42 pictures on display

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Time is running out fast before the April 24 conclusion of “Myths and Legends,” the 2021 Eye of the Camera photography exhibit (by reservation) at the Littleton Museum, and we hope some will have already visited it. In the 55th year, the exhibit, presented by the Littleton Fine Arts Board, includes 42 works by 24 artists in both color and black and white. This year’s juror was John Barnabas Lake, from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

Lake is the photo area coordinator at the UNC School of Art and Design and College of Visual and Performing Arts at UNC. The 2021 exhibit, smaller than usual, but strong, offers especially nice statements about each piece — allow a bit of extra time to read these. Many are strongly poetical!

Lake chose as Best of Show “Outside Woman,” a collaboration by conceptual artist Sherry Wiggins and photographer Luis Felipe Branco, that made me think of La Llorona, a woman of Latin American legend, who searches for her drowned children.

Dressed in white, she wanders and cries for them ...

This large black and white print has a ghostly woman in a gauzy white dress peering in the window of a mountain home. “Is this a ghost or a goddess?” the text asks. “There is a sense of mystery and of the

IF YOU GO The Littleton Museum is at 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton and is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Visitors are encouraged to limit visit to an hour. mythical ...”

First Place went to Mattie Cox’s “Gondola Ride,” one in a series of colored vertical prints depicting an abandoned Kentucky theme park that had shut down in the 1990s. Cox wrote that her friends felt uncomfortable there — convinced it’s a “Wrinkle in Time” vortex or a portal to another dimension ...

As one enters the gallery to the right, Thomas Carr’s “Decay #2 and “Decay #3” also convey mystery from a long-ago era.

Carr is an archaeologist, whose images of ancient stone walls reflect layers of “decay and rebirth all around ...”

Next, a visitor finds photographs made by well-known Denver painter Tony Ortega, depicting legends from his world: “Dia @ Santa Maria,” shows a happy parade with townspeople carrying a colorful, flower-laden statue of Mary through a town, and “Day of the Dead Danzante Muerta” with a figure with skull face ... in sepia with touches of red and yellow.

One can almost hear music from behind these figures.

“A gentleman came from nowhere and stood at the cliff — in the right place at the right time,” says Danny Lam of his “Grand View,” which won an Honorable Mention.

Second Place went to Kathryn Charles, who grew up in Littleton. Her “Between Me and the Sea”

“Hovering,” a digital painting by Littleton Fine Arts Guild member Jacqueline Schuler, is exhibited in a COURTESY PHOTO “Member Appreciation Show” at the Depot Art Gallery in Littleton.

souls of the dead ...”

Elizabeth Kayl’s “When Midnight Calls” relates, she wrote, “to the story of seven birds who sing at night. It harks back over centuries and over multiple cultures. The song of these night birds forecasts calamity ... in ancient

depicts “the rough sea of the lower Hebrides” captured in 2020.

“Crow,” by Nicholas Kremsky, is labeled “altered photo.” The large portrait shot carries the note that “The crow is known as the messenger in myths. They also carry the

France they are the spirits of souls in torment ...”

At the rear of the gallery, one finds Justin Key’s large horizontal images of Great Sand Dunes National Park — a magical place where he says “every step produces a new alignment.”

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entities based on their county’s COVID-19 data, expired on April 16.

In an April 8 meeting, Tri-County Health Department — which covers Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties — voted to extend a modified version of the state’s dial for one month.

With the county opting out of this extension, there are no longer any restrictions on capacities or social distancing in Douglas County other than a statewide mask mandate and a statewide order that applies to large, indoor gatherings.

The commissioners’ resolution did not have any impact on restrictions within the county’s school district.

“Douglas County citizens have been subject to more than 300 additional executive and public health orders to protect the vulnerable ... with the interpretation leading to confusion, fatigue, and costly operational changes,” according to the resolution.

The Tri-County board of health approved the dial extension at the suggestion of executive director Dr. John Douglas, who voiced concerns about rising case numbers and an increase in variant strains of COVID-19 in the state.

“While we’ve made great progress

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As time went by, Francone learned some of the story from survivors: how 70,000 troops surrendered on April 9, 1942, and were marched on foot from Bataan more than 60 miles to Camp O’Donnell, which had fallen into Axis hands.

The men were given little food and water, and no rest. As they marched, the men were beaten, and those who fell were bayoneted, shot, or run over. As many as 18,000 Filipinos and 650 Americans died during the ordeal, which came to be known as the Bataan Death March.

In spite of the sacrifices of the Filipino troops, Congress in 1946 passed the Rescission Act, stripping the Filipinos of benefits afforded to other American soldiers.

over the past three months … given the uncertainty of the variants, we’re not quite out of the woods,” Douglas said in a state press conference April 13.

More than a dozen Douglas County residents spoke in support of the resolution, many of whom thanked the commissioners for the action.

“I’ve been fighting for a year to give my daughter a normal childhood,” said Katrina Jennings, a Castle Rock resident. “The fact that there might be a light at the end of this tunnel, at least for this county, means a lot to me.”

Jeff Toborg, the mayor for the Town of Parker, spoke in support of the resolution.

“I want to thank you all for understanding that the proper role of government is to do exactly what you’re doing, and that’s to protect the individual rights,” he said.

Dr. Linda Fielding, a representative for Douglas County on TriCounty’s board of health, also spoke in support of the resolution.

Fielding voted against the TriCounty order April 8.

Highlands Ranch resident Bob Marshall was one of three speakers who voiced opposition to the resolution. He asked the commissioners to consider keeping minimally invasive requirements such as masks and capacity restrictions.

“We certainly can’t live in a lockdown environment indefinitely

... but to throw all the precautions to the wind … and not run through the finish line when we’re so close to the end, that’s just foolish,” he said.

The opt-out decision includes both unincorporated areas and municipalities within the county.

Tri-County announced that under their approved plan, each of their three counties would move one level lower on the dial, loosening their restrictions for one month.

Arapahoe County, which has high enough metrics under the state’s order to move a level higher, will instead stay at level blue, according to Tri-County.

For the next three months, TriCounty will then engage in an observational period. As long as there isn’t a surge in hospital admission rates, the counties will be released from all restrictions.

Any of the three counties are able to opt out of the order under the agency’s policy, which was added in November of 2020 as part of a negotiation with Douglas County.

The county agreed to remain with the health department through 2022 as a result.

Adams and Arapahoe commissioners both voiced support for the one-month continuation of the dial, according to Tri-County. On April 9, Douglas County announced that commissioners had directed their staff to draft a resolution to opt out of the order.

As of April 13, Douglas County’s 14-day rate of cases per 100,000 people was 436, Adams’ rate was 337 and Arapahoe’s rate was 321.

Douglas County had the highest vaccination rate of the three counties with 46% of residents over the age of 16 with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Between April 2 and April 12, there were six middle and high schools in Douglas County where in-person learning was shut down for two weeks due to COVID-19 outbreaks. These closures are due to requirements from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

“This is a step towards liberty, this is a step towards freedom,” Commissioner George Teal said in the meeting.

The county plans to continue monitoring local COVID-19 data and collaborate with the state and Tri-County on “prudent, sciencedriven responses that continue to balance the needs to preserve both lives and livelihoods,” according to the resolution. The commissioners also encouraged the community to adhere to public health recommendations such as getting vaccinated if they choose to do so and staying home when ill.

“If we had been able to do this earlier, I suspect that we would have done that,” Commissioner Lora Thomas said. “We have been wanting to do this for a long time.”

Francone returned to America, and prospered as an engineer and manager for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and later Martin Marietta, which became Lockheed Martin.

But he never forget the valor and bravery of the Filipinos, their sacrifices at Bataan, or their raw deal at the hands of Congress.

As the decades went by, Francone fought for the Filipinos stateside, advocating for better recognition of their service. Over time, Congress offered some benefits and payments to Filipino veterans.

In 2017, Francone and surviving Filipino veterans were awarded Congressional Gold Medals. To this day he gives talks to schools and other organizations, remembering the men at Bataan.

And on April 9, 2021, Francone paid them another tribute. On a brisk spring morning, 79 years to

the day since the men at Bataan laid down their arms and began walking toward their destiny in the jungle, Francone, now 94, set off walking in their memory.

COVID-19 restrictions rendered the annual Bataan Memorial Death March virtual this year. Typically the event is held in New Mexico, where many American troops in the march were from.

But in Littleton, Francone was flanked on the Centennial Link Trail from his home at the Vita Littleton apartment complex by his son Stuart Francone, and by Mike Simbre, a Filipino Air Force veteran who heads a regional chapter of the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project. Behind them trailed neighbors and friends from Vita.

Though the full length of a Bataan Memorial Death March is 26.2 miles — still less than half

the distance covered by the surrendered troops — Francone said he was aiming to finish four or five miles. Not bad for a 94-year-old.

What are the lessons of Bataan?

“There’s a wickedness born in man toward his fellow man,” Francone said. “War is hell. People don’t understand how bad things can really get. If we forget the sacrifices those men made, if we take for granted what we have in America, well, we’re putting ourselves in danger.”

For Simbre, marching with Francone was a chance to keep a fading memory alive.

“Men of Frank’s generation are going fast,” he said. “Soon there won’t be anyone left who saw, who heard the stories. When Congress stripped the Filipinos of their benefits, it was like saying their fighting and their deaths were in vain.

We can’t let it be in vain.”

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didn’t get done last year. Probably the same for (most) everybody.”

One year after the stay-at-home order took effect, White feels “in relative terms” lucky to live in Colorado, particularly this part of the state.

“Because I think we don’t have a whole lot of anti-maskers around,” White said, pointing to people refusing to wear masks as one of the reasons his shop stayed closed for a period last spring.

All told, adapting to a new business model has worked well for White’s shop.

“In a lot of ways, it’s kind of been good for business because so many folks are frustrated that they can’t physically go to somebody’s birthday or wedding or funeral,” White said.

“They can’t send their own human beings,” but they can send flowers, White said.

----Harrison Kolar, Highlands Ranch After the end of his senior year at Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch was marred by the virus, Harrison Kolar started anew as a freshman at Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs last fall.

With the majority of his classes online and COVID precautions still prohibiting many typical events, Kolar has had an unusual start to his college life.

Harrison Kolar, a graduate of Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch, is now finishing up his first year of college.

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“With such a key portion of our education missing, it’s definitely more of a struggle to be able to learn the material fully,” he said.

Connecting with students and professors has proven difficult through the new, online world of college. One thing that made this particularly challenging at the start of school was not having a roommate due to the campus COVID-19 precautions.

“Having a roommate definitely has its benefits, you automatically have a friend there on campus, they’re an automatic support structure,” he said. “The first couple of weeks were definitely the loneliest because I knew nobody.”

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During his first year, he’s gotten involved in student government, winning the secretary seat in the fall and the vice president seat in the spring.

One of the hardest things about starting college during the pandemic has been the feeling of separation from others, he said.

“There’s a lesser sense of community at the college,” Kolar said. “I have friends who have been here for years and they’re graduating and they say how campus just used to be full of students and people were walking around smiling at each other … making new friends. But now, campus is much more empty.”

Throughout it all, though, Kolar has learned about himself and the world around him, he said.

“COVID has taught me a lot of personal accountability and it’s given me much more of a sense of … we’re in this together,” he said.

----Simar Chadha, graduated from Cherry Creek High School last May Simar Chadha spent his senior year at Cherry Creek High School during a worsening pandemic. A year later, he’s been attending his first year at Northeastern University in Boston.

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change in the past year.

“Not necessarily for better or worse — it’s just definitely different,” said Chadha, 18, from Greenwood Village. He added: “I’ve had to adapt how I connect and make new connections.”

That’s on top of learning by “looking at a screen rather than talking with a person,” he said.

Finding social outlets proved key to Chadha pulling through. For him, that included talking with others online.

“Being able to find alternatives like playing games together with my friends helped me feel some sense of normalcy,” said Chadha, recalling when the stay-at-home order was lifted going to play sports with friends. “Basically just socializing in any way we could helped me find some purpose.”

Many people felt they were robbed of certain experiences, but Chadha tries to look at the pandemic as an opportunity to try new things.

“I think a big thing I learned, as well as many others, is that you can’t really take for granted what you have, and you can’t expect that some guarantees will be upheld,” Chadha said. He added: “Always having that tough skin and mental agility to adapt to what’s thrown at you … is imperative.”

It’s important to be ready to adapt, “even in small aspects of your life where things don’t go as expected,” Chadha said.

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Just over a month after a major snowstorm that brought muchneeded moisture to the area, the Highlands Ranch Metro District is assessing how things went and what is needed moving forward.

As crews look at the winter season success, water officials are warning it was not enough snow to take the region out of its drought conditions.

In a recent meeting, the board commended the efforts taken in the district to clear the snow, noting that compared to recent years, it was clear it was making strides each year to improve services.

Dirk Ambrose, the district’s parks and parkways manager, said in the past when a major storm like the one on March 13 occurs, it sometimes would take crews more than two weeks to clear the more than 150 miles of concrete, sidewalks and paths. This year, Ambrose said continued planning paid off. Crews worked more than

900-man hours to get the work done in a week.

Now, Ambrose said he will review staffing and equipment over the summer in preparation for next winter. One area of concern is in the number of roads near the pathways and the equipment needed to clear piles created by plows.

“What we have seen happening over the last few years is that when (Douglas County) road plows go through, the snow piles can be several feet high on paths and sidewalks,” he said. “This year we found snowblowers were great for quickly clearing the pileups.”

Ambrose said he will be looking to the board for new equipment to handle large and small snowstorms.

Ambrose said another issue that will take parks staff into the summer is the consequences of a major storm.

“Once we get snow past four or five inches, he said, “we really start losing landmarks. We lose sight of the sidewalk and path edges. Sometimes we damage the sod in snow clearing.”

Ambrose said over the next few months they will work to repair damaged areas through reseeding.

While Ambrose will be planning for next year, with the heat of summer just around the cor-

ner, the metro district is working to remove the misconceptions residents have that the March 13 snowstorm and others that followed took the region out of drought warnings.

Dick said with snow levels increasing in February and March this year, the drought rating is still a matter of concern.

The drought meter moved from “exceptional drought” to a designation of “serious drought,” he said.

Swithin Dick, the water rights administrator for Centennial Water, said to look at current conditions, the impacts of 2020 have to be considered.

Dick said 2020 had an average snowpack but it was also the seventh warmest year on record and second driest.

“Even with above average snowpack, the soils in general have been very dry,” he said.

Dick explained that even though the March 13 storm increased the average snowpack to about 91% for 2021, the dry soil is sucking up a lot of the water before the runoff can make it to the rivers.

He estimated only 75% will make it into the water streams.

“The dry plants and soils have been grabbing that moisture,” he said. “It adds more moisture to the soil but takes away from the river.”

Because another dry season is

expected, officials of the metro district are warning residents to be vigilant with summer water usage.

Sherry Eppers, community relations manager of the metro district, said there are plenty of steps residents can take to do their part in conserving water in 2021, including: Fixing leaks: Check water lines and preserve water by fixing all big and small leaks.

Water Budgeting: Eppers said it is important to not “set it and forget it,” meaning residents should routinely check and set irrigation schedules. Turn them off when it is raining. Irrigation controls should be adjusted continuously throughout the year.

Garden in a box: Box gardening helps cut back on water usage.

High-efficiency nozzles: Highefficiency nozzles are good replacements for traditional, fixedspray nozzles. Centennial water will provide rebates for those using high-efficiency nozzles.

Turf replacement: Among other incentives, there is a rebate available for the removal of any existing grass that is replaced with Xeric or drought-tolerant vegetation.

For more information on what residents can do to help preserve water, visit the Centennial Water website at centennialwater.org/ water-conservation/waterwise/.

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Junior Jack Pucciano is a striker for the Castle View boys soccer team who works hard on the technical aspects of the sport.

And he gives a lot of credit to his two dogs who help him polish his technical skills at home.

“Every off day we have I always try to go to a field near by and take some shots, do some one vs. one even if it is against a stationary goalkeeper just to work on my ball placement and finish,” Pucciano said.

“I also have two dogs that love the tennis ball that I like kicking around in the house,” he continued.

“So they help me with keeping the ball close especially with a tennis ball.”

Castle View head coach Mark Burfeind knows he has a talented player in Pucciano.

“Jack is one of the hardest working player I have coached that has a phenomenal technical ability,” Burfeind said. “Those two aspects together make Jack a hard player to stop.”

Pucciano’s work ethic starts with his distaste for losing.

“I love running all over the place, and I play with a lot of passion and that’s one of the main reasons why

Castle View junior Jack Pucciano is a hardworking player.

he considers myself a hard worker because I hate losing,” said Pucciano. “I despise losing so much that I can’t stand it. I work hard everyday and try to win.”

After the first eight games of the season on April 13, Legend was unbeaten and Pucciano led all Continental League scorers with 20 points. He had a conference-leading seven goals and was tied for first with six assists.

Castle View junior Jack Pucciano is a player with good technical skills.

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Creek field hockey makes most of COVID delay Modified season means extra prep time, so girls fine-tune trust and teamwork

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Cherry Creek senior Ella Pratt.

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Senior captain Ella Pratt and her Cherry Creek field hockey teammates had extra time to prepare for this spring’s season.

Field hockey is usually a fall sport, but COVID altered a lot, and the sport is now playing in Season C, which started its modified season in March. The postseason semifinals will be April 26 and the state finals are set for April 27.

Pushing back the season allowed players extra time to prepare.

“A lot the girls on the team played for Denver Field Hockey Club or Club Lewy,” Pratt said. “Honestly, after it would be like Creek vs. everybody else. It was always like that every session. We did go to some tournaments.

“We all did club hockey, which was really helpful for us because we all did we a bunch of sessions

in February before we started in March. That helped us to start trusting more even earlier though we were already so close. I have not felt much different this season because we play together all the time.”

Pratt has signed to play next season for the University of New Hampshire, and so far her senior high school season has been good.

She has six goals in seven games thru April 14 plus five assists for 17 points. ”Ella is a phenomenal player,” Creek coach Clara Detrick-Yee said.

“She is a captain this year. She typically plays center back or center mid for us. She is just a powerhouse.

She has a really strong, consistent head for the game and is really selfless and cares about the team. She is a fantastic leader.”

Cherry Creek was 7-0 and ranked second in the state according to the April 12 CHSAANow.com poll.

“I feel real good about the season,” Pratt said. “I’ve been putting in a bunch of work outside of the season and obviously in the season. I’m excited about this last stretch of the season. It will be real fun and competitive.”

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Prep sports roundup Boys soccer, girls volleyball, field hockey, gymnastics STAFF REPORT

Snowy weather forced a post season adjustment for boys soccer.

The regular season was supposed to end on April 19 but was extended to April 21 and scheduling modifications were made for the playoffs. State playoff brackets were released on April 20 and Class 3A-5A first round games were either played April 21 or April 22.

Quarterfinal games in classes 2A-5A will be held on April 24 and semifinal matches will be played April 28. State championship games in all classes will be held May 1.

There were two automatic qualifiers from the Centennial, Continental and Jefferson County leagues which helped to make the 16-team playoff bracket which included four at-large teams.

The following are results of some sports action that took place between April 12 and 17.

C R O S SWO R D P U Z Z L E

Boys Soccer Mullen 2, Cherry Creek 1 – Cyrus Gulati scored for the Bruins in a Centennial League semifinal tournament game on April 14. Grandview downed Arapahoe,1-0, in the other semifinal game.

Grandview 2, Mullen 0 – The Wolves won the Centennial League post-season tournament with an April 17 victory over the Mustangs.

Castle View 1, Legend 0 – Jack Pucciano tallied the overtime goal as the Sabercats remained unbeaten with an April 12 victory.

Rock Canyon 2, Highlands Ranch 1 – The Jaguars’ Brandon Halpin and Carter Pollock scored the goals in an overtime conquest over the Falcons on April 12.

Rock Canyon handed Castle View its first loss of the season with a 1-0 victory in a match played on April 17.

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Valor Christian 6, Dakota Ridge 0 – Junior Sean Fields scored twice in the Eagles victory on April 15.

Girls volleyball Eaton 3, Lutheran 2 – The Lions dropped a 15-13 decision in the deciding fifth set and lost an April 12 match which pitted Eaton, ranked first in the CHSAANow.com poll, and second-ranked Lutheran. The Lions rebounded on April 15 with a 3-0 win over Colorado Academy as Brandy Schneider had 14 kills, Sabrina King 39 assists and Bella Vezzani 25 digs.

Legend 2, Chaparral 1 – Senior Rylie Kadel had a big game as the Titans, ranked ninth, toppled the third-ranked Wolverines on April 13. Kadel had 24 kills with a 1.000 hitting percentage, six blocks and seven digs. Peyton Dunn had 34 assists for Legend while Tiffany Little led Chap with 12 kills.

Castle View 2, Regis Jesuit 1 – Freshman Paityn Chapman was credited with 13 kills and sophomore Hannah Myhill added 33 assists in an April 14 win.

ThunderRidge 2, Highlands Ranch 0 – Lacy Beldon came up with 22 assists to help the Grizzlies down the Falcons

on April 13. Dani Cranford led Highlands Ranch with 15 kills.

Cherry Creek 3, Mullen 0 – Sophomore Anna Van Wyk had 24 assists as the Bruins, ranked second in the CHSAANow.poll, polished off the Mustangs on April 13. Creek won its 11th straight match after a season-opening loss with a 3-0 win over Smoky Hill on April 14.

Field hockey Cherry Creek 5, Kent Denver 1 – Tallulah Fuhs and Emily Sands each had two goals as the second-ranked Bruins downed the third-ranked Sun Devils on April 14. Isabella Assini and Alexandra Michelotti each had two goals in a 6-0 romp over Grandview on April 17.

Fuhs had a goal to give her the scoring lead with 11 goals and one assist for 23 points in the Colorado Field Hockey League.

Castle View junior Jack Pucciano is among the top soccer players in the ContiPHOTO BY JIM BENTON nental League.

Gymnastics Regional meets were held April 1517.

Overland capture the regional title with 181.400 points at the Overland regional. Mountain Range garnered 179.025 points to win the Mountain Range regional. Elizabeth won the 4A title at the Arvada West regional with 179.550 points while Broomfield was crowned the 5A champion with 183.675 points.

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Original Grantor: NICHOLAS A BOYES Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR SCME MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPICITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF BCMB1 TRUST Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/8/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 12/15/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006107682 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $50,400.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date

hereof: $47,346.16 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: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof.

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 172, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-G, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 4626 Lyndenwood Cir, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130 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.

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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: 4/22/2021 Last Publication: 5/20/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 2/26/2021 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: SCOTT TOEBBEN Colorado Registration #: 19011 216 16TH STREET SUITE 1210, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (720) 259-6714 Fax #: (720) 259-6709 Attorney File #: 21CO00013-1 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

man Services Client and Staff Services” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFQ responses will be received until 2:00 p.m., on Monday, May 10, 2021 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.

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Bids and Settlements Public Notice REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) #017-21 HUMAN SERVICES CLIENT and STAFF SERVICES The Department of Human Services of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) from responsible and qualified vendors and other professional services firms.

The SOQ received from all firms will be evaluated for inclusion on the County’s Preferred Vendor List for a duration of two (2) years starting June 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023.

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.

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.

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