$1.00
February 18, 2021
JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
JeffcoTranscript.com
VOLUME 37 | ISSUE 32
Norma says no to GOP
VALENTINE’S DAY IN THE MOUNTAINS
Long-time party torchbearer Norma Anderson goes independent BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Thirty couples participated in Loveland Ski Area’s 30th annual Mountaintop Matrimony ceremony Sunday afternoon. Seven couples married and 23 renewed their vows at noon in Forest Meadow before skiing and snowboarding back down the mountain. Participation has ranged from 70 to 100 couples in years past. However, this year, capacity was limited and social distancing COURTESY OF CASEY DAY/LOVELAND SKI AREA observed during the ceremony.
Reward increased in hopes of finding teen couple’s killer Police hope $100,000 reward will help solve shooting deaths at Littleton-area Subway BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
More than two decades after a teenage couple was fatally shot in a Littleton-area Subway restaurant, police are hoping a big boost in the
reward for information in the case will help bring the killer to justice. Metro Denver Crime Stoppers announced on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, the reward for information leading to an arrest in the killings of Nick Kunselman and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell is now $100,000, up from $12,000. Kunselman, 15 when he died, and Hart-Grizzell, who was 16, were found shot to death in a Subway restaurant at Coal Mine Avenue and Pierce Street in the early
Nick Kunselman, left, and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell were gunned down in a Littleton-area restaurant 21 years ago.
SEE KILLER, P6
COURTESY PHOTO
INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 12 | LIFE: PAGE 14 | CALENDAR: PAGE 11 | SPORTS: PAGE 17
TAKE A TOUR
Options abound for exploring cool places in the metro area P14
On Nov. 5, 1950, at age 18, she bought a one-way bus ticket from her native Ohio to Colorado — a state she’d never visited before, and got onboard. She came, she said, because her father, an adventurous soul, had fallen in love with the state on a spur-of-the-moment road trip he’d once taken. It was the first of many new beginnings life had in store for her. And now, there’s a new, new beginning. At 89-years-old, Norma Anderson, who doesn’t sound 89-years-old, recently started a new chapter in her political life. She’s now a registered independent, having left the Republican Party because she thought it left her first. Anderson, a fixture in Colorado Republican politics for decades, served in the state legislature for nearly 20 years, first in the House, then moving on to the Senate. She says she was highly recruited to run for congress when Dan Schaefer left his seat in 1999, but just wasn’t feeling it. “I didn’t want it,” she said. “Didn’t want the travel — didn’t want to be number 435 in the pecking order.” So, she remained a state senator until 2006, retiring from that gig in the final year of her term. She was going to be term-limited soon after, a process she’s still not fond of today, SEE ANDERSON, P4