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Two Lakewood police officers shot Both will survive wounds Staff report The identity of the man responsible for shooting two Lakewood police officers on the evening of July 5 has been released and has been taken into custody.

Gordon Lee Moench, 54, was taken into custody immediately upon his release from a local hospital on July 7 where he received treatment for a gunshot wound.

The two Lakewood police officers who were shot on are recovering in a local hospital. Both sustained gunshot wounds that are listed as non-life threatening.

Shortly before 10 p.m. on the evening of the fifth the officers were responding to a residence in the 9700 block of W. Jewell Place, after a female called police to report her husband was at the address and was despondent. The female, believed to be the wife of the male party was not at the address when she called police.

As the two officers, one male and one

female arrived separately on scene, they were met almost immediately with gun fire from the suspect who had exited the residence and confronted them outside.

The female officer, Agent Kimberly Collins a two-year veteran of the department was able to call for help after being shot.

One of the rounds fired by the suspect hit the male officer, Agent Jonathan Key an eightyear veteran in the protective vest he wore.

A third Lakewood officer arriving on scene shot Moench. The injured officers and Moench were transported to a local hosGordon pital for treatment of their wounds.

Detectives from the Lakewood Police Department as well as members of the Jefferson County Critical Incident Response Team - CIRT, commonly referred to as the “Shoot Team” - are investigating into the shootings. A search

warrant is being executed on the suspect’s residence as detectives search for any evidence that might assist in establishing a motive for the suspect’s actions.

The Shoot Team is comprised of officials from the many law enforcement agencies in Jefferson County, to include the District Attorney’s Office. They will conduct their own separate investigation of the shootings. At the conclusion of their investigation, they will submit their final report to the District Attorney who will make a determination on the filing of any and all charges stemming from the case.

Moench was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on July 7. He faces multiple charges including attempted first degree murder, first degree assault on a peace officer, felony menacing and others.

Moench made his first appearance in Jefferson County Court on July 8. The District Attorney’s office will review the case reports and make a determination on the most appropriate charges.

Susie’s Sweets owner Sue McGuire, center, and bakers Chris, left, and Adeline Griffin, right, are keeping the memory of a local icon alive with their new business. Clarke Reader

A taste of memory

Susie’s Sweets turns tragedy into transformation

By Clarke Reader

creader@coloradocommunitymedia.com Going from bittersweet to just sweet is no easy task in life, but that’s a process that Sue McGuire have endeavored upon with her new shop, Susie’s Sweets.

Located at 1470 Carr St., the shop may ring some bells for longtime residents — it’s the home of Colorado Cookie Company, which was run by Deanna Officer. Officer died of cancer on April 14, leaving the future of her cookie company up in the air.

“My brother Doug Walters owns the building that the cookie company is based in, and he knew about my lifelong passion for baking,” McGuire said. “I heard about it and couldn’t not do it.”

At the time McGuire was living in Oregon, but after receiving her brother’s call, she came

out to visit with Officer’s family.

“Her family wanted to keep the company going but didn’t really see how it would be possible for them to do that,” McGuire explained. “They could have sold the building for more money to another kind of business but they wanted to keep their daughter’s legacy alive.”

The bakery was unofficially open during the past couple months as McGuire worked to get the bakery up and running, and Susie’s Sweets had its official opening on July 1.

McGuire and her bakers, Adeline Griffin and Chris, have kept many of the favorites from the Colorado Cookie Company, and added a couple new treats, including the Monster Cookie and peanut butter ball.

“My favorite is our Whoopie Pies, which have whipped butter cream filling,” Griffin said. “We also do brownies and breads — the raspberry coffee cake is delicious.”

People can pick up cookies and other treats in store, but Susie’s also has a variety of basket options for events and gifts.

McGuire said that she wants

Cookies can be bought in baskets and large numbers for corporate events as well on a single basis at the bakery. to grow the storefront at Susie’s so more people can stop by on their way to work to grab a cup of coffee and a bread or cinnamon roll for breakfast.

A photo of Officer is featured prominently in the store front, which is fitting since so much of the company is in her honor.

“I think it’s nice that we were able to keep this going in her honor,” Chris said. “At the same time we’re adding new special touches to everything.”

For McGuire, opening Susie’s Sweets is a unique chance to honor a community icon while fulfilling her own dreams.

“We’re never going to be taking away any of her personal touches, because she (Officer) was more than a business owner,” she said. “When I first walked in this place I knew it was for me.”

For more information, call 303-238-5590 or visit www. susiessweet.com.

Arvada woman arrested for conspiracy Conley suspected of aiding foreign terrorist organization

By Crystal Anderson

canderson@colorado communitymedia.com Today, 19-year-old Shannon Maureen Conley, of Arvada, sits in federal custody in a Colorado county jail, facing up to 5 years in a federal prison and up to $250,000 in fines.

Charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, Conley, who was arrested in April, is under suspicion for working with foreign terrorist organization, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS). Conley Law enforcement officials kept the criminal complaint sealed until July 2 due to an ongoing investigation.

According to Jeff Dorschner, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado, Conley will be prosecuted in a federal court in downtown Denver.

No trial date, court appearance or status conference has been scheduled to date, but one is expected in August.

According to court documents, Conley, who held Islamic beliefs, had openly talked about waging jihad in the Middle East with FBI agents, who had been investigating the case for eight months prior to the arrest.

“The fear was she was going to violate the law, which is providing support to a foreign terrorist organization, by going there and supporting ISIS efforts; that’s in violation of the law,” Dorschner said.

Conley had been attending Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada for two months prior to the start of the investigation. FBI Agents were alerted to the case when a criminal report, which referenced Conley documenting the layout of the campus, was filed by the church’s pastor and security director in early November according to court documents.

“We asked her not to come back because she was obviously not partaking in the faith, and she agreed,” Faith Bible Pastor George Morrison said.

Following the initial report, Conley was interviewed by an Arvada Police detective and a Special Deputy U.S. Marshall, regarding her activities and experiences at Faith Bible, and her beliefs about Jihad, and the harming innocent people through Jihad.

During the conversation she recognized the religious struggles associated with Jihad, but believed it was war to protect Muslim lands, and cited U.S. military bases as targets.

Over the next five months FBI agents attempted to dissuade Conley from taking action on her plans, trying to persuade her to join humanitarian efforts, such as the Red Crescent, before making the final arrest.

Conley, a former Arvada West High School student, dropped out to obtain her General Education Diploma (GED) and was a Certified Nursing Assistant (CAN) in the State of Colorado.

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Teenage birth rate plummets Abortion rate also drops for teens

By Vic Vela

vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com Birth rates among Colorado teenagers have dropped by 40 percent over the last five years, a likely result of a state initiative that aims to help young women avoid unwanted pregnancies, state officials announced last week.

“That is not a small drop, that is a very significant drop,” said Dr. Larry Wolk, the

state’s chief medical officer, during a July 3 Capitol press conference.

Reducing teenage birth rates is a goal of the 2008-launched Colorado Family Initiative, a program that has provided more than 30,000 intrauterine devices at little or no cost for low-income women.

As a result, Colorado moved from the 29th lowest birth rate in the country in 2008 to the 19th lowest in 2012.

The birth rate drop has saved the state more than $40 million in public funds.

That’s due to a 23 percent caseload reduction for the state’s Women, Infants

and Children program, which provides nutrition education and support for lowincome women and their children, according to statistics provided by Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office.

Teen abortion rates have also fallen. The state saw a 35 percent drop in that number from 2009 through 2012 in counties that are served by the initiative.

Wolk and Hickenlooper said that unwanted pregnancies among teenagers can have serious health and psychological impacts on women and their children.

Mothers who are involved in unwanted

pregnancies are at a higher risk of being physically abused and the pregnancies can sometimes lead to abortions.

Children born as a result of unwanted pregnancies can sometimes experience child abuse, neglect and a range of mental health issues, officials said.

“We see that waiting until the mother is in the right place at the right time and ready to have children really creates a better situation for everyone concerned,” Hickenlooper said.

Bearing witness, on the birthday of Eva Levine Last week, July 6, was Eva Levine’s birthday … July 6, 1916, to be exact, and I am writing here to commemorate this day. She was the second daughter of five children born to Jewish parents in Lodz, Poland. Her father dealt in real estate, and the family owned the building in which they lived. Eva finished high school and studied history at a local university.

I know this because I was given Eva’s Identification Card when I visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., recently. Actually, I selected Eva’s card at random from a bin of such ID cards for females – women and children – who were victims of the ghettos, deportations, concentration camps, and, for so many, the mass murders in the killing fields and gas chambers of the Holocaust.

I too am a student of history, and I’ve read extensively about the World War II regions in Europe where my father served, and those in the Pacific where my mother was stationed. And – as painful as it is – I

want to know as much about the Holocaust as possible. Because such a thing must never happen again.

Eva was 2-and-a-half years old when my mother was born in Chicago, a firstgeneration American whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from Romania around the turn of the century. Just 20-some years later, my Romanian-American mother would serve with the Allies to help liberate families such as Eva’s who had become trapped in their homelands.

In Poland, Ava married her boyfriend Herman in 1939; then the Germans

invaded. One day the Gestapo banged on their door and slapped Eva’s father-in-law around. They demanded the family’s valuables, which had already been looted, and Eva herself confronted the officers.

In 1941, Eva and Herman were tossed into the ghetto of Piotrkow Trybunalski after they arrived there looking for food.

Eva’s family was deported there as well, and she worked with her mother and sisters for three years in the ghetto. In 1944 all the women were deported to Ravensbreuk, a concentration camp in Germany.

Eva’s health deteriorated, and the by the time she was evacuated with the other prisoners to Bergen-Belsen ahead of the Allied advance, she had lost most of the tissue in her spine. Eva’s mother, Machla Spicehandler Braun, became so weakened by starvation and disease that she lay dying in Bergen-Belsen on the floor of her filthy barrack.

Two days before the British liberated the camp in April 1945, Machla died at Bergen-Belsen. Eva’s father, Yakob, had

been deported to Buchenwald in 1944 and then to Bergen-Belsen, where he died without ever making contact his family.

Eva was liberated by the British and she moved to the United States in 1950. The Holocaust Museum has no record of what happened to Herman Levine, and I know nothing more of Eva. Eva’s story lives on with me, however, because I received her ID card #2633. This July 6 was the first of her birthdays that I will commemorate by bearing witness for both the dead and the living, and — as a member of the human race — working to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. Because such a thing must never happen again.

Andrea Doray is a writer who found additional information on Eva Levine at: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Eva Braun Levine.” www.ushmm.org/ wlc/en/article.php/Moduleld=10005143.

Accessed on 7/6/2014. Contact Andrea at a.doray@andreadoray.com.

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Beauprez stands by ‘47 percent’ comments Video surfaces as governor candidate touts running mate, party unity

By Vic Vela

vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com On a week when the Bob Beauprez campaign was buoyed by a poll that showed him in a 44 percent tie with Gov. John Hickenlooper, it was instead a different number that stirred a media buzz.

Hours into a statewide Republican “unity tour” on July 2 — where Beauprez traveled with former GOP rivals and his newly pegged gubernatorial running mate — Beauprez’s campaign ended up having to deal with the resurfacing of old comments.

A 2010 video obtained by the Denver Post shows Beauprez making comments to the Denver Rotary Club that were reminiscent of those made by former presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 — ones that ended up derailing the Romney campaign.

“I see something that frankly doesn’t surprise me, having been on the Ways and Means Committee: Forty-seven percent of all Americans pay no federal income tax,” Beauprez said. “I’m guessing that most of you in this room are not in that 47 percent — God bless you — but what that tells me is that we’ve got almost half the population perfectly happy that somebody else is paying the bill, and most of that half is you all.”

Beauprez said “there is a political strategy” on the part of Democrats to keep a large number of people dependent on the government because it helps their party create a “permanent ruling majority.”

Democrats pounced on Beauprez’s comments.

“When he was catering to his Tea Party

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez, right, gets a hug from former Congressman Tom Tancredo at a campaign event in Lakewood on July 2.

Tancredo, a former Beauprez rival in the GOP gubernatorial primary, now supports Beauprez’s candidacy for governor. Photo by Vic Vela base to win a primary, he warned of an impending ‘civil war’ and attacked 47 percent of Americans, including veterans and seniors, as lazy,” said Jennifer Koch, executive director for the Colorado Democratic Party, through an emailed statement. “Now he is trying sell his ‘Unity Tour’ across our state.”

But the Beauprez campaign stood by the comments. Campaign manager Dustin Olsen said in an emailed statement that Beauprez was making the point that “it’s sad more people are not doing well enough to pay federal income tax.”

Beauprez does refer to income tax in his comments, which is a more accurate assessment than the one Romney made when he was speaking to Republican donors in 2010.

Romney said that 47 percent of the country would end up voting for President Barack Obama “no matter what” because they are “dependent on the government.”

Still, Beauprez’s and Romney’s comments have a similar tone. Romney said that 47 percent of the country considers themselves victims and feel they are “entitled” to government benefits. Beauprez said that many people are “happy” to let the wealthy class take care of them.

Olsen said the attack over Beauprez’s comments from four years ago is a futile effort on the part of Democrats to distract them from recent news in the race.

“Clearly Hickenlooper and his radical liberal allies are desperate following the recent Rasmussen poll showing Bob Beauprez tied with John Hickenlooper,” Olsen said.

The poll, which was conducted in the days after Beauprez won the Republican primary, shows Beauprez tied with Hickenlooper, with both men garnering 44 of support from respondents. Eight percent said they were undecided, while 4 percent said they preferred another candidate.

Rasmussen is considered a Republicanfriendly polling firm.

As for Hickenlooper, he told reporters after an unrelated Capitol press conference on July 3 that he had not seen the Beauprez video.

“I just haven’t had time...” Hickenlooper said. “I keep intending to get to seeing that video and understanding it, but as you guys all know there’s a bunch of other stuff (to deal with). You tell me what I should be spending my time on?”

Beauprez touts party unity The comments surfaced the

Several new state laws take effect Staff Report A wide-ranging group of 50 new laws dealing with everything from Internet crimes to marijuana research to Jessica’s Law took effect July 1.

The statutes are among 425 bills that passed the Legislature and were signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper this year.

One of the more interesting laws creates a misdemeanor for the online posting of sexual photos of a person for the purposes of harassment or financial gain, otherwise known as “revenge porn.”

Posting of the so-called revenge porn is often carried out by an angry lover or spouse as a way of getting back at their partner over a relationship gone wrong. The new law — which had bipartisan support at the Capitol — carries with it a maximum fine of $10,000.

“The effects of someone posting intimate photos online can be devastating to the victim, but now there will be serious consequences for the perpetrators of this horrible practice,” said bill sponsor Rep. Amy Stephens, R-Monument, through an e-mailed statement.

Another noteworthy statute will provide $9 million for the study of the health benefits of medical marijuana.

The legislation sets up a grant program to fund scientific research into the ways that medical pot can impact those who have chronic ailments.

New public safety laws also took effect on July 1. They included a law that will give police more time to investigate fatal hit-and-runs.

The law extends the statute of limitations for fatal hit-and-runs to 10 years. Prior to the new law taking effect, a hit-and-run crime could not be prosecuted five years after the inci-

dent occurred.

“This new law will go a long way toward giving law enforcement the ability to solve any fatal hit-and-runs that occur in Colorado,” said Rep. Kathleen Conti, R-Littleton, a bill sponsor.

“The families of victims can now feel more confident that the crime against their loved one will not go unsolved.”

Also, child sex offenders will face more stringent sentencing penalties, under Colorado’s first-ever version of “Jessica’s Law.” The law — based on a national initiative that is named after a Florida girl who was murdered by a sex offender — imposes a mandatory minimum sentencing structure that includes up to life in prison for those who commit violent sexual assaults against children.

Prior to the new law, the most severe sentence a court could hand out was 24 years behind bars.

day Beauprez rallied Republican support on a statewide “unity tour.” The tour featured several prominent Republicans, including his former rivals in the GOP gubernatorial primary — former Congressman Tom Tancredo, Secretary of State Scott Gessler and former state Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp.

All three men attended a Lakewood stop, where they conveyed the importance of winning Jefferson County — a swing county that is sure to be a key battleground in the fall.

“It’s a swinging county in a swinging state,” Gessler told the crowd that was huddled inside a Jefferson County Republican campaign office. “The way Jefferson County goes will be the way Colorado goes in November. He will win if you all deliver Jefferson County.”

Beauprez also introduced lieutenant governor candidate Jill Repella as his running mate.

The Douglas County commissioner and Colorado native touted her county for having one of the fastest job-growth rates in the country. She also said the Democratic-majority Legislature “has run amok” by creating laws that hurt local communities — Repella provided no specifics behind that claim.

“I always thought of Colorado as a place where you can breathe freely,” she said. “I feel suffocated now. I fell suffocated because of the things that are being pushed down on us in our communities.”

Beauprez made comments that were similar to those he has been making throughout the campaign — ones that try to paint Hickenlooper as a failed leader who believes that more government is the answer to Coloradans’ problems.

“That’s the real question that’s on your ballot this fall,” he said. “Do we as voters believe and trust in the beauty and decency and the genius of people, or do we believe in government? I believe in people.”

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So, thank you, dear readers who provide us with a large percentage of our business!

Since I am kept plenty busy by those who come to me based on my writings, please don’t think I’m complaining when I simply observe that a high percentage of sellers use subjective or illogical criteria when it comes to the selection of their listing agents. You’d think that when it comes to the biggest transactions of their financial lives, people would use logic and common sense in the hiring process, but such is not always the case.

One of my most popular columns had the headline, “18 (or More) Questions to Ask When Interviewing Your Next Listing Agent,” and I even gave that col-

umn its own web site, www.The18 Questions.com.

That column contained a lot of obvious and logical questions to ask an agent, such as whether they do “virtual tours” or narrated video tours, and whether they complete all the fields on the MLS, or only the mandatory ones.

I suggested that the best way to judge how an agent will market your house is to see how they market their current listing. Get the address of a current listing, I suggested, and Google it to see how it is presented online — which is the most important element of marketing nowadays.

Also important, does the listing agent use a good showing service to set showings by other agents, and does that service have a good system for obtaining feedback?

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The Genesee bison herd had a record breaking year with 20 calves being born instead of the average of 16 to 18. Photo by Hannah Burlingame

Banner year for bison Genesee herd enjoys record number of calves

By Hannah Burlingame

hannah.burlingame@wartburg.edu Roughly 100 years ago, two bison bulls from Yellowstone Park and a few bison cows owned by the City and County of Denver were brought to Genesee Park. Today, the descendants of this original herd of bison still reside at Genesee Park and had a record number of calves born this season.

Each year the average number of bison calves is 16 to 18.

This year there are 20 calves and Marty Homola, Genesee bison herd caretaker, said it is most likely due to a new bull that was brought in a few years ago.

“He must have been a good bull,” Homola, said.

The first calf of the season was born in December 2013, which is a rare. Calves are usually not born that early, according to Homola. Roughly a month ago is when the last calf was born.

Able to be seen west of Golden around mile marker 254 on Interstate 70, the herd of 26 adults and 20 calves is not always visible because they roam freely on 750 acres in the park.

Buffalo Herd Overlook gives visitors another opportunity to see the bison, and Homola said there might be a couple more overlooks in the works to make it easier for people to see the bison.

Even though it is called Buffalo Herd Overlook, there is no difference between bison and buffalo. Bison is the scientific name while buffalo is the nickname the English gave the animal in the 1600s when they first saw them.

“I still call them buffalo. It just doesn’t sound right out here in the west to call them bison,” Homola said.

The bison herd, which is owned by the city and county of Denver, were brought to the park to educate people as well as to allow visitors to see the bison in their natural habitat.

“They are a pretty popular attraction within our mountain parks along I-70 here. We have skiers and tourists and visitors that are coming down I-70, and the first thing they see are the bison,” Homola said.

LAKEWOOD NEWS IN A HURRY Lewin sentenced for role in fire

Rachel Dawn Lewin, 22, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for her role in setting fire to an occupied house in Lakewood in July, 2013. Lewin and her boyfriend, Lucas Piper, were both arrested and convicted of arson and attempted murder. On May 15, Lewin pleaded guilty to attempted first degree murder (naming all victims) (F2), first degree arson

(F3), and conspiracy to commit first degree arson (F4). She was sentenced on July 1.

At 5 a.m. on July 27, West Metro Fire was called to an active house fire at 12368 W. Viewpoint Drive in Lakewood.

There were nine people inside the house. They all escaped without injury but the dwelling sustained moderate fire damage.

Earlier in the evening most of the occupants had attended

a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Following the concert, at around 1 a.m., the group returned to the house on W. Viewpoint Drive. Lewin and Piper also arrived at the house.

Lewin and Piper knew the others only through mutual friends. A bonfire was lit in the back yard and one of the residents began to demonstrate his hobby of “fire twirling” for the group. Piper and two others were injured by the fire

demonstration. Piper became very angry and left the house, saying that he was going to come back and burn the house down. Lewin and Piper drove to a convenience store. She went inside and purchased lighter fluid. They returned to the house and, using the lighter fluid as an accelerant, Piper set fire to the house while Hurry continues on Page 5

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Making friends and connections during school is challenging for all children, but for those living with autism social interaction presents a whole new level of difficulty.

For many autistic students there isn’t near enough extra time to practice and get comfortable with fellow students during the year, but summer offers an opportunity to do just that.

Students from all over Jeffco have the chance at Creighton Middle School in Lakewood to work with staff on making it easier to connect with their peers.

“We work with the students on breaking out of their shells,” said Sheri Kline, special education at Creighton. “We help them to deal with a lot of different things that might be difficult but by the end none of the students are not excited to come back.”

The summer program started as an effort to create a setting for social interaction practice for just one student, but it has grown in its seven years to cater to around 19 this year.

Paul McConnell, a psychologist with Jeffco who works at the program, said that students on the autism spectrum struggle significantly with the social aspect of school, and that’s why this kind of work is so important.

“We’re teaching cooperation and teamwork in these classes and everyone has to participate,” McConnell said. “The activities are based on the Relationship Development Intervention program, as well as other sources.”

McConnell said that all the activities are focused in some way on the students interacting with each other through verbal and physical activities and the students all have to follow the rules of the activity and adjust to the needs of their peers instead of switching to their way.

Activities include trading and sharing marbles and using creations made out of building blocks to teach direction giving and following.

Kline said that parents get involved in the work as well by being part of the conversation and participating in an end of program event where they can see how their children have grown.

“Coming up with interactive activities is very important to us and we want to teach these students how to be flexible in their interactions,” she said. “They learn, we learn and everyone has fun.”

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Ann Crall, 34, was sentenced to eight years in prison after failing to comply with the terms and conditions of probation in her 2010 conviction for Theft (F3) and Charitable Fraud (F5). The probation revocation and re-sentencing hearing was June 30.

Crall pleaded guilty and in April 2011 was sentenced to 10 years in probation and 90 days in jail for taking over $58,000 from unsuspecting donors under the pretense that she had cancer.

Prosecutors told the court at the revocation hearing that new charges have been filed against Crall. She has been charged with one count of attempt to influence a public servant (F4) and four counts of forgery (F5).

During the time she was on probation, Crall is alleged to have forged letters and falsified documents, purportedly from her employer to her probation officer, in an attempt to mislead and influence the probation officer from taking actions against her for her failure to comply with the conditions of her probation.

In the original criminal case, Crall began telling people that she had been diagnosed with cancer in the fall of 2005. She said that she was beginning treatment. She continued and expanded the ruse for the next four years, lying to people, telling intricate stories of how her chemotherapy wasn’t working, how her cancer had gotten worse, that her liver was failing and that she was having seizures. During this time, she continued to accept charitable contributions from friends, neighbors, church members and many of her husband’s co-workers.

Bond in the new case was set at $25,000 cash or surety.

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On July 26 at 1 p.m. at the gallery, writer Liesa Malik will read from and sign her published novel, “Faith on the Rocks.” Books will be available for sale.

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Lawmakers urge removal of gay-marriage roadblocks Steadman says same-sex nuptials in Colorado are ‘inevitable’

By Vic Vela

vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com A group of gay state lawmakers on July 3 called on Colorado officials to “concede” that the state’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional and to avoid putting

up any more legal barriers that delay “inevitable” same-sex nuptials.

That urging — and the state Attorney General’s decision that same day to take legal action against a county clerk who has been issuing “invalid” gay marriage licenses — capped a flurry of activity surrounding gaymarriage court battles from last week, an issue that is expected to become even more eventful in the coming weeks.

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Democrats, held a Capitol press conference to urge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper and Republican Attorney General John Suthers to essentially get out of the way of legal battles over same-sex marriage that are consistently being won across the country by supporters of marriage equality.

“It’s about to happen and now we’re seeing the end game,” said state Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, who added that it is “inevitable” that same-sex marriage will become legal in Colorado, as it has in several other states.

The most recent victory for gay marriage supporters was a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Denver last week that Utah could not prevent gays from getting married there.

The appeals court stayed its ruling until the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue. And since the 10th circuit court includes the state of Colorado, it means that the state’s ban on gay marriage — which was supported by Colorado voters in 2006 — will remain in place, pending a Supreme Court decision.

However, that did not stop Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall from issuing same-sex marriage licenses almost immediately after the court’s decision. And Boulder County has continued to issue those licenses in spite of threats of legal intervention on the part of the Attorney General’s office.

Those threats culminated in a lawsuit that was filed by the AG’s Office on July 3, which calls on Hall to stop issuing “invalid” marriage licenses.

“Regretfully, our office was forced to take action against Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall due to her refusal to follow state law,”

State Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, speaks to reporters about recent developments in court cases involving gay marriage at the Capitol on July 3. Steadman was joined by fellow Democratic gay lawmakers, including Sen. Jessie Ulibarri of Commerce City, right, and House Speaker Mark Ferrandino of Denver, left. Photo by Vic Vela Suthers said through an emailed statement. “While we would prefer not to sue a government official, Ms. Hall’s actions are creating a legal limbo for both the state and the couples whose relationships she wants to champion. That limbo could have tangible and unintended consequences.”

A hearing was to be held in a Boulder courtroom on July 9.

Further showing that this issue moved at lighting-like speed last week, Suthers’ decision to sue Boulder County came just one day after Suthers and Hickenlooper asked a federal court to issue an injunction declaring the state’s gay marriage ban to be unconstitutional.

That move deals with a lawsuit that was filed by six couples in a Denver federal district court who are seeking to overturn the state’s gay marriage ban.

However, they are asking for that injunction to be stayed, pending a Supreme Court outcome. The move suspends all trial court litigation on the matter.

Suthers is not a sup-

porter of gay marriage. But he sees the reality before him — that all lower courts have ruled on the side of gay marriage supporters.

So, Suthers does not see the point in continuing to drag the issue through the lower court process and using tax dollars to fight against something that is going to be decided by the highest court in the land anyway.

“The motion we filed yesterday seeks to create a cease fire in the battles over same-sex marriage in Colorado,” Suthers said.

“We created a path forward to efficiently and decisively resolve several ongoing legal proceedings,” Steadman commended Suthers and Hickenlooper for filing the injunction.

But he and other gay lawmakers would rather see the injunction filed without a stay.

“I think we will find that the sun will still rise in the east the next day; life will go on unchanged,” Steadman said. “The only thing that will be different is that all families will have equal opportunity to protect themselves and their property and their children, just like

everybody else.”

Hickenlooper, who supports gay marriage, acknowledged to reporters later that same day that “there’s a great deal of frustration out there” on the part of same-sex couples who are seeking to marry.

However, the governor said that the court system has a process that needs to be followed.

“I’m not a lawyer, but as I understand the court of law, when the Court of Appeals issues a stay for their own decision to be judged by a higher court, legally you don’t have that right to go around it,” he said.

But Steadman said that while the issue remains up in the air, some couples might be running out of time to see their dreams of marriage become a reality.

Steadman’s own partner died of cancer prior to Colorado’s legalization of civil unions last year — a law that Steadman was instrumental in creating.

“I can speak from personal experience,” Steadman said. “Not everyone can afford to wait.”

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The Denver Curling Club (DCC) broke ground Oct. 29 on the location of its new curling center, 14100 W. Seventh Ave., near the Denver West and Colorado Mills shopping area, by 6th Avenue and Indiana Street. In the following months great progress had been made on the project. Photo by Clarke Reader

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July 10, 2014

Teens address drug use Rise Above Colorado expands campaign from its acclaimed meth project

By Amy Woodward awoodward@coloradocommunitymedia.com High school students across Colorado are seeing the negative impacts of drug abuse among their peers.

One local Golden student, Bekah Anderson, 16, is determined to make a positive impact on her peers to live a drug free life and reach out to those that are in need of living a more sober life.

“It’s a lot bigger problem than people actually seem to think,” Anderson said. “I have personally known people who have abused drugs and I’ve seen how it’s negatively impacted their lives, it destroys them, it destroys their family.”

Anderson is the newest member to the Teen Action Council for the 2014-2015 school year through Rise Above Colorado, a statewide drug prevention organization that has brought considerable attention to teen drug use in the state. She joins 23 other teens on the council who were picked from

across the state to take part in community and school outreach activities to educate teens about the dangers of drug use.

“I’m in a unique position on this council so that I can more easily impact and help people and teach awareness because I am a student to them,” Anderson said. “It’s a lot easier for teens to listen to another a teen than a teen to listen to an adult.”

State statistics on drug use provides a startling insight into a growing problem among teens. In a 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Colorado Anderson ranked as the second worst state of pain pill abuse in the U.S. A more unknown fact came from Ibid and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that reported in 2011, twice as many people in Colorado died from poisoning due to painkillers than from drunk driving related fatalities.

Further, over 44 percent of teens in Colorado have reported that it is easier to get their hands on prescription medications through their parents or other family members cabinets than it is to get beer. “The conversations need to start happening about prescription drugs and the danger

jeffco news in a hurry Man sentenced to 240 years in prison

Kirk Barnhardt, 45, was sentenced last week to 240 years in prison for firing on SWAT Officers following a domestic violence assault and police standoff in July, 2013. Barnhardt armed himself with two semiautomatic weapons before police arrived and refused to come out of the house. He fired 11 shots out of the front window at SWAT officers before officer’s fired back, ending the incident, the District Attorney’s Office reported. In April, a Jeffco County jury found Barnhardt guilty

of 39 counts that included 19 counts of attempted murder.

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County Commissioner Casey Tighe will be on hand to speak with residents on issues of interest to south Jeffco at Columbine Library on Thursday, July 10 at 3 p.m. and again on Thursday, July 24 at 3 p.m.

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because the accessibility is clearly there,” said Kent MacLennan, executive director for Rise Above Colorado. “The conversation is not happening between parents and teens, we hope we can change that and we also hope we can have ambassadors like Bekah help to drive conversations.”

Rise Above Colorado first began in 2009 with the Colorado Meth Project which has been successful in changing teen attitudes toward the synthetic stimulant which causes severe damage to the brain leading to psychotic behavior, aggression and memory loss.

MacLennan, who used to teach in Jefferson County, joined the organization because of its “out of the box” approach to drug awareness with proven results which has helped turned teens away from meth use that became widespread in the early 2000s.

“We’re extremely proud of the work that we’ve done and that’s why we were excited to launch Rise Above because we feel like we’ve made a significant impact on the issue of methamphetamine in the state,” he said.

With the passing of Amendment 64, Rise Above will launch a campaign in the fall addressing marijuana use that focuses on healthy alternatives and choices for teens than experimenting with drugs.

For Bekah Anderson, who will start her junior year at Golden High School in the fall, she is ready to use her experiences to help change the lives of others.

“If I can help just one person either stop drug abuse or prevent them from starting then I think I’ll have been successful,” she said.

For more information about Rise Above Colorado, visit www.riseaboveco.org.

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Tests should pack more punch It occurs to me that, since the first major education reforms I talked about was to make four non-tested areas of the curriculum more important, some might conclude that I am an opponent of testing.

I’m not. I’ve been tested my whole life, and I kinda like testing (I’m sick that way).

One thing I learned from martial arts is that the only way to discover your weaknesses is to test yourself—failure brings self-awareness, self-awareness brings strength. Testing is good.

But more than just testing, I prefer authentic, meaningful testing. Getting kicked in the head is authentic and meaningful. Painful, too ... and a little embarrassing.

Students in the schools these days don’t take all that many meaningful tests. I think of the “Harry Potter” stories, where students at the end of their fifth years take the “Ordinary Wizarding Levels” test, which dictates the number of and kinds of choices the students get to pursue in their sixth and seventh years.

That’s meaningful! In fact, many countries around the world use something similar — England (real England, not Harry Potter England) has frequent standardized testing which determines which students get to proceed through the education system; China has an intense testing regime which students will take years preparing for; and Finland, the latest “newest, best thing” in the education world, has almost no standardized testing, with the notable exception of the national matriculation exam, which students must pass in order to pass out of high school and proceed to college.

Here in Jefferson County, we had the CSAP… or the TCAP … now we have the PARCC. Every student from third grade on takes it once a year, in the past, it’s occupied weeks worth of classroom time, and it means ... nothing. We call it “high-stakes testing,” but it isn’t: It has almost zero bearing on student matriculation, but, boy, do the schools and teachers get worked up about it. And then, on top of that, there are about 17 other standardized tests that students take, starting in kindergarten and going all the way through until they finally encounter the one meaningful test in all of it — the ACT, which controls many aspects of college choices. Lots of testing, lots of money for testing corporations, lots of stress, some useful information for teachers, very little either authentic or meaningful for students.

Can we, possibly, do something better?

What if we gave one — ONE — test at the end of each term, assessing what the students were supposed to learn that term? And if the student fails, then they get to repeat the term.

Mon Dieu! I know, it’s crazy, right? Actually holding students accountable for their own

learning? Madness!

Obviously, then, if the same teacher or the same school is consistently way out of the norms for their setting, then we can identify problems and work toward solutions. But it’s lunacy to give tests that are all-important to the employees and politicians but are completely meaningless to the students. Y’know, the ones actually taking the tests.

And it seems to me that, if we can administer the ACT in one morning each spring, we should be able to give a term test in one day. Heck, I’d even go so far as to say that the school district itself should be responsible for designing the tests, catered to their particular population.

How do assure standards across the board? By making the test at the end of the 10th year, the one that decides whether students continue on a college-bound path or whether we guide them more toward trades and service for the last two years. Maybe it’s the ACT, maybe it’s something else — but it has to matter. Might as well steal good ideas from the people at the front of the line, right?

The point is that I think we need to reevaluate why we give so many tests and what purpose they serve. And, if we can establish a purpose for the test, then maybe we can get a better grip on the purpose of the whole exercise of public education.

Michael Alcorn is a music teacher and fitness instructor who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. He graduated from Alameda High School and the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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Would you rather have a rewind or pause button on life? Why?

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My alter ego: Melissa McCarthy The movie actress, Melissa McCarthy who won an Oscar for the movie Bridesmaids, in all her movies I’ve seen so far, shocks the movie watcher, but that’s part of comedy, the unexpected daring physical surprises, and the delivering outrageous remarks and insults most of us would never say in real life. I just watched The Heat with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock on Netflix at home with my husband. It was less intense at home on our TV than it was in the theater when first released — at that time I watched it when I needed a laugh and went alone to a matinee to escape my own life, and the movie delivered what I was looking for. In the empty theater no one knew me, I could let go and laugh at outrageous interactions between McCarthy, who played a low-rent cop, and Bullock, who played a FBI agent.

They fought over turf to catch a drug lord.

The combination of the two fighting actresses created comedy gold.

Okay, yes I’m shocked by all the f-words

McCarthy uses. I read in the current issue of Rolling Stone (with McCarthy’s photo on the cover) that she didn’t want to use that many f words in one movie but the director pushed her to use more and more.

Ah, those male directors, I remember them well. I had my years in Hollywood and even a few classes with the Groundlings, the improvisation group she was part of and where she met her husband.

I did a movie too, (actually two). I’m in a scene with George C. Scott in Hardcore with lines and the director gave me a closeup. If you don’t believe me, check it

out on Netflix. Was it just coincidence I read for a part as a newspaper employee, a counter woman working for the Los Angeles Free Press. Ha, ha to this day over 25 years later I write for the local Jefferson County Mostly Free Press papers, one of which you might be reading.

What I personally like about McCarthy is her devil may care attitude is her not trying to impress anyone. She’s totally natural, almost like a child gone free. I don’t desire to hurt others, (or do I?) – small acts of violence are part of McCarthy’s toolbox.

McCarthy stands unique in the field of actresses with her plus size, personality, and physical antics — she slides from one car to another through the car windows using her body to enhance her comedy and timing. Her self confidence rivets me.

In her latest movie Tammy, which is in theaters now, McCarthy’s husband in real life, Ben Falcone, plays her boss at a fast food franchise--and he fires her. She makes a dramatic hysterical exit, and what

I believe audiences like about her is she does what we are too well behaved to ever do but deep in our hidden selves would love to do — to be aggressive when we’ve been jilted, to plaster annoying people with food or wild insults, to let the monkey go wild in us.

McCarthy does rein herself in after her antics, she shows caring and affection to lonely Bullock in The Heat. In Tammy she has a moment of maturity dealing with her frisky alcoholic grandmother, played

by Susan Sarandon. In these two movies, McCarthy’s heart softens and she shows the other side of herself. I’ll be interested to see the new one she’s working on in Budapest, Hungary, called The Spy. Mary McFerren Stobie writes here and for go60.us a senior website. She still loves the print media the most. Please contact her with comments on comedy, Melissa McCarthy or your own take on comic movies at mry_jeanne@yahoo.com

That’s no problem, that’s an opportunity If you are like me, you have probably been faced with situations or people in your life that could be considered difficult at best, and yes, maybe even a challenge.

Situations or events in our lives that could be considered difficult or challenging could range anywhere from health crises, loss of loved ones, unemployment, rebellious children, addiction, expensive auto repairs, household bills, and many other things.

People in our lives who seem to test us on a regular basis, if not every single day, include gossips, conceited ego-driven folks, people who seem to bring drama with them anywhere and everywhere they go, and those who are stubborn, narrowminded, or hypocritical. I mean, we are surrounded by challenges and challenging people all the time as we try and navigate our lives at work, school, or at home.

Or are we?

I think that in some cases we are not surrounded by them accidentally. I think we choose to surround ourselves with people who bring the drama and conflicts.

We make a conscious decision to stay associated with people in our lives for any number of reasons. They could be family, they just might be someone we have known all of our lives and we accept them

and love them for who they are, or we just love the tension or excitement that they bring to every event or meeting.

In many of the challenging or difficult situations as mentioned above like a health crisis, unemployment, or loss of a loved one, I believe there are people who rise to the occasion and cope as best as they possibly can. I am so encouraged by the emails I receive every day from people who share their hearts and positive attitude as they struggle with things out of their control. You all amaze me and I am proud of you.

In tragic and dark situations there is no doubt that we all experience feelings of sadness. Yet I am always astounded when goodness surfaces in the times of trouble.

I love the stories of people who have lost a loved one and then find an opportunity to

Immigration deadlock is political failure In the current combative, partisan environment in Washington, compromise and cooperation are rare occurrences.

That is even more evident following House Speaker John Boehner’s recent announcement that the House of Representatives will not act on immigration reform this year.

On June 27, 2013, more than a year ago, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to fix our broken immigration system. We wrote the bill as a part of the Group of 8, which included Republican Sens. Marco Rubio, John McCain, Jeff Flake, and Lindsey Graham. It also included Democratic Sens.

Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Robert Menendez. The bill passed the Senate with nearly 70 votes.

We put politics aside in order to produce this commonsense bill. It has the support of countless organizations — from the Chamber of Commerce to the labor unions, from migrant workers to farmers and ranchers, from law enforcement agencies to the faith community, and Latino leaders.

The bill would strengthen our economy, secure our borders, reform guest worker programs, establish a rational system for the future flow of immigrants, and provide a tough but fair path to citizenship for the millions of people living in the shadows. Specifically, the border security provisions include unprecedented measures to double the number of border agents, complete 700 miles of fencing, and

utilize new technology to provide 100 percent surveillance. The new guest-worker program would increase the number of visas for workers specializing in high-tech industries and streamline the H-2A visa system for agriculture workers.

According to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, it would also decrease the deficit by $197 billion in the first 10 years and by $700 billion over the following decade. It would increase the nation’s GDP by 3.3 percent by 2023 and by up to 5.7 percent by 2033.

Perhaps most importantly, this bill was largely crafted with the help of Coloradans from every region, industry, and background. We spoke with farmers on the Western Slope and Eastern Plains who are forced to watch their crops wither and die on the vine because they can’t hire the workers they need to harvest them. We met with the members of the state’s ski Bennet continues on Page 16

volunteer in an area that was meaningful to the person they lost. And the stories of the unemployed who take the opportunity to develop new skills or learn a new trade, maybe even finally pursue a career that they have a passion for instead of what they settled for. And the news of a family facing a health crisis or addiction problem behind closed doors who seek and find the opportunity to rally together to support one another physically, emotionally and spiritually, further unifying or reuniting the family.

And as far as the company we keep and circles we travel in, it is really up to us to find the opportunity to separate ourselves from the toxic or poison people in our lives, or to look for the good in each relationship and use that as a springboard and opportunity to deepen those relationships, again accepting those we truly love for their unique, troublesome, quarrelsome and cynical personalities.

The sun rises and sets the same way every day and every night for each one of us. And with each day, we are blessed with challenges as well as opportunities. And if we flip that around, we can say that with each passing day we are presented with opportunities to face challenging situations. How we choose to view it is really up to each one of us as individuals.

How do you view it? Is life filled with challenging people and situations? Or is life filled with opportunities to take on those people and things that challenge us the most? Either way, I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com. And I can just bet that when we look for the opportunities in each challenge, it really will be a better than good week.

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

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Aug. 12, 1957 - June 14, 2014

Michael, 56, died peacefully on June 14, 2014.

Mr. Wolff was preceded in death by his father, James A. Wolff and his brother Mark Wolff.

He is survived by his mother Katherine M. Wolff, his brother James A. Wolff II, his sisters Kathy L. Wolff, Mary A. Pierce (Roger), Lynn A. Ball (BJ), and Susan L. Wolff.

Michael was devoted to his faith, his family, his friends, his dog Boris, and helping anyone in need.

He served in the Peace Corps, was an avid mountain biker, Knights of Columbus member, and played with Irish-

American Society of NM. Michael’s life with be celebrated with a memorial Rosary and Mass on July 11, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. at Queen of Heaven Catholic Church located at 5311 Phoenix Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110.

A potluck reception will follow at the Edelweiss German-American Club located at 4821 Menaul Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110.

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Clinicians address ADD issues, marijuana effects This is the second of the new monthly column Ask A Therapist, where you can send your mental-health-related questions, and — space permitting – Community Reach Center therapists will answer them. Please email your questions to AskATherapist@communityReachCenter. org.

Video games’ effect on kids with ADD

QUESTION: My question has two parts. My son was diagnosed with ADD (attention deficit disorder). He plays video games for hours at a time. First, do electronics contribute to ADD? Second, how can a child with ADD focus for hours at a time on video games but not on other tasks?

ANSWER: There is no clear evidence that playing video games contributes to ADD or any other disorder. However, video games are action-packed and highly stimulating to the brain, which is the main reason it can capture the undivided attention of children and adults with ADD. It’s much more difficult to make your mind pay attention to tasks that are ordinary and not stimulating. Playing hours of a video game can interfere with daily functioning, which can have a negative impact. Preferring video games over more mundane tasks such as homework, chores or playing outside can create an imbalance in a child’s life. It also can create tension and stress between parent and child when chores are not done and school work suffers.

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on. Setting a timer for the length of screen time and then requiring some physical activity or other activity afterward can help your child learn time-management skills and how to balance mundane tasks with time for fun. – Jill Atkinson, PhD, clinical director at Community Reach Center.

Examining a link between marijuana and mental-health issues

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According to SAMSHA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), research shows the use of marijuana does have some correlation to increased risk of developing future mental health issues, including schizophrenia.

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Based on the research that has been conducted and the onset of mental health issues that is found among those who have had regular marijuana use, there does appear to be data to support that the use of marijuana does increase the chances of someone developing mental illness including schizophrenia.

Research shows that when we use marijuana, we lose brain cells, and this is especially damaging in a young person whose brain is still developing. In fact, we can prevent our brains from reaching their full potential by using a drug such as marijuana. This shows a strong correlation between increased chances of developing a mental illness and the frequent use of marijuana (in the studies, “frequent” was defined as using marijuana three or more

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CELEBRATIONS School Notes

Amy Burke, an eighth-grader at Moore Middle School, won first place and a $2,000 scholarship from the Nebraska Educational Savings Trust for her entry into its 2014 “Why I Want to Go to College” writing contest. Burke is the daughter of Steve and Jackie Burke, of Arvada.

Nathan Von Rentzell, of Arvada, was recognized at the Concordia University science department’s annual awards banquet. Rentzell graduated with a degree in biology.

Two student athletes at Ralston Valley have been awarded the second annual Lisa Nelson memorial scholarships. Madalena DeAndrea is senior class president and will attend the University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall. Jonathon Gillespie will attend Duke University and is Ralston’s student body president. The scholarships are for $1,000.

Sarah Piersky, of Arvada, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Kansas.

Nehemiah Soler, of Arvada, made the spring 2014 dean’s list at Chadron State College.

Kaylee Pratt, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2014 dean’s list at Champlain College. Pratt is majoring in creative media.

Austin Curtis Garza, of Arvada, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in family and human services from John Brown University.

Sarah Greer and Nicole Roby, of Arvada, were named to the spring 2014

dean’s list at Creighton University.

Kelly Tycksen, of Arvada, graduated with honors with a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from Simpson University.

Tycksen was named to the spring 2014 dean’s list at Simpson.

Jamie Pickett, of Arvada, was inducted into the Alpha Chi Honor Society campus chapter at Simpson University. Pickett’s major is communications. Pickett also was named to the spring 2014 dean’s list.

Nicholas David Reinicke, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2014 president’s honor roll at the University of Wyoming.

Mattie Bockhold, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2014 dean’s list at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Bockhold is freshman majoring in pre-elementary education.

Charlee Ottersberg, of Arvada, received the “Living the Ritual” Greek award for the 2013-14 academic year at Marietta College. Ottersberg is majoring in advertising public relations and will graduate in 2015. Ottersberg also was named to the spring 2014 dean’s high honors list at Marietta. Ottersberg is a graduate of Arvada West High School.

Christa Michall Lindeman, of Arvada, earned a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University, Nebraska.

Ian Harkreader, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2014 president’s list at Drake University.

Bryce Markiewicz, of Arvada, graduated with a master’s degree in organizational leadership leader development from Columbus State University.

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Auction offers souvenir of bowl blowout Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s autographed football is being auctioned off by the American Physical Therapy Association for the Bob Doctor Golf Tournament July 26 at the Colorado National Golf Club in Parker.

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The ball not only bears Wilson’s signature, but “XLVIII Champs” is noted as well. For those still smarting from the Seahawks’ drubbing of our beloved Broncos (43-8), you might want this souvenir to kick around.

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‘Tarzan’ goes deeper than spectacle

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hen most hear the name Tarzan, the first thing that probably comes to mind is adventure in the jungle, swinging through the vines and battling all manner of

tropical danger.

What many may not expect — and what the Arvada Center is making the focus of its production — is the story of the search for family and finding it in unlikely places.

“Tarzan” — which is based on the Disney film, featuring music and lyrics by Phil Collins — will play through Aug. 3 at the center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Performances are Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday at 1 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.

“I wanted to make this production about relationships,” said director Gavin Mayer. “I think if there is too much of a focus on spectacle it can pose a problem — what we’re telling is a family story.”

The Colorado stage debut of “Tarzan” tells the familiar story of a boy orphaned in a shipwreck who washes ashore in west Africa. Reeling from their own losses, the young boy is taken in by a family of gorillas, led by Kerchak (Laurence A. Curry) and Kala (Shannan Steele).

As Tarzan (Brian Ogilvie) comes to manhood, he is forced to find his place amongst a tribe that he doesn’t entirely belong to. When Jane (Jennifer Lorae) and other humans show up for the first time, he is forced to decide between two worlds, both of which he is a stranger in.

“Since he was raised by this tribe he essentially thinks he’s an ape, and he doesn’t really understand why he’s different,” Ogilvie said.

“When he lays eyes on Jane, it’s the first human he’s seen and he has an identity crisis.”

Steele, Curry and Ogilvie all said that the physicality of the apes they are playing gets tied into the choreography from Kitty Skillman Hilsabeck, to create very individual and character-

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based movement.

“I’m like a kid in a playground playing with different ways of movement,” Curry said, while Steel added that the individuality of the dances can be used to create a cohesive whole.

“It’s very near the ground and earthy dance,” she said. “There are times when all our dancing comes together and those moments are extremely important.”

In many ways, Jane is a real fish out of water in “Tarzan,” and while Mayer describes her as the crutch of the story, for Lorae it was important to capture Jane’s excitement about this first expedition.

“This is what she’s always wanted — to be adventurous and have this experiences,” Lorae said. “When she meets Tarzan there is so much she wants to teach him, and there is a lot of learning that goes on between them.”

Ogilvie described the story as a learning tool for people and learning acceptance.

“How do you react to someone who is different from you and what can you learn from each other?” he said.

In the end, everyone is looking for their own kind of family, and Curry and Lorae said that is the real lesson of “Tarzan” — everything in the show blends perfectly to highlight this message.

“We all have a heart, and we’re the same at our cores,” Steel said.

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The Denver Botanic Gardens is all abuzz with the news that The Hive Garden Bistro, an al fresco dining experience alongside the Monet Pool, has opened in time for the spectacular Chihuly glass art exhibit, which is on display through Nov. 30.

The new restaurant is in the same location as the previous Monet Café, but features a larger deck and an expanded menu that offers snacks, lunch and dinner. Catering by Design operates The Hive.

The Hive features a large menu of made-to-order sandwiches, burgers, soups and salads. Gourmet wood-fired pizzas will be introduced soon. A children’s menu is available. Soft-serve ice cream and rotating agua fresca flavors such as strawberry mint, cucumber basil and lime tarragon are also offered.

Summer hours: open daily 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. through Sept. 28. Last entry to the Gardens is 8 p.m. On early closure days for special events, The Hive closes at 3 p.m. The Hive reopens at 6 p.m. on York Street Summer Concert nights for preconcert meals or to-go food to eat during the concert.

Colorado history celebrated

In honor of Colorado’s 138th birthday, History Colorado museums will be free to the public Aug. 1 and 2, offering visitors two days to celebrate Colorado’s wild, colorful, historical, traditional and modern culture.

The two-day Colorado Day celebration at the History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway, will include food, music, dancing and hands-on activities as well as a chance to recognize how Colorado’s past has shaped today.

“No other organization can help Coloradans understand the present in the context of the past the way we can,” said Kathryn Hill, History Colorado chief operations officer. “We celebrate Colorado’s places, stories and cultures every day, and this is evident the minute you enter our museums. On Colorado Day, we offer even more for visitors of all ages to spark imaginations and stimulate conversations about our state’s issues and future.”

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Love and adoption

Book tells intimate story

“Postcards from Cookie” by Caroline Clarke 2014, Harper $24.99 / $31.00 Canada 312 pages Among the usual fliers, bills, and donation requests in the mail last week, there was something you haven’t seen in ages: someone sent you a greeting card.

It wasn’t marking any special occasion.

No, it was sent as a pick-me-up from a friend, a nice surprise at a time when mail usually has an “e” in front of it. But, as you’ll see in the new memoir “Postcards from Cookie” by Caroline Clarke, some snail mail can make your heart zoom.

She was only looking for medical records.

As an adoptee, Caroline Clarke knew she had the right to learn at least that about her birth mother, but health data was only part of the unhidden information in the sealed records. There were lots of clues in what Clarke was told on that chilly afternoon; enough to help her figure out who her biological mother might be.

The shocker was that Clarke had known her birth mother’s family for years.

From the time she was almost 8 years

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and Visitor Services will meet on the west steps of the state Capitol to honor the occasion. The Capitol will be decorated for the event, and will feature square dancing, Colorado candy and birthday cake, living history presentations and other special programs, followed by a procession from the Capitol to History Colorado.

Colorado Proud will hold a press conference at the History Colorado Center immediately afterward to recognize Aug. 1 as Colorado Day and to launch the Colorado

old and learned that she was adopted, Clarke told everyone that she wasn’t interested in finding her birth mother.

Secretly, though, she dreamed of making the woman proud, and fantasized about accidental, happily-ever-after meetings.

She loved the parents who raised her – adored them, in fact – but “all adoptees are curious about their beginnings,” and Clarke was no exception.

Her Daddy was shaken by the news.

Her Mommy said to contact the woman.

Clarke’s husband was excited for her, but she sat on the information until she couldn’t stand it any longer.

So she mustered up the courage and called Carole “Cookie” Lane.

Cookie was the eldest (adopted) daughter of Nat “King” Cole and, while away at college, had become pregnant. It was 1964

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Five-time Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Adams, who was born in Italy and raised in Castle Rock, gave up her first-class seat to an American soldier on a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 27.

“While Amy’s random act of kindness

and that sort of thing was scandalous – especially since the father was a white Jewish boy. Maria, Cookie’s adoptive mother, sent her away to a home for pregnant girls.

Cookie was twenty years old.

was done purely from the goodness of her heart, word quickly spread of her good deed after Jemele Hill, host of ESPN’s `Numbers Never Lie,’ saw it all go down and took to Twitter to share the touching moment,” according to a story in InTouch magazine.

“Just saw actress Amy Adams do something incredibly classy. She gave her 1st class seat to an American soldier. I’m an even bigger fan now,” Hill tweeted.

“Once we boarded, I saw she was in first class. I was upgraded to first class and she was a couple of rows behind me. I think she must have said something to the flight attendant, because before we took off she had vacated her seat and the flight attendant brought the soldier to her seat.”

As Cookie and Clarke excitedly began to erase the years they’d missed, and as they shared “synchronicities” through phone calls and huge boxes of mail, they also got “on each other’s nerves.”

Clarke craved Cookie, but they obviously irritated one another – enough to make Clarke wonder whether their experience was “going to have that fairy-tale ending after all.”

Though adoption-reunion stories are becoming commonplace due to social media, author Caroline Clarke’s is unusual in that there were some amazing coincidences that led her to Cookie, before and after. Obviously, Clarke is awe-stricken about those and yes, I was pretty impressed, too.

And yet, “Postcards from Cookie” has a bit of a Peeping-Tom element: this is a very personal story of adoption and love.

While I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, it’s easy to feel uncomfortable watching two vastly different personalities dance around one another, trying to get along.

So, ultimately, do they?

I’m not telling. You’re going to want to read this book. No, seriously — you’re going to want to read this book because “Postcards from Cookie” will send you away satisfied.

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Bees in communities signal danger for some Residents concerned about proximity

By Clarke Reader

creader@colorado communitymedia.com It wouldn’t be summer without the sound of bees flying from flower to flower during the heat of the day, but for many, that sound brings terror rather than joy.

Wayne Dougherty is one of nearly 2 million people nationwide who are allergic to bees, and for him the allergy is life-threatening. He can recall nearly dying due to a sting and has EpiPens in several places in case he needs them.

Dougherty and his family, his wife Rebecca and his daughter Emily, are now speaking out about the zoning code update from April 2013 that made bee keeping legal in the city.

“A year ago when council voted on it, we spoke against it and since then, just a few houses down, I now have a neighbor with

two hives,” Wayne said. “On these hot days I don’t even feel comfortable mowing the lawn with so many bees flying around.”

Travis Parker, director of the planning department with the city, said that the regulations passed with the zoning code update actually allow staff to enforce rules that weren’t in place before.

“Before the update bees were unmentioned in our code, so I think it was questionable as to whether or not we could have enforced any limits,” he said. “Now we actually have limitations and requirements to give to people.”

The regulations that the city put in place include no permits for R-1-43 (one acre lot residential) zones and permits required for R-1-18 (rural lot residential) and R-1-6, R-1-9, R-1-12 (which are small, medium and large size single family lots residential). These lot sizes go from 6,000 to 12,500 square feet.

Residents in R-2 zoning (two-family and small lot residential) can get a special use permit as well.

For the R-1-6, 9, 12 and 18 zonings and R-2, the standards are: one hive is allowed

per 6,000 square foot lot; the hive must be located in the side or rear yard and meet minimum setbacks for accessory structures; there must be a flyaway barrier located within 5 feet of the hive, extending at least 2 feet on either side, at least 6 feet tall and placed in front of the hive entrance.

Non flyaway barrier is required if the hive is located at least 25 feet from all property lines and for beehives that are located on porches or balconies at least 10 feet above grade and more than five feet from a property line.

Beekeepers must also have a fresh supply of water nearby to prevent bees congregating in a neighborhoods pond and Africanized bees are prohibited.

These regulations do represent progress, but not enough for Wayne and his family, especially since the neighbor near the family has disregarded several of these regulations - in the backyard the neighbor has two hives, totaling at around 60,000 bees and does not have a water supply nearby for them.

“My wife went over to talk to the neighbor and they told us it is perfectly legal

and so we had to call the city to get them to get rid of one of the hives,” Wayne said.

“The problem is these are such small lots and there are walkways that go all over the neighborhood, and there is one that goes right by this backyard where the hives are.”

The zoning change has caused the family to learn a lot about bees and they readily admit the importance of the insect for the environment, just not in such close quarters.

“People should put the hives in the middle of nowhere, because everyone knows someone who is allergic to bees,” Emily said. “It’s dangerous for them to have that many bees in a small place.”

Wayne said that since the city requires no experience or training for bee owners, that is something he would like to see. He said it feels like the city is placing property rights over citizen safety.

“The regulations are a step in the right direction,” Parker said. “We’re open to other ideas on how to make it safer for people who have allergies.”

by voters through Amendment 23.

The 2000 provision requires that annual education funding increase by the rate of inflation and enrollment growth.

But in 2010, on the heels of a recession, state lawmakers created the negative factor in response to budget realities facing the state. Those who support the use of the negative factor say it’s important to fund education at high levels, but that the requirements of Amendment 23 are burdensome and can impact budgets for other areas of state spending.

But the lawsuit claims that had the Legislature not created the negative factor, K-12 funding would have been restored to 1988 levels by now — which was the primary goal of Amendment 23.

“The ... negative factor and resulting funding restrictions are causing irrepara-

ble harm to students, districts and educational organizations across our state,” the lawsuit reads.

Plaintiffs point out that since the adoption of the negative factor, per-pupil funding has “dramatically” decreased and hasn’t come close to the funding levels that voters approved in 2000.

The Legislature did backfill $110 million in education funding this year, in an effort to bring down the negative factor. And lawmakers passed two major school funding measures that allow K-12 financing to grow by nearly $500 million.

The legal team behind the lawsuit includes Kathleen Gebhardt of Children’s Voices, an education advocacy group. Gebhardt was the lead attorney in the recent Lobato v. State of Colorado lawsuit that claimed that Colorado was failing to ad-

equately fund or properly disperse funding to school districts in the state.

The Lobato lawsuit ended in 2013, when the state Supreme Court ruled that the state’s educational funding system was constitutional.

The plaintiffs consist of school districts that include the Boulder Valley School District and Colorado Springs School District No. 11. Other educational organizations and a group of parents are also listed as plaintiffs.

The state of Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Education Commissioner Robert Hammond are named as defendants in the case.

The new lawsuit will be defended by the state Attorney General’s Office.

Lawsuit tackles K-12 negative factor Education advocacy group says funding mechanism is unconstitutional

By Vic Vela

vvela@colorado communitymedia.com A lawsuit alleges that a mechanism that has been used by the state to slash education funding by about $1 billion is unconstitutional — the latest development in an ongoing battle over how K-12 dollars are appropriated.

The lawsuit, which was filed in Denver District Court on June 27, argues that the state’s use of the so-called “negative factor” to control education funding violates constitutional language that was put in place

Building communities through the blues Arvada festival raises funds and awareness for nonprofit

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“What do Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, and the Duke Street Kings have in common? A love of music and giving back to the community,” said Ranger Miller, founder of Blues and Barbecue.

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After playing a small fundraiser at Denver’s Splinters From Pine, the band saw an opportunity to expand, creating the Blues

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Seventeen years later, the fundraiser has turned into an annual event.

Now a street festival in Olde Town, Arvada, the event has given more than $100,000 to the DenverMetro Habitat for Humanity since its inception. Organizers said they hope to see around 5,000 people rocking the streets of Olde Town at this year’s festival, which could raise around $50,000 for the nonprofit.

“We bring people from all over Denver into Olde Town Arvada and show them how cool Olde Town is,” Miller said. “We love music and giving back to the community; I think we’re the coolest little blues festival in Denver.”

Over eight hours, the street festival will feature three stages of live, local blues music; juicy, barbecued food from Denver-area vendors; specialty beer from the Arvada Brewing Company, an interactive kids’ zone and other fami-

ly-friendly entertainment.

“To me, the most amazing thing is when the younger generation comes out and gets excited about blues music,” said Austin Young, a headlining artist at the event. “There’s so many stages and differing types of music, and they can really enjoy it.”

This year, all proceeds from the festival will go to help install a cedar fence, front porch, steps and replace the roof, windows, and exterior doors for Elizabeth Ramirez her family of four children, and Ramirez’s mother Silvaria at their home in Denver.

“It may not be talent, may not be record sales, but we give back to the community,” Miller said.

“I love music and I love my community, the ability to combine both — is pretty cool.”

For more information about the event, or to register to help with this year’s project, visit, www.bluesnbbq.com.

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Little help for those with ‘dual diagnoses’ Developmental disabilities, mental illnesses leave patients in cold

By Kristin Jones

I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS A raised red oval, a couple of inches in diameter, sits at the top of Alex Meredith’s forehead.

It is the physical mark of a besieged mind.

Meredith, who is 29, started bashing himself in the head when he was in his teens.

Now, his parents can see it coming. A tranquil moment of drawing at the kitchen table cedes to Alex’s high-pitched squeal, his wrists colliding. Once he starts hitting himself, there’s nothing to do but freeze and wait for it to pass.

Meredith was diagnosed with autism when he was very young. Later, his parents were told he also displayed symptoms of mental illness — obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, psychosis and depression.

For Carol and John Meredith, Alex’s parents, the search for treatment has brought them to psychiatrists and psychologists, to mental health centers and the communitycentered boards that serve people with autism and other developmental disabilities.

Carol heads The Arc of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, an organization that advocates for people with disabilities, and has access to more than the usual range of leads and contacts.

Still, nobody seems to know exactly what to do with Alex.

The Merediths are not alone in their frustration, according to an ongoing study by JFK Partners, a program that does research on developmental disabilities at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. For people with the dual diagnoses of developmental disability — which can range from Down syndrome to autism to cerebral palsy — and mental illness, getting treatment means navigating a fragmented system, the study has found.

Funding quirks have created huge gaps in care. As a result, family members find themselves alone — and often isolated — in trying to manage complex problems that need professional support.

Lack of help can hurt

In the worst cases, the repercussions across society can be extreme.

In a recent interview with The New Yorker, the father of Newtown school killer Adam Lanza described trying and failing to find adequate treatment for his son, whose world slowly shrank to contain only his mother and his video games. Lanza was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, considered a mild form of autism, when he was 13. A psychiatrist at Yale’s Child Study Center later noted symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder as well, and his father now believes his autism may have masked schizophrenia.

“Asperger’s makes people unusual, but it doesn’t make people like this,” Peter Lanza told The New Yorker.

The number of Coloradans affected isn’t small. Nationally, around one in three people with a developmental disability also has a diagnosis of some form of mental illness, according to a frequently cited study by the National Association of State directors of Developmental Disabilities Services.

That would translate to around 35,000 people in the state with dual diagnoses,

based on common estimates of the prevalence of developmental disabilities.

Many are left without adequate care, and some without any care at all. Expensive visits to the emergency room — which often provide little help except for short-term stabilization — have become a primary line of defense.

Advocates like Meredith are hoping that the latest state-commissioned study at CU will lead to a change in the way that people with complex developmental and mentalhealth diagnoses are treated. One option would be to model Colorado’s care after a program that began in New Hampshire and has since been adopted in other states, with the idea of providing crisis intervention and care coordinators for people who needed these services.

But any solutions remain a few years off at best, leaving families in this situation to seek each other out for ideas and support.

Holistic care urged

The current system in Colorado “divides people up into their different diagnoses,” says JFK Partners director Cordelia Robinson Rosenberg. “But care has to treat people holistically.”

Most people with both developmental disabilities and behavioral health conditions are covered by Medicaid. But in Colorado, the public insurance treats the two diagnostic categories under incompatible payment systems — the first as fee-for-service, and the second as managed care.

Carl Clark, who heads the Mental Health Center of Denver, says that while health-care providers often try to work together to treat people who fall into both categories, the divide in payment models is explicit.

“Our funding from the state (for Medicaid enrollees) says you do not use this for people with developmental disability,” Clark says.

As a result, mental health centers are often ill-equipped to offer some of the services — such as long-term housing support — that people with developmental disabilities need.

At the same time, the two funding models have left little room to develop specialists who are skilled in diagnosing and treating both developmental disabilities — which can include fetal alcohol syndrome, a notoriously hard thing to pinpoint — and complex mental illnesses. And even experienced psychiatrists may have trouble attributing behaviors to one diagnosis or another.

“Unfortunately,” says Clark, “the science does not divide the brain up as clearly as funding sources do.”

The complexity of who pays for what can have real impacts on treatment. Carol Meredith recently discovered that a psychologist who was having some success in treating her son hadn’t been paid since October.

Nobody — including the psychologist herself — could figure out who was responsible for paying her.

Worse, research from the University of Colorado has found that a significant number of Coloradans are excluded from treatment entirely, Rosenberg says.

Medicaid establishes an IQ threshold for developmental disabilities, excluding people who surpass that bar but who still suffer from severe social or intellectual limitations.

Surveys conducted by JFK Partners found that for every one person who is receiving services for developmental disabilities under Medicaid, Rosenberg says, there’s another person who isn’t being served. That includes people who have unmet mental-health needs.

Alex Meredith, 29, draws as his mother, Carol, observes at the family home recently in Littleton. Meredith was diagnosed with autism when he was very young. He also displayed symptoms of mental illness — obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, psychosis and depression. Seeking treatment for these conditions means navigating a fragmented system with funding quirks and huge gaps in care. Photo by I-NEWS AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

ER is often only option

Marijo Rymer, who heads The Arc of Colorado, says parents of children with dual diagnoses call her in frustration after failing to find any help for their children. Too frequently, the only option is the emergency room.

“When their children are hurting themselves, or hurting them, and they don’t know what to do,” says Rymer, “we will advise people to call 911.”

Doing so repeatedly can help build a case

for the kind of sustained long-term services that people with dual diagnoses need.

But encounters with police and emergency rooms can cost patients, hospitals and taxpayers a huge amount of money.

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Valerie Saiz and her husband Richard waited four days and four nights in an emergency room in 2010 — and again in 2011 — in an effort to get treatment for their now 16-year-old son. Graham, who has autism and bipolar disorder, had been hitting himself violently. His parents took

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“We noticed that the other kids getting admitted to the ER, if they were aggressive to others, they’d restrain them,” said Saiz. “If they were self-abusive, we’d have to do it ourselves.”

Each time he was admitted, Graham was discharged without a plan for treatment, says Saiz. The family was forced to craft their own solution, putting a helmet and mitts on Graham to protect him from himself, and sometimes locking him in his room to

protect the rest of the family.

“If we’re locking Graham in his room for safety, I’m sure other people are. Other people just call 911 left and right. People have to do what they can to survive,” Saiz says. “But it shouldn’t be about survival.”

ened as we watch our best and brightest — educated in our schools — sent back to their native countries to compete against us.

We have also heard from thousands of young DREAMers, many of whom were brought here without their knowledge and know no other country but the United States.

The success of the Group of 8 is proof that

compromise and cooperation are possible — even for this Congress. Unfortunately, the House of Representatives does not seem to understand the critical need to fix our broken immigration system. The House’s refusal to act has already cost us $13 billion in revenue the bill would have brought. And we will continue losing another $37 million more every

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SECOND SATURDAY STREET FESTIVAL OLDE TOWN ARVADA presents its Second Saturday Street Festivals from 4:30-10 p.m. Saturday, July 12, Aug. 9, at Grandview Avenue east of Olde Wadsworth. The festival is free. Go to www.oldetownarvada.org.

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COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA in Boulder presents its

LEAPIN’ LIZARDS POPULAR COMIC strip heroine “Annie” comes to life from Friday,

July 11, to Sunday, Aug. 3, at Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Presented by the Evergreen Players, performances are at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets available at www.evergreenplayers.org or 303-674-4934.

2014 summer concert season. All shows begin at 8 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at tickets.chautauqua. com, or at the Chautauqua box office. Go to www. chautauqua.com for details. The lineup: Saturday, July 12, Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai; Saturday, July 19, Loudon Wainwright III and Iris Dement; Monday, July 28, Rufus Wainwright; Saturday, Aug. 9, Paula Poundstone; Sunday, Aug. 10, Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott; Tuesday, Aug. 12, B.B. King; Wednesday, Aug. 13, John Hiatt & The Combo and The Taj Mahal Trio; Thursday, Aug. 28, Ziggy Marley; and Saturday, Sept. 13, Steven Wright.

Friday, July 18, and running through Sunday, Aug. 24.

Show times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 6 p.m. Sundays, with a 2 p.m. show on Sunday, Aug. 24.

The playhouse is at 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Call 303-935-3044 or go to www.minersalley.com for tickets and information.

BLUES & BBQ BLOCK PARTY

ART KIDS CRAFT WORKSHOP COUNTRY FAIR Garden Center West Woods presents a kids craft workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 12, at 17201 W. 64th Ave., Arvada.

Call 303209-4394 for information on cost and to sign up.

NORWEGIAN FOLK PAINTING EXHIBIT CONTEMPORARY AND ANTIQUE pieces will on display in the exhibition of Norwegian folk art from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 11-12, and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 13, at Trollheim Lodge, 6610 W. 14th Ave., Lakewood. Call Louise at 303799-3527 or Diane at 303-288-6014.

THE DUKE Street Kings’ 17th annual Blues & BBQ for Better Housing block party kicks off with 18 crazy hot bands Sunday, July 13, in Olde Town Arvada. The annual block party has raised and donated more than $100,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver. The event runs noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, July 13, in Olde Town Arvada, 7307 Grandview Ave. NIGHT OF BIG BAND MUSIC SENTIMENTAL SOUNDS Swing Band will perform 4-6

p.m. Saturday, July 19, at the D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., in Olde Town Arvada. The band is a group of 17 musicians who play favorites from the Big Band era.

There is no charge. Go to www.sentimentalsounds.org or call 303-463-6683.

JAZZ AT THE POINT CONCERT SERIES VOCALIST AND PIANIST Ellyn Rucker, with Jill Fred-

ORIGINS, CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I AS WE COMMEMORATE the hundred-year anniversary of the start of World War I, join Active Minds 2:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17, for a look at the origins and causes of “the Great War.” Program is free and is at Atria Inn at Lakewood, 555 S. Pierce St., Lakewood.

Call 303-742-4800 to RSVP.

ricksen on drums and Mark Simon on bass, will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington St., in the heart of the downtown Renaissance area of Five Points. Go to www.jazzatthepoint.org or buy tickets at the door. Proceeds benefit Jazz Youth Workshop. Contact Patrice Leblanc, 303-909-9754, or Ellyn Rucker, ellyn4jaz@centurylink.net.

THEATER/PERFORMANCES

DINOSAUR EXPRESS TRAIN RIDE AND DISCOVER the Dinosaur Express Train 10 a.m. to 4

p.m. Saturday, July 19, at the Colorado Railroad Museum, 17155 W. 44th Ave., Golden. Colorado railroads helped unearth many fossils as railroad tracks were laid.

Construction crews often exposed these bones as they were digging and laying railroad ties, then the trains were used to transport the bones to museums around Colorado and the United States. Go to www.ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org or call 303-279-4591 for details.

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Society presents information on rose care for summer into fall at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19, at Country Fair Garden Center West Woods, 17201 W. 64th Ave., Arvada. Call 303-209-4394 for information on cost and to sign up.

COMEDY NIGHT AT WEST WOODS BOB MEDDLES presents Comedy Night at West Woods

Bar and Grill in Arvada, featuring Ron Feingold, who uses a blend of music and energy. Event is at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, July 16. Seating begins at 7 p.m. Tickets available online at eventbrite.com, keyword: West Woods.

FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS THE EDGE THEATER presents On the Edge: A Festival of New Plays V2 at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 6 p.m. Sundays, July 18 to Aug. 3, at 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. A new play is presented each week, and audience votes help determine a full production of one play. Call 303-232-0363 or go to www.theedgetheater.com.

MINERS ALLEY Playhouse presents “The Odd Couple,” the award-winning comedy by Neil Simon, starting

ART ON the Green Festival The inaugural Art on the Green fine art festival is planned for Saturday and Sunday, July 12-13, in downtown Lyons. A portion of proceeds from the festival will benefit the Lyons Community Foundation. Artist applications are available at www.lyonsartfestival.com.

QUILTING EXHIBIT ROCKY MOUNTAIN Quilt Museum presents “Quilting;

Past, Present and Future,” by the Front Range Contemporary Quilt Guild, now through Tuesday, July 29, at 1213 Washington Ave., Golden. Call 303-277-0377.

ELEMENTARY ARTS AND CRAFT FAIR THE THIRD annual Stober Elementary School, Golden, arts and craft fair is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25. Booth space is available, and applications are being accepted now through Wednesday, Sept. 3. Contact Anne Drobny at annedrobny@gmail.com for an application.

EVENTS VOLUNTEERS WORK ON FLOOD RESTORATION GET OUTDOORS and give back with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado as we work Saturday, July 12, to restore areas in Jefferson County’s White Ranch Park, which was severely affected by the 2013 flood event.

Volunteers will take part in critical flood restoration efforts by helping to reconstruct sections of trail that were washed out by high water. Learn more and register to volunteer at www.voc.org/project/floodrestoration-white-ranch-park or call 303-715-1010. Free to participate; no experience necessary; light breakfast and lunch provided; minimum age 12.

WHEAT RIDGE GARDEN TOUR THE 2014 Wheat Ridge Garden Tour, featuring eight beautifully styled gardens, is 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12. Tickets include the popular lunch stop at one of the gardens and can be purchased on the day of the event. The starting location is Pietra’s Pizzeria, 9045 W. 44th Ave. in Wheat Ridge.

New this year is a bicycle tour that will start gathering at 7:30 a.m., departing from Pietra’s Pizzeria at 8 a.m. Regular ticket sales start 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Visit http://wheatridgegardentour.com/. Proceeds will be donated to the Curtis J. Gilmore Lifelong Learning Scholarship Fund sponsored by the Wheat Ridge Community Foundation, and to Family Tree, committed to helping people break the cycles of child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness.

THE PARS fore Pennock Center charity golf tournament is Saturday, Aug. 23, at Buffalo Run Golf Course, 15700 E. 112th Ave., Commerce City. Early bird registrations due

by Tuesday, July 15; regular registrations due by Aug. 10.

Contact Pennock Center for Counseling, 211 S. 21st Ave., Brighton, at 303-655-9065 or www.pennockcounseling. org. Business sponsorships available. Contact Dot Lindsey at 303-659-4540 for information.

OVERCOMING REGRETS EXPLORED HOW TO overcome regrets and make peace with the past will be explored at Lifetree Café at noon and 7 p.m.

Tuesday, July 15, at 5675 Field St., Arvada. The program features the filmed story of Chad Arnold, a man whose need for an organ transplant prompted his brother to volunteer to be a donor. Arnold’s brother died as a result of the surgery; Arnold survived. Contact Polly Wegner at 303-424-4454 or pwegner@peacelutheran.net.

ALL BREED HORSE SHOW COLORADO STOCK Horse Association Open All Breed Shows at Indiana Equestrian Center, 7500 Indiana St., Arvada, meets the third Sunday of each month from June to September (July 20, Aug. 17, Sept. 21). Large outdoor arena with second arena for warm up. Registration at 7:30 a.m. Classes at 8:30 a.m. Information and entry forms at 720-935-2026 (call or text), or 303-424-4977 (call or text). Go to www.ColoradoStockHorse.com or email ColoradoStockHorse@yahoo.com.

HEALTH/WELLNESS MULTICULTURAL MENTAL WELLNESS NAMI COLORADO presents its multicultural mental wellness event 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, July 11, at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Three local artists will present their work and talk about their experience managing mental illness.

The displayed artwork will be for sale. Tickets include food and nonalcoholic beverages. NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness. To reserve tickets, contact 303-321-3104 or elsa@namicolorado.org. Go to www. namicolorado.org.

GRAND OPENING AND COMMUNITY FESTIVAL JOIN SOUL Treasures for its grand opening and community festival 2-10 p.m. Saturday, July 12. The open house celebration from 2-6 p.m. includes classes, Tarrot readings, astrology readings, Henna body art, sacred name reading, food tasting and more. The community festival from 6:30-10 p.m. includes a full moon ceremony, drumming dance and sacred cacao.

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Grinning to the finish line Annual event gives youth a chance to race adults

IF YOU GO WHAT: Grin and Bear It race WHERE: Bear Creek Lake Park 15600 W. Morrison Road, Lakewood WHEN: 6-8 p.m.

Friday, July 18 COST: $20 per person, $40 per team INFORMATION: Registration deadline July 17 303-697-6159 or www.lakewood.org/GrinandBearIt

By Clarke Reader

creader@coloradocommunitymedia. com Some of the best advice for making it through a triathlon gives its name to one of the most popular family events at Lakewood — the Grin and Bear It race.

The annual race that gives both adults and you people a chance to compete together is returning to Bear Creek Lake Park 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 18. The registration deadline for the race is July 17.

“There aren’t a lot of options for events that really cater to families, especially kids, so this is a really popular event,” said Drew Sprafke, regional parks supervisor. “It’s a great introduction to the park and to outdoor recreation.”

In the Grin and Bear It, teams of two — either two adults or one adult and one child — complete a lake crossing, mountain bike course and run.

Ron Viles, park ranger supervisor, said this year’s course has not been finalized yet, but will feature the familiar three sections as well as a twist or two.

The canoe segment on Big Soda Lake (canoes and life jackets provided) is usually a few hundred yards long involving leaving shore, looping around a buoy and returning to shore, followed by the mountain bike leg. This leg is usually four to six miles long on a course that uses paved,

gravel and single track trails.

The final leg is where the surprise comes in — it will be either a running scavenger hunt or a simplified orienteering course.

In either case the total distance will be dependent on how efficiently the team completes the clues and obstacles.

It is a fun segment and usually involves a one-two total miles of walking or running.

“When we finish the race every year we do an inventory and see what was right, what was wrong and what we can do better,” Viles said. “We want to keep the event low-key, since it’s for families and kids.”

Sprafke said the event fills up every year, so those interested in participating should sign up quickly.

“It’s always a lot of fun and we get a great crowd, even if they just want to watch,” he said. “People love that it’s a race that kids can participate in.”

For more information call 303-697-6159 or visit www.lakewood.org/GrinandBearIt.

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NOTICE OF A FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST THE RELEASE OF FUNDS These notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken by Jefferson County and the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA).

REQUEST FOR THE RELEASE OF FUNDS On or about July 17, 2014 Jefferson County Community Development and DOLA will submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on behalf of 1350 Allison Street, LLLP for the release of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME funds, under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended or Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, to undertake a project known as Zephyr Line Apartments.

ESTIMATED FUNDING: $250,000 under CDBG from Jefferson County and $325,000 from DOLA. PROJECT LOCATION: 1350 Allison Street and 7900 West 14th Avenue in Lakewood, CO 80214 NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE PROJECT: Funds will be used to help construct 95 units of affordable housing, with 100% of the units affordable to households earning at or below 60% of area median income. This project will serve as a pioneering revitalization effort in the Wadsworth Station Area of the West Rail Line, an area which has seen no new multifamily development since the 1960's. All monies awarded will be expended directly on eligible costs to construct the project and there will be no funds allocated to administrative expenses and/or overhead.

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT Jefferson County and DOLA have determined that the project will have no significant impact on the human environment. An Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), therefore, is not required. Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review Record (ERR) on file at the offices noted above and may be examined or copied weekdays (8:00) A.M. to (5:00) P.M. PUBLIC COMMENTS Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to comment on the project may submit written comments to Jefferson County and DOLA. All comments received by July 16, 2014 will be considered prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.

RELEASE OF FUNDS Jefferson County certifies to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, that Scott Simkus in his capacity as Community Development Manager, and DOLA certifies to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, that Tamra Hooper in her capacity as Environmental Compliance Officer, consent to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities, and allows 1350 Allison Street, LLLP to use Program funds.

OBJECTIONS TO THE RELEASE OF FUNDS U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development will accept objections to its release of funds and Jefferson County’s and DOLA’s certification for a period of 15 days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are made on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of Jefferson County and DOLA (b) Jefferson County and DOLA have omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) the grant recipient has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before the approval of a release of funds by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; or (d) another Federal agency, acting pursuant to 40 CFR part 1504, has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures of 24 CFR Part 58 and shall be addressed to the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, Region VIII, Office 8ADE, 1670 Broadway Street, Denver, CO 80202-4801. No objections received after 15 days from the date of request for release of funds will be considered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Just the right touch

Golf game: This week we focus on working on your short game

By Daniel Williams

dwilliams@colorado communitymedia.com Golf lessons are very expensive and few people can afford them.

Yet many of us are full-fledged golf hackers or just enjoy the occasional round of golf.

But golf can also be a very demoralizing experience, one that you wonder why you paid serious money to participate in.

However, we want you to shoot low scores and get your money’s worth on the golf course and we think we can help even the occasional golfer with our quick (and free) weekly golf lesson.

So for the rest of the summer every single week we are going to give you a free golf lesson, focusing on one specific area of your golf game.

And by the end of the summer you will be ready to qualify for the 2015 U.S. Open.

Okay, maybe that is a stretch, but we will help make you a respectable golfer who will continue to lower your scores and feel good about your game.

This week’s focus: Making a commitment to your short game.

By starting here we can try to start developing good golf habits that will translate to all parts of your golf game.

And if you can improve your short game you can play with anybody — including guys (and gals) who hit huge 300-yard drives.

There is no better way to takes strokes off your golf game than by having a tight short game. Turning three shots into two shots and having the ability to get up-and-

Everybody wants to pull out their driver and swing away but working on your short game is the best way to shave strokes as Darrell Jacobs of Lakewood demonstrates here.

Photo by Dan Williams down is what separates the hackers from the players who look like they were born to play golf.

We all want to hit big booming drives down the fairway and we all want to be able to put the ball on the green from 200-yards out, so when we go to the driving range we pound a bucket of balls down the range using our biggest clubs.

But it is our putter and wedges that we use more any of our other clubs in the bag.

60 percent of most golf’ shots in a round of golf come within 100 yards of the hole.

But do we spend 60 percent of our

practice time on the practice green chipping and putting? That is a resounding `no.’ Most golfers are lucky to practice a few putts before their round, but they will instead do hit a bucket of balls with their driver.

But even if that golfer uses their driver on all 18 holes (14 is the average amount of times players use a driver each round), that is far smaller of number compared to the fact that most golfers use their putter 50 times in a single round.

That we suggest is that you spend at least half of all your practice time on the

practice greens. And before your round don’t wear yourself out hitting a bucket of balls before you even starts. Instead, chip and putt for a good 30 minutes.

Work on your long putts and work on your three footers. Work on your chipping and pitching from the fairway and rough, as well as from just off the green.

Make a true commitment to your short game for an entire month and we guarantee you will take five to eight strokes off your game.

Next week’s lesson: Course management.

racer readies for Mile highs Mike Berry works to get pro stock bike ready for drag races

By Tom Munds

tmunds@colorado communitymedia.com Mike Berry continues working to translate good ideas into improved performance of the engine he’ll be riding in the pro stock motorcycle class at the Mile High National Drag Races July 18-20 at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison.

“We have been struggling all year,” the Englewood businessman said. “Oh, the bike is running but we just haven’t been able to put the (right) combination together to raise performance about 3 percent so we can place in the field.”

A pro stock motorcycle uses a 160 cubic-inch racing engine mounted on a specialized frame and body that resembles a production bike.

The motor produces more than 370 horsepower, launches the bike from a standing start and provides the power so that the bike reaches upward of 190 miles an hour in the less than 7 seconds it takes to reach the finish line a quarter mile away.

Riders race side-by-side in a pro stock motorcycle drag race. A rider positions his bike, takes his place, revs his engine and when the green light goes on, the bike and driver launch off the starting line. The torque from the engine lifts the front tire off the ground for the first 60 or 70 feet of the quarter mile race.

“You launch off the line in a hur-

Mike Berry works on assembling the motor on his pro stock motorcycle. Berry manufactures many of the parts for the motor and runs tests on the engine in his Englewood shop. He said he has been struggling to make his bike competitive. He said he hopes to be ready and qualify at the Mile High National Drag Races July 19-22 at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison. Photo by Tom Munds ry,” Berry said. “I guess you would compare it to sitting on the end of a gun barrel and catching the bullet as it is fired. It is a rush and I love it.”

Berry, a Littleton resident, is an independent racer who, with help from a friend from Tulsa, John Hamock, tries to compete with teams with major sponsors.

“At least one of the full-time teams has four motorcycles with sponsors that provide a budget of about $3 million a year,” he said.

“We make a lot of our parts and do a lot of other things as we try to com-

pete on our own dime.”

The veteran racer said running at the Mile High Nationals is a challenge for all the teams entering the competition.

“The altitude means there is less oxygen in the air,” he explained.

“That means just about everything has to be developed just for this race. Even with all the adjustments, the altitude and thin air means a power loss of about 20 percent.”

He said racing a pro stock bike has special challenges because it doesn’t have a supercharger or tur-

bo to increase airflow to the engine.

“We have a bike that will run at the Mile High Nationals,” Berry said. “There will probably be 20 or 25 bikes entered and only 16 qualify for the race. We don’t just want to qualify, we want to finish high in the final standings. That is why we are still making adjustments and changing parts to try to improve performance. We’ll keep working and hope we will have a bike that runs well at race time.”

Berry grew up in Lakewood, lives in Littleton and started his business,

MB Precision Machining, in Englewood about 25 years ago.

“I love racing and, while we don’t have a lot of success, I stick with it,” he said. “In a way, racing is my advertising because it promotes my business. My business manufactures parts for my bike, others see my parts, want them, and become my customers.”

He said he loves racing enough to want to do it full time. But, he also has a thriving business so it is a balancing act between running his business and racing.

“I’ll admit I have given thought to putting my business on the back burner and racing full time,” Berry said. “But it is only a thought because I have a comfortable lifestyle I really like and full-time racing means all that would change dramatically. So, I just stick with racing part time and wishing I could get to more races.”

NHRA Mile HigH NAtioNAls When - July 18-20 Where - Bandimere Speedway, 3051 South Rooney Road, Morrison ScheDule - Qualifying in the Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle classes begins at 4:45 p.m. on July 18 and 3:15 p.m. on July 19. Eliminations begin at 11 a.m. July 20. Sportsman semifinal elimination rounds are scheduled for 1:45 p.m. Sportsman finals will begin at 3 p.m. July 20 with finals in the four pro divisions set to begin at 3:50 p.m.

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July 10, 2014

It’s time to plan a local fishing day trip Get your license and your gear and go catch dinner

By Daniel Williams dwilliams@coloradocommunitymedia. com Has it been a long time since you have gone fishing? Us too.

Now that summer is here we have fishing day trips planned and you don’t even need to go camping overnight or drive hours into the mountains to do it.

Colorado has some of the best fishing opportunities that can be found anywhere in the world, and we decided to find several spots for you to go and try to get a bite — and they are all minutes away from town.

And if you’re successful you can take home and cook what you caught with your own bare hands, instead of going to the grocery store and buying it for $7.99 per pound.

But before you pack up your car and head for your favorite fishing hole we have a checklist of items you will need before you go off and do battle with Mother Nature.

First off we don’t want anybody getting fined before their fun even starts so make sure to by Wal-Mart or Sports Authority and pick up your annual fishing license.

Your new license is valid April 1, 2014, through March 31, 2015, for not only fishing but also for combination fishing and hunting, small game and Colorado waterfowl stamps.

The license will cost you $26 dollars for the year or you can get a single day fishing pass for $9 if you are only planning on going out one day.

Now that you have your license you can go dig out your old rod, reel and tackle box.

If you do not have any fishing gear we suggest finding some at a garage sale or perhaps on Craigslist.

Fishing equipment can be very expensive but it can also easily be found used for much cheaper.

The beauty of fishing in Colorado is that you can drive up the mountain to your favorite lake or you can simply pull off to the side of the road while driving up the mountain and drop your line into the river literally off the side of the road.

Lake fish and river fish might want to be attacked differently, so you might want to round up some worms and grasshoppers to go along with your Powerbait that you may have bought. Different bait options is a smart play because fish seem to like different things on different days.

Lastly, if you are headed up the mountain for a little fishing, make sure to additionally bring sunscreen, cell phone, a pocketknife, at least a couple days worth of food and water and make sure to tell a loved one where you are headed just for emergencies.

Now that we have prepared you for battle we have a few local fishing spots to suggest and none of them will cost you a full tank of gas to get there: Evergreen Lake - There is no more perfect place to take the family up for a quick drive up the mountain than Evergreen Lake. Fish the lake from sunrise to sunset and if you are out there for a sun setting in the summer you might want to bring your camera because the scenery is spectacular. You might even catch sight of a pair of bald eagles that are nesting nearby.

There are plenty of fish in the lake but on a weekend there are also plenty of people all around the park. So you might want to walk around the lake a bit until you find a quiet spot where you can cast off and take

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Clear Creek - It is actually more of a river than a creek but it is also features several easily accessible fishing spots right off the road that you might want to stop at on your way to your further out fishing destination.

You have probably driven by Clear Creek numerous times while headed skiing but now that the ski season is over trade in your skis for poles. (Carefully) pull off the road and test your river and fly fishing skills out.

South Platte River - If you are not interested in a drive into the mountains for a day of fishing that is no problem because you can fish in the heart of metro Denver in the South Platte River at several ideal spots.

Just moments from I-25 and Santa Fe Drive, about five minutes from downtown Denver, sits Overland Pond Park, right next to Overland Golf Course. Park at the pond parking lot and walk down the paved path until you find the perfect spot to set up and

cast your line.

Standley Lake - This underrated fishing opportunity makes our list because of its convenience and the fact that the state record walleye was caught here in 1997.

Aquatic baits are prohibited here but you can use a variety of other baits to help catch walleye, trout, catfish and bass at the lake. And in addition it is stocked regularly throughout the summer by the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

Eldorado Canyon State Park - Just outside of Boulder resides this outdoorsman’s hot spot. The Park features incredible sandstone cliffs but also some of the best fishing you could find anywhere in the state. Fish for rainbow trout at one of their many ideal fishing holes and never worry about crowds of people because the park prevents overcrowding by limiting the amount of visitors.

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The real reason the Broncos closed off camp Training camp is just weeks away but the Denver Broncos aren’t telling us the whole story.

It was reported a couple months ago that the team will not allow fans into training camp this year because of $35 million in renovations to their Dove Valley complex.

But that is only half of the story. While the orange at Dove Valley is construction orange instead of Broncos’ orange, the team’s training facility has joined the rest of the state as being “under construction.”

But I will think the team itself being under construction is the biggest reason why the organization has decided to shut fans out this training camp.

The Broncos said that ongoing construction at the facility would have made things too difficult and even dangerous for the thousands of fans who usually attend camp annually.

But they also knew this for months — if

not years — before they decided to tell Broncos’ fans they weren’t welcome in 2014.

I believe the team shutout fans at this year’s camp so the team can have a strictly-business approach to this season.

Whether it was a Peyton Manning decision or a John Elway decision, somebody within the organization saw the ongoing construction at Dove Valley as an opportunity to have camp as business-like as possible, as the team desperately tries to

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