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SEASONAL EATS Local farmers markets are opening for the 2021 season

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KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON

REFLECTING THROUGH ART

Energy Outreach Colorado has a mission to help people afford their energy costs

Americas COVID-19 Memorial seeks public submissions

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BRUTAL ARCHITECTURE Three Denver residents believe Denver 7 building is deserving of landmark status

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Business Matters is a monthly column featuring business news in the Life on Capitol Hill and Washington Park Profile coverage areas, which is roughly central and central-south Denver.

If you are a local business that would like to announce any updates to your operations, email Christy Steadman at csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

Denver started operating at Level Blue on the former COVID Dial on April 16.

This means less restrictions for most businesses.

Restaurants that can maintain a six-foot distance between parties may operate at 100% capacity. Groups are still limited to 10 people. Bars that do not serve food can operate at 25% capacity but not to exceed 75 people. Alcohol beverage sales are permitted at bars and restaurants until 2 a.m.

Indoor events up to 500 people (excluding staff ) may operate at 100% capacity.

This is for both seated and unseated events, but there must be six-foot distancing between groups, which are limited to 10 individuals.

Outdoor events with fewer than 5,000 attendees may operate at 100% capacity. However, these events are subject to obtaining a written mitigation plan that facilitates social distancing between parties.

Gyms, recreation centers and pools are also allowed to operate at up to 100% capacity, but there must be six-foot distancing between non-household members.

Personal services may operate up to 50% capacity, but not to exceed 50 people.

Offices and retail businesses are allowed to operate with up to 75% capacity.

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Business Matters Christy Steadman | csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com There are still some statewide and city mask/face covering mandates. Statewide, face coverings are required in schools, hospitals, nursing homes and congregate settings. Denver is additionally requiring a face covering to be worn in indoor public places, and on public-and-shared transportation.

It is no longer mandated to wear a face covering outdoors in Denver, however, the city encourages continuing to wear a face covering in public outdoor spaces.

NEW OPENINGS The Table Public House A nonprofit with a goal to help end hunger in Denver has opened a family-oriented venue called The Table Public House on the west side of the Overland neighborhood.

The nonprofit, which is called The Table Urban Farm or more commonly known as simply The Table, has been growing its organic produce in the south Denver area — more specifically, the Platt Park and University Hills neighborhoods — since 2012. The Table partners with private homeowners who allows The Table to grow vegetables on their property. “From raised beds on unused driveways to entire back and front yards - we like to grow vegetables in unsuspecting places,” states The Table’s website. The food is then then distributed to the community through local partners or The Table’s Veggie Bike.

The Table was founded by husbandand-wife team Craig Broek and Jeanine Kopaska Broek who currently co-direct the organization.

The Table Public House, 2190 S. Platte River Dr., opened on April 2. It specializes in coffee and small plates and has beer on tap. The venue also hosts local musicians who perform live and other small events such as seed giveaways and bike diagnostics.

To learn more about The Table Urban Farm, visit www.denvertable.org, and to learn more about The Table Public House, visit https://tablepublichouse.com/. Both are also active on social media, including Facebook and Twitter.

CLOSINGS Ogden Street South Ogden Street South, a neighborhood bar that served the community for about 47 years, has closed, according to BusinessDen. BusinessDen reported that the business, located at 103 S. Ogden St., which is in the southeast area of the Speer neighborhood, was put up for sale on March 27.

The BusinessDen article states that “a potential buyer that would bring a new concept to the location has been selected, but as of an April 7 online posting of the article on The Know, which is a publication of the Denver Post, the deal had not yet been finalized.

OTHER/MISCELLANEOUS Denver Terrors US Ghost Adventures announced midApril that it has gone under contract to purchase the Lizzie Borden Bed and Break-

fast and Museum located in Fall River, Massachusetts.

The local entertainment company affiliated with US Ghost Adventures is Denver Terrors, which is known locally for its Denver Ghost Tour of Capitol Hill.

The Lizzie Borden house is reputedly haunted. According to a news release: “The Lizzie Borden house is famously known as the home of Lizzie Borden, whose father Andrew and stepmother Abby were gruesomely murdered with a hatchet in 1892. Lizzie Borden was accused of the murders, and her trial became a national media sensation. She was acquitted in 1893. The murder is considered one of the oldest and most infamous unsolved murders in the United States.”

To celebrate the acquisition, US Ghost Adventures is putting on a sweepstakes for a party of two to win a two-night stay at the Lizzie Borden House, including $500 towards transportation costs. To enter the sweepstakes, book a ghost tour with Denver Terrors and enter the promo code “Borden” when booking. The offer ends July 1.

To learn more about US Ghost Adventures, visit https://usghostadventures.com.

To learn more about Denver Terrors or to book a ghost tour, visit https://denverterrors.com.

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Sharing the summer with students Denver Center for the Performing Arts offers its annual summer classes

By Christy Steadman csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is looking forward to offering the entire community time with other students to share in the power of play this summer.

“We are so excited to share the summer with students,” said Allison Watrous, executive director of DCPA education and community engagement. “Theatre is all about connection, creativity and collaboration. It gives students of all ages the opportunity to explore the power of storytelling.”

This summer, the DCPA’s education department is again offering its annual Robert & Judi Newman Summer Series of classes with more than 150 class offerings making up the roster.

Classes for students who are age 5 through fifth grade will be virtual, and there will be a mix of both virtual and in-person classes for teens and adults to choose from.

The traditionally-popular classes — such as acting, improv and choreography for ex-

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the cannabis industry to broadcast advertisements, according to a news release.

“After a decade of leading the cannabis

ample — will again be offered this summer, but these will be complemented by newer classes that focus on voiceover for audio book narration and video games, for example. Attendees can choose between a mix of single-day and multi-week classes plus a full lineup of workshops. No experience is necessary, and scholarships are available.

“This variety allows us to invite newcomers to try a few classes to find the perfect fit,” Watrous said, “as well as welcome back the seasoned actor for advanced instruction as they prepare for the theatre season ahead.”

Rachel Taylor, a teaching artist and program manager for the DCPA, has been with the DCPA for about 20 years and will be teaching virtual classes this summer.

“The energy is different,” Taylor said of online theater classes, “but the value is parallel.”

In fact, she added, some people even feel “free-er” to express themselves when taking a theater class online.

Taylor finds teaching theater — whether virtual or in-person — rewarding because she gets to watch the youngest students become part of the story, see the middle schoolers come out of their shell and witness the teens and adults expand their creative thinking skills, she said.

“Theater arts is one of the coolest art forms because it involves all of the art forms

combined into one,” Taylor said. “The skills you learn in theater are just as powerful for a 5-year-old as they are for an 85-year-old.”

People tend to love live theater for its togetherness, Watrous said. But, she added, something that the DCPA has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that “a virtual space is just as valuable for sharing time together.”

“This summer, as we are getting back out in the world, will be all about connecting,” Watrous said. “We are so excited for the

arts community to rebuild and welcome students back into all of our spaces — both in-person and virtual.”

industry in Colorado, we have taken the next step in brand awareness,” said Michael Lord, LivWell’s chief operating officer, in a news release. “These ads represent the continuing maturity of the cannabis industry in that we can now advertise alongside other companies in traditional broadcast media.”

LivWell is a recreational and medical marijuana dispensary with locations across Colorado and Denver, including 432 S. Broadway in the West Washington Park neighborhood and 1660 Pearl St. in Uptown.

The advertisement campaign includes multiple ads that will run on broadcast

television and digital platforms across Colorado, states the news release. They can also be viewed at https://livwell.com/newsmedia.

To learn more about LivWell Enlightened Health, visit https://livwell.com/. Age verification of 21 years is required to enter the site.

REGISTER FOR CLASSES The Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ 2021 Robert & Judi Newman Summer Series of classes boasts more than 150 class offerings for attendees age 5 and older.

Classes for children PreK through fifth grade will all be offered in a virtual format, and classes for teens — sixth to 12th grade — and adults will be able to choose from both virtual or in-person class offerings.

The DCPA will implement and enforce all CDC and local COVID-19 guidelines, including, but not limited to, capacity limits, social distancing and face coverings.

To find a full roster of class offerings or to register, visit www.denvercenter.org/ education.

To make sure lead stays out of your water, we’re starting with your pipes.

Denver Water is committed to delivering safe water to our community.

So, we’re replacing customers’ lead pipes, one impacted property at a time. To find out if you’re one of them, visit our website.

Learn more at DenverWater.org/Lead

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ annual Robert & Judi Newman Summer Series of classes will be offered for children in a virtual format, and adults and teens in both virtual and in-person formats. The roster includes more than 150 class offerings.

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Denver residents Peter and Margo Wanberg will be opening the City Park Farmers Market with a focus on local consumable goods on May 15.

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Farmers markets offering Colorado products are back for the season

By Christy Steadman csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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eople love to hear the stories behind the food they consume.

“It puts the personality back in food,” said Steve Ela, a fourth generation farmer with Colorado’s Ela Family Farms which got its start in 1907.

One of the best ways to hear these stories is from the famers themselves, and a local farmers market is a wonderful place to have such conversations, Ela said. Consumers get excited when they get to learn every detail about how the food is grown, and how it went from bloom on the farm to their family’s table, he said.

People love to explore different tastes and varieties, and for the farmers, Ela added, all the hard work they put into growing the food is rewarded when someone says, “`wow, that was the best peach I’ve ever eaten.’”

It is farmers market season again in Colorado, and the Denver area boats many different markets to explore — each with their own uniqueness and charm.

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IF YOU GO It is expected that farmers markets will be able to once again have live music and other entertainment for the 2021 season, as well as onsite eating at socially-distanced spaced tables.

Vendors being able to offer samples and food and beverage tastings may come back as well.

However, certain guidelines for operations might vary and be different for each market, so it is recommended to check websites before visiting each market to ensure you know the rules for the ones you wish to visit.

Another benefit to browsing the farmers markets’ websites is to find a variety of information not related to COVID-19 restrictions. For example, most have a list of vendors and links to the vendor’s website, and some farmers markets list the vendors’ seasonal offerings as they become available.

Boulter’s 5280 Urban Market — University Hills Located at University Hills Plaza, 2500 S. Colorado Blvd.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays May 15 to Oct. 30 https://boultersfarmersmarkets.com/ Central Park Farmers Market Located at Founders Green, 7601 29th Ave. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays June 6 to Oct. 10 https://www.hobnobevents.com/central-park-farmers-market/ City Park Farmers Market Located at East High School Esplanade, 1600 City Park Esplanade 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays May 15 to Oct. 30 https://www.cityparkfarmersmarket.com/ Colorado Fresh Markets - Cherry Creek Located at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, First Avenue and University Boulevard 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays May 1 to Oct. 30 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays June 16 to Sept. 29 https://www.coloradofreshmarkets.com/

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Denver Union Station (Boulder County Farmers Markets) Located at 1701 Wynkoop St. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays May 8 to Oct. 23 https://bcfm.org/ Highlands Farmers Market (Real Farmers Markets) Located at Highlands Square, 3489 W. 32nd Ave. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays May 23 to Oct. 10 http://realfarmersmarketco.com/

Along with many other harvestable fruits, Ela Family Farms grows about 32 varieties of apples, which they will be bringing to farmers markets near the end of August, roughly. Ela Family Farms will be at a number of farmers markets this year, but the ones in Denver are the City Park Farmers Market, South Pearl Street Farmers Market and the Central Park Farmers Market.

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South Pearl Street Farmers Market Located on the 1400 and 1500 blocks of South Pearl Street, between Iowa and Arkansas avenues.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays May 9 to Nov. 14 https://www.southpearlstreet.com/farmers-market/

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A relational, community experience Peter and Margo Wanberg will be opening their City Park Farmers Market this year in the space that was formerly occupied by City Park Esplanade Fresh Market.

This will be the first year for the husband and wife team to run a farmers market, though the two have been vendors at various markets with Peter Wanberg’s Jubilee Roasting Co. coffee since 2017. Margo Wanberg is co-founder of 3 Sisters Honey.

“When you shop at farmers markets, you get a relational experience,” Peter Wanberg said. They are “something that bonds the community further.”

The City Park Farmers Market will feature food trucks and live music, and its unique entertainment includes a donationbased yoga class led by Big Power Yoga.

With the market, the Wanbergs have a goal to provide the fundamentals of what a farmers market can be — focusing on Colorado local and focusing on food, Wanberg said.

“We’ve really curated our selection of local producers, farmers and artisans to provide a food-focused experience for guests,” Wanberg said. “Local produce is the foundation of a farmers market and everything else we’re doing is built around that.”

Market shoppers will be able to browse at least 60 vendor booths each week whose businesses range from established brands to startups. Goods will include mostly consumable products — fruits and vegetables, dairy, baked goods, jams and sauces, for example — and a few that will offer goods such as botanical soaps, flowers or zero

waste supplies.

All of the vendors are “passionate about growing food (and) using local and organic ingredients,” Wanberg said. He added that he and Margo are especially looking forward to being advocates for the local producers and offering market-goers the opportunity to not only shop for fresh food, but the opportunity to contribute to the local economy.

“We get to be champions for these local food producers,” Wanberg said. “By purchasing local, the dollars go directly from consumer to producer.”

Offering new inspirations for mealtimes Considering what aspects are important to people when thinking about their ideal shopping experience, shopping at farmers markets can check a lot of those boxes, said Nicole Jarman, farmers market manager of the South Pearl Street Farmers Market.

There is a community aspect, Jarmen said, which is important to a lot of marketgoers.

“We’re all craving that connection and community,” she added. “Historically, visiting your local farmers market each week means you get to see your neighbors.”

But also, Jarmen added, people typically want to support local businesses and food producers when they can. And still others shop at farmers markets for the healthier options of having a great selection of fresh food to choose from.

South Pearl Street, as a whole, is quite the destination place for people, Jarmen said. People enjoy spending some time at the farmers market in the earlier part of the day, then spending the afternoon browsing the unique small businesses and dining at the various restaurants.

This year’s farmers market boasts a mix

of 140 vendors offering quite the variety of goods, Jarmen said.

“There are two very long blocks dedicated to the farmers market,” Jarmen said.

“I don’t think there’s anything you won’t be able to find at the market this year.”

The South Pearl Street Farmers Market has been going on for a couple decades. It will feature food trucks, live entertainment and new this year is what’s being called the chef experience. This will provide people with new inspiration for their meals and cooking, Jarmen said.

Each week, a Front Range chef will be featured to write a recipe that can be made completely with items purchased from the South Pearl Street Farmers Market. The recipe will be available to the public prior to the weekly market on Sunday so people can shop for the items. Each Sunday evening, the featured chef will host a virtual cooking class, which will be available on the South Pearl Street Farmers Market’s website.

‘When the music came back’ Farmers markets truly are all about community, said Chris Burke, president of Colorado Fresh Markets-Cherry Creek.

People love getting out of the house to enjoy the warm weather, and the adventure of “seeing what’s there,” he said. And because they get to form relationships with the consumers, “the vendors enjoy it (farmers markets) just as much as anybody.”

The outdoor setting of farmers markets lends to them being one of the few venues that can currently offer live entertainment, so this year, people are especially looking forward to that, Burke said.

He added that it wasn’t until later in the season last year when the Cherry Creek farmers market was able to bring back its live music.

“When the music came back, it was such a warming feeling,” Burke said, adding that people were dancing and simply enjoying it in a socially-distanced manner.

The Cherry Creek farmers market is going into its 24th season. It will have food trucks, live entertainment and will boast hundreds — if not a few hundred or more — fresh items to shop for, from spring flowers to European cheeses, all by Colorado vendors. And many of these items are unique and/or not readily available in grocery stores, Burke said.

Colorado Fresh Markets-Cherry Creek offers a market on Saturdays as well as Wednesdays.

“Crops come in all week long,” Burke said. So “there’s a demand for it.”

Additionally, people working in the nearby area enjoy being able to grab a fresh bite to eat for their lunch on Wednesdays, Burke added.

More than an essential business Last year, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, farmers markets were deemed an essential business because of the fresh groceries and other goods that can be purchased at them, said Zach Martinucci, founder and owner of Rebel Bread which specializes in artisan breads and coffee shop pastries.

This year, especially as restrictions ease, farmers markets will be able to go back to offering the community-feel that is associated with farmers markets, and once again serve as local, social gathering spaces, he added.

“Farmers markets mean so much for the local business community,” Martinucci said. “For these five months each year, it is our opportunity to get to know our customers.”

Rudy Grant performs at last year’s Colorado Fresh Markets-Cherry Creek. Live entertainment is something people are especially looking forward to at this year’s farmers markets.

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Farmers markets offer a wide variety of Colorado-grown, fresh produce from local vendors such as Longmont’s Rocky Mountain Fresh which will be a vendor at this year’s South Pearl Street COURTESY OF SOUTH PEARL STREET FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market.

Maya Dank, market director for Rebel Bread, sets the local bakery’s items out for sale during last year’s South Pearl Street Farmers Market. Rebel Bread is looking forward to being a vendor at both the South Pearl Street Farmers Market and the City Park Farmers Market this year.

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‘More together than apart’ Public submissions being accepted for Americas COVID-19 Memorial

By Christy Steadman csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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he Americas make up about 13% of the world’s population. Yet, as of April, nearly 50% of the world’s COVID-19 deaths occurred in the Americas.

So the Biennial of the Americas got to thinking: “how can people memorialize the 1.4 million deaths in our hemisphere,” said FloraJane DiRienzo, deputy director of the Biennial of the Americas.

Thus, the idea for the Americas COVID-19 Memorial came to be.

“The Americas COVID-19 Memorial seeks to create a space to come together in our individual and collective grief and healing processes, providing an opportunity to reflect on the complexities of a global pandemic through art,” DiRienzo said. “We hope that many members of the public will submit artworks, conveying varied experiences and insights from across the Americas.”

The Biennial of the Americas is a Denver-based nonprofit that got its start in 2010. It exists to “enhance, celebrate and discover the

cultural and economic connections between” the Americas, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, states its website.

“We’ve all been affected (by the pandemic) in some way,” DiRienzo said. “As our world becomes more global, we have to look beyond our backyard.”

The Americas COVID-19 Memorial was announced in early March and entails a multi-month project, culminating this summer with an online exhibition that will be publicly accessible. Currently, the Biennial of the Americas is seeking artwork submitted by the public to be included in the memorial. The open call for public submissions will close at the end of May. There is no prerequisite of being an established or professional artist — meaning anyone is welcome to submit a piece of original art.

Individuals or collaborative groups of any age or nationality, who reside within the boundaries of the Americas are invited to submit artworks.

All art forms are accepted — including written word, photographs, paintings and drawings, for example — as well as all mediums, though it must be in a digital format. For example, a sculpture is welcome, but to be included in the online exhibit, a digital photograph of it should be submitted. Artwork may be

AMERICAS COVID-19 MEMORIAL TIMELINE March 3 - project announcement March 30 - open call for public submissions May - announcement of 20 featured/commissioned artists May 31 - public submissions period closes June 15 - online exhibition launches and public voting begins July - public voting closes August - awards announced To learn more about the Americas COVID-19 Memorial or to submit artwork for the exhibit, visit https://www.biennialoftheamericas.org/. accompanied by a 300-word narrative describing the work and any details about inspiration, materials used or additional context, though not required.

Submissions should focus on how the artistic imagination conceives a memorial to a contemporary tragedy that transcends national borders.

“There is a larger community that went through similar things, and different things (during the pandemic). Everybody’s perspective is valid,” said local artist Derrick Velasquez who is an exhibition organizer for the memorial. Velasquez is co-curating the memorial with Maria Paz Gaviria, who is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

The Biennial of the Americas is seeking public submissions for the COURTESY LOGO virtual Americas COVID-19 Memorial exhibit.

“Artists are the lenses through which we can make sense of the world in a cultural way.”

Along with the public submissions, the Americas COVID-19 Memorial will feature the work of 20 commissioned artists who will be announced in May. The online exhibition will launch mid-June, which is when public voting begins. The public will be able to vote for their favorite artwork — both the public submissions and that of the commis-

sioned artists. The voting period will close in July, and awards will be announced in August.

DiRienzo hopes the Americas COVID-19 Memorial will serve as a space for both healing and unity, she said.

“Oftentimes, we don’t think about how similar we all are in the Americas,” DiRienzo said.

“This is another opportunity to highlight how we are more alike than different, and more together than apart.”

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A building that stands out in the city landscape Denver City Council to decide if Denver 7 building will receive landmark status

By Christy Steadman csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Brutalist architecture, though popular in the 1960s and 1970s, isn’t necessarily everybody’s favorite style of architecture today.

But there is one Brutalist building in particular in the Speer neighborhood that a few Denver residents feel is worth saving.

And now, it is up to Denver City Council to decide whether to designate it with landmark status.

The building in question is the KLZ Communications Center — more commonly known as the Denver 7 building — at 123 Speer Blvd.

The Brutalist style of architecture is not well represented in the city’s portfolio of landmarks, said Michael Henry, chair of the Historic Preservation committee for the Neighbors for Greater Capitol Hill, which is a registered neighborhood organization.

“The Denver 7 building is an outstanding example of Brutalism,” Henry said. He, along with Brad Cameron and David Wise, “felt it was worth the effort to try to save it rather than see it demolished.”

The Denver 7 building was constructed in 1969, and its prime location at the cross-streets of Speer and Lincoln makes it quite visible — its five-story tower on the west side of the property being the most iconic portion of the structure. The color, which comes from Colorado-sourced red sandstone, is also worth noting, Henry said, adding that most Brutalist buildings are grey-ish in color because of the use of concrete materials.

“It stands out in our city landscape,” Cameron said. “Thousands of people pass by it daily. Its demolition would leave a gapping hole in Denver’s landscape.”

The property is owned by Scripps Media, the parent company of KMGH Denver 7.

The company would like to sell the building and relocate its operations to a different centrally-located and more modern building, which had not been determined as of the beginning of April. However, the property has a potential buyer — a “highly respected developer of mixed-use projects in urban neighborhoods through the United States,” states a letter from Dean Littleton, vice president and general manager of Denver 7, to the city’s landmark preservation commission.

Littleton’s letter also states that the news operation has outgrown its current building, and additionally, the news station’s staff faces the challenge of operating in an antiquated building that was “purpose-built to serve the needs of a 1970s television studio, before the advent of the technology, connectedness and collaboration that define the industry today.”

Cameron, Henry and Wise filed for the landmark designation in response to a public notice of a Certificate of Demolition Eligibility application for the property, which was filed in late November and submitted to Denver’s Community Planning & Development on Dec. 4. The city’s landmark staff, however, found that the Denver 7 building may have potential for a landmark designation and posted the public notice of the Certificate of Demolition Eligibility application.

Information on the city’s website states that “if a Certificate of Demolition Eligibility is issued, a property owner or owner’s agent may proceed with a demolition appli-

Some Denver residents believe the Denver 7 building, with its prominent location at Speer Boulevard and Lincoln Street, is worth COURTESY OF BRAD CAMERON preserving to maintain the city’s landscape.

cation without further Landmark Preservation review for a period of five years.”

Landmark status would protect the exterior of the building, and would make demolition a more difficult task.

Scripps Media argues that if the Denver 7 building receives historic designation, it would present a challenge to sell the property by placing “significant restrictions and procedural requirements on our — or any future owner’s — ability to make needed modifications to the structure to accommodate our business or that of another user.”

Cameron, Henry and Wise argue that because the property itself takes up an entire city block, there could possibly be some sort of adaptive reuse project on the property.

Because of application requirements, the three had to include the entire building in the landmark application, but what Cameron refers to as the “north box” of the building — which is adjacent to Lincoln and Seventh Avenue — could be sacrificed if the tower can be saved, he said. The landmark application does not include the parking lot along Sherman Street.

On April 6, Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission voted 6-to-1 to forward the decision on the landmark application to city council. The commission’s Brad Gassman voted no. He pointed out that he did not believe the property met all of the criteria required for landmark designation — one being that the property does not have “a direct association with a significant historic event or with the historical development of the city, state, or nation.”

Gassman tended to agree with a statement in a rebuttal prepared by Heritage Consulting Group, which was hired by Denver 7 to assess the property’s eligibility for designation under the applicable criteria: “As a radio and television news studio and broadcasting station, the journalists at Denver 7 have reported on numerous historic events. These events, however, were only documented by the station. The station and its journalists themselves are not the history, but only bring those stories to the community. It is a key ethos of journalism that the reporter and the news outlet are

WHAT IS BRUTALISM? “In the early 1950s, a group of British architects championed an architectural style they identified as Brutalism, and introduced the term to the English-speaking world. Brutalism was often defined by the use of raw concrete construction unabashedly expressed. By the 1980s, Brutalist architecture was no longer popular, but in recent years there has been renewed interest in Brutalism, which emphasizes the visceral qualities of its construction.”

Source: Denver Architecture Foundation The website www.coloradocatalyst.com identifies a number of buildings in Denver that have Brutalist qualities, though not all are landmarked as so. They are: Boettcher Memorial Center at Denver Botanic Gardens — York Street (Cheesman Park)

Denver Police headquarters — 1331 Cherokee St. (Golden Triangle)

Clyfford Still Museum — 1250 Bannock St. (Golden Triangle)

Federal Reserve Bank building/money museum — 1020 16th St. (CBD/downtown Denver)

Cherry Creek Corporate Center — 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South (Glendale)

Martischang Building — 5335 W. 48th Ave. (Regis)

Colorado Education Association — 1500 Grant St. (Capitol Hill/Uptown border)

Oneida Tower — 2121 South Oneida St. (Goldsmith)

Denver 7 building — 123 Speer Blvd.

(Speer)

Renaissance Hotel — 3801 Quebec St. (Northeast Park Hill)

Denver Fire Station No. 12 — 2575 Federal Blvd. (Sloan Lake)

United Airlines Flight Training Center — 7500 E. 35th Ave. (Central Park)

not the news. They are only a conduit for the news to the community. Denver 7 has adhered to this ethos throughout its history, and the location and the Denver 7 Building itself are not associated with any significant historic event.”

Cameron, Henry and Wise disagree, however, stating in their application that “the KLZ Communications Center is significant for its direct and substantial association with the historical development of the television communications industry in Denver. For over 50 years, the iconic building has been the center of operations for one of Denver’s oldest television stations … and the property at 123 E. Speer Boulevard has been the station’s home since it first went on the air in 1953. The impressive and memorable building embodies the history of KLZ Channel 7 and serves as a physical representation of the local televi-

sion industry’s explosive growth during the 1960s into the preeminent source of news and entertainment for Denver-area residents.”

“Back in the 1960s,” Cameron added in an interview, “the television station wanted a monumental building to mark the significance of the station. They were making a statement.”

The landmarking issue went to Denver’s to Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure (LUTI), which is a committee made up of city councilmembers, on April 20 and passed it along to the entire city council body. It is expected that city council will entertain a public hearing and vote on the matter on May 10.

“We’re happy to have gotten the support of the landmark” commission, Cameron said. “But the question now is, what will city council opt to do.”

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FROM THE EDITOR

Christy Steadman

May 1, 2021

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Honoring the Class of 2021

mid the COVID-19 pandemic at this time last year, my guess is that every hometown and hyperlocal newspaper across the United States were trying to figure out ways to make their high school seniors feel special — for all the hard work they put in through the years to earn that high school diploma and begin the conversion from being a teen to becoming a young adult.

Colorado Community Media’s weeklies have always put together what we call a `grads package’ every year. As far as I know, the monthlies — the Washington Park Profile and Life on Capitol Hill — had never done a grads package before last year.

But I felt last year was as good as any to implement a grads package for Denver seniors. And especially so because many, if not all, traditional commencement ceremonies were cancelled because of COVID-19.

While I’ll never forget the Class of 2020, a year later, I have to admit that the Class of 2021 is particularly special to me. I’m proud to announce that

my oldest niece, Morgan, will be graduating from high school this year. It seems like only yesterday when she was telling me about an award she and a classmate won for some work she did in a beginner journalism class, or calling me up for a little help with her Spanish homework. (I majored in both journalism and Spanish in college.)

But Morgan is not the only one who is finishing her high school career this year. So I’ve decided to bring back the grads package for Denver’s Class of 2021 graduates.

Here is what I need to run this feature in the Life on Capitol Hill and Washington Park Profile newspapers: Full name of the graduate.

A headshot photo — your senior picture or even a selfie in your cap and gown would work just fine.

The high school you’re graduating from. The school must be located in Denver, or the graduate must live in Denver if attending a school outside of

Addressing food insecurity in Denver

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typical Colorado Spring is finally here. Fresh vegetables will soon be emerging from the soil in community gardens across Denver.

GUEST These comCOLUMN munity farms are long-term investments in neighborhoods, with fresh and nutritious food grown locally that ends up on tables in our Councilmember most vulnerDeborah Ortega able communities. Food systems tie into issues of equity, education, mental health, transit and so much more.

While we have farmers markets in affluent areas, large portions of the city are food deserts with limited access to fresh, nutritious food.

On top of that, COVID-19 has negatively impacted food access in Denver and increased the rate of food insecurity.

Growing need Food insecurity has gotten much worse during the pandemic, as measured by demand at emergency food access points/charitable food providers. They now serve the amount of food they used to serve in a year in a single month. Previously in Colorado, about one in 10 kids were food insecure, and today that number is four in 10. This is an equity issue. More than half of non-white and Latin/Hispanic individuals experience food insecu-

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rity. How do you have wealth and abundance in some areas of our city, and in other certain neighborhoods, you can’t get an apple?

As we take steps to overcome the impact of COVID-19 and build back better, food access needs to be prioritized. Pandemic recovery starts with doing the basics and getting people back on their feet.

We know that food access is a solvable problem - there’s enough food to go around - but it’s a matter of both logistics and policy to make sure it is distributed within our entire community so that no one is going hungry.

Innovation to prevent displacement Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) is the largest entity that supports community-based urban gardens in Denver. DUG provides resources which include seeds, plants, tools and training for local farmers, and promotes self-sufficient, community based-gardens. How can we support this network of farms in neighborhoods as skyrocketing property values and development threaten their existence?

One way is by leveraging big-city projects to be transformational around food. Upcoming opportunities in the works include the potential Denver Public Market in Sun Valley and the Globeville Elyria Swansea Public Market at the National Western Center.

These and other food markets in areas undergoing redevelopment and displacement can include indoor, year-round farmers markets, mini restaurants and kitchen incubators. These places will

draw customers to the enterprises that support the neighborhood economy while nurturing a food ecosystem within the community.

New food and farming technologies, such as hydroponic indoor farming systems, should be part of these efforts. In the face of climate change, technology can be used to generate food year-round for communities, train people on sustainable food growth strategies and help eliminate food deserts. Paired with the enterprise models above and supported by non-profits like Denver Urban Gardens and local food distribution organizations, we can foster small-scale food growth operations in areas of need throughout the city. We have so many grow houses for marijuana and dispensaries in these neighborhoods, so let’s see that industry step up and invest in healthy food growth and distribution.

From a policy perspective, there is a lot that Denver is doing to support local food access. For example, the Denver Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE) has its Food System Programs. The various programs focus on everything from food for lowincome and at-risk youth to food waste reduction and sustainability, to emergency food relief programs leveraged during critical stages of the pandemic. To learn more, visit https://tinyurl.com/3cf3bvfr.

Deborah Ortega is a councilmember at-large on the Denver City Council. At-large council members represent the city as a whole. She can be reached at ortegaatlarge@ denvergov.org.

the city of Denver. If you’d like further information on which specific neighborhoods the newspapers cover, feel free to drop me an email.

After high school plans. (Know that these plans DO NOT have to be college to be included.)

QUOTE (please answer in a full sentence): What did you learn during your senior year that you will take with you as you go forward with your future plans?

Responses and photos can be emailed to me directly at csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia. com.

I started this project for the Class of 2021 in April, but decided to extend the deadline to run it in the June editions. The new deadline is May 19.

I am looking forward to seeing all the responses, and I’m sure this year’s grads package will turn out just as great as last year’s.

And who knows? Because it’s so much fun, this may become an annual thing.

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s many Coloradoans make health a focus amid COVID-19, one potentially overlooked priority is establishing a relationship — or re-engaging — with a primary care physician. Whether you have employer coverage or benefits through MediGUEST care or Medicaid, a primary care COLUMN physician can be a key resource to help you maintain or improve your well-being, including to help prevent illness and detect diseases as early as possible.

While the number of primary care physicians in Colorado is trending upwards, the state ranks 24th in the country at 256 providers per 100,000 residents, according Donna O’Shea to a report from America’s Health Rankings. Unfortunately, the number of Americans overall who have a relationship with a primary care physician is on the decline, with an estimated 25% of people lacking this type of ongoing relationship with a care professional. Reversing that trend is important, as research shows strengthening primary care may contribute to improved access to health-care services, better health outcomes, and a decrease in hospitalizations and emergency department visits.

If you think you’re healthy enough that you don’t need a primary care physician — or maybe you’ve been rationalizing that you are too busy to establish a relationship with one — consider the following: SEE PRIMARY CARE, P9

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Grape Hyacinth are some of the first blooms to appear after a long winter.

PHOTOS BY SCOTT DRESSEL-MARTIN/DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS

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Some species of allium are native to arid portions of Colorado and the West.

Spring bulbs in the Water-Smart Garden

ome plants just like it dry — thriving in that spot that you thought was hopeless precisely because it has lean soil and never stays wet for long.

Or, the plant may GUEST prefer a “wetter” COLUMN season followed by a drier dormant season.

Dan Johnson This is where lots of our best bulbs come in, hailing from the cold dry steppes of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, or the mountains and steppe of South Africa.

Denver Botanic Gardens’ Water-Smart Garden is nearly overtaken with flowering bulbs in the spring. Those that thrive here have a few things in common: They take advantage of abundant seasonal moisture, exploding into growth with leaves and flowers during our wettest season (Aprilearly June). Then their foliage dries out and disappears, returning to a dormant condition as our season gets warmer and

drier. They all tolerate long periods of cold, dry conditions.

Bulbs that get our earliest attention are the first to appear after a long winter. This includes smaller Iris reticulata, Muscari (grape Hyacinth) and the dozens of species tulips and crocus — these are the original forms that most hybrids were developed from. All of these are especially durable and resilient for many years in the right conditions, getting us through that last bit of wintry weather with a ray of hope.

When the smaller-species tulips begin to bloom, it’s easy to appreciate their jewel-like colors, and easy to understand how a “tulip craze” started centuries ago and still continues today.

The real showstoppers soon follow — ornamental onions, Allium and the foxtail lilies called Eremurus. These are native to open grasslands and mountain meadows from Europe to the Himalayas. The foxtails come in shades of pink and white,

through yellow and orange, producing enormous spires of color from three-toeight feet tall, above strappy leaves that soon disappear after flowering. Alliums are stunning with globes of flowers from white through many shades of purple and violet. Several species of allium are also native to arid portions of Colorado and the West, though most have smaller flowers.

Though not true bulbs — technically fleshy rhizomes — bearded iris are a staple in cold-climate gardens and they thrive in Colorado. While used easily in most traditional gardens, they are superbly adapted to drier gardens as well. The Water-Smart Garden features roughly a half dozen true bearded iris, but you will also see some of the more exotic looking specimens scattered through the plantings. These are called arilbred iris — complex hybrids between bearded iris and several wild species from dry regions of the Middle East.

Not commonly grown, but well worth

seeking out, they prefer drier summer conditions than the standard bearded iris.

Their hallmark is often a goblet shape with ornate veining or brush marks on the petals, giving an exotic look.

Watering all these bulbs is hardly a concern. The Water-Smart Garden is rarely irrigated before May, and then is watered only between six and 10 times through the growing season. This varies, depending on precipitation, but the garden is always allowed to become quite dry between watering.

Keep in mind that the bulbs are just one layer in a diverse garden. This theme is echoed in the Steppe Garden, Plant Select Garden and parts of the Rock Alpine Garden. Visit us at the Denver Botanic Gardens often to see what each changing season brings.

Primary Care

reduction in annual health-care costs for people with access to a primary care physician.

geographic area benchmarks for costefficiency. More broadly, some health plans and hospitals make cost estimate information available online, including actual contracted rates for hundreds of “shoppable” medical services.

When it comes to evaluating the right setting for care, a doctor’s office is not the only way to access in-person care.

For instance, people enrolled in some Medicare Advantage plans may have access to programs that provide annual health and wellness visits from the convenience and privacy their homes.

condition management. Other studies have shown that some people who see a doctor virtually report no difference in the quality of the visit, compared to an in-person appointment, and that some patients vastly preferred a virtual experience, due to the convenience and the elimination of travel time.

More broadly, a growing number of Americans are relying on virtual care for urgent care needs and remote patient monitoring programs to help manage more serious illnesses or chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes. People can check with their health plan or local care professional to determine what types of virtual resources may be available to them.

To help make health a priority in 2021, don’t underestimate the potential impact of developing a relationship with a primary care physician as part of a holistic approach to maintaining and improving your well-being.

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Recognize the value of primary care Primary care physicians can be a convenient and more affordable way for people to address their day-today health-care needs, such as annual checkups, preventive screenings, routine care and chronic condition management if needed. Typically, primary care physicians serve as a first contact for people as they navigate the health system — helping to identify risk factors for disease, more effectively manage chronic conditions and coordinate with specialists. All of this may add up to improved well-being and quality of life. In fact, people with a relationship with a primary care physician may be more likely to receive high-value care services, such as preventive screenings, and report better care access and experiences with the health-care system as compared to people without this type of care professional. The result is a 33%

Find the right doctor and care setting for you Finding the right physician and care setting may be a challenge for many people, in part because some individuals may not be aware of their options or how to compare the quality and cost of health-care professionals. There is often wide variation in the quality and cost of health care services, even though there is often little or no corresponding improvement in health outcomes for services performed by higher-priced care professionals. To help find the right health-care professional, people can compare publicly available, online patient-posted reviews to help research primary care professionals in their local areas. For a more detailed analysis, some health plans offer online search capabilities that identify quality care professionals, as determined by national standardized measures for performance and local

Go virtual Smartphones and computers are making it possible to access various types of care virtually, including with local physicians who are increasingly embracing this technology to “see” patients. This is especially important amid COVID-19, as many people continue to practice social distancing. There’s been a more than 10-fold increase in the use of virtual care since the emergence of COVID-19, including for urgent, preventive and chronic

Dan Johnson is the associate director of horticulture and curator of native plants for the Denver Botanic Gardens

Dr. Donna O’Shea is the chief medical officer of population health management for UnitedHealthcare

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May 1, 2021

Three steps to writing your story of recovery from addiction And save lives in the process

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emember long ago, before you ever acknowledged that drugs and alcohol were making your decisions for you?

If you’re like me, in the beginning of your drinking and using, GUEST you thought you were COLUMN just partying and having a good time.

I took my first drink at age 11, then went on to snorting cocaine and smoking weed at 12 or 13, which continued through my years as a star high school athlete — you know, Adam Vibe Gunton just for “fun.” I couldn’t have imagined I would eventually find myself homeless, kneeling on the floor of a crack house, staring up the barrel of a loaded gun, wishing the dealer would pull the trigger and end my misery. Or that I still wouldn’t be able to get sober after I had my lifeless, OD’ed body dragged out from behind the wheel of a running car — all recorded on a policeman’s bodycam.

As a kid, I didn’t pay attention to the “Just Say No” campaigns or the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) people who gave talks at school. What did they know about my life? These police officers or teachers who have no idea what it’s like to be a kid now, telling me what to do? If only I’d heard warnings from people I could relate to — people who grew up like me who got seriously hooked on drugs and crawled out the other side to tell their stories. Them. I

might have listened to them.

I didn’t have those people and maybe you didn’t either. But now you can be that person for someone else. All you need to make an impact on the lives of the future is your own story. Your real-life, true story of your own personal battle of drug addiction and recovery.

How? By writing a book about your experiences. That’s it. That’s literally all you need to do to craft and prepare your story to share.

Not only will you steer others away from addiction and give struggling addicts the encouragement they may need to get clean, but by sharing your stories, you’ll be attaching yourself to a life of purpose which is the ultimate relapse prevention for yourself.

I published my first best-selling autobiography, “From Chains to Saved,” on the second anniversary of my sobriety. Writing a book proved a cathartic way for me to focus on personal fulfillment rather than spending the rest of my days defining myself as an addict in recovery who has to obsess about the possibility of relapsing.

Do you know what? Writing a book is easy.

Mine took five weeks, and I’d never written a book before. I figured out three simple steps to organize my thoughts and decide what to include. If you’re ready to embark on this lifeaffirming journey, here are the three simple steps you can take.

Mind Dump Story Vault For your first step, get yourself a whiteboard, piece of paper or a computer program for writing and make what I call a Mind Dump Story Vault. Write at the top of the page, “Mind Dump Story Vault,” and draw dashes all the way down the left side of the page. Think of every meaningful experience you have had in your life that you may or may not want to tell in your story. Then set a

Got a taste of virtual learning and liked it?

An example of Adam Vibe Gunton’s recovery story map.

COURTESY DRAWING

timer for 25 minutes and write down every personal experience you can think of using five words or less.

For example, instead of writing, “the time I went to the casino with $25 dollars to my name and I met that guy with the eye patch that taught me how to play poker and I made $100,” just write, “eye patch.” Something short for you to know what story you are talking about in order to just get it down into existence in your story vault.

Jot down every life experience you can think of. Don’t leave anything out and limit yourself to five words so you can move through as fast as possible. If the timer buzzes and you’re not done, take a five-or 10-minute break. Walk around your room, get a glass of water, call your mom and tell her you love her. Then set the timer again for another 25 minutes and keep going. Do this as many times as you need until you’ve written down every story you remember.

Categories Next, assign each story a number from one to five. These are your categories. They’ll help you organize your stories into time periods.

However, whether you choose to write them chronologically in your manuscript is up to you.

1- before addiction 2- the beginning of addiction 3 - during active addiction 4 - through the recovery process 5 - post addiction

My recovery story map Finally, draw a story map that looks like the hub and spokes of a bicycle wheel — draw a big circle in the middle with five lines coming out and a small circle at the far end of each line. Add the numbers 1-5 in the small circles so that each circle has one number inside. If you have a working title for your book, write that in the big circle in the middle.

Now, pick no more than three stories from each numeric category to go in your book.

Choose the stories that are the most powerful — the ones that have had the most impact on your life. Don’t worry about leaving out something you want in there just yet. The key is to have a 15-story first draft before adding any more that you really want to get across.

Don’t worry about how you’re going to get from one story to the next. My book was a series of short stories without transitions, and I’ve gotten tremendous positive feedback from around the world. I hope you will, too.

Don’t let your story die with you. There is someone out there who needs to hear your story. Be the person you wish you had when you were in their situation. And if you need some help, Recovered On Purpose can get you there.

Adam Vibe Gunton of Denver is the founder of Recovered On Purpose, a movement that helps recovered addicts tell their story and inspire the future generation to a life of purpose. To learn more about his movement of recovery, visit https://recoveredonpurpose.com/.

Building bikes for community

C Then you’ll be happy to know you can continue to be a virtual learner next year! Jeffco Virtual Academy is here for you!

JVA has been offering 6-12 grade students an online learning path since 2009.

We’re proud to provide full-time program options to residents of Colorado-Middle School, High School, Credit Recovery, Credit Advancement, and Concurrent Enrollment for college credit. JVA is a Jeffco Public School and has been offering 6-12 grade students a tuition-free online learning path since 2009. These programs expose students to challenging coursework with academic and social support. All programs have optional on-campus and virtual synchronous learning opportunities.

Interested in finding more about JVA in an upcoming Information Session, visit www.jeffcovirtual.org or email jeffcovirtualacademy@jeffco.k12.co.us

ommunity members from across the Denvermetro area to volunteer building bikes with Can’d Aid. The event took place on April 22 on Infinite Monkey Theorem’s patio in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood. Spaced out to adhere to social distancing, the volunteers built 35 bikes that were donated to the middle schoolers at Peak Expeditionary School in Wheat Ridge to be part of the youths’ physical education programming.

Can’d Aid is a Colorado-based national nonprofit that helps build communities through its various programs and volunteer opportunities. The bike build was part of the Treads + Trails program. To learn more about Can’d Aid, visit https://candaid.org.

Eric Brodell of Arvada ran a program similar to Can’d Aid in Indiana about eight years ago, before he moved to Colorado, he said. His two passions are bikes and working with youth, he PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN added.

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May 1, 2021

Helping people ‘prioritize with purpose’ TULA empowers its clients to have more balance in their life

By Christy Steadman csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com

So often, people find they just don’t have enough time in a day to accomplish all the tasks on their to-do list.

South Denver residents and best friends Megan Trask and Cody Galloway sought to ehelp with that.

“We know how difficult it is to juggle the gdemands of life, work and home,” Trask said. “When you add a global pandemic, homeschooling and working from home to already overloaded schedules, the stress is very real.”

Trask and Galloway teamed up to offer a service that would fill a need in the greater community and launched TULA last fall.

It is a local, app-based personal assistant service that serves the entire Denver-metro area. TULA offers busy parents, professionals and anyone who needs a little extra assistance with a personal assistant at the touch of a button, states a news release.

“We want to help busy parents and professionals bring some balance back to their lives,” Trask added. “We want people to be able to prioritize with purpose, and we believe that TULA is the starting point.”

Trask and Galloway have known each other for more than two decades. Both are mothers of two children and found that, even pre-pandemic, juggling their family’s needs and their professional lives was sometimes an overwhelming feat.

Trask spent about 20 years as an oil and fgas executive, and often found herself “stretched too thin,” she said. As a single emom, she worked long hours and felt she did not have enough time to spend with her children.

Galloway is the co-owner of Collaborative Events, a successful event-planning business.

“The event industry is extremely fast paced. It’s all about the hustle, the long days and weekends and the never-ending to-do lists,” Galloway said. “After COVID hit, for once in 15 years, I was forced to slow down.”

That is when TULA came about.

It was important to Trask and Galloway to make the service easily accessible to anyone who needed it. To hire TULA, potential clients are able to download and use an app, create an account on the TULA website or call TULA directly. It doesn’t even matter if the tasks come in as a picture of a list or scribbled on a napkin, TULA is able to cater to the needs of the client, Trask and Galloway said. TULA also offers price options — clients can purchase a monthly package of hours, which can be further customized to include full-day or recurring tasks, or a la carte hours for one or two errands or tasks.

Once TULA receives the task, one of TULA’s vetted personal assistants is

LEARN MORE To learn more about TULA, visit www. tulabalanced.com. deployed to accomplish it on time to the highest standards. TULA’s assistants pass background checks, have references and are subject to COVID-19 questions pertaining to potential exposure. The assistants are friendly and professional, and have skills that range from chefs to social media experts.

TULA clients can choose from a variety of customizable services — meal planning and prep, including writing a grocery list; re-decorating; gift shopping; help with research for a project; home and business organizing and scheduling, including those for home repairs; and running day-today errands such as picking up mail and deliveries at the post office. TULA can do just about any task that someone needs accomplished, Trask and Galloway said. They added that one of the quirkiest errands that TULA was hired for was going to the Department of Motor Vehicles for someone, and one of the most fun was planning a park date for a couple — which needed to be special and memorable amid contending with COVID-19.

Limitations are anything that is not legal and/or unsafe; and TULA does not provide childcare, though is happy to make recommendations for area babysitters or host meetings/interviews between potential childcare providers and the family in need of the service.

“Time is our most valuable currency,” said Sarah Riggs, one of TULA’s clients who is the owner and general manager of Three Cutters salon. “You have a bigger impact when you can focus on what you care most about.”

Riggs started using TULA to help with Three Cutters’ social media, website and overall online presence. There are three Three Cutters salons in Denver — one in West Washington Park, one in Capitol Hill and one in the Sunnyside neighborhood — and for the past six years or so, the salon had someone in-house managing the online presence. However, it was a backburner priority, Riggs said.

“Hair and skin services are what we do really well,” Riggs said. “Being able to have TULA’s help allows us to focus on our passions.”

Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic brought on the importance of being digitally relevant, Riggs said. Since TULA has been managing the salon’s social media, Three Cutters has gained more of an online following and virtual engagement; people are booking their appointments online more frequently, compared to before when they would book by phone or in-person; and there is more opportunity to showcase the salon’s service providers’ expertise, Riggs said.

“It’s been fantastic,” Riggs said of working with TULA. “I can be as involved or not involved as I want, and I always get a great end result.”

Denver residents Megan Trask and Cody Galloway have been best friends for the past couple of decades. Recently, the two went into a business venture together and launched TULA, a local personal assistant service.

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HELPING

May 1, 2021

TO KEEP

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Energy Outreach Colorado assists with utility bills

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Special to Colorado Politics

efore COVID-19, the nonprofit Energy Outreach Colorado had evidence that one in every four Colorado households struggled to pay monthly utility bills.

Today, with pandemic-related job losses and reduced incomes, the need for help in paying these bills has skyrocketed.

“Between April 2020 and March 2021, our Heat Help Hotline received over 250,000 calls,” said Denise Stepto, EOC spokesperson. Those calls resulted in EOC paying past-due utility bills for some 25,000 households, for a total of $13 million — a 46% increase in the number of bills paid and a 75% increase in assistance dollars over the same period a year earlier.

Energy Outreach Colorado was established in 1989 with the belief that everyone deserves affordable access to the resources vital to powering their homes, be it electricity, gas, propane or wood. As noted on the EOC website, “when everyone can afford and maintain their home, then they can focus on living, rather than merely surviving.”

“Even 30-plus years ago, Colorado legislators realized that a fair amount of people couldn’t afford their utility bills and that there were few resources to help them,” Stepto said. “Legislatively they created us and encouraged utility companies to work with us. Since then, we’ve taken EOC from just a bill-payment assistance program to one that addresses a wider range of issues relating to energy stability.”

In addition to helping income-qualifying Coloradans pay their energy bills, EOC is the only statewide nonprofit that: • Provides emergency home-energy assistance and longer-term approaches to reduce energy use, lower costs and develop innovative energy solutions. This includes home energy audits; repairs to, or replacement of, inefficient furnaces; and helping develop energy budgets for families whose bills are soaring with increased use of devices to accommodate work or virtual learning demands.

• Leverages resources and partnerships with utilities, the state and corporate and individual donors to serve more people in need.

• Helps stabilize energy service provider workforces by hiring contract workers throughout the state.

Energy Outreach Colorado is a nonprofit that can help people afford their energy costs — including bill payment assistance and repairing or even replacing a furnace.

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• Shares its expertise with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, the Colorado General Assembly and gas and electric distribution companies.

“Our clients aren’t people who just aren’t paying their bills,” Stepto said.

“They’re seniors on fixed incomes, veterans, baristas, teachers, service providers, grocery store workers, people with unexpected medical bills or emergencies — you name it. And with COVID, the number of those needing our help is growing by unprecedented amounts.”

In 2020, Energy Outreach Colorado served 32,626 households. Renters comprised the largest demographic at 18,672 and households with children numbered 14,230. There were 7,525 rural households served, 6,658 households where one or more members had a disability, and 5,650 households occupied by senior citizens.

As of early April, EOC had spent $3 million in 2021 “just to keep people safe.”

The COVID pandemic also caused 17 nonprofit organizations to seek EOC’s help.

“They were at risk of having to shut down because they couldn’t afford to meet their respective missions and pay their utility bills,” Stepto said. “We helped by offering bill payment assistance, making their buildings energy-efficient and finding other solutions to reducing their energy costs.”

People seeking EOC assistance are referred by friends, neighbors, church groups and agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services, Goodwill and The Action Center.

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Energy Outreach Colorado has a variety of programming that is available to any Colorado household — and nonprofits that serve low-income individuals and families — that may need help with affording home energy costs.

To learn more about EOC, visit www. energyoutreach.org/.

EOC’s Help Lines are another way for people to reach the organization.

For utility bill payment assistance, call 1-866-432-8435. For help with a faulty furnace and/or are living without heat, contact EOC’s Crisis Intervention program at 1-855-469-4328.

EOC is funded primarily through grants, community contributions and donations. To learn more about donating EOC, visit the website above and select the ‘Ways to Support’ tab from the home page.

Energy Outreach Colorado’s annual golf classic — The Heat Is On — will take place as an in-person event on Aug. 31 at the Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia.

Sanctuary Golf Course is an exclusive golf course that is typically invitationonly and limited to those sponsoring a charity tournament. For The Heat Is On, golfers may join the tournament as an individual player or through a sponsorship for 4-16 players.

Individual player spots are available on a first-come, first served basis. Sponsorship opportunities are offered at different levels. All are tax-deductible, and all proceeds from the tournament helps EOC achieve its mission of providing energy assistance and efficiency to any Coloradan who needs it.

For sponsorship and individual golfer information and prices, contact Tess Richey at trichey@energyoutreach.org.

But grateful as the clients are for help received, Stepto said that a reluctance to seek help remains.

“A lot of people, especially our older clients, are ashamed to say they need help,” she said. “They say they’ve never been in a situation like this before, but they’ve received a shut-off notice and they’re desperate and scared. Still, there’s that delicate line of the dignity component.”

EOC this year received an allocation from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. In addition, its approximate $20 million budget is funded by distributions from the Colorado Low-Income Home Energy

Assistance Program (LEAP), investment income, grants and donations from Xcel Energy and other utility companies and fundraising events like an annual golf tournament.

EOC’s goal, Stepto said, is to put itself out of business. However, that isn’t likely to happen any time soon, thanks to rising energy costs and lingering effects from the pandemic.

This story is from Colorado Politics, a statewide political and public policy news journal. Used by permission. For more, visit coloradopolitics.com.

Many Coloradans may not be getting the help they need

By Christy Steadman csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Energy Outreach Colorado has a mission to help people afford their energy costs.

And to fulfill that mission, it is so important for the nonprofit to make sure every Coloradan is aware of it, said Denise Stepto, EOC’s chief communications officer.

While EOC is reaching many Coloradans, she said, there are many more who

are not getting the help they may need.

“There are a lot of people who are finding us, but a lot of people who aren’t,” Stepto said. “The pandemic has put a lot of people in crisis (and) it could easily be your next door neighbor who has fallen behind.”

Lack of employment, or becoming under employed, during the pandemic are reasons people could currently be struggling to pay their energy bills, Stepto said.

But another hardship brought on by COVID-19 is the increased amount of energy

needed to power devices for working from home and/or remote schooling.

“Utility bills have increased,” Stepto said, “but wages have not.”

She added that many households place utility bills as the third priority in their money management — rent and mortgage payments are first, and that is followed by food and medications.

But “you cannot live without your lights on,” Stepto said.

One cannot live without heat in the winter in Colorado, so some households

may be contending with a large pastdue bill they cannot pay, and possibly facing a shutoff, Stepto added. And although the upcoming summer months will bring some households’ utility bills down a bit, there are some people with health conditions that requires them to have air conditioning in their home, Stepto said.

“All of these are health and safety issues of your home,” she said. “Anybody who is concerned with their home energy costs should call.”

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The Latino Cultural Arts Center is launching a new residence program that merges art and research.

The goal of the new program, which is called Popul/Arte: Merging Art, Culture and Theory, is to bring higher education to the public through the creative arts at no cost to anyone who would like to participate, states a news release.

“Academia can give people the tools to lift their communities through knowledge, creativity, art and innovation.

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Popul/Arte takes place May 18-June 12.

For each of those weeks, Popul/Arte will consist of two workshops — one lecture and one art workshop — will be offered virtually. The overarching theme for the lectures and art workshops together is Peace and Conflict in Latin America: Violence, Resistance and Social Justice.

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