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Jeffco seeks input on potential plan to demolish, relocate Columbine Plan would deter unwanted visitors, district says

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For Aurora resident Jennifer Witkowski and many like her, Columbine High School will always be connected with April 20, 1999. Witkowski still remembers sitting at an Old Chicago that afternoon with her former husband, an officer who was paged while they were eating and called to the Columbine campus.

“I was absolutely devastated,” Witkowski recalled. “It was horrifying.”

But that day isn’t the only connection she has to the school. Witkowski graduated from Columbine High School in 1988 and watched her son, Cory, graduate from there in 2011, before he passed away in 2016.

And on June 6, when Witkowski heard the news about the potential demolition of the high school, “it angered me,” she said.

“We think that if it’s out of sight and out of mind, it’s going to solve the problem,” she said. “That is not how you handle it.”

In a letter put out the afternoon of June 6, the superintendent of Jeffco Public Schools announced the district is considering the drastic step of tearing down Columbine High School. The district hopes to reduce the school’s status as “a macabre source of inspiration and motivation” for school shootings, it said.

Jefferson County Schools has considered the possibility since the 2001 incident, said Superintendent Jason Glass. While previously deciding to keep the current building in place, recent events have brought the option back to the forefront of public conversation.

Namely, he said, the district is responding to the 20th anniversary of the original incident and last April’s threat, in which an 18-year-old from Florida expressed a “fascination” with the 1999 school shooting, according to the FBI. The woman flew

Columbine High School, built in 1973, may be torn down and rebuilt based on community member input.

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Rick Townsend, the father of Columbine victim Lauren Townsend, visits the Columbine Memorial at Clement Park on April 12. Townsend, the president of the Columbine Memorial Foundation, said visiting the memorial, located close to the school, feels like “saying hi to Lauren.”

DAVID GILBERT to Denver and purchased a shotgun and Community members can access the 10-ques- shell ammunition at a store tion survey about the future of the school at in south Jefferson County, www.surveymonkey. less than two com/r/YT65D7V. miles from Columbine.

Schools across the metro area were canceled the day after law enforcement publicized the potential danger to area students. It was later discovered the woman had instead died by suicide near Mount Evans.

“There’s an increasing number of trespassings in the school and individuals who are obsessed with the school,” Glass said. “All of that is trending up, not down, and here we are two decades later.”

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A community decision The district will spend the next few weeks seeking the community’s input on the plan through an online survey. District leaders will then hold in-person community conversations in June, July and August, with the school board making its decision

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Should the board decide in August to go forward with the demolition and reconstruction plans, voters will choose whether to approve a ballot measure that would raise an estimated $60-$70 million in property tax revenue to finance the plan.

In the meantime, the district would redirect the $15 million in bond money earmarked last year for Columbine renovations. Those funds would either go toward the rebuild or toward improving security features at schools across the county.

If the ballot measure passes, construction of the new building would begin in early 2020, Glass said. The district would open the new building in 2022, after which the old site would be torn down and replaced with fields, landscaping and potential elevation changes, Glass said.

“Columbine is already an incredibly safe building, and the new building would carry forward many of the same security protocols,” Glass said.

“But knowing that it’s Columbine High School, you’d design it differently,” he said. “Fencing, access points and privacy features would all be different, where it’s located in relation to the road would be different. In a renovation of the existing building, that’s not possible.”

Split opinions The day after the district made its announcement, current Columbine High School principal Scott Christy sent a letter to the community saying that, while he and the district believe the decision should rest with the community, he supports the plan.

“I have had many additional conversations with staff members, all of whom have been in favor, as long as the name Columbine High School remains,” he said, adding that he and others were initially torn due to their emotional connection to the building.

“It is not the facility that makes

Columbine so special; it is the traditions, the culture, the pride, the love,” he said, “and, most importantly, the people that make Columbine what it is.”

Community members can access the 10-question survey about the future of the school at www.surveymonkey.com/r/YT65D7V. Included on the survey are questions around the name, mascot and colors of Columbine, whether the new school would be built just to the west of the current location and preserve the Hope Library, and the amount of the possible tax, which may cost $1-$2 per month for a $500,000 home in the county.

Glass said that the consideration “is a decision every community’s got to wade through” in the wake of a mass murder.

“Doing nothing is an option, and that may be what the community tells us to do,” he said.

He added that the plan stems from the advice of school safety experts that “icons” at which mass murders occurred should be removed. Other schools around the country have pursued similar plans, Glass said, including Sandy Hook Elementary, which was demolished 10 months after 26 were killed in the 2012 shooting.

But for Witkowski and some of those who graduated with her, the possibility runs a high risk of being ineffective, she said.

“It’s still going to be there. You’re always going to have people who are enamored with it,” she said. “You have to learn from it and work on making changes so it never happens again.”

That process would require new safety measures, she said, such as employing more school resource officers in schools. Additionally, she believes that the primary solution to the problem is for districts and governmental leaders to address prevalent mental health struggles for students and stop bullying in schools.

“It saddens you that people thought the only way we could move past this was to tear down something that is so precious to so many people,” she said.

Even so, she added, for those who hold the school close to them: “Those memories are never going to leave you.”

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A circus celebration in Lakewood 40 West Arts District celebrated first Friday with a different theme PHOTOS BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On June 8, Lakewood hosted its own circus in the 40 West Arts District.

As part of the district’s first Friday, which is held the first Friday of each month, 40 West Arts District displayed its art, as well as jugglers, dancers and more. For more information about first Fridays, visit 40westarts.org.

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Lakewood City Council looks at street lighting Staff will draft a new policy pertaining to street lighting

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Lakewood is considering using some of TABOR funds that voters passed last year to improve the city’s street and path lighting for safety.

On June 3, Lakewood City Council discussed the possibility of changing its street light policy. The city’s street light policy was created before the widespread use of LED lighting — which produce more light with more energy efficiency.

Currently, Xcel Energy owns more than 95% of street lights in the city.

Xcel Energy has a program cities can use to fund LED light upgrades. Cities can also finance and implement LED lights themselves, and Lakewood, acknowledging a public interest in makind the change, is examining all of its options.

One potential area where more street lighting may be added is next to the Sheridan Station. Councilmember Sharon Vincent discussed the importance of getting better street lighting around public transportation spots.

“We advocate that (we want) people to be able to walk to public transportation, yet they don’t feel comfortable, so they don’t do it,” said Vincent.

Other areas where additional street lighting has been requested is in northeast Lakewood, mainly due to safety.

Staff recommended modifying the city’s street lighting policy to make it more focused on residents who want more lighting in their neighborhood.

Street lighting would be installed based upon requests by petitioners.

“I think that puts the people themselves in control of the way they want the lighting in their own neighborhood, “said Lakewood City Councilmember Ramey Johnson.

City staff is set to draft a new policy and bring it before City Council to vote later this year.

Having proper street lighting in a city can go a long way toward crime prevention, according to the city staff ’s report. Among the statistics included in the report was this — when Los Angeles upped its street lighting, crime dropped by 10.77 percent from 2009 to 2011, according to a case study.

“I think it goes without saying, safety should be one of the paramount considerations (with street lighting),” said Lakewood City Councilmember Mike Bieda.

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Lakewood Police still looking for two kidnap suspects The incident occured at the Holiday Gardens Apartments at 1301 Pierce St.

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Lakewood Police is asking the community for help with identifying two suspects after an attempted abduction.

On May 15, two male suspects in a white van pulled up to the Holiday Gardens Apartments at 1301 Pierce

St. One suspect was driving while the other one was in the back of the van.

As two 11-year-old boys were sitting on the lawn at the apartments, the man in the back opened the van door and tried to grab the boys. One of the boys threw and hit a man with a water bottle and ran away.

The suspects are believed to look like twins, be Hispanic and have dark curly hair. Police believe both men are in their 20’s. The white van had scratches on the side, a door that slides open, darker tint on its windows and bars on the inside of its windows on the back of the van, according to police.

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In his commencement address, the former NYC mayor observed that the technology for successfully addressing climate change is largely in place, and challenged graduates to go out into the world and build the political will to implement it. I was reminded of that call the following day while attending a Class of ‘69 discussion about the antiVietnam war movement during our senior year. A classmate said he had interviewed several undergraduates about political activism, which basically does not currently exist on campus. The impression he got is that they are all “heads down,” concentrating on solving the world’s problems — such as climate change — undistracted by politics that divide those of us beyond the walls of academia. My thoughts about that, as someone who was very active politically as an undergraduate and is still active now, is that the administration of the Institute and the students are on the same page about such issues, sharing the same commitment to addressing commonly accepted world problems.

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Forgive me for straying from my usual topic of real estate — I took some time off with Rita to attend my 50th reunion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week, and I was super-inspired by the experience of returning to the Institute for what was more than just a party.

It was an immersion into the continuing impact that MIT is having on the world of science and technology.

Reunions at MIT are probably unlike those at any other college or university. Yes, there is partying, but roughly half the events were educational in nature, updating alums on current research regarding important topics of the day. This year the dominant topic was climate change — something I wrote about, quite coincidentally, in last week’s column.

Not only was climate change the subject of Michael Bloomberg’s commencement address (there’s a video link for it at http://news.mit.edu), but the 3-hour Technology Day symposium the following morning was all about climate change. The 1,200-seat auditorium was filled to capacity with alumni eager to be updated on MIT research about this important topic, and they were fully engaged to the very end.

When I attended MIT 50 years ago, the undergraduate men vastly outnumbered women. Over the past 20 years, women have risen to comprise 46% of the undergraduate student body and 35% of the graduate student body, spanning

age battery systems and alternatives to blast furnaces for creating steel. Those inventions likewise contribute in a big way to sustaining the livability of our planet.

A deceased member of the class of ‘69, Bob Swanson, virtually created the field of biotechnology, cofounding Genentech. A tribute to his accomplishments during one of the luncheons was most inspiring.

It was hard not to come away from the reunion weekend without a deep appreciation of what MIT and its graduates can and are accomplishing in addressing the planet’s most important challenges. I consider myself very fortunate to be among those who were given the privilege of being immersed in that environment for four or more years.

A videographer asked members of my class what their biggest learning was from MIT. To answer that question, I related what I learned to the chemical

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I return from my reunion, renewed in my appreciation of science, technology and what my alma mater contributes to their positive application to society.

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Swift water is safety focus as snowpack melts Rescuers offer words of caution to Coloradans in search of recreation

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Rachel Kohler loves rivers.

“Playing in rivers can be a ton of fun,” she said, “as long as you’re doing it with full knowledge of the risks — and you have a safety plan in place.”

For her profession, Kohler is an engineer with West Metro Fire Rescue. But for recreation, she is a river fishing guide. Though experienced in river activities and knowledgeable about safety precautions, Kohler joined many other professional firefighters across the state this year in earning a swift water rescue certification.

“Each year, we have more and more people recreating in our rivers and lakes,” said Chris Dinges, a fire engineer with the Westminster Fire Department. “It’s imperative to keep our skills sharp so that we’re capable of responding when needed.”

Rescue crews are especially concerned with water safety this year because heavier-than-average snowfall last winter means more runoff is expected.

Rachel Kohler, an engineer with West Metro Fire Rescue, in the back of the raft, performs a mock swift water rescue on May 31 as part of the training to earn a swift water rescue technician certification.

“There’s a natural allure to moving water,” said Jeff Steinhoff, operations captain and wildland coordinator for the Golden Fire Department. He is a hobbyist kayaker and has about 17 years’ experience with the department’s swift water rescue team. “It can look pretty inviting (and) it’s refreshing. But it’s dangerous. Swift water rescue is the most dangerous thing I do as a

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Although usually associated with rivers, swift water can be any form of moving water. This includes lakes, reservoirs and flooded areas.

“Even slow-moving water can cause a fatality,” said Robert Baker, a firefighter with South Metro Fire Rescue who is an instructor for the department’s Dive Team, which includes swift water rescue.

Use a personal flotation device, also known as a life jacket or vest, anytime you’re going to be near the water, Baker said. Especially children, he added.

“They’re not going to like it at first,” Baker said, “but it’s better to be safe than sorry.”

People often don’t realize how cold Colorado’s natural bodies of water are, Steinhoff said. When a person is cold, movements can be slowed and immediate reactions delayed, making self-rescue even more difficult, he added.

“Shivering is the first sign of hypothermia,” Steinhoff said. “Make sure to get out of the water every once in a while, to let your body warm up. Wrap up in a dry towel or put dry clothes on. The key is to dry off.”

Thermo-protection, also known as a wet suit, is recommended for anyone expecting to participate in water activities for a prolonged period of time, Steinhoff added.

Another hazard not often associated with swift water are floods, said Dave Dame, a firefighter with West Metro Fire Rescue and a swift water rescue instructor.

As part of a training to earn a swift water rescue technician certification, two firefighters perform a mock rescue in Clear Creek while another spots from the bank. Fifteen firefighters participated in the training, who came from West Metro Fire Rescue, South Metro Fire Rescue, Arvada Fire Department and Westminster Fire Department.

PHOTOS BY CHRISTY STEADMAN “A flash flood can cause a river to form anywhere, at any time,” Dame said.

Swift water rescue crews are also trained to handle flood situations, he said.

“Water is powerful and relentless, and not to mention freezing cold.

All this was snow a couple of days ago,” Dame said. “I’m all for heading out to the river for a picnic. Just don’t get in the water unless you’re properly trained and have the appropriate equipment.”

Area firefighters perform a mock search in Clear Creek Canyon during a training exercise on May 31. Fifteen firefighters earned their swift water rescue technician certification that day.

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A fashion show for everyone Lakewood played home to a fashion show for people of all abilities

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Teddy Polito loves fashion. He can pull off many different styles, but on June 8, he walked through the heart of Belmar decked out in cowboy boots and cowboy shirts — something he feels comfortable and confident in.

On June 8, Polito, who has Down Syndrome and is the board of directors for the Young Professional Board for Down Syndrome and others gathered in Belmar for Rockin’ the Runway Together — a fashion show designed to include people of all abilities. It was hosted by the Developmental Disabilities Resource Center,

a nonprofit in Jefferson County with a mission to create opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

“People in their community can learn (about people with disabilities) at this show. People should do this ever year,” said Polito, an Arvada resident. “It’s a great cause.”

Among those who participated in the event included nonprofits, Lakewood’s government, businesses and neighbors.

“This is amazing. It’s great to do something for everyone,” said Caleb Kochis, who’s sister has Down Syndrome. “All of these people have kind hearts.”

Robert Smith, Lakewood’s economic development director, hosted the event as Lakewood Mayor Adam Paul watched.

“We know that inclusive communities are successful communities,” said Smith.

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Without low-cost adult ed classes, ‘I couldn’t have gone on in school’ Pre-college skills taught in classes create new path to college

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It had been 29 years since Aimee Diehl had last taken a math class.

Having struggled with math in high school, the Lakewood resident believed the subject would stand in the way of her going to college.

But she was determined.

“I was working a job I didn’t enjoy, and I just wasn’t making enough money,” she said. “I’d been stuck for years.”

Diehl had worked as a dental assistant and orthodontic lab technician for decades. But she dreamed of enrolling in a dental hygiene program.

Encouraged by her family to look into school, she found herself walking into a math class on the Red Rocks Community College campus this January.

That math class, which covers various concepts from addition to order of operations, runs through The Learning Collaborative. The program is put on by the college and the Learning Source, an organization that offers adult education opportunities such as GED and English as a Second Language (ESL) programs.

About five years ago, the two groups

TO LEARN MORE The Learning Collaborative offers adult education classes on pre-college math and English skills for those interested in higher education. The program runs every semester and summer on the Red Rocks Community College campus 13300 W. 6th Ave., through a partnership with the Learning Source.

Fall 2019 enrollment will stay open into September at rrcc.edu/the-learning-collaborative. Courses cost $60 per semester, but the program offers scholarships to ensure anybody interested can participate, said program coordinator Sara Molden. came together to create The Learning Collaborative and offer classes for students who would like to learn or relearn pre-college skills.

“I actually felt like I could do it because of these classes,” Diehl said. “If it wasn’t for this, I couldn’t have gone on in school.”

‘A safe place’ for pre-college students The Learning Collaborative runs every semester and in the summer.

While some students enroll in the class based on scores from the ACCUPLACER, a college placement test, some enroll or transfer in during the semester to refresh their skills.

Some, like Diehl, take traditional Red Rocks classes in addition to the math and English classes offered by

Aimee Diehl and her daughter, Olivia, who often comes to Aimee’s classes at Red Rocks Community College. “She’s the reason I’m doing this,” Aimee said. CASEY VAN DIVIER the collaborative.

For math teacher Musette Sieminski, the program represents more than just a chance to teach academics.

“The students learn how to relax with math,” she said. “We want them to know if they’re struggling, they can ask questions. It’s teaching them how to be a successful college student.”

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Adopting budget and pay raises, board calls for a better process Tentative budget gives 7.07% average raise to district staff

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Thursday’s school board meeting found some board members feeling somewhat “backed into a corner,” in the words of board member Brad Rupert, as the board adopted the district budget for 2019-2020 school year.

School board members were presented with two budget options at the June 6 meeting. Each option allocated a different number for the cost-ofliving adjustments (COLAs) to teacher and support staff salaries next year.

While the first option reflected the board’s recommendation from previous meetings — a .67% COLA — the second option reflected a 1.5% increase. The district negotiations team arrived at that number after bargaining sessions with the Jefferson County Education Association (JCEA) and Jeffco Education Support Professionals Association (JESPA).

For months, members of the unions have held that they would not ratify a contract that gave them only a .67% COLA, with some reiterating that point during the board meeting.

“I believe in setting an example for my students that I will no longer sit

by silently,” Wheat Ridge High School teacher Lisa Lee said, “whether it’s standing on the side of the road holding a sign or standing at the front of my classroom with my tribe.”

JESPA drafted a tentative agreement with the district on May 30 that would allow for a 1.5% COLA. That adjustment, in addition to funds from the passage of measure 5A and scheduled staff raises would result in an average pay increase of 7.07% for district staff members.

However, the JCEA stuck to its previous stance that a 1.5% COLA did not meet members’ expectation. The union and district bargaining teams agreed to hold another bargaining session in August, acknowledging that this meeting would occur after the school board adopted the budget in June.

If a COLA greater than 1.5% were agreed upon by negotiators, the board would be required to revise its budget

after approval — a situation that has not occurred since the 2015-2016 school year.

Board members said they were disappointed that the teams had not come to a decision, calling for a change in next year’s negotiations process.

“I heard comments from the association that they intentionally delayed talking about compensation until all of the other issues were resolved,” Rupert said. “That got us into the box we’re in today.”

Board member Ali Lasell agreed that the process had several flaws, stating that more must be done next year to make sure all parties are working “off of the same set of facts.” She advised that the district hold a short budget presentation at each bargaining session to remind union members of facts concerning the budget.

Board members made other suggestions for change, as well, with Rupert suggesting the union’s communica-

tion to the board become less charged.

“I don’t think it’s effective to question the motives of people,” he said, “so that behavior I want to get changed.”

The board then addressed union members’ suggestion that the district take money from unassigned reserves and put it toward a higher COLA. “That reserve fund is there in case a crisis occurs,” president Ron Mitchell said. “I do believe the economy cycles and sooner or later, we are going to need that reserve fund.”

Even so, under pressure to ratify a contract with JESPA that allowed for a 1.5% COLA and adopt a budget by the state deadline of June 30, the board discussed the second budget option, which would risk pulling from reserves to fund the COLA. Ideally, said CFO Kathleen Askelson, the 1.5% COLA — which would cost $5 million more than the .67% COLA — would be partly funded by revenues the district had not previously assumed. Askelson and her team revised the budget to assume $500,000 in interest revenues and $1 million from vehicle registration.

However, she warned that these solutions would likely only fund the new COLA for one or two years, requiring the district to depend on the state and voters to fund the increases in the future.

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he greatest risk I am willing to take is grocery shopping in Douglas County on a Saturday afternoon.

It is an electrifying episode of “Supermarket Sweep” conjoined with a dress rehearsal for “Lord of the Flies.”

Get ready for some alliteration: It is carts and kids and confusion. Grandparents and grandchildren. Half are leaning over a phone, and the other half are looking in one direction and walking in another.

I go as punishment. If I have done something wrong, impermissible to my code, during the week, I feel a need to be punished.

It is not Catholic. It is Harry and Shirley, who instilled values in me I can’t shake.

QUIET DESPERATION

I have no sense of adventure, and I never have had a sense of adventure.

Combining risk with adventure is the last thing I would do.

And combining risk with adventure at 29,000 feet isn’t even a moment’s contemplation.

Mount Everest was Craig Marshall once thought to be an Smith unobtainable goal.

Then Edmund Hillary and what’s-his name (answer below) reached the summit on May 23, 1953. It was a big deal. It was international news. And Edmund became Sir Edmund because of it.

Now? Mount Everest has a daily queue of climbers in colorful parkas headed up.

Some of them make it to the top and some of them turn around. And some of them fall in the snow and die.

So far this year: 11 bodies.

I have tried my best to figure out why this doesn’t appeal to me, any more than being an astronaut, or someone who interviews sharks in person.

I camp in nice hotels, with hot and cold running toilets, and bedding than isn’t visited by ravenous bears.

I have left it all to others to share with me what they have done. Like that Bourdain fellow, who went around the world, ate things that most of us wouldn’t, and explored the rich veins of other cultures.

I

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was there. Yes, I was at the Garth Brooks concert last weekend.

If you would have asked me 20 years ago if I could ever imagine spending the kind of money it took to get tickets, so HITTING I could see somebody perform a HOME whole bunch of songs everybody already knows with 84,000 of my closest friends, I would have said “no” before you were done asking the question. But, there we were.

Michael Alcorn For the record, the concert was everything you would expect from a giant spectacle like this. All the songs you know, back to back to back, for over two hours (which, by the way, should not be discounted — Garth is not a young man and he does not live at altitude, so…). Some groups, when you hear them live, are a bit of a disappointment; they have, how shall we say this ... pitch variances from what you’ve come to expect. As such, groups like this tend to have giant circus shows, to distract you. Not Garth. The music

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I explore my refrigerator.

Thoreau stayed in one place his entire life, including two years in a 15 x 10 cabin. He wrote “Walden” about it, which Robert Louis Stevenson chided for being “womanly,” because Thoreau wrote it in near isolation, while Stevenson was off exploring the world.

(Both of them died at age 44.)

My biographer may find me in contempt if he or she has a high regard for risk and adventure in someone’s life.

Roller coasters and race cars. Neither. Interstate 25 is enough.

Being a schoolteacher was plenty risky, let me tell you. And it is a much greater risk now to tend a classroom in America.

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was front and center, and it was F really, really good. And, then on top of that, there was some very cool lighting and crowd effects.

The concert was fully recorded, and he will be releasing a “Live” album soon—in the Fall, I think he said, and Garth spoke at one point about why he wanted to do this particular concert, in this particular location. He said part of it was his loyalty to the city of Denver, because the Grizzly Rose was one of the first places that “let” him play, back before he was an overnight success.

Think about that for a second.

It’s almost impossible to imagine a time that the name “Garth Brooks” wasn’t synonymous with country music, and trying to picture him having to, basically, beg a small venue in Denver for the chance to play there live is inconceivable. And it got me thinking.

We all know the songs — even if you’re not a country music fan, “Friends in Low Places” is practically mandatory music at parties and weddings. And, I can tell you this: I don’t think anybody in the world has quite as much fun at their job as Garth Brooks.

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ALCORN FROM PAGE 12

And what’s not fun? 84,000 people screaming for you and singing along with your every lyric.

But, it wasn’t always that way. Begging the Grizz for a chance to play?

How many hours travelling from his birthplace in Tulsa, in station wagons and VW busses, to play a small venue here, a small bar there, maybe one of the early afternoon acts at Cheyenne Frontier Days? How much time picking over the tiniest detail of a lyric, or a chord progression? Not to mention finding a way to work with the other musicians travelling with you.

We’re not the easiest bunch to work with, let me tell you.

I don’t begrudge a penny of what I spent for that concert, and let me tell you why. Those two hours of fun and play represent thousands upon thousands of hours of work. For every four minutes of actual song, the words that get in to your soul and the music

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School rebuild balderdash Can you think of anything more ridiculous than the Jeffco School Board’s proposal to demolish the Col-

that shapes them, there are a hundred hours of crafting, experimenting, and practicing, built on top of hundreds of hours of piano lessons and guitar lessons and mundane little tasks that make the rest of it possible.

Garth Brooks is amazing — he’s the pinnacle. But, somewhere beneath the pinnacle, every night, in dozens of locations all around the city (ahem, Arvada Center, cough cough), there are other people putting in that grind, that effort, that passion. Go see them, too. I know we all love to listen to our iPhones, recordings that have been picked over and engineered and perfected. But, if you want to really see greatness in its building phase, go see live music and dance and theater. And remember that those two hours of entertainment for you are a lifetime of love from the performers.

Michael Alcorn is a teacher and writer who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. His new novel, “Charon’s Blade,” is available at Amazon.com, on Kindle, or through MichaelJAlcorn.com.” His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado Community Media.

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The risks I experienced were the slings of “C” students. They could be formidable.

Colleagues inflated grades, insuring some buffer; but, again, I could hear Harry and Shirley, reminding me of my duty.

My girlfriend is a high school teacher. She and her students have been educated in something I was not. Survival.

American schools are as full of risks as Mount Everest, without

the wind chill.

My photographer has three grade school-aged children.

She said they have not been traumatized by evacuations and lock downs.

Business as usual.

Climbing a mountain might provide the same feeling of accomplishment I get when I complete the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle, without the frostbite.

(Tenzing Norgay.)

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

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• Exercise. Go for a jog or grab a sports ball and head to the nearest park.

• Color in a coloring book. Amazon has a variety of options, including designs of flowers and animals.

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ummer is here, which typically means teenagers have more free time on their hands. And their hands may often be even more busy with their smartphones as they try to stay in touch with friends and fill the void normally occupied by school.

But while popular apps like Snapchat and Instagram have some benefit, mental health experts agree that in most cases human-to-human interaction is far more beneficial.

Finding a healthy balance of time spent on and off social media can be a challenge. According to 2018 study by Pew Research, 95% of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online “almost constantly.” Roughly one-third of participants said they visited Snapchat or YouTube most often.

Mental health experts recommend one to two hours of screen time a day and no more than 10 hours per week. Too much time spent on devices can take away from positive face-to-face activities, disrupt sleep and in turn disrupt mental health, and potentially hurt self-esteem.

• Listen to music. Or put your headphones in and head outside for a walk.

• Do a puzzle with family or friends.

• Play an old-fashioned board game: Monopoly, Scrabble, Clue or Candy Land, to name a few.

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“As kids spend more time on (social media), there is a much higher likelihood that it is going to become more detrimental than beneficial because teens are very comparative with one another,” said Dr. Sarah Davidon, research director at Mental Health Colorado, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the treatment and prevention of mental health and substance-use disorders. “It starts getting really hard on teens, who, even without social media, are not as confident with

themselves at different ages in their lives.”

The good news is that summer doesn’t have to be spent in the pervasive world of technology. Balance is possible with the help of some good old-fashioned fun.

Get outside Dr. Bruno Anthony, who specializes in psychology at Children’s Hospital Colorado, stresses the importance of putting down the phone and engaging in physical activity, whether that be hiking, playing a sport or taking a walk with friends.

“We know that there is a strong relation between obesity and screen time,” Anthony said.

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ne of the best parts of summer are the warm evenings, which allow for all kinds of fun activities without the sweltering summer sun. And some great activities are only available during the evening hours — like checking out the stars in the summer sky.

Thanks to the University of Colorado-Boulder and Denver Astronomical Society, those interCOMING ested in a slightly ATTRACTIONS closer view of celestial bodies can spend summer evenings getting just that at local observatories.

“I love the questions I get from people, both young and old,” said Dr. Seth Hornstein, observatory and Clarke Reader education director at the SommersBausch Observatory on the Boulder campus. “There is no limit to the types of questions we get. It’s inspiring inquisitively and curiosity, which is great.”

During the summer months, starseekers can head to the SommersBausch Observatory, 2475 Kittredge Loop Drive, at 9 p.m. on Fridays. The rest of the year, the free public open houses start at 8 p.m. People can even reserve the observatory for special events, or if you’re looking for something romantic.

Primarily run by graduate students, these open houses feature two state-ofthe-art 20-inch telescopes.

“There’s a whole hodgepodge of things to look at, depending on the night, including star clusters, galaxies and nebulae,” Hornstein said. “The grad students can answer any questions and explain what everyone is looking at, and if we have faculty on hand, they’re great for color commentary.”

Founded in 1949, the Denver Astronomical Society hosts more than 145 outreach activities every year. The most frequent are held at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the University of Denver’s historic Chamberlin Observatory, 2930 E. Warren Ave. in Denver.

The society has been hosting these events for more than 60 years, and each one begins with a multi-media presentation from a society lecturer.

Following that, if the weather is clear, attendees can stargaze courtesy of Chamberlin’s 28-foot long, 20-inch aperture Alvan Clark-Saegmuller refracting telescope. These events cost $4 for adults and $3 for children.

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Davidon, too, emphasized the link between brain and body. Physical health and activity leads to positive mental health, she said. She recommends even the simplest of outdoor activities: coloring with chalk on the sidewalk or getting a snow cone and

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At both locations these events are not only an opportunity to do something educational, but also to marvel at the beauty that we so often can’t see, and thus, take for granted.

“We love connecting with the general public, and with the awesomeness of the universe,” Hornstein said.

“Even if you’re not really studying what’s up there, there are amazing things to see.”

For more information on the University of Boulder observatory, visit www.colorado.edu/sbo, and head to www.denverastro.org to learn more about the astronomical society and its public events.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — LANY at the Fillmore Auditorium One of the main reasons pop music exists is so you can feel better about being sad, or maybe it’s feeling better while being sad. Less alone. Musicians from Nick Drake to Adele have figured all kinds of ways to tap into the sadness of lost love, and Los Angeles’

taking a walk as a family.

“If our bodies are healthy, if we are keeping our bodies fit and well maintained through exercise, what we eat and how we sleep, then our brains are much more likely to be healthier,” Davidon said.

Research shows that being outdoors also allows kids to get a healthy dose of vitamin D from the sun, develop an appreciation for nature and learn to take risks, like climb a tree. If young

LANY is one of the best purveyors in the field.

The group’s two albums are prime examples of sleek, love-drunk pop rock, with the same kind synth-heavy 1980s influences that have returned to vogue thanks to artists like The 1975, Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift.

The trio will be stopping by the Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St. in Denver, at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, June 10. To go to a show that will make you think about love and get sad and stuff, visit www.livenation.com.

Bounce your way to a world record It’s not every day you get to be a part of a Guinness World Recordholding event, and especially not one as fun as the “World’s Largest Bounce House.” The Big Bounce America Tour will be coming to Douglas County’s Meridian Park, 9365 San Luis Court, from June 14 through June 23.

The event will feature a 10,000-square-foot bounce house, a 900-foot-long inflatable obstacle course, and a space-themed exploration area. As the centerpiece, the bounce house includes a basketball court, giant slide and a massive ball pit. It also features a DJ soundtrack-

Try socializing in person Mental health experts agree that social media benefits teens by helping them connect and make plans with one another, reducing loneliness. But social media can’t replace all face-toface interaction.

Kamala Vanderkolk, of Highlands Ranch, has hosted exchange students for the past three years. Her most recent student, a senior at ThunderRidge High School, developed what Vanderkolk explains as an addiction to communicating with others via Snapchat. The app has a feature called “streaks” that counts how many times two people message back and forth.

“She was getting too anxious about keeping the artificial thing going,” Vanderkolk said, adding that when she stopped using the app, some peers stopped talking to her.

Vanderkolk convinced her student to ease off of the app and try spending time with her friends in person. The student began engaging in other activities — exploring downtown Denver with friends, trying out new restaurants and taking drives to the mountains.

“She was kind of relieved ultimately to get that time back so she could spend time with people she cared about rather than keeping this artificial contest going,” Vanderkolk said. “She would, in general, do more things with the people who she genuinely wanted to spend time with.”

Anthony encourages teens to get out of the house and go to the movies or the mall with others. “You want to limit as much as you can those kinds of sedentary activities and encourage interactions,” he said.

parents, who may feel like they have to plan a list of activities for the days and hours their children would otherwise be in school.

Davidon reminds those parents that it’s OK for children and teens to be bored, with no activity or screen.

“It’s great to spend time with your kids but that doesn’t mean you have to plan something every moment of the day,” Davidon said. “It can mean you just take a walk or go catch butterflies.”

Boredom is healthy, Davidon said, as it is a chance for young people to be “inventive.”

“They might kick and scream but that’s OK,” Davidon said. “Parents aren’t bad parents if their kids are bored.”

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Have a catch with ‘Field of Dreams’ Look, if you can make it through “Field of Dreams” without shedding tears at least once, I really think you should double-check to ensure you still have a pulse. The 1989 Kevin Costner classic is more than just a love letter to baseball — it’s also a quintessential summer film, an ode to the power of words and a story about fathers and sons.

It makes perfect sense Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies is bringing the film back to theaters for its 30th anniversary — which also happens to be Father’s Day weekend. The movie is screening at movie theaters on Sunday, June 16 and Tuesday, June 18.

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It’s a STEM students summer

BY CHRISTINA STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

About 50 seventh-and-eighth grade girls participated in the GE Girls Camp, a weeklong STEM camp for girls put on in partnership with the Colorado School of Mines and Baker Hughes, a GE Company based in Longmont. This year, three Jeffco Schools participated — Jefferson Jr./Sr. High School, Alameda International Jr./Sr. High School and D’Evelyn Junior/Senior High

School. The STEM camp, June 3-7, included a variety of activities that taught the attendees science-related career skills in computer science, robotics, chemistry, materials, renewable energy, design and more. This is the second year for Mines to be involved with the camp, and graduates of the GE Girls Camp have opportunities to pursue college scholarships through the GE Women’s Network and the Society for Women Engineers.

Evelyn Oltmans, who will be entering the eighth grade at D’Evelyn Jr./Sr. High next year, works on making jewelry with molten metal in the Colorado School Mines’ foundry during a GE Girls Camp on June 7.

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Winners Guide

Representatives of Red Rocks Community College and The Learning Source who, together, put on The Learning Collaborative. From left to right: Sarah Secrist, Sara Molden, Josh Evans, Lisa Fowler, Michele Haney.

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The Learning Collaborative has grown considerably since its first year, bringing in about 60 students each term from all over the state, said Sara Molden, the program’s coordinator.

“There are people who drive a long way to be here,” she said. “It’s just a safe place if you have math phobia.”

Without the program, college president Michele Haney added, Red Rocks would have to turn away those who did not meet prerequisites — which, she said, is no small portion of the population.

According to data from educational campaign Educate and Elevate, 321,055 working-aged adults in Colorado do not have a high school education, and more than 20,000 of those individuals are unemployed.

Hoping to create new opportunities for these populations, as well as those who do not speak fluent English, The Learning Source partnered with Red Rocks.

Haney felt the program fit the col-

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Askelson said the district would look into where the remaining $3.5 million for the COLA would come from. She said she was confident they could find the money in underspent money from the previous year.

If the district were unable to find the $3.5 million in the budget, she said, the money would come from unassigned reserves.

Added Askelson: “These (risks) are small in the big scheme of our budget.”

While board members hesitated to risk utilizing unassigned reserves, they also agreed to support the district negotiations team and its decision to offer a 1.5% COLA. The board unanimously adopted

lege’s and the organization’s community mission.

Said Josh Evans, CEO of The Learning Source: “We wanted to partner to create an equitable solution.”

He added that, since the program moved onto the college campus four years ago —it previously was held at The Learning Source in Belmar — the sense of community between program students and Red Rocks students has grown.

“That was huge for helping the students feel like they belong,” he said.

Looking to the future For Diehl — who first enrolled in the program in January, along with two traditional Red Rocks classes — the program will prepare her for necessary requirements to get into a dental program.

“Even though she was nervous, she’s done really well,” said Diehl’s 9-yearold daughter, Olivia, who often tags along to her mom’s classes. “Every time we look at her grades, she gets A’s.”

Diehl hopes to enroll in a dental hygiene program in 2020.

“If you really are serious about continuing with better goals in your life,” she said, “this is the best way to go.” the second budget option along with the JESPA agreement. That agreement states that, should the JCEA negotiate a COLA greater than a 1.5%, support professionals will receive the same COLA. The budget also allows for several additional expenditures the board approved in its May meeting, including more than $600,000 to engage students at risk of dropping out and more than $200,000 to fund campus security positions.

With negotiations between the JCEA and district set for August, board members stressed the importance of completing negotiations and revising the process for future years.

“It’s the responsibility of everybody to get very serious about negotiating an agreement before the school year starts,” Rupert said. “I want to make sure we do not put off negotiating numbers till the end.”

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Cycling championships combine with community for Wheat Ridge Criterium

BY CAITLIN DANBORN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Professional cyclists from across the state of Colorado, spectators, and beer lovers gathered on June 9, for the sixth annual Wheat Ridge Criterium and Brewfest. The event featured several state champion criterium races, as well as a community criterium ride and brewfest.

A criterium race means that riders race around a closed circuit loop — in this case a one-mile route starting and ending in front of Wheat Ridge Cyclery on 38th Street.

The length of the race ranges from 40 to 60 minutes, and riders must try to complete as many laps as possible within the designated time period.

Criterium races provide an opportunity for viewers to see the riders numerous times as they complete laps. The race course was updated this year to eliminate a challenging and often dangerous corner at the end of the ride.

“We changed the course for a couple reasons. One was that we had a little bit more room for a final sprint and also we were having a little trouble with this last corner for safety. So there’s a lot that goes into that,” said race director Paul Balaguer.

While Balaguer works more on the logistics of the race itself, Wheat

Lead riders in the men’s three race pass by Wheat Ridge Cyclery.

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Ridge LocalWorks ensures that the event is enjoyable for everyone involved.

“We want families to come out and have a good time, beer drinkers, wine drinkers, cyclists, everyone in between to enjoy a day in Wheat Ridge,” said LocalWorks marketing and events coordinator Ashley Holland.

Balaguer emphasizes the community aspect of the race as well.

“I love watching the racing out here and I love that it’s a community event.”

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Baby goats to provide one-of-a-kind experience for yoga class

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There’s something about being around silly baby goats that brings a smile to people’s faces.

“It makes people happy,” said Lili Shelton, the wellness and fitness director at Mount Vernon Canyon Club in Golden. “And the goal is to make people feel good.”

The club will be hosting its first goat yoga event on June 22.

“Goat yoga is a trend right now, at least in Colorado,” Shelton said. “It’s got a one-of-a-kind appeal to it.”

Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga, a locally owned and operated small business that got its start in 2017, will be supplying the baby goats and yoga instructor.

There will be eight Nigerian Dwarf goats that are about eight months old, which come from Skål Farm in Golden.

From birth, baby goats instinctively cuddle with their mother, said Jim Naron, owner of Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga.

“They’re trained snugglers,” he said. “They’ll come and interact with anybody.”

The yoga class will last about 45 minutes and following the class, attendees will have about 20 minutes cuddle time with the goats. Interaction with the goats will be happening the entire time, Naron said, but during the yoga class, people are focusing on the poses. The cuddle time is offered so people can spend time petting the goats and taking pictures with them, Naron added.

Because goats are intelligent creatures, people tend to relate to their behavior as they do with dogs, Naron said.

“They’re silly,” he said, “and they cultivate smiles and happiness.”

Naron was inspired to start Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga after reading an article about a woman in Oregon who was doing animal assisted therapy with goats. A former teacher who was hosting a variety of events for supplemental income at the time, reached out to a farmer to rent five goats for a yoga class he was hosting.

Today, Naron works with four different farms that provide the goats, and Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga travels across Colorado to provide the service for large and private events.

Three women have their picture taken with a baby goat during a recent goat yoga event with Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga.

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IF YOU GO Goat yoga will be offered at Mount Vernon Canyon Club, 24933 Clubhouse Circle, in Golden on June 22.

Two classes are offered — one at 9 a.m. and the second at 10:30 a.m.

The classes are 65 minutes long, and include a 45-minute yoga workout and 20 minutes of cuddle time with the goats, accompanied by live fiddle music.

Cost is $38 per person. Healthy wraps, salads and beverages will be available for purchase.

Advance registration is required. To register, call 303-526-0616. Registration closes at 6 p.m. June 21.

For more information on Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga, visit https://rockymountaingoatyoga.com/mobile. To learn more about Mount Vernon Canyon Club, visit www. mountvernoncc.com.

Many of the baby goats that Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga uses are rescues, Naron said. This means they may have been discarded by their mother, rejected to be kept as a pet and/or are not being bred to be able to produce dairy products, he added.

“These events (with Rocky Mountain Goat Yoga) support the livelihood for a lot of goats,” Naron said. “We take them and give them a job — a form of therapy that brings joy and laughter.”

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

Queen of Conspiracy: Through June 23 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Showtimes at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Call 303-935-3044 or go to minersalley.com.

Spend Your Summer on Stage at Colorado ACTS!: Through July 22 at Colorado ACTS Theatre, 11455 West Interstate 70 Frontage Road, North, Wheat Ridge. There is a class for your interest and age group! Everyone who registers is guaranteed a role in the show. For information on upcoming performances visit www.coloradoacts.org or call 303-456-6772 Train Heist, Good Guys, Bad Guys and YOU!: Through Aug. 18 at Colorado Railroad Museum, 1209 Washington Ave., Golden.

Interactive Wild West Theater returns to the Colorado Railroad Museum just in time for Wild West Steam Days! Tickets are $55. Visit robberyattherailroad.com for more information.

Father’s Day Classic: Race day registration starts at 7 a.m. Sunday, June 16 at the Apex Center, 13150 W. 72nd Ave., Arvada. All are welcome - walkers, joggers and speed demons, too!

For 2019, we are adding a 10 mile distance to this fun event and t-shirts for ALL participants! The Fun Run is an un-timed 1 mile out and back run/ walk.

Evening Celebrating Dad: 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, June 16 at Spirits in the Wind Gallery, 1211 Washington Ave.,

Summer Concert Series: Lois Lane and The Super Cowboys: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 20 at McIlvoy Park, 5750 Upham St., Arvada. Alcoholic beverages are not permitted in City of Arvada parks. In case of inclement weather, performances move to the Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd.

Questions-call 303.425.9583.

Parking available at Olde Town Hub Parking Garage. Event is free; we will be collecting canned goods for the Community Table at all concerts.

Nashville-based group, New Legacy, presenting free concert: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Golden. Evening to Celebrate Father’s Day at Spirits in the Wind Gallery. Meet the Artist, Gary Sohrweid, Painting Demonstrations “Fish” for Dad. Visit spiritsinthewindgallery.com for more information.

Denver Institute Professional Women’s Network: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 19 at Colorado Mills, 14500 W. Colfax Ave. This quarter, the Professional Women’s Network will meet with Kimra Perkins, General Manager of Colorado Mills Mall, to learn how faith shapes her management practices and the culture of the mall. Visit Eventbrite to purchase tickets.

Flapjacks and Fond Memories: 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, June 22 at the Lakewood Heritage Center, 801 S. Yarrow St., Lakewood. Celebrate Lakewood’s 50th Anniversary with other longtime residents, friends and families. Tickets: $5-$7. Kids under age 10 are free. Register online (Activity #276720) or call 303-987-7850

guarantee tournament played June 15-16 at the Stenger Sports Complex, 11204 W 58th Ave., Arvada. Contact Theresa Hynes at 303.467.7136, TheresaH@ ApexPRD.org.

MUSIC

Summer Concert Series: Play’n Dirty: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13 at McIlvoy Park, 5750 Upham St., Arvada. Alcoholic beverages are not permitted in City of Arvada parks.

In case of inclement weather, performances move to the Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd. Questions-call 303.425.9583. Parking available at Olde Town Hub Parking Garage. Event is free; we will be collecting canned goods for the Community Table at all concerts.

HEALTH

this week’s TOP FIVE Father’s Day Car Show: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 16 at the Apex Center, 13150 W. 72nd Ave., Arvada. This event, free to spectators, is a perfect outing for Father’s Day: cars, music, antiques, family activities, refreshments, and lots more! For more information on the show, or to register a vehicle, visit foundation.apexprd.org.

Father’s Day Brunch: 8-11 a.m.

June 16 at 6230 W. 60th Ave., Arvada. Call 303-424-0324 or go to https://alp161.org/

Sunday, June 23 at Bethel Biblical Church, 9785 West 9th Ave., Lakewood. Formerly known as the Blackwood Legacy, groundbreaking Nashville-based New Legacy Project blend an edgy Southern-Gospel sound with contemporary worship, while staying true to their Gospel calling. Visit NewLegacyProject.com for more information.

Free Folk Music Songcircle: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, June 30 at Lakewood Library, 10200 W 20th Ave., Lakewood. We use the “Rise Up Singing” and “Rise Again” songbooks and will have extra copies on hand.

Email folkmusic64@gmail.com for more information. FREE and open to all.

EVENTS

9th Annual Apex Women’s Outdoor Soccer Tournament: Join us for a great weekend honoring women’s soccer! 3 game

Active Minds present Brazil: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 18 at Kipling Meadows, 7175 Kipling St, Arvada. Join Active Minds as we explore Brazil’s bumpy political ride and what it may suggest for the future of the largest nation in South America. Cost: Free. RSVP: 303412-5480.

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the new G-train beer and great food from the Mighty Burger food truck.

Mission to Mars: 3 to 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, June 26 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave., Wheat Ridge. Blast off on a journey of discovery and make room for a space station orbiting Mars.

Use teamwork, critical thinking and creativity to solve problems.

Visit jeffcolibrary.org for more information.

SilverSneakers® Newcomers Breakfast: 9:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday, June 13 at the Apex Center, 13150 W. 72nd Ave., Arvada.

Food Pantry Agape Life Church distributes free food from 10-11 a.m. on the third Thursday of each month (weather permitting) at the church, 5970 W. 60th Ave. in Arvada.

ALC provides this service to all qualifying Colorado residence.

Call 303-431-6481 to see if you qualify.

EDUCATION

Invisible Forces: A Physics Challenge: 1 to 1:45 p.m. Thursday, June 13 at the Golden Library, 1019 10th St., Golden. Presented by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, race against the clock and use the invisible forces around you to uncover mysterious codes and secrets.

The Library becomes a physics laboratory where you can build, experiment and complete hands-on challenges to reveal the physics behind sound waves, air pressure and electricity.

Visit jeffcolibrary.org for more information.

Eleanor’s Community Garden: has a plot for gardening this summer. The garden is at Applewood Methodist Church, 2035 Ellis St., Golden. Contact John at 303-421-6300 for information.

TRIAD: Beyond Fighting Fires: Services for Seniors: Fire departments do more than put out fires, they often offer additional services to keep seniors safe in their homes. A panel of local fire departments will share their available senior programs. Let our first responders help keep you safe. The Triad of Jefferson County hosts this talk at 1:30 pm, Tuesday, June 25 at the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, 500 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden. Free and open to the public, 303271-6980.

Free Summer Lunches for Kids: 11-11:30 a.m. Monday to Friday at the Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave., Wheat Ridge. Free, healthy lunches for anyone 18 and under. Provided by Jewish Family Services. Go to jeffcolibrary.org.

Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. To place a calendar item, go to eventlink. coloradocommunitymedia.com.

Things to Do events run free, on a space-available basis.

Nuclear Care Partners Sponsors Rocky Flats Retirees Breakfast: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 19 at IHOP, 5280 Wadsworth Bypass, Arvada.

Former workers can learn more about these benefits and their eligibility, as well as connect with other former Rocky Flats workers at the upcoming Rocky Flats Retirees Breakfast sponsored by Nuclear Care Partners.

For more information call 303-225-9396 or visit www.

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Senator Rachel Zenzinger and Representative Brianna Titone wil co-host a pub gathering: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 19 at Denver Beer Company, 5768 Olde Wadsworth. Find out “What’s Been Brewing” at the Capitol, perspectives on the 2019 session, and participate in the discussion. Try

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SPORTS

Jeffco Athletics inducts four new members into Hall of Fame coach for four years and four more years as the head girls basketball coach.

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ARVADA — Jeffco Public Schools held is 33rd annual Hall of Fame banquet Thursday, June 6, at the Arvada Center.

Mary Anderson, Ron Castagna, Sue Ellis and Rudy Martin joined the Jeffco Athletic Hall of Fame that now numbers 208 members. The hall of fame started in 1986 with the charter class of Darrel Hafling, Tom Hancock, Vernon Heaston, Bill Lewis and Mel Schwartz.

This year’s class includes several groundbreaking athletics, coaches and administers who have helped shape the long and rich athletic tradition in Jeffco.

MARY ANDERSON Anderson was a physical education teacher at Wheat Ridge High School and North Arvada Middle School from 1983 to 2005. She was the Farmers’ varsity volleyball coach from 1983 to 1989.

In 1987, Anderson coached Wheat Ridge to the Class 4A state champion.

Wheat Ridge was ranked 13th nationally by Volleyball Magazine. Anderson was named the Jeffco Volleyball Coach of the Year, Colorado High School Volleyball Coach of the Year and was the Volleyball All-State Coach in 1987.

In 2005, the new secondary gymnasium at Wheat Ridge High School was named the “Anderson Gymnasium”.

RON CASTAGNA Castagna was the principal at Lakewood High School from 1996 to 2014.

During his tenure at Lakewood there was tremendous growth in enrollment and the creation of the International Baccalaureate program.

Castagna always should his passion and support for his athletic programs

Jeffco Public Schools inducted its Class of 2019 into the Jeffco Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday, June 6. The four new inductees were — from left to right — Mary Anderson, Ron Castagna, Sue Ellis and Rudy Martin. The members of the Jeffco Athletics Hall of Fame has grown to 108 since it began in 1986.

PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS that had several much success on and off the fields and courts during his nearly 20 years at Lakewood High School.

SUE ELLIS Ellis was a trailblazer for female high school student-athletics in the 1970s when Title IX went into effect.

The Golden High School graduate excelled in volleyball and basketball where she was a two-time all-state player in both sports.

During the 1975-76 basketball season, Ellis led the Demons to the AAA state championship title. It was the first year that girls basketball was a sanctioned sport by the Colorado High School Activities Association.

Ellis went on to play basketball at Colorado State University where she was a four-year starter and three-time

captain. She also went on to coach in Jeffco for several years.

RUDY MARTIN Martin first made a name for himself at Lakewood High School on the baseball field as an all-state catcher on the Tigers’ AAA state championship team in 1970.

He then went on to the University of Northern Colorado where he went into education with a focus on special education and physical education.

Martin had a long coaching career that spans more than 40 years.

Martin coached Columbine High School’s boys basketball team to the Class 5A state title in 1997. He racked up 226 wins during his head coaching stint with the Rebels. Martin spent time at Green Mountain High School where he was the head boys basketball

2019 Foothills League 4A lacrosse all-conference teams STAFF REPORT

It was a banner year for the 4A boys lacrosse teams of Golden and Green Mountain high schools. Green Mountain had a dominant year, winning the league championship, led by league MVP Ryan Burdi.

In stunning underdog fashion however, it was the GHS Demons who rose up to claim the 4A state title.

Unsurprisingly, both teams were well represented in the Foothills League all-team honors list.

First Team Ben Kirschner, Golden

Brady desGarennes, Golden Karson Bell, Green Mountain Gavin Forrest, Green Mountain Joe Brock, Golden Kevin Mulligan, Golden Trey Twndrow, Green Mountain Tanner Wagner, Green Mountain Trey Corkin, Green Mountain Quinn Meiner, Green Mountain Dylan Maddox, Golden Ryan Burdi, Green Mountain Coach Nate Callahan, Green Mountain Assistant coach

OTHER AWARDS Paul Davis Sportsmanship Award Jeffco 4A: Wheat Ridge Jeffco 5A: Columbine Varsity Achievement Award: Valor Christian Fred Steinmark Award Jeffco 4A: Evergreen Jeffco 5A: Ralston Valley Assistant Coaches of the Year Jeffco 4A Coach of Female Sports: Crystal Reed, Littleton Coach of Male Sports: Scott MacDonald, Golden Jeffco 5A Coach of Female Sports: Gary Lash, Lakewood Coach of Male Sports: Ray Barron, Columbine Coaches of the Year Jeffco 4A Coach of Female Sports: Liz Hudd, Evergreen Coach of Male Sports: Jesse German, Green Mountain Jeffco 5A Coach of Female Sports: Tracey Boychuk, Pomona Coach of Male Sports: Mark Stenbeck, Dakota Ridge Athletes of the Year Jeffco 4A Female: Claudia Dillon, Evergreen Male: Ryan Burdi, Green Mountain Jeffco 5A Female: Anna Hall, Valor Christian Male: Logan DeArment, Columbine Dennis Pleuss is a communications specialist for Jeffco Public Schools with a focus on athletics and activities.

For more Jeffco coverage, go online at CHSAANow.com/Jeffco.

Jeffco League golf all-conference honors

Scott MacDonald MVP Ryan Burdi, Green Mountain

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Second Team Tristen Emory, Golden Carson Brzeczek, Golden Broderick Called, Golden Garrett Landmark, Golden Dylan Welcher, Golden Ben Brock, Golden David O’Connell, Golden Thomas Hosier, Green Mountain Justin Peterson, Golden Dylan Mathias, Golden

4A Kate Lisle, Evergreen Jessica Morrissey, Golden Haley Prey, Golden Riley Roberts, Evergreen Sydney Elder, Littleton Elaina Urbas, Evergreen Diana McCoy, Bear Creek Gwen FitzSimmons, Littleton Sarah Young, Littleton Jennah Vigil, Dakota Ridge Sejal Goud, Standley Lake

5A Anju Ogi, Arvada West Sydney Eye, Ralston Valley Alexandra Mueldener, Ralston Valley Grace Young, Valor Christian Annika Schooler, Columbine Sam Schoenborn, Valor Christian Allison Nocera, Ralston Valley

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Nuclear Care Partners plans Rocky Flats breakfast Attendees will learn about benefits, compensation and eligibility STAFF REPORT

For nearly 40 years, nuclear weapons parts were produced at the Rocky Flats Plant, located just a few miles northwest of downtown Denver.

From 1952 to 1989, Rocky Flats workers used plutonium to build nuclear weapons triggers, called “pits,” that were sent to Texas to be incorporated into weapons. The plant also used other materials such as uranium and beryllium to make various weapons parts.

As a result of chemical or radiation exposure at the plant, more than 50,000 former Rocky Flats workers may qualify for medical benefits and financial compensation through the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Program Act, according to a news release. Former workers can learn more about these benefits and their eligibility, as well as connect with other former Rocky Flats workers, at the upcoming Rocky Flats Retirees Breakfast sponsored by Nuclear Care Partners.

Lori Shanks, local community outreach manager, will answer questions regarding first-time filing for

benefits, free medical screenings, denied claims, medical benefits, accessing white card benefits, preventative health visits, skilled nursing care, financial compensation, home health care, out-of-pocket expense reimbursement and more.

The Rocky Flats Retirees Breakfast is free to all former Rocky Flats workers. It is planned for Wednesday, June 19 at 9:30 a.m. at IHOP, 5280 Wadsworth Bypass in Arvada.

Former workers can RSVP by calling 303-225-9396.

“It’s so special to be able to bring all of these workers together and simply give them an opportunity to reconnect and reminisce,” Shanks said in the news release. “These amazing men and women unknowingly sacrificed their health for our country. We want to give back by helping them in any way we can and treat them to some delicious breakfast.”

Nuclear Care Partners provides EEOICPA benefits guidance and nocost in home care to former atomic workers who have developed serious illnesses due to the exposure to radiation and toxins they endured in the workplace. Founded in 2011, Nuclear Care Partners serves hundreds of former atomic workers across the nation.

For more information about Nuclear Care Partners, call 303-2259396 or visit www.NuclearCarePartners.com.

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When it comes to searching for a new job, most industries are essentially stagnant during the summer months. CEOs taking vacations, budgets looking thin for a new fiscal year, and many plan on waiting until the New Year. However, that’s opposite for schools and colleges.

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Districts aim to get new stuff under contract quickly, which means your window for finding the new position is only open for so long. Most schools conduct job interviews throughout the month of June and in early July before administrators take a short break themselves.

If you want to wait a bit longer to see what happens with your current position, late July and early August are also big interview months in education. Administrators are returning from a short break and reviewing positions that are still open and assessing the school’s needs.

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