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Lakewood protesters rally for Elijah McClain Belmar area is site of peaceful demonstration

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For at least the seventh time since May, there was a protest in Lakewood against systemic racism and police brutality. But instead of George Floyd being the name in use at a June 30 protest, a different name was the subject of discussion — Elijah McClain.

At least 25 residents gathered on June 30 near Wadsworth Boulevard and Alameda Avenue to peacefully rally in honor of Elijah McClain, a

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23-year-old Black man who died after an encounter with Aurora Police last August. Residents held signs that had McClain’s name on them and messages in support of Black residents.

McClain died last August when Aurora Police were called to the area of Billings Street and Colfax Avenue on a report of a suspicious person. He was wearing a mask, and his family said he did so often because he felt cold due to his anemia, 9News reported.

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A man who declined to give his name and Diane Reese hold a Elijah McClain sign. McClain died after a confrontation with Aurora Police last August. JOSEPH RIOS

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JCPH says it will take legal action against Bandimere for July 4 show

Statement cites evidence that speedway violated agreement reached before event

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jefferson County Public Health is promising to pursue legal action against Bandimere Speedway’s owner after the speedway held a racing event on July 4 that allegedly violated a court order that laid out crowd size and social distancing requirements for the event.

According to a statement posted on the JCPH website, JCPH and Bandimere agreed to “clear, court ordered requirements” leading up to the Jet Car Nationals event “with the intention of permitting a well-controlled event to proceed.”

“While Bandimere said they would comply prior to the event, those requirements were violated,” the statement reads.

According to the statement, that agreement included requirements for six feet of social distancing between households to be maintained and that gatherings within the venue be limited to “175 people per activity area” However, the release clarified that requirement did not limit the entire venue to 175 people.

Instead, Bandimere was supposed to use the social distance calculator to determine how many individuals, up to a maximum of 175 people, could safely social distance in various areas, such as individual grandstands.

“This did not occur,” JCPH Public Affairs Manager Ashley Sever said.

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MY NAME IS

CHRISTOPHER ARLEN

Christopher Arlen presenting the opening keynote address for the Colorado Welfare Fraud Council’s annual training conference in 2019.

Arlen lives in Lakewood and has worked for numerous AIDS prevention organizations throughout his life.

Lakewood resident and owner of the Soft Skills Company I grew up in Ontario, California with a mother who was a nurse and a father who was an auto-shop teacher.

He later became a minister and pastor.

I joined the Army when I was 17. I remember I turned 17 on a Tuesday, and the next week, I was sworn in.

I wanted something different and wanted to get away from what I was.

My time in the military took me to Germany and even got me a brief appearance in “Stripes,” a 1981 film that had Bill Murray in it. They were filming in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and I happened to be there during my time in the military.

I got to be a platoon leader for a brief period of time because I was in marching band in high school, and I knew how to march. I could keep my lungs in shape.

One day, I was riding with the battalion command sergeant major, and he said he could tell I didn’t like the military. He helped me get out with an honorable discharge.

I wasn’t very regulated at that point, and being a Black, gay kid in the Army wasn’t fun for me.

A change in life I was involved in a church before my father was. He came along a little later in that part of life. I always liked

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preachers. There is something about the command of the language and to tell stories and make something make sense.

I worked as a youth pastor and as an interim pastor for a year. I was attending California Baptist University, and that is where I met my wife. We got married, but after a while, I realized it wasn’t going to work.

She knew I was gay but thought something would change. It wasn’t going to change.

If something doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit. I could go on and pretend, but that would require me being dishonest, and that is not the world I want to live in.

I sat my wife down and told her it wasn’t going to work.

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A voice during the AIDS epidemic I left the college and started working at a group home for juvenile sexual offenders. I did that for a few years and got involved in gay civil rights. Then, a friend of mine died from AIDS. I went to volunteer at the Inland AIDS Project in San Bernardino, California — an organization that provides support services to those who have HIV. They ended up recruiting me to a full-time position, and I worked in community health outreach for a few years.

I loved that job. HIV prevention was new at that time and hadn’t really existed in the country in a meaningful way. My job was to go out and preach the gospel for HIV prevention.

I left that job and worked for a hand-

ful of other AIDS prevention organizations throughout California and Arizona before moving to Colorado 14 years ago for a job with the Boulder County AIDS Project — an organization that offers services to people living with or at risk of contracting HIV. It was difficult and a poor fit. I stayed there for a year, but in 2014, I started the Soft Skills Company.

Through the company, I work with organizations to facilitate positive interpersonal dynamics, and I do that through skills-based programs.

I guide workshops and courses that are meant to strengthen interactive and relational skills.

Protesting in Lakewood I have participated in Black Lives Matter rallies here in Lakewood. I’m grateful that I live in a community where people are willing to stand up and say black lives matter.

I feel an obligation to go rally every time my neighbors stand up. I have an obligation to be with them while they support me.

I am happy for the conversations that have started because people see us out there making a statement. It’s interesting because I try to make eye contact with people who are driving by while I’m protesting. Sometimes people will blatantly flip you off or yell things. It surprises me people are so comfortable doing that.

What confuses me the most is I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to be neighborly — regardless of what your views are.

If you have a suggestion for someone to interview for My Name Is... contact Joseph Rios at jrios@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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King cruises to victory in Democratic 1st Judicial District DA race

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jefferson County’s next district attorney will be someone who has already worked inside that office.

In the party primary election that ended June 30, Alexis King, who spent 10 years working as a deputy DA in the 1st Judicial District Attorney’s Office, handily King defeated Jake Lilly, a sex assault prosecutor in the 5th Judicial District, to become

the Democratic nominee to succeed Republican Pete Weir.

In results as of 8 a.m. MT July 1, King had 67.6 percent of the vote to Lilly’s 32.43 percent.

King will face unopposed Republican Matthew Durkin, a chief DA in the 1st Judicial District Attorney’s Office, in the November general election.

The 1st Judicial District included Jefferson and Gilpin counties.

“Thank you everyone for the kind words of support today and throughout this long campaign,” King wrote in a message on her campaign Facebook page late June 30.

On her campaign website, King described herself as an experienced leader who has faced the difficult decisions that will confront a DA and will prioritize violent crime. She emphasized her desire to advocate for reform and promote alternatives to incarceration for non-violent offenders while also touting her experience working on behalf of victims of sex crimes.

King is currently a Title IX attorney at the Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center, a nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services to crime victims. She previously spent a year and a half as a magistrate in Denver County Courts.

In a Colorado Community Media candidate questionnaire completed

by King earlier this month, she said the single issue and key mission of her office will be transparency and accountability. King also said she would “work to acknowledge the harm communities of color and other vulnerable populations have experienced through systemic failures to respect citizens’ rights” as DA. Durkin has written on his website that he will attempt to achieve a reduction in violent crime while promoting accountability in responding to addiction.

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believe McClain was dangerous, according to 9News.

McClain was thrown on the ground by officers, and an officer was heard shouting that McClain was reaching for the officer’s gun in body camera footage, though the footage does not clearly show if that is what was happening.

The officers used a now-banned carotid hold to keep McClain restrained, causing him to lose consciousness, and a first responder injected him with the tranquilizing drug ketamine.

McClain died three days later in a hospital.

The officers involved in his death faced no criminal charges of wrongoing after an investigation by the Adams County district attorney’s office. But Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser was recently appointed as special prosecutor to review McClain’s death.

Zenat Shariff Belken, who has organized Black Lives Matter rallies in Lakewood, said she wanted Lakewood to stand against racism.

She was inspired to organize rallies after George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in May. Floyd died as Chauvin knelt on his neck, and Chauvin was charged with seconddegree murder.

Shariff Belken called McClain’s death tragic and said activists can’t let up in efforts calling for the end of systemic racism and police brutality. “(Billings Street and Colfax Avenue) is 30 miles from here,” said Shariff Belken, as she held a Black Lives

Mother and daughter Lee Ann Hufford and Holly Hufford hold a Elijah McClain sign. At least 25 residents attended a rally in honor of McClain in the Belmar area on June 30.

Caitlin Trussell holds a Black Lives Matter sign. Trussell has been a regular attendee at Lakewood protests regarding systemic racism and police brutality.

PHOTOS BY JOSEPH RIOS Matter sign at the June 30 rally. “(McClain’s death) brings tears to my eyes.

It’s easy to think things like this just happen in Minneapolis — but it does happen here.”

Lakewood resident Joan Jacobson attended the June 30 rally and said it isn’t right that McClain died rather than being detained. “(McClain’s case) is the worst one.

Not only was he killed without a trial — he was killed without committing a crime,” said Jacobson. “No crime, no accusation, and gosh, we all act weird.”

On June 27, demonstrations in

Aurora in honor of McClain turned violent when Aurora Police launched smoke canisters and pepper spray at demonstrators. The online news site Denverite reported that Vanessa Wilson, interim chief of Aurora Police, said “agitators” at the demonstration threw rocks and bottles at police — prompting officers to respond.

“We still don’t have justice for (McClain), and there never will be because he is gone. But we need to hold the officers who murdered him accountable,” said Sarah Nelson, a Lakewood resident who attended the June 30 rally.

Zenat Shariff Belken holds a Black Lives Matter sign. Shariff Belken said she wanted Lakewood to take a stand against racism.

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New online dashboard offers look at how pandemic is impacting Jeffco County seeing small uptick in cases after weeks of decline

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, Jeffco residents can now get a clearer and more precise picture of how and where the pandemic is impacting the county by accessing a redesigned online dashboard.

The new dashboard, which debuted late last month, can be accessed at tinyurl.com/jeffco-covid. It includes several charts and data points that had not been previously available to the public, such as maps that break down the number and rate of cases in neighborhood units that are much smaller than the city breakdown that was previously available.

This newer, more detailed data can be particularly illuminating when trying to understand the virus’ impact on a city like Golden. That’s because the county’s old dataset listed Golden as having over 200 confirmed cases of COVID-19, while the new site listed 114 as of July 2.

Why the change? It’s because the old site only listed cases by city, and any cases in unincorporated areas closest to Golden were also included in the city’s total.

The new site, however, not only does away with that problem but allows residents to compare smaller sections of the city such as the eastern part of the city (labeled East Old Golden Road) and Lakota Hills.

To help the community understand and utilize the new dashboard, Jefferson County Public Health Epidemiologist Kate Watkins recently gave a presentation on how to use and understand the data. Here were five takeaways: • After a continuous decline since mid-May, Jeffco was starting to see a slow uptick in cases as of July 2.

One of the main tools the county is using to measure the trend in cases are three- and seven-day moving averages, which measure the average number of new cases for the last seven days and allows epidemiologists to understand general trends that are less impacted by single day variations in reporting.

Watkins said both of those averages have been slowly but continuously declining since mid-May but are starting to show a slight uptick.

“Over the last week we’ve actually started to see a little bit of an increase in the number of cases, which was not unexpected with the movement from Stay-at-Home to Safer-at-Home and then from Safer-at-Home to the expanded openness we’ve seen with Safer-at-Home and in the vast great outdoors,” said Watkins. “We expected to see an increase in cases and we are starting to see that.”

• Deaths in Jeffco have continued to decrease week over week since midMay. Reported deaths peaked the week of April 19 with 27 and reached their second highest total the week of May 17 with 25. Since then, the number of deaths has declined each week and reached their lowest total yet the week of June 21 with 3 deaths.

The overall trend has been a decrease in new hospitalizations since they peaked at 71 the week of June 12. The county saw its lowest level of

VARIANCE REQUEST On June 18, Jefferson County submitted a second variance request to the state, seeking certain exemptions from state COVID policies, after its first request was approved.

The new request sought permission to increase the gathering size limit to as much as 175 people inside and 250 people outside, as well as the go-ahead for movie theaters, libraries and other still-closed facilities to reopen.

According to Jefferson County Public Affairs Director Julie Story, the county was told on June 19 the request was being put on hold until certain questions were answered as the state prepared to move into a new stage of the public health order.

The county answered those questions and, at press time, was waiting to hear back from CDPHE within the next week or two.

A list of approved county variances can be found at tinyurl.com/co-variances. new hospitalizations during the week of June 28 when just two new patients were hospitalized in Jeffco. However, Watkins said she is expecting the county may see more hospitalizations as the summer and fall progress.

• Jeffco isn’t doing as many tests as it wants to be, but county’s positive rate remains low.

When it comes to testing, there are two important numbers Watkins said she is keeping her eye on. The first is the number of tests being administered in the county per day, which she said is important not only to identify individual cases but to make sure the county is getting an accurate overall picture of how many cases there are in the community.

The number of tests being conducted has generally increased since the start of the pandemic and around 500-600 PCR tests (one of two types of tests the county is counting) are now typically conducted each day. However, Watkins said the county continues to fall short of the 800 tests per day Harvard Global Health recommends for a county of Jeffco’s size.

The good news is the percentage of county tests that are positive has consistently fallen below 5% in recent weeks, which is the county’s goal.

• Hispanics and the elderly are disproportionately affected.

The new dashboard also contains several graphs that compare that breakdown cases and deaths among certain demographics, including age, sex and race.

Those graphs show that Jeffco’s Hispanic and elderly populations have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19: Hispanics make up 15.5% of Jeffco’s population yet account for 25.6% of cases while those over 80 account for 3.7% of the population but 11% of deaths.

People living in an institution, such as a nursing or care home, account for 18.4% of county cases but 72% of county deaths.

• Lower income neighborhoods harder hit.

The new dashboard includes maps and charts that break down cases by both city (or census designated place) and neighborhoods (a combination of census tracts intended to provide a look at cases on a scale that is smaller than cities but not small enough to compromise patient confidentiality.

According to that data, the city of Wheat Ridge has the highest rate of cases in the county at 9.09 per 1,000 persons (as of July 2) while tiny Aspen Park has the lowest at just 1 per

A map of neighborhoods in Jefferson County that shows the coronavirus case rate per 1,000.

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Neighborhoods with the highest rate of cases include Skiline in Arvada (14,64 per 1,000 persons), Charles Whitlock Recreation Park and Morse

Park in Lakewood (which are listed as one neighborhood and have a case rate of 13.02 per 1,000). Watkins said those are two of the county’s lower income neighborhoods.

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Teachers face a ‘curveball’ with online summer learning Students gaining skills despite new challenges

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jeffco Public Schools typically runs its Jeffco Summer of Early Leaning (JSEL), a summer learning program for incoming first through third graders, at schools and in person. But as June rolled around and health concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic continued, the program’s organizers reworked JSEL into a virtual offering to serve 515 students this year.

“JSEL has been such a passion for me and remote learning has thrown a curveball, but it’s really exciting these kids are still able to do this program,” said JSEL teacher Brie Montoya. “I really am glad these kids were able to do it.”

The no-cost programming is open to students who would like summer help to ensure they are on-track for next school year, particularly for students who are not reading at grade level and are on a read plan, or who are in danger of needing a read plan.

The program began with one-to-one meetings between parents and teachers on June 1, followed by five weeks of video conferencing classes.

While the program traditionally runs from 8 a.m. to noon on weekdays, this year, classes were held on weekdays from 9:30 to 11:30. The two-hour daily sessions included reading lessons taught to students and chances

for students to practice their reading out loud. Outside of class hours, students also had the option to complete self-guided math activities.

As teachers adapted to the remote environment alongside their students, they said they found creative ways to keep class engaging — whether that meant virtual field trips to the San Diego Zoo and the Met in New York, or sending care packages to students during the summer.

The teachers added that for some students, helping them adapt required reworking the remote environment altogether.

Jeffco parent Becca Rehme, whose son, Quinn, attends Arvada’s Sierra Elementary, enrolled her son in JSEL after noting he had lost some learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Within two or three days of the online version of JSEL, however, she could tell her son was overwhelmed.

Rehme and Kristina McCombie, Quinn’s JSEL teacher, came up with an alternative: Rehme would attend

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classes instead of Quinn during the day and teach her son separately. Her son would also have a one-on-one remote meeting with McCombie every day before class began.

“They were very flexible and willing to meet him where he was at,” Rehme said. “The benefits of the remote environment were that we could customize the experience to Quinn’s needs and maturity level.”

Parent Christie Hensley likewise highlighted the way her daughter’s JSEL teacher, Montoya, has worked with her daughter, Jane, who attends Blue Heron Elementary in Littleton.

“One day, my daughter really was struggling. The teacher could see it on Zoom and picked up the phone and called me personally,” Hensley said.

“It was great. My daughter has made a lot of gains thanks to JSEL and her teacher has really helped her gain more confidence (reading).”

While teachers have learned how to get students the individual help they need remotely, Montoya acknowledged

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that the extent of learning this year may not match what occurred in JSEL for 2019.

“There’s something to be said for having a book in front of you and going through it,” she said. “But this is our reality. I think it’s not hurting them; they’re getting the extra reading and the extra support.”

That said, students have made important strides through the program, teachers and parents said.

“He’s going to be in a better place than he would have had he not done JSEL,” Rehme said of her son. “I encourage other parents to enroll their children in JSEL in future summers. I watched both my son and the members of his class progress greatly in just one month.”

Beyond academics, McCombie and Montoya emphasized the other skills a remote JSEL has helped students develop this year.

“This was a brand new thing; they didn’t know me and they had to have a certain amount of confidence with getting to know the other kids,” McCombie said. “They’ve gained interpersonal skills, some confidence and some flexibility.”

Teachers also have gained a lot, she said — and with luck, those gains will help inform the remote portions of next year’s teaching.

“A lot of schools including my own did not do any live teaching during the pandemic. We’re paving the way for what remote teaching could look like in the fall,” she said. “This is live teaching every day. It’s been really rejuvenating to me and has made my life brighter.”

Incumbent Republican Colin Larson is set to face Democrat Mary Parker this November for the Colorado state House District 22 seat after defeating Justin Everett in the primary election that ended June 30.

In unofficial returns early July 1 from the mostly south Jefferson County district, Larson, a Littleton Republican in his first term in the seat, held 56.2% of the vote while Everett, another Littleton Republican, had 43.8%. Parker, who ran unopposed, pulled 12,349 votes in unofficial results, slightly ahead of the Republicans’ combined total of 11,922.

District 22 includes parts of unincorporated south Jefferson County, Lakewood and Ken Caryl.

“I’m thrilled to be returned by my district. I think it was a rather commanding mandate,” said Larson. “I’m just happy that many people have faith in me and like the direction of leadership I have provided. I am looking forward to moving the state forward.”

Larson has served in the Colorado

House of Representatives since 2019.

He is the owner of Altas Coffees coffee shop in Littleton and said during the COVID-19 era, he is focused on helping small businesses navigate through the economic crisis. Larson said he doesn’t want more regulations piled onto small businesses and said he wants to make sure the state has good regulatory policies that will allow business to survive.

His website reads that he is focused on strengthening Colorado education and defending the Second Amendment and the Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

Everett, who previously represented District 22 in the Colorado House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019, pointed to a difference in funding for the primary election between him in Larson.

Larson received $23,755.30 in total contributions while Everett received $21,676.74, according to the Colorado Secretary of State.

“I’m not sure (Larson) can honestly say he is responsible for winning a seat when clearly so much money was spent on his behalf,” said Everett.

Denise Mund, chair of the Jefferson County Republican Party, said the party stayed neutral throughout the primary. She said the party is happy to have Larson and is confident he can defeat Parker.

“He’s already proven himself because he has already been elected to that seat,” said Mund.

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A booming July 4 was a bust for firefighters Do-it-yourself fireworks displays — many illegal — kept crews busy STAFF REPORT

The Independence Day fireworks celebrations around metro Denver were loud and boisterous -- many of them illegal -- and they kept local firefighters occupied through the night.

After months of being cooped up by COVID-19 restrictions, and with major public fireworks displays canceled, people across the region let loose with a barrage of do-it-yourself July 4 rockets and noisemakers.

“This is what we feared, warned the community about and up-staffed 5 extra fire engines for,” South Metro Fire Rescue tweeted late July 4. “Multiple fires are occurring across the South Metro area right now.”

The morning of July 5, the agency released this tally of calls it had received since early the day before: • 8 brush fires • 6 outside fires • 5 illegal burns • 4 outside smoke investigations • 4 dumpster fires • 1 garage fire • 1 house fire “We’ve had eight fires caused by fireworks tonight,” Lakewood-based West Metro Fire Rescue chimed in late July 4. “ ... West Metro geared up for the 4th of July, putting more resources on duty, in case something like this would happen.

Please celebrate safely.”

West Metro later told KUSA-9News

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that about a dozen fires in its territory were linked to fireworks, including fires in grass, dumpsters and on a fence.

“We understand the frustration many of our community members are experiencing tonight due to use of illegal fireworks,” Aurora Fire Rescue tweeted July 4.

The Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office on July 4 pleaded with area residents on Twitter to “not call our dispatch center to report hearing fireworks. The call center is getting overrun with these calls.” It said people could call 911 to report actual fires.

Aerial views from a helicopter flown

by Denver TV stations showed constant bursts of fireworks across the city that night.

In most areas of metro Denver, home fireworks displays were illegal July 4, either under existing permanent local ordinances in places like Centennial, Lakewood and Littleton or under temporary countywide fire restrictions.

Unincorporated Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson County were all under a Stage 1 fire ban prohibiting fireworks use.

On July 2, three Douglas County fireworks shows planned for the Fourth of July were canceled due to fire danger.

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock, who also serves as the county fire marshal, declared that the county was under fire restrictions. This action barred the shows, slated to take place in Highlands Ranch, the Pinery and Castle Rock.

Almost every other major public fireworks display usually held across metro Denver had already been called off, largely because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Sever said the county does not have an estimate of the total attendance at the event although they did collect evidence that social distancing requirements were violated.

In the statement, JCPH Executive Director Mark Johnson said he wants Jeffco’s businesses, which he called “pillars of the community,” to safely operate but that interest must be balanced with those of keeping the community safe as case numbers are starting to increase again in Jeffco.

“We are proud that the large majority of our local businesses are working diligently to keep themselves and others safe,” Johnson said in the release. “However, when one business does not, it compromises the health and economy of our entire community.”

JCPH first expressed concern about the July 4 event on June 29, when JCPH Director Johnson sent a letter to the speedway’s owner, John Bandimere, alleging that the number of tickets available for upcoming events, including the Jet Car Nationals, suggested that the speedway was planning to violate crowd size and social distancing requirements at those events. The letter also noted that some types of tickets came with the promise of access to a buffet, which would also violate current public-health0rder requirements that ban buffets.

The letter concluded by stating that Bandimere Speedway should

submit a letter to JCPH detailing the protocols Bandimere had put in place to ensure the July 4 event operated in compliance with public health requirements by 5 p.m. on July 1. Ashley Sever, the Public Affairs Manager for JCPH, said on July 2 JCPH had not yet received such a letter.

However, JCPH and Bandimere’s owners then reached an agreement with Bandimere posting on its Facebook page on July 3 that the event would be happening as scheduled with Jeffco Health Department officials monitoring social distancing guidelines. The post also noted that every other row in the grandstands would be marked unavailable for seating and encouraged attendees to practice social distancing.

Colorado Community Media reached out to Bandimere Speedway on July 2 and again on July 6 about the situation but has not received a response.

A July 5 post on the Bandimere Facebook account stated “The Bandimere staff and family want to thank everyone for their support of the Brakes Plus Jet Nationals `Freedom Rally.’ We can’t even begin to describe how much we appreciate the racers, fans, sponsors, and staff members for standing by our side. Thank you for spending your Independence Day with us celebrating freedom the best way we know how.”

The Bandimere website is continuing to sell general admission tickets for the July 26 Truck Invasion event. However, it no longer appears to be selling tickets for other events, including the Bug In scheduled for July 12.

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eople reporting other people to the authorities. Entire faiths, entire ethnicities demonized, attacked. Ghettos.

Mobs. Looting. Uniforms. Gassing.

Rampant disease.

These are the circumstances in which Eva Braun Levine found herself as the Nazi stranglehold tightened on Europe. Last week, July 6, was Eva Levine’s birthday … July 6, 1916, to be exact, and I am writing here again to commemorate this day.

Eva was the second daughter of five children born to Jewish parents in Lodz, Poland.

Her father was in real estate, and the family owned the building in which they lived. Eva finished high school and studied history at a local university.

I selected Eva’s Identification Card #2633, when I visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., at random from a bin of such ID cards for females — women and children — who were victims of the ghettos, deportations, concentration camps, and, for so many, the gas chambers and mass murders of the Holocaust.

In Poland, Eva married her boyfriend Herman in 1939. The previous year Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), a pogrom against Jews carried out in Germany by Nazi paramilitary forces and civilians, had already taken place. Jewish homes, hospitals and schools were ransacked as attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.

Then Germany invaded Poland. The Gestapo banged on Eva’s door and slapped her father-in-law around. Eva herself confronted the officers.

In 1941, Eva and Herman and Eva’s family — her mother, father, and three sisters — were deported to the ghetto of Piotrkow Trybunalski. In 1944 all the women were deported to Ravensbrück, a concentration camp in Germany, and later to Bergen-Belsen.

Disease was rampant in the camps and Eva’s health deteriorated. Her mother Machla was so weakened by starvation and disease that she died two days before the British arrived at the camp in April 1945. Eva’s father SEE DORAY, P9

America could certainly use a Gandalf right about now

H LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Don’t blame the victim Letter writer Russell Haas shown that with a quick visit to Wikipedia, one can find anything to blame a prone, handcuffed man for dying under the weight of three police officers, while a fourth prevented angry by-standers from intervening.

We’ve all seen this scenario turn out tragically far too many times. George Floyd spent the last 8:46 minutes of life suffocating while begging. Officer Chauvin’s conduct turned George Floyd’s arrest into a capital case with himself as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner. Enough! Nobody would ever abide these murders if the victims were unarmed belligerent white men with a few beers in them. The disturbing aspect is that Chauvin was the training officer for those rookie cops and apparently that day’s lesson was to gain submission at any cost. Mr Haas you are not a doctor and you should refrain from making medical diagnoses. Blaming victims of this behavior will never make it acceptable We are fortunate

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that most of our police are dedicated, capable public servants. Not all of them are but that’s a different subject for debate. I’m willing.

Paul Barnkow, Arvada It was homicide It’s unfortunate that Russell Haas left out the conclusion in his letter of July 2, of both the Hennepin County Coroner and an independent medical examiner--that George Floyd’s death was a homicide. Yes, simply, George Floyd was killed by the four thugs from the Minneapolis Police Department.

So Mr. Floyd had drugs in his system. Mr. Haas’ theory of ‘excited delirium syndrome’ is just fake news.

He was not resisting arrest. He may well have passed a counterfeit bill.

But did he deserve to be murdered for it? I think not.

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appy Fourth, everybody!

As any of the long-time readers know, I am a geek. Or a nerd, depending on whatever definition of those two terms you ken. Which, it seems, is solely the purview of the HITTING dweebs.

HOME All of which describe me.

At any rate … as such, I am an afficionado of many things science fiction and fantasy. One of the first books I remember reading was “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.” From Michael Alcorn there, I progressed through many of the major series, whether more in the fantasy realm, like “Shannara,” or more pure science fiction, like “Dune.”

Of course, any journey like that would have to have a stop along the way in Middle Earth, the realm invented by J.R.R. Tolkien. Middle Earth is a land inhabited by men and elves, monsters and magic, dwarves and dragons, swords and sorcerers. The central character who runs through the entire narrative is a wizard, Gandalf, who has taken it upon himself to travel the length and breadth of Middle Earth to understand the conditions of the place. Beside him is The White Council (dramatic music!) made up of another wizard and two elf-lords.

Together, they monitor and manipulate events for the best good of all the free peoples of Middle Earth.

Another series of fantasy which has become much more popular of late is Game of Thrones, written by

George R.R. Martin, and made into an epic series by HBO. The world of Game of Thrones, is, also, inhabited by men and elves, monsters and magic, dwarves and dragons, swords and sorceresses. It is the story of a power struggle involving two powerful families, and the last child of a third great family. Along the way, we meet an army of the dead, three dragons, and enough characters and houses that you need an easel so you can create a flow chart to track them all.

The essential conflict in Middle Earth is between the free people and the armies of a powerful evil sorcerer; the conflict in Game of Thrones is over the quest for lordship over all the land. Middle Earth’s bad guy and his minions are scary, bad and irredeemable; Game of Thrones’ bad guys are truly despicable, though often with a redeeming quality or two. The “good guys” in Middle Earth are noble and heroic, but also subject to very human weakness, jealousy, and folly; the “good guys” in Game of Thrones … don’t really exist. There are a few sympathetic characters, but the whole point is the amassing of power, and, as such, honor is a distant secondary consideration. There is, it turns out, one truly honorable man in the whole place, but he dies very early in the series, so…

Why don’t I introduce “Game of Thrones” to my wife? Because, essentially, it is the world of “Lord of the Rings,” which immediately puts her off, but one in which the only morality is power.

See, I like worlds where there is good and evil, clear lines of law and ethics. But I understand that that’s

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ened the importance of some bills that were already under consideration, and that was exactly the case with SB20-096.

Remote notarization was temporarily in effect during the crisis, and it was particularly useful for those buying or selling homes. It has also allowed families working from home and caring for children to complete the notarization process virtually.

I am proud to be one of the prime sponsors on the bill that made this a permanent option for Coloradans. I am particularly proud of the work we did with the Secretary of State’s Office and other stakeholders to

recently participated in an event appropriate for the times: a virtual signing for my bill to allow for remote notarization.

Over a Webex call broadcast on YouTube, my fellow bill sponsors and I joined Governor Polis as he signed SB20-096 into law.

All of us have seen our lives impacted by COVID-19, and the legislature was no exception. In an unprecedented session, we saw our priorities shift as we saw the need to support our communities as they dealt with COVID-19. I am proud of the new legislation we crafted to support renters, home owners, and businesses. The pandemic also height-

ensure that this option was responsibly codified in statute.

This may seem like a modest change compared to more prominent legislation we passed this session, but these simple, common sense innovations are important steps towards protecting the health of our communities as we navigate the new normal imposed on us by COVID-19.

Monica Duran is the state representative for House District 24, representing portions of Golden, Wheat Ridge, Applewood and Edgewater.

Small wonders: Catching up on nature’s favorite avian gems

t is one of the most intriguing, visually sought-after bird species no matter where we might live.

Virtually everything about the hummingbird fasOUTDOOR cinates birders and LIVING families in general — its size, lengthy migration routes, food sources, the way they co-exist in the massive natural world that surrounds this petite little avian gem of a bird.

Hummingbirds Ron Hellbusch are found in the typically common one-size-fits-all form, but they come in varying species and colors — each with some differing qualities. In Colorado, we may see the Anna, Rufous, Rivoli, Ruby-throated, Black-chinned or the broadtail hummingbirds in our yards as they move through their annual migration.

They begin their unbelievable long travel distances in December and January from as far south as Central America with the majority from Mexico.

By March, hummingbirds will be

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Yakob had been deported to Buchenwald in 1944 and then to BergenBelsen, where he died without ever finding his family.

Eva was liberated by the British and she moved to the United States in 1950. The Holocaust Museum has no record of what happened to Herman Levine, and I know nothing more of Eva. Times are different now. People and places are different. But the hate is not. The kind of hatred that killed six million people — for no other reason than that they were Jewish — is on a painfully apparent rise, not only in America, but around the world.

Yet, I find the most poignant part of Eva’s story is that she stood up to the Gestapo when they came to bully her family. She confronted them and defied their orders. The way her

exiting Mexico and by mid-May, they will seek out their North America nesting destinations — ranging from the western Pacific coastline, to spots along the Gulf Coast and from the lush flowering inland valleys to the high elevations of the Rocky Mountains and the continental divide.

They move in a calculated manner following floral bloom events and breeding schedules. Overall, hummingbirds make one of the longest migratory trips in the bird world, netting an average one-way journey of up to 4,000 miles.

During migration and normal wind conditions, hummingbirds average speeds of 30 miles-per-hour. They have been tracked on their 500-mile trip from Mexico’s Yucatan to the Florida coastline, spending over 18-22 hours in travel time. Considering that this trip and most routes to the western states are totally over the Gulf of Mexico water, it makes their travels utterly amazing for a bird that is just 2 1/4 inches in length and weighs a mere 0.12 ounces.

The wings rotate in a figure eight, allowing the hummingbird to hover without movement, move forward and backward or up and down with minimum energy and with greater speed

story progressed, however, is why we must also stand up to hate.

As I contemplated our Independence Day, and the ideals upon which America was built, I am more convinced than ever that we must also defy the bullies today who make way for discrimination, harassment and assault on others simply because of their faiths, their heritage, their gender, where they were born or who they love.

I commemorate Eva’s birthday to bear witness for the millions of people who perished in or survived the horrors of the Holocaust, and to urge all of us to do whatever we can to confront hatred and injustice today.

What we don’t stand for is as important as what we do.

Andrea Doray is a writer who reminds us that disease is also running rampant again. Wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands and stay safe. Contact Andrea at a.doray@andreadoray.com.

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When searching for a food source, hummingbirds seek out nectar in wild and domestic flowering plants and flower gardens rich in insects. For a backyard garden hummingbird menu, mix sugar and water with one-part sugar and four-parts water for feeders. When planting flowers, consider trumpet-shaped plants, since that is the shape of wildflowers rich in nectar the birds seek.

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man who enjoyed spending Kenneth Dinkel passed time with his children, supaway in his Lakewood home porting his grandchildren on June 25th at the age of 83. at their many academic and Kenneth was born in 1937 athletic events from elemenin Trego County, Kansas to tary school through college, playing with Nichoulas and Leoba Dinkel. He grew his great-grandchildren, and making up with his parents and siblings on frequent trips back to Kansas for events their family farm near Ellis, Kansas. He with his siblings and their families. attended school at the Trego County Kenneth is survived by his son, Kent country school, and he helped work the (wife Vicki), and daughter, Beverly; his family farm until he joined the service Alexandra, inName: 1954. Kenneth served995 with the United Untitled copy copy5 grandchildren, copy co1; Depth: 8 Dillon in; Ad (wife Rebecca), Evangella (husband States Army from 1954-1956.

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Mines planning on in-person classes in the fall but campus will be different Masks and remote learning options to be the new norm

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A sign on the doors of every Mines campus building provides a reminder of steps to take to reduce the spread of COVID-19. PHOTOS BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO

A closed gate at Marv Kay stadium.

Classes will be held at Colorado School of Mines campus in the fall — but life on campus will still look plenty different.

In a message sent to students and faculty on June 22, School of Mines President Paul C. Johnson and four other administrators outlined plans for the fall semester, which will kick off on Aug. 24 with the school sticking with its planned semester calendar.

Little else, however, will be unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including the way many classes will be delivered. The administrators said Mines will be working with a reduced number of classrooms and lower occupancy limits that have left the school expecting approximately 60 to 70 percent of classes to occur on campus in lecture halls or lab settings with social distancing requirements in place. The remainder of Mines courses will be offered in remote, hybrid or online formats.

Hands-on, project-based and firstyear classes and labs are being prioritized for in-person delivery, while the “needs of faculty” are also being considered. All classrooms are also being outfitted with equipment that will allow all classes to be recorded which Johnson said will allow for “flexibility and eliminate the pressure to attend in-person if you do not feel well or

need to isolate or self-quarantine.”

Students wishing to delay their return to campus will also be provided with remote or online course options, according to the statement.

Other hallmarks of campus life will also continue in the fall, but often in a significantly revised form. In May, Mines suspended its on-campus living requirement for first-year students decided to limit occupancy of residence halls to 80 percent to allow for safe social distancing to be maintained and reserve a substantial number of rooms for possible use for self-quarantine and isolation. Amenities like the dining halls and student recreation center will also be opened but with capacity restrictions and other safety protocols in place.

Even traditions like the M Climb and Convocation will likely look different as the administrators said the Student Life team is “working hard to ensure our new students enjoy many of the traditional Welcome Week activities with new precautions in place.”

The school is also instituting several health and safety rules, including a requirement cloth masks be worn indoors and “in any setting where it is difficult to maintain social distancing.”

The release also asks students and faculty to commit to the Oredigger Promise — a commitment to adopt the practices and attitudes necessary to safely return to and remain together at Mines.

“When we return to campus, we must all pledge to keep ourselves and one another safe,” the administrator’s SEE MINES, P11

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COVID-19 complicates Jefferson County budget situation Staff discussion includes $6.3 million in anticipated cuts

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As Jefferson County begins its 2021 budgeting process, administrative staff is entering the process by warning county departments to cut a total of about $6.3 million from budgets to help maintain the county’s financial footing as the COVID-19 crisis continues.

During a June 29 budget strategy discussion, Jeffco budget manager Dan Conway estimated that county expenditures would be about $237.6 million in 2021, if the county maintained current expenditures, but did not provide any salary raises.

That would leave the county with a general fund balance of about $21.7 million at the end of 2021, less than the $28 million balance recommended by the Governor’s Finance Officers Association to cover two months of operating expenses as that organization recommends.

However, Conway said the county has already finalized around $3.3 million in savings from 2020, including $2.2 million that will be saved because 2021 is an off-year for elections and another $800,000 in savings that will come from reducing operations at the fairgrounds.

That would leave the county needing $3 million in cuts in

The Jefferson County Administrative Building in Golden. order to reach that $28 million year-end balance figure.

However, Conway said approving a budget that does not include any raises for county employees would create other challenges for the county.

“Whatever direction the board decides to go in developing the budget the questions need to be asked about what message does this send to the staff ?” said Conway.

“Does it incentivize performance for longevity? Are our wages continuing to keep pace?”

But at the same time, he said it is important for the commissioners to keep in

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statement read. “Most students may be in the low-risk group with respect to COVID-19 impacts, but others in our community are not. We also have to think of our faculty and staff and their immediate families. Even if you have little worry for yourself, please think of them.”

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mind that base salary increases also compound over time and county revenues must be able to keep pace with those increases.

Conway also discussed the need to balance maintaining competitive employee compensation with that of ensuring the county has sufficient budget reserves to weather the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

County Manager Don Davis said one option would be for the county to budget for a onetime payment of $500 0r $1,000 to all employees, which the county would not actually pay out until later in 2021. Doing so would provide the county

more at Mines this year, said he is glad the school will be holding some classes in-person given the in-person interaction and hands-on experience that is integral to many classes. But at the same time, he is also glad he and the rest of Mines student community will be able to watch classes online.

“I’m not too worried about going back,” said Orr. “I think we have a pretty good community at Mines and are going to try to help each other out and not get this thing spread all over

with the flexibility to not go through with those payments if additional costs related to the pandemic put additional strain on the county budget.

All three commissioners voiced some support for that approach, although Commissioner Casey Tighe expressed some concern about how providing those raises might be viewed by the greater community.

“There are a lot of folks who are not seeing an increase in their wages and they’ve got to make their property tax payments,” said Tighe. “So that’s why I think we need to really watch what we’re doing and who we’re

the place.”

But Justin Pace, who will be starting a graduate degree in Mines this fall after completing his undergraduate there in the spring, said his reaction was decidedly more mixed.

“I feel like a lot schools are being pressured into making decisions right now and Mines is one of them,” Pace said.

Pace said he is concerned outbreaks in the dorms could still be an issue whether the dorms are at 80 percent or 100 percent capacity, and also worries

The county received about $71.9 million in CARES Act funding according to Jeffco Manager Don Davis, with portions of that total being passed through to area cities.

Those federal dollars, meant to pay for expenses related to COVID-19, would help the county pay for things like the salaries of extra jail employees needed to work the seventh floor of the jail, where COVID-19-positive inmates are currently sequestered Davis said staff did not include those numbers in preliminary budget discussions because they want the county to budget for a worstcase scenario and have those dollars provide “a little bit of cushion” particularly since the county will likely have to start funding COVID-19 related expenses such as extra jail floor next year as CARES Act dollars must be spent in 2020 and there is not currently expected to be a second CARES Act. impacting so I think buying a little time and letting our employees know we appreciate the work they’re doing but we don’t know if we can come forward (with a payment) makes sense.”

Conway said county staff is drafting a budget proposal that includes a $1,000 onetime payment for employees (costing the county about $1.3 million) but $6.3 million in department cuts, equalling a projected fund balance of $29.8 million. County staff will present the commissioners with the preliminary budget later this summer. The budget is to be finalized in October.

campus could still end up being too crowded.

“One of the issues is if people have online classes that take place 10 minutes after an in-person class then 10 minutes isn’t enough time to go home so the same amount of people are going to be on campus,” he said. “So, I feel like most people are going to be on campus and its going to be kind of rough to deal with all the restrictions.

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orison-based author Harper McDavid’s debut novel “Zapata,” has been announced as the winner of the COMING 2020 Colorado ATTRACTIONS Book Award in the romance category, and received a 2020 Writer’s Award from the Colorado Authors League. Both awards were held virtually, which allowed Clarke Reader authors to be honored for their works, despite the pandemic.

“Zapata” is a blend of suspense and romance that takes place along the Texas/Mexico border that follows engineer Avery McAndrews as she accepts a job in Zapata, and has a range that includes drug cartels and an examination of the challenges women in STEM fields face in the professional world.

We spoke with McDavid about the book, her awards and more.

(Interview edited for brevity and clarity).

Tell me about “Zapata”?

The beginning of the book is based exactly on what I had to do when I was in Zapata. I do environmental work with oil companies, and when I got to the site, we discovered there was a problem - crude oil was disappearing, and we couldn’t figure out why.

Eventually, we found out someone who had worked there previously had been murdered and the cartel had been dipping into the oil. I just went with it, even though it was really different than the book I was working on.

I didn’t start out intending to write a romance - it was more like writing a suspense novel with romance elements. I started working on in 2017, and eventually joined the Romance Writers of America and entered one of their contests. I made it to the finals, and one of the judges offered me a contract.

You received two awards for your debut novel - what was that experience like?

The Colorado Book Award is something I’ve followed for years, so I always knew about it, and I entered “Zapata’ in the romance category. It was different this year because of the pandemic, and we did online readings instead of in-person ones, and the award ceremony was kind of like Hollywood Squares on Zoom. It would’ve been more festive to do the readings at the BookBar like normal, but I’m not complaining, because I’m very happy to have won that award.

The Colorado Author’s League award was the same way. It’s all very surreal. It’s just started to sink in, and it’s very humbling.

What’s your favorite part about the Denver literary scene?

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Travel back in time at the Littleton Museum, featuring two living history farms portraying 19th-century homesteads.

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Here’s a look at five places to take the kids this year.

Littleton: Littleton Museum Step back in time and let the city melt away at Littleton’s living history museum. Spread over 40 acres beside Ketring Lake, the museum grounds feature two working 19th-century style farms.

The homestead buildings are not open, and neither is the museum’s main building — meaning the nearest air conditioning will likely be in your car. But the museum grounds make for a pleasant stroll, and gargantuan cottonwoods offer shady groves perfect for kicking back with a book.

Kids will dig the resident livestock — a flock of baby lambs cavorts in one pasture, a pair of oxen lumber in another.

Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated. Guests are encouraged to wear masks.

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Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum Kids can blow off some steam at the Colorado Railroad Museum, featuring a 15-acre railyard stocked with

You won’t likely see Englewood’s Pirates Cove Water Park as crowded as this file photo this year.

COURTESY OF THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD dozens of relics of Western railroad heritage. Some locomotives and railcars are open for exploring. The museum basement features one of the best model railroad layouts on the Front Range.

The museum is still offering train rides around the museum grounds, though tickets are limited to maintain social distancing, and ordering online ahead of time is recommended. The Galloping Goose, a quirky passenger vehicle built in the 1930s and typically used for rides, is mothballed for now, in place of openair cars. Train rides run Thursdays through Sundays through the end of August.

Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for kids, with kids under 2 free. Because the museum is operating at reduced capacity, reserving admission online is recommended.

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Denver and Colorado have the best writing communities. There are groups like the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers which provide support that is just great. I have a fabulous critique group that really made a difference for me. Colorado is full of readers and writers.

Visit www.harpermcdavid.com for more information and find the book at your local bookstore.

‘Amplify’ voices of Black artists at the Arvada Center In an effort to share the creative

voices of Black men through music, performance, dance and spoken word, the Arvada Center has launched a new video series called “Amplify.”

Produced by actor and director Betty Hart, the series features the voices of 15 performers from across the state - only three of whom have performed at the center before.

Participants in the series come from all over the local theater world and were invited to express whatever they want through any avenue they’d prefer, according to provided information.

The first episode is available on the Arvada Center’s YouTube page.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week - Lianne La Havas from the Roundhouse Britain’s Lianne La Havas has one of the smoothest, most alluringly

dynamic voices in modern R&B. In addition to the soul sounds she excels at, she also expertly taps into folk music, perfectly blending the two genres together. It’s been five years since her last album, but she preparing to release her third, “Lianne La Havas,” on Friday, July 17.

La Havas will be live-streaming a solo show in London’s legendary Roundhouse performing arts space at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15 on YouTube. All proceeds will go to Black Lives Matter-related organizations.

Visit www.roundhouse.org.uk for information and to get a spot.

face in their daily lives, it’s also important to amplify their powerful and joyful stories, and few do that better than FX’s “Pose.”

The second season of the show was recently added to Netflix, and it might even be better than the first.

The series focuses on the Black and Latino trans, gay and gender-nonconforming ballroom scene of New York City in the 1980s and 90s.

In a single episode, “Pose” can shatter and dazzle you with the creative power of the human spirit. It really is that good. If you haven’t started it yet, now is your chance.

Streaming style - ‘Pose’ With the recent and necessary attention focused on the violence and discrimination trans women of color

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.

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concession stand currently sells only prepackaged food.

Adventure Golf is open from noon to 9 p.m. every day in July, with hours changing in August.

Prices vary, but start at $8.25 for adults and $6.95 for kids and seniors.

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Englewood: Pirates Cove Water Park Water World in Federal Heights is closed this summer, but Englewood’s Pirates Cove makes a decent substitute. Featuring two king-size slides, a lazy river, an epic kids’ funhouse and a classic lap pool with a diving board, the park should leave the kids pretty worn out.

Reservations are required, and admission is in two-hour blocks.

Groups of up to eight are allowed.

Outside food and drinks are not permitted. Reservations can be made 72 hours in advance by Englewood residents, or 48 hours in advance by non-residents. Face masks are required for entry.

Prices vary, but non-resident adults are $15 and non-resident kids are $14.

Location: 1225 W. Belleview Ave., Englewood Contact: 303-762-2683 or piratescovecolorado.com.

Northglenn and Parker: Boondocks Fun Center It took a bit, but Boondocks’ two Colorado locations, in Northglenn and Parker, are scheduled to reopen on July 8. The family fun emporiums

In a 2019 file photo, Gary Cryan, a volunteer at the Colorado Railroad Museum, gets ready to take a group for a ride on the Galloping Goose. This year, the Goose is mothballed for now, replaced by open-air cars.

CHRISTY STEADMAN feature bowling, laser tag, mini-golf, go-karts and bumper boats. The Northglenn location features a ropes course, and Parker’s features an immersive, virtual reality-like “dark ride.”

Reservations are recommended. The parks are offering three-hour “unlimited fun passes” that offer access to all attractions. Face masks are strongly encouraged.

Admission varies, but weekday unlimited passes are $20 per person, and $25 on the weekends. Hours vary, but the parks are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Locations: Parker’s Boondocks is at 18706 Cottonwood Drive, and Northglenn’s is at 11425 Community Center Drive.

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Colorado closes bars, nightclubs after young crowds spread virus Some counties get more relaxed phase of social distancing

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Just 12 days after Colorado allowed bars and nightclubs to open in-person service statewide, a concerning uptick in COVID-19 cases fueled by young Coloradans forced state officials to pump the brakes and close drinking establishments again.

“Our uptick, like the major spikes in other states, is largely among the younger demographic,” Gov. Jared Polis said at a June 30 news conference.

“I think it is partially attributable the bars and nightclubs and also potentially to the large public gatherings and the protest movements that we’ve seen outside. Those are two factors we’ve had in our state.”

While Colorado was “one of the first states to successfully transition” out of the stay-at-home phase of coronavirus restrictions into a “safer at home” phase with more economic activity — and, so far, has been spared the type of severe COVID-19 increases seen in nearby states — Colorado’s rate of new cases has risen for the last two weeks, Polis said.

“We’ve lost over 1,500 people to this.

This virus would take another 1,500 from us in a heartbeat if we let up, or more,” Polis said, also noting direr spread of the virus could mean an economic setback.

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FUNDING TO PREPARE FOR NEW PHASE IN COVID-19 RESPONSE Gov. Jared Polis on June 30 also announced two new sources of funding for local authorities: Planning grants to prepare for the “protect our neighbors” phase of social distancing, and infrastructure strengthening grants.

All counties or local public health agencies can apply for a planning grant of up to $50,000 to assess their containment needs, understand the needs of communities impacted by, and at increased risk of, COVID-19, and develop plans to prepare for the “protect our neighbors” phase.

If counties have already identified needs, they may apply for infrastructure strengthening grants, with a maximum state award of $150,000 and a maximum total grant of $300,000.

These grants will require local matching funds and can be spent on investments such as technology, community resource coordination, communication activities to increase compliance with the public health orders, funding for communitybased partners and enhanced prevention and containment efforts, according to a governor’s office news release. have pointed to bars and nightclubs as a major source of their outbreaks, Polis said. Arizona moved to close bars, nightclubs, movie theaters and gyms on June 29, and Polis announced Colorado is closing its bars and nightclubs too.

Polis signaled Colorado could consider returning to similar closures of places such as gyms, pools and movie theaters if the virus’ spread isn’t stemmed.

eries, tasting rooms, special licensees, clubs and other establishments that offer alcoholic beverages for on-site drinking as “bars.”

Not all bars closed On June 18, the state announced bars could open at 25% of the posted occupancy limit or 50 patrons, whichever is less. That change also included many other drinking establishments, such as breweries, distillery pubs and clubs.

Under the new closure — effective July 1 — some bars that operate similar to restaurants may continue in-person service as long as patrons remain with their party, spaced 6 feet apart with no mingling, according to a news release from the governor’s office.

That’s an update to Colorado’s saferat-home order — the state’s current set of social distancing rules — which is extended until July 30.

Those bars that function with a fullservice kitchen or provide food from a licensed retail food establishment, such as a neighboring restaurant or food truck, were able to open along with restaurants as of May 27, according to a state fact sheet.

All bars still are permitted to sell alcoholic beverages for takeout or delivery if the beverages are sold with food, and they still can operate if they’re open under a county “variance,” a waiver from the state’s social distancing restrictions. Numerous counties across Colorado have been granted variances in different forms.

The safer-at-home order refers to bars, taverns, brew pubs, breweries, microbreweries, distillery pubs, win-

‘Protect our neighbors’ outlined In mid-June, Polis announced details of the state’s third phase of social distancing, which the state dubbed “protect our neighbors.” Officials on June 30 more clearly outlined what it will look like.

Counties or regions of the state with low enough COVID-19 spread and robust enough ability to quash outbreaks will soon be able to allow all activities at 50% of pre-pandemic capacity, with at least 6 feet between non-household members and no more than 500 people in one setting at a time, according to state officials.

Starting the week of July 6, counties can request to qualify for the new phase. Areas will need to meet the following criteria: • Low disease-transmission levels, including stable or declining COVID-19 hospitalizations or fewer new cases in the past two weeks.

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four are convicted and that more police violence towards Black men is stopped. It is time.

Steven Williams, Arvada Cannot justify this killing The letter you published July 2nd which appeared to say George Floyd’s killing was justified because an autopsy found drugs in his body is so outrageous, I must respond. We just celebrated a holiday that should remind us all to honor the civic and civil discourse and freedom of speech our ancestors fought for. That said, I am left wondering what the letter writer was trying to say: Was he trying to defend the good policemen and women – of which there are many – whose service to community has been tarnished by the

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not always how these things work, and that, absent a creator who values morality, power is usually a better way to understand human motivation. But within clear delineations of good and evil can exist very human complexities, as Tolkien showed us. However, without a standard for good and evil, murder, mayhem and all manner of evil become the norm. That is the world of Game of Thrones.

I only write all of this because I see America as, essentially, Middle Earth: basically good, if flawed, and often faced with large evils. But, what’s

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surge in hospital admissions and patient transfers, and two weeks of personal protective equipment available.

Counties or regions also will need to create a “mitigation plan,” state epidemiologist Rachel Herlihy said at Polis’ June 30 news conference. That plan would list how counties will promote

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starting to happen is a rewriting of the American story into one of power, of oppressor and oppressed, a neverending cycle of villain and victim.

And, moreover, now we’re trying to cancel our past through the transitory power of a rage-mob.

The problem with that, as the characters in Game of Thrones found out, is that the person with the biggest dragon usually wins. Right after they burn everything down.

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 CCM.

public compliance with social distancing guidelines, increase mask-wearing in public settings and increase flu vaccine uptake to ensure Colorado doesn’t lose health-care system capacity needed for COVID-19 patients.

The plans must be approved by local elected officials — including county commissioners and mayors — and hospitals that serve the county, law enforcement, emergency management officials, local public health directors and, if applicable, tribes, according to the news conference slideshow.

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Minneapolis cop’s knee on the neck of a prone human being for more than eight minutes?

Was he trying to deflect criticism from Trump’s divisive and abysmal response to Floyd’s death by blaming the victim?

Or was he urging us all to take leave of our common sense? The tactics used against George Floyd were not justified. The family asked for an independent autopsy so the findings may be in doubt. But even if accurate, I am sure the letter writer would say we live in a nation which professes Christian beliefs – do unto others as you would have them do unto you – and that he would never want a knee pressed to his son’s or his own neck no matter how many drugs had been used.

We should not make excuses for reprehensible behavior. Rather we should all be motivated by this tragic death to create positive change that better fulfills America’s promise!

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