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I’ve lived in all types of places. I lived in Shanghai, England and California, but I am originally from El Paso, Texas. I am first generation, because my mother was born in Mexico.

I love living in Lakewood. I have all of the luxury of living in an urban area, but when I wake up, birds are chirping. You can tell it is a great city when you meet people that grew up here and never left.

Loving my city drives me to make sure that is a good place. That is why I am involved with so many different organizations and boards in the city.

Zero Waste Services Right now, I serve as the program director for Zero Waste Services. I’ve always been very passionate about recycling since I was young. I grew up with recycling and reusing and just avoiding waste. I don’t want to leave a legacy of trash for my children.

Zero Waste Services is a nonprofit that seeks to improve waste diversion in the community. We focus on regional waste diversion issues, and we want to make zero waste a lifestyle and something that everybody can do.

We’ve only been around since 2016, but the biggest project we have under our belt is our work at Festival Italiano. We proposed a five-year plan to make the event zero waste, and this is the first year we worked at the festival. We had volunteers help people at the festival determine which bin to put their trash in.

Sandie Weathers, program director at Zero Waste Services.

JOSEPH RIOS We set a target of 20 to 25 percent waste diversion, and by the end of the festival, we hit 24 percent. Belmar is excited about doing it again next year.

Civic engagement I’m a part of Lakewood Forward, a team of residents that wants to promote civil dialogue on issues that may be tough to discuss. We want people to be engaged and we want people to be well informed.

I also work for the Alameda Connects community association, and I am part of the 3RC Foundation, which supports the Rooney Road Recycling Center. We focus on providing safe household hazardous waste recycling to Jefferson County residents.

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Colorado’s Low-Income Energy Assistance Program will kick off the 2018-19 season with a new online application process for individuals and families needing heating assistance. Enrollment for the 2018-19 program started Nov. 1 and continues through April 30.

“With the new online application process, individuals can apply from any device, or they can still visit one of our county locations,” Theresa Kullen, LEAP manager, said. “We believe everyone who needs assistance is going to find this is easier, takes less time and overall the whole process is more efficient.”

Applications can be accessed through LEAP’s website at www.colorado.gov/cdhs/LEAP, which links to the state’s CO PEAK system for online application.

For program eligibility, candidates must pay home heating costs directly to a utility company or landlord as part of their rent, be a permanent legal resident of the United States and Colorado or have a legal U.S. citizen in the household. A family household income cannot surpass 165 percent of the federal poverty index.

Last year, approximately 65,000 applications were approved with assistance averaging $337 to $674 across the state.

Other benefits provided by the program include repair or replacement of a home’s heating system. To determine the monthly income eligibility according to the household size, visit www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdhs/ program-eligibility.

LEAP is a federally-funded program that helps Coloradans pay a portion of home heating costs during the winter.

“For those not comfortable with online processes, applications can still be faxed, mailed or delivered to the appropriate county/contractor LEAP office,” Kullen said.

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Suspects arrested for suspicion of homicide Body of Cymone Duran discovered as firefighters put out brush fire

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Three men have been arrested as suspects for the recent murder of Cymone Duran, 28.

Duran’s body was discovered at about 1:30 a.m. Nov. 5 by Pleasant View and Golden firefighters who were putting out a small

brush fire near the intersection of Nile Street and West Seventh Avenue, which is in the vicinity of I-70 and West Colfax Avenue in Golden.

Jefferson County Sheriff ’s deputies responded and the latest press release states that Duran had been shot multiple times before being set on fire.

The suspects are Abel Gallegos, 35; Alonso Quintana, 27; and Rene Rosales, 35.

Arrest charges vary slightly for each man — Gallegos and Quintana are both facing a charge of first-degree murder while Rosales

faces accessory to first-degree murder. Quintana also faces firstdegree kidnapping, aggravated intimidation of a witness and possession of a weapon by a previous offender. Gallegos and Rosales both face charges of tampering with a deceased human body, second-degree arson and tampering with evidence.

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By JIM SMITH Prompted by last week’s election results and the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, I’m taking a break once again from writing about real estate to write about politics. But my intention is to be more educational than partisan. Once again, as in my June 26th column, I am speaking only for myself and not for my wonderful — and largely apolitical — broker associates.

As a professional journalist myself (trained at the Washington Post during the turbulent summer of 1968) and educated about the Soviet Union in boarding school as a student of the Russian language, I know something about what led up to the 2016 election that I don’t feel has been adequately conveyed by the media.

In addition to learning the Russian language from Johannes Von Straalen, a Dutchman, I also learned about how the Soviets not only used information to control their own population, but also how they sought to influence people of other nations. My education even included subscribing to the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, which probably put me on a CIA watch list back in the 60’s. I also traveled to the Soviet Union in 1978 with an MIT alumni group and again in the mid1980’s three times as part of “citizen diplomacy” groups sponsored by the Center for Soviet-American Dialogue in Bellingham, Washington. After the fall of the Soviet Union, I made one additional visit to Russia, this

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time in 1994 to Vladivostok, the Pacific naval port which is also the terminus of the famed Trans-Siberian Railroad.

From these and other experiences, I learned a lot about the KGB, in which Vladimir Putin served with distinction, leading to his selection to succeed Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia. I’m speaking up now, because, unless you watched the excellent 2-part series “Putin’s Revenge” on the PBS program Frontline (Google it), you may not fully comprehend how the Russians impacted the 2016 election or recognize the activities they continue to engage in today.

I never believed that Russia tried to hack vote counts, because I knew from the beginning that their tactic is to manipulate minds. That’s the real expertise of Russians who virtually invented such terms as disinformation and “kompromat,” short for compromising material.

The widespread adoption of social media, such as Facebook, supercharged the Russians’ ability to influence “low information voters” — voters who aren’t well enough informed to detect fake stories intended to influence their voting.

The Frontline program showed how Russia’s Internet Research Agency would use social media to fire up both sides of any issue with the potential of creating social and political division in America. They would seize on issues and events that were already dividing America, such as the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, and create social media posts both for and against what was happening.

Think about any event that happened in the past several years — especially the killings of blacks by white police officers, but also anything that would stir up the far right and/or the far left — and you can be sure that some of the social media postings appealing to each extreme were created by Russians working in the St. Petersburg, Russia, office of the Internet Research Agency.

Such postings then trigger other events — think mass casualty events — which in turn can be exploited using additional postings.

It’s a never-ending vicious circle.

America is not the only target of Russia’s meddling with public perceptions and opinions. They’re even more keen on breaking

up the European Union and NATO. Without a doubt, they did the same kind of meddling in European countries to stir up, for example, division over the influx of Syrian refugees.

The Brexit vote in England was probably influenced by a Russian disinformation campaign in that country. And that makes sense, because what would Russia like more, given Putin’s commitment to making Russia great again, than to see the European Union weakened? Russia’s Internet Research Agency is probably at work stirring up nationalist feelings in every European country. Promotion of nationalism in America also serves Russia’s interest because it serves to weaken NATO and draw us out of other international agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The bottom line, as I see it so clearly, is that President Trump has served as a useful tool — without actual “collusion” — for the aggrandizement of the new Russia under Vladimir Putin. And everything that Trump does to further divide Americans against each other, whether promoted or not by the Internet Research Agency, serves to weaken the United States’ position in the world, which, almost by definition, strengthens Russia’s position in the world.

In one of my “citizen diplomat” trips to the Soviet Union, I was struck by the fact that attractive young women were inexplicably introduced into some of the social events for our largely male delegation. When I heard about the “dossier” with compromising videos of Donald Trump the businessman with prostitutes — for whom I’m sure he did not pay — I suspected immediately that it was true.

This and other “kompromat” could serve to keep our President from doing anything adverse to the Russian government.

Whether the campaign to weaken the First Amendment by creating a popular mistrust of mainstream media with the “fake

news” label is inspired or promoted by the Russians doesn’t matter. Our President is doing a good enough job at that, and it does indeed weaken our society and ultimately our standing in the world, which must warm the hearts of our adversaries. The trade war with our allies and other countries — except Russia, it should be noted — can’t hurt in that respect, either.

Ultimately, I have great faith in America, and I am heartened that one house of Congress will soon be under Democratic control, providing a check on the Republican Senate and the Trump administration. A crucial role of Congress is to provide oversight on every department and agency and to hold the administration accountable — something that the Republican Congress has declined to do lest it impact their individual political futures.

Impeachment of the President is not necessary, however deserved it might be on constitutional grounds. It is sufficient just to have one house of Congress now holding the rest of our government accountable for its actions.

Changing topics, it is common knowledge that more than 80% of the tax relief in the Trump tax bill went to the very rich, with some relief to the middle class thrown in for appearances. Overlooked, however, is the impact on the non-profit sector. I’m concerned that Americans will donate less money to worthy charities as we approach the holiday season because of the doubling of the standard deduction. That one provision takes away any tax advantage in supporting charitable causes for a large number of taxpayers, but it is not being discussed. I’m not letting it affect my own giving, but I worry that it could affect others’ giving, and I’m looking forward to some entity doing a statistical analysis of the tax bill’s effect on charitable giving this year and next.

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Lakewood voters say yes to ballot issue 2D City will have $12.5 million more for community projects

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lakewood voters have said yes to a special ballot question in which $12.5 million will go toward projects that the city has identified as community needs with 61.72 percent voting in favor of the city lifting Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) limits.

The money comes from additional revenue that the city collected last year, largely due to the 2017 hailstorm that caused residents to replace their cars, or make repairs to their homes. The constitutional amendment TABOR restricts the amount of income and spending that the city can engage in, and it requires residents to vote on what they want to do with TABOR limits.

“I think it’s incredible. Our community spoke tonight, and said that they want to reinvest. They love Lakewood,

Lakewood is planning on using part of its TABOR limits on police protective gear and safety-related assets. JOSEPH RIOS and they want to see Lakewood be a great community.

They are willing to reinvest those dollars in things that will make Lakewood thrive for years to come,” Lakewood Mayor Adam Paul said.

Lakewood officials identified

projects that the money will go toward like additional police agents, vehicles and other equipment, park improvements, and improvements to things like sidewalks, traffic signals and turn lanes.

“The community spoke, it

was a very definitive answer from them,” said Councilman Charley Able. “We need to make sure we are careful with how we spend (TABOR limits) and exercise some conservatisim to make sure it takes care of the needs we have identi-

fied.”

Lakewood City Council previously voted seven to three in favor of sending the ballot question to voters. Ramey Johnson, Pete Roybal and Mike Bieda were the three councilmembers who voted against the TABOR question.

Natalie Menten of the Jeffco Republicans said in an email that the money could’ve gone a long way toward residents who are struggling financially.

“Our campaign committee, Save Our Refunds, took into consideration that many residents are struggling and could have used their refunds to invest in their education to get higher paying jobs, cover rising housing costs, pay emergency medical needs, or just shore up the family’s savings account,” Menten said in the email.

Paul sees the TABOR limits as something that will positively impact the Lakewood community.

“I’m just overwhelmed.

What a wonderful response from our incredible residents to say they love Lakewood. We are going to continue to make sure that we reinvest in it,” Paul said.

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Mathnasium brings Math Night to Green Gables Elementary

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Mathnasium has experienced tutors who create customized plans for children who need help enhancing their math concepts and skills. According to Mathnasium of Lakewood, 100 percent of its students who have worked with Mathnasium for at least four weeks have improved a minimum of 200 percent on their reassessments.

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Jeffco goes deep blue Dems win all contested county elections

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

All contested Jefferson County elected positions on the ballot this year have gone the way of the Democrats, as of Nov. 9.

While candidates note that getting the job done in many of the county offices has nothing to do with political affiliation, it’s still noteworthy that voters decided to put Democratic candidates in the majority of the roles.

“It’s interesting that Democrats have taken on a higher profile,” said Jefferson County Commissioner Casey Tighe, a Democrat who has served alongside Republicans for the entire time he’s held the seat since 2013.

Residents could have voted that way to make sure all issues are handled in a balanced and responsible way, and to ensure the government is investing in the community and protecting the lifestyle Jeffco residents enjoy, Tighe said.

However, county government is not like in Washington, Tighe said. “Local government isn’t as partisan as they are. Party divisions aren’t as clear.”

Jefferson County has 10 elected offices — three county commissioner seats, assessor, clerk and recorder, coroner, district attorney, sheriff, surveyor and treasurer.

Nine of the 10 positions have been in the hands of Republicans for several years. Following the outcome of this midterm election, Republicans hold only three offices — one county com-

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missioner seat, sheriff and district attorney.

In addition, the only Republican who won election year year is Sheriff Jeff Shrader, who ran unopposed and garnered 207,989 yes votes.

Two of the county’s elected officials —Treasurer Tim Kauffman and Coroner John Graham, both Republicans — were term limited. They are both being replaced by Democrats. As of the last vote update before printing this paper Democrat Annette Cannon won the coroner seat with 54.14 percent of the vote over Republican candidate Thomas Weldon’s 45.86 percent. For treasurer, Democrat Gerald ‘’Jerry’’ DiTullio leads with 53.96 percent of the vote against Republican Frank Teunissen’s 46.04 percent of the vote.

In the assessor race, Republican candidate Brian Cassidy won the June primary against incumbent Ron Sandstrom, but in the general election Democrat Scot Kersgaard holds the lead with 52.19 percent of the vote over Cassidy’s 47.81 percent.

The surveyor race had an incumbent running — Republican Robert J. Hennessy — but Democrat Bryan Douglass leads with 54.15 percent of the vote compared to Hennessy’s 45.85 percent.

Continuously separated by less than a percentage point as soon as first counts, perhaps the closest race for county offices this election was that for the clerk and recorder. Republican Faye Griffin, the incumbent had a small lead as first counts came in.

However, as more ballots were cast in the following days, George Stern Griffin (D) took the lead, and at press time had 50.63 percent of the votes, over Griffin’s 49.37 percent.

“It is clear we’ve seen unprecedented turnout in a midterm, and that’s a great thing for democracy,” Stern said. “Throughout Jefferson County, we saw first-time voters and regular voters who wanted change at every level. Now it’s our job to deliver.”

Griffin has been involved in the county’s government for about two decades. Beginning in 1998, she has been elected to serve as clerk and recorder, county commissioner and treasurer.

Commission control flips Although not as close of a race as that of clerk and recorder, the county commissioner race made history with voters electing a Democrat to the seat.

Tina Francone, a Republican, ran as the appointed incumbent for District Three, which is the southern part of Jefferson County, although all county seats are voted on at-large.

Democrat Leslie Dahlkemper Dahlkemper, a former school board member, won the vote with 55.59 percent over Francone’s 44.41 percent as of 11:03

2018 JEFFERSON COUNTY ELECTION RESULTS Assessor Scot Kersgaard (D) 52.19 percent Brian Cassidy (R) 47.81 percent Clerk and Recorder George Stern (D) 50.63 percent Faye Griffin (R) 49.37 percent Coroner Annette Cannon (D) 54.14 percent Thomas Weldon (R) 45.86 percent County Commissioner, District 3 Lesley Dahlkemper (D) 55.59 percent Tina Francone (R) 44.41 percent Sheriff Jeff Shrader (R) 100 percent with 207,989 votes Surveyor Bryan Douglass (D) 54.15 percent Robert Hennessy (R) 45.85 percent Treasurer Jerry DiTullio (D) 53.96 percent Frank Teunissen (R) 46.04 percent Jefferson County Public Schools 5A (mill levy) — Passed with 52.51 percent of the vote 5B (school bond) — Passed with 50.22 percent West Metro Fire Ballot Measure 7C (revenue stabilization) Yes: 69.83 percent No: 30.17 percent These results are as of 11 a.m. on Nov. 13.

p.m. Nov. 9.

Francone was appointed to the seat after Donald Rosier, who was term limited, vacated it early. She was sworn in on Feb. 6. Her background includes serving as the Regional Transportation District (RTD) director for District N. “I’m not done yet,” Francone said, noting she has a couple of months still in office. In that time, she’ll be finalizing the budget, and working on fulfilling some promises Francone she made — namely, re-establishing the Evergreen Dog Park and converting the Meyers Ranch House in Conifer into a community center.

As for her future plans, Francone said, “I’ll see what God brings me. I’m sure he’s got something else in mind for me.”

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After uncertain start, funding likely for Jeffco schools

Both the mill levy override and the bond seem to be passing now

BY SHANNA FORTIER SFORTIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It came down to the wire.

Jeffco Schools Superintendent Dr. Jason Glass called it a “Hail Mary.”

On Election Night, the measure was down more than 8,000 votes, but as more votes were counted in the days that followed Election Day, the gap between those wanting to fund the $567 million bond for Jefferson County Public Schools and those not, narrowed.

“There was something systematic in that last batch of votes,” Glass said, “The later votes were more supportive of public education than the first batch.”

On the morning of Saturday, Nov. 10, the vote for the bond took the lead for the first time, with 50.22 percent of Jeffco voters in favor — a difference of 1,286 votes.

The Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder’s office said the last few thousand votes would be counted by the end of Tues-

day, Nov. 13, after this paper’s press deadline. However those ballots, mostly in-person ballots cast on election day, have trended strongly in favor of 5B. The bond — a financial mechanism to pay for building construction, renovations and capital improvements — would bring outdated district buildings up to structural and educational standards, to address continuing population growth and improve school security measures.

Critics that wrote into the paper in opposition to the bond said its repayment plan was unnecessarily wasteful, and did not allocate money wisely enough.

For Alameda High School teacher Erin Murphy though, passage of the bond means healthier and safer environments for her students.

“Many of our students have evacuated their classrooms multiple times due to leaks and flooding, and that is incredibly disruptive to their learning,” Murphy said. “The passage of

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in September 2017, will serve alongside Commissioner Tighe and Republican Libby Szabo, who is the board’s chair.

Having taken office in 2013, Tighe now holds the record for the longestserving Democrat in a Jeffco commissioner role since at least the 1950s. And with Dahlkemper now elected into office, it will be the first time for two Democrats to hold county commissioner seats since Betty Miller and Gary D. Laura served at the same time, from 1993 to 1997.

But, Jeffco has a long history of the county commissioner seats being filled

the bond will give my students the opportunity to attend a school that is healthy, safe, and equipped to prepare them for life after high school.”

This was the fifth bond proposed for Jeffco schools since 2004, when the last major bond for facility improvements ($323.8 million) was passed. Voters approved a $99 million bond for repairs related to keeping schools warm, safe and dry in 2012. But they rejected a $535 million bond in 2016 and a similar request in 2008.

If the bond sticks, Glass said the district will see work happening to execute the bond program as early as spring of next year.

“If it’s successful, there will be some exciting facility improvements coming to Jeffco,” Glass said, adding that if not, the district will continue to make do with what they have.

At the board study session the morning of Nov. 7, Board President Ron Mitchell said he was confused by the lack of initial support for the bond.

“For the 3 years I’ve been on the board we’ve heard that people love the neighborhood schools and want to keep them open,” he said. “Yet at the same

by Republicans.

On Dec. 7, 1861, the first county commissioners were elected by a vote from 534 people. While the county’s website does not have party affiliation noted for Theodore Perry Boyd and David K. Wall, Thomas C. Bergen is the first Republican to serve on the board of county commissioners. These first commissioners served different lengths of terms depending on who received the most-to-least votes. Bergen held the seat from 1862 to 1869. Duncan E. Harrison, who served from 1862 to 1865, was the first noted Democrat to serve as a county commissioner.

The 1800s saw just about an even mix of Democrat and GOP representatives, but beginning in the 1900s, Republicans began to take control of the commissioner seats, and have since.

time I’m surprised that maybe they don’t understand that there is a cost in doing that.”

Passing the mill The bonds counterpoint, 5A, a $33 million mill levy override got a pass from voters by more than 54 percent.

For fifth-grade teacher Hannah Bruner, the passage of the tax measure that would raise teacher salaries in Jeffco Public Schools brought a sense of relief.

“Since I entered the profession I have had to work multiple jobs in order to pay my bills,” Bruner said. “The passage of the mill means that for the first time in my career, I might be able to focus solely on my students.”

About half of the mill levy override would provide money to give teachers raises.

Glass said this breaks down to roughly $15 million for employee benefits.

“It’s not a life-changer, but it will help,” Glass said, explaining that it takes about $6 million to pay a one percent raise for teachers and staff.

Roughly $3 million will go to charter schools. The other $15 million is split for student

Today, Tighe pointed out that even though he was the minority, all the commissioners he has served with and the other elected officials have always been willing to hear his point-ofview on any issue they were presented with.

“We’re going to continue to do that,” Tighe said. “That climate is not going to change.”

Szabo agreed.

“I will continue to do everything I can to be the voice our residents need,” she said, “working collaboratively with the other commissioners and elected officials.”

On any given issue, even when people see a two-to-one vote by the commissioners, it most likely won’t be along, or because of, party lines, Tighe added.

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A similar ask was rejected in 2016.

“I’m gratified about 5A, we really value our educators that we have the Jeffco and I think 5A will help us stop hemorrhaging those educators to other districts,” said Jeffco Schools boardmember Brad Rupert.

Since this money comes from property taxes, it won’t be available until spring of 2019, Glass said. There will also be an extensive budgeting process over the next few month with more precision in allocating funds than what was listed in the campaign material. Glass said that since several buckets on the ballot initiative involved hiring staff, that won’t happen until the next school year.

“We always said we would look at what happened after Election Day and determine how much good we can do with what we got,” Glass said.

“We’re grateful for the voters approving 5A. We’re going to put it to good use and it’s going to do a lot of good things for Jeffco.”

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Perlmutter to remain in his House seat

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Congressman Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat of Arvada, will once again represent Colorado’s 7th Congressional District.

The popular incumbent captured 59 percent of the vote, more than 20 points ahead of the nearest challenger.

“At every level, we have people that are outstanding,” said Perlmutter.

“We’ve executed our game plan the best, and that’s why we have a blue wave in Colorado.”

Running against Perlmutter for the seat is Republican Mark Barrington of Lakewood, who had 36.9 percent of the vote, and Libertarian Jennifer Nackerud of Westminster, with 3.5 percent of the vote.

Perlmutter was first elected to represent the 7th Congressional District

in 2006. The district is in Jefferson and Adams counties, and includes Golden, Lakewood, Wheat Ridge and Arvada, as well as much of Westminster, Thornton and Northglenn. Prior to that, he served two terms in the Colorado Senate beginning in 1994.

During the election Barrington said that the two main issues he would focus on if elected would be the national debt and infrastructure.

He believes all residents should have access to affordable health care. National security is another of his top priorities, as is road and transportation infrastructure.

Among some of the issues Nackerud notes on her website are that she believes in school choice and that “the rights of lawful gun-owners are Constitutionally protected,” but that she would be “in complete support of stricter gun laws, at the state level.”

In April 2017, Perlmutter an-

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Polis’ win part of big day for Dems Weiser defeats Brauchler for attorney general

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Colorado’s new governor says he’s focused on saving familes money on health care coverage and being a leader for all people.

The night of Nov. 6, Jared Polis walked onstage at the Democrats’ watch party in downtown Denver as loudspeakers played Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.”

“I pledge to serve all Coloradans — no matter your party, no matter where you live, no matter your race or your Polis gender,” Polis said in his acceptance speech at about 8 p.m., noting Stapleton had called to congratulate him.

Polis, of Boulder, defeated Republican Walker Stapleton, of Greenwood Village, by about 7 percentage points — 51.9 to 44.6 — according to unofficial results posted the afternoon of Nov. 7, nearly 24 hours after the polls closed on Election Day. Polis, who will replace fellow Democrat John Hickenlooper, who is term-limited, becomes the first openly gay governor in the nation, and he touched on the status of sexual orientation and gender in his speech.

“We proved that no barrier should stand in the way of pursuing your dreams,” Polis said. “For the LGBTQ pioneers ... who endured so much hardship and hurt ... for all you’ve done to overcome, thank you.”

Stapleton announced on Twitter that he congratulated Polis at about 8 p.m. on Election Night.

“It is time for everyone to come

together and work for the good of Colorado,” Stapleton said. “Thank you to everyone for your support throughout this campaign.”

Polis and Stapleton competed in a starkly polarized race that saw President Donald Trump cast a wide shadow. Pro- and anti-Trump undertones abounded in the campaigns’ messaging, but the candidates also drew sharp lines between each other on front-burner issues in the state, such as energy, immigration and transportation.

Polis has served as the U.S. representative for the 2nd Congressional District — including areas in Boulder, Clear Creek, Jefferson, Larimer and other counties — since 2009.

An entrepreneur who started internet efforts proflowers.com and bluemountain.com, Polis largely selffunded his campaign with about $22.8 million of the campaign’s $23.2 million total contributions, according to Colorado Secretary of State data as of Oct. 29. Stapleton took in $3.9 million in contributions total as of that date, according to the data.

Stapleton, the current state treasurer, served as a CEO and chief financial officer in the private sector before taking office in 2011.

Polis’ win was part of what seemed to be a “blue wave” in Colorado, a state that saw Democrats win a number of high-profile offices.

State attorney general Democrat Phil Weiser, a professor and former dean at the University of Colorado Law School, defeated Republican George Brauchler in the race for state attorney general, 49.9 percent to 47.1 percent, according to results posted Nov. 7.

On Election Night, Weiser

Weiser gave a speech that mentioned what he said were the “authentic relationships” he built across the state.

He also touched on money put into negative ads during the campaign.

“What we proved in this election is

that people win campaigns,” Weiser said. “Colorado will show our nation how democracy can work.”

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Voters reject statewide education funding measure Supporters are hopeful to spark ongoing conversations

on the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR — have resulted in educators leaving the profession, vacant teaching positions across the state and fewer experienced professionals in classrooms.

But Jesse Mallory, the state director

BY SHANNA FORTIER of Americans for Prosperity, an orSFORTIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM ganization that advocates for conservative causes, said Coloradans were Many educators across Colorado rightly leery of a large tax increase believe voters missed an opportunity without guaranteed results. to support students when they voted “The Legislature should instead down Amendment 73, a constitutional look at ways to increase funding by amendment that would have insticutting wasteful spendtuted a graduated income ing, ending fraud and tax increase on individuals abuse, and eliminating earning more than $150,000 handouts and tax loopa year and increased the corholes for powerful and porate income tax rate from well-connected special 4.63 percent to 6 percent. interests,” Mallory said “The loss of Amendment in a news release.

73 is heartbreaking,” said Education leaders in Angela Anderson, a social Littleton Public Schools studies teacher at Bear take the failure of the Creek High School, part of measure as a learning experience.

Jefferson County Public Schools. “I “Tax increases are difficult to feel like the voters in Colorado support our schools and education, but we pass,” said Brian Ewert, LPS superintendent, whose district saw a bond can’t fund our schools on gratitude.

My students are worth the investment, measure pass by a wide margin on and I am determined to keep going in Nov. 6. “We need to step back and look order for them to have a fully funded at what voters told us.” public education.”

Ewert said leaders need to think Members of the Douglas County about what part of the tax policy was Federation of Teachers, the teachers’ objectionable, what a tax policy should union, felt the same way. look like and who should be at the “Colorado table to discuss it. has chronically “Amendments that underfunded our include tax increases schools even as are difficult to pass,” he we have a strong said. “Hopefully, this will economy,” said send a message to the enKallie Leyba, tire state to advocate for president of public education.” the federation.

Jack Reutzel, Littleton “We are very Public Schools Board of concerned about Education president, is what the implicahopeful that the Demotions for Douglas crats’ push in the state County will be, Legislature will allow as well as the for more talks about implications for increasing statewide districts across education funding in the our state … future.

Colorado cannot “With the change in afford to continue the makeup of the state Brian Ewert, Legislature, we think to underfund PK12 education withLittleton Public Schools we’re going to have a out hurting our sympathetic ear for K-12 superintendent education at the state community and our economy.”

House,” Reutzel said.

About 55 perThose sentiments are cent of Colorado shared by Lisa Weil, voters said no to executive director of Amendment 73 in the Nov. 6 election, Great Education Colorado, part of the according to results posted Nov. 8. In coalition that supported 73. the extended Denver metro area, only “This conversation, and the effort Denver, Broomfield and Boulder counfor equitable funding for Colorado ties passed the amendment. schools, will continue, as will the The measure, which would have broad-based coalition that came brought about $1.6 billion to school together to help our schools, kids districts throughout the state, also and teachers,” Weil said. “Together, aimed to created a fixed residential we’ve changed the conversation and property tax rates at 7 percent, preestablished that school funding is in venting school districts from falling crisis in Colorado. We’ve addressed it further behind in funding due to the at the grassroots level, we’ve made our Gallagher Amendment. voices heard and we expect our public Supporters of the measure said officials to listen and to come together funding shortfalls — largely blamed on solutions.”

‘Hopefully, this will send a message to the entire state to advocate for public education.,’

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State secretary of state Democratic challenger Jena Griswold unseated Secretary of State Wayne Williams, garnering 51.1 percent of the vote compared to Williams’ 46.5 percent.

Griswold began a victory speech by thanking Williams for “his years of service to our state,” going on to

University of Colorado regent at large For the University of Colorado Board of Regents, Republican Ken Montera, a retired corporate executive, faced Democrat Lesley Smith, a CU scientist and educa- Smith tor, in the race for an at-large seat. Smith won the seat with 50.4 percent of the vote, compared to Montera’s 44.9 percent.

The board of regents generally governs, and controls funds for, the four CU campuses.

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next morning, saying in a news release that he looks forward to working with Weiser and the state’s new leadership.

“This is a new era in Colorado politics,” Brauchler said. “I am proud of the job we did running a close race in a state that appears blue at this time.

As much as I am disappointed in the outcome, I am proud of our democratic system of self-government and to have been given the chance to compete for such an important office.”

Brauchler, of Parker, is the 18th Judicial District Attorney in the south metro area. He pegged his opponent as wanting Washington to dictate to Colorado, while Weiser said Brauchler’s background readies him for only 10 percent of the state attorney general’s job.

Weiser, of Denver, commented on his opponent during his victory address.

“It takes a lot to step up and run,” Weiser said. “George had a different vision, and the voters got to choose.”

The attorney general is Colorado’s top legal official, known as the “people’s lawyer” who combats consumer scams, defends Colorado’s laws and protects its land, water and air, to name a few duties.

Brauchler painted Weiser as a partisan who aims to “link hands” with other activist attorneys general, while Weiser framed his campaign as a fight for people’s basic rights and business accountability.

Who could pull off the win had been an open question between Brauchler, a prosecutor who has cultivated a tough-on-crime image, and a professor with less name recognition who had the opportunity to ride a wave of antiTrump sentiment among Democrats.

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outline her priorities for the office, according to a news release.

“We must ensure that every single voter be heard — black or white, old or young, Republican, Democrat or Independent,” Griswold said. “Colorado can start down this path by expanding automatic voter registration.”

Williams, of Colorado Springs, was running for Griswold a second term. Griswold, of Louisville, is a voter-protection attorney.

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VOICES Don’t let your sons grow up to be YouTube stars

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hen I was five, my heroes were my Mom and my Dad and older brother. Just because.

When I was eight, my hero was Luke Skywalker, because he had magical powers and he got to swing across the chasm with Princess Leia.

When I was 10, my hero was Mr. Spock, because I appreciated that he faced every challenge with logic and reason.

When I was 12, my hero was Pete Rose, because I loved how “Charlie Hustle” played every game as if it was the most important game ever. Gambling will do that.

And then, when I was 15, I discovered Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severenson and the New York Philharmonic.

I tell you all of that because, as I’ve written before, I think most people end up being an amalgam of the people and ideals they elevate in their lives. I’m not saying I’m the smartest kid in the room, but I do value intelligence; I’m not coldly logical, but I do try to let reason rule my decision-making process; I’m not a Jedi…

Yeah, I got nothing for that.

You see my point. As I matured (a slow, ongoing process, to be sure), these were the characteristics I attempted to emulate.

Some were successful, some less so.

By contrast, my son really enjoys watching “YouTubers.” And no, that is not some bizarre cartoon show about talking worms.

YouTubers are a strange new brand of entertainment in which people record themselves doing something, and then narrate what they are doing. In my son’s case, the thing they are usually doing is playing some video game and showing off advanced tactics or skills. They also seem to be British and make strange noises. Could just be me.

One of the most famous of this brand of entertainer was a man named Logan Paul, whose fame even spawned a line of clothing. He, in the never-ending quest to remain relevant, leapt across all lines of good taste and decorum one day last year, and recorded himself being an idiot at the site of suicide. He has since apologized.

This is, apparently, one of the most popular pastimes for boys. And, for the most part, I don’t really care. It’s harmless — and

mostly mindless — fun.

But the YouTuber must remain relevant with increasingly mindless ways of drawing attention to themselves. And so, ultimately, like Kim Kardashian and all the other attention seekers in the world, I suspect each of them will eventually jump their own shark into oblivion.

And what will be left behind are young men — boys — whose ideals are mindless attention whores. Meanwhile, their counterparts (girls) are being constantly pointed in the direction of smart, ambitious and accomplished women to emulate, like Nikki Haley and Sheryl Sandberg. And if they can manage to avoid being sucked into Hulu, they will see that the world is being laid at their feet.

This is a phenomenon that I would advise parents to be aware of. Like many entertainments through the years (Dungeons and Dragons comes to mind), it is largely harmless. But we are starting to notice that one of the most striking SEE ALCORN, P13

Why we didn’t vote … and why we did

T LETTER TO THE EDITOR End of election relief We can all breathe a sigh of relief that the onslaught of political ads are over, at least for the moment. My hope now is that our elected officials do not go right back to business as usual. The record numbers that turned out for a mid term should send a signal. The voters of our country are waking up and taking positions. One of the strongest of those is that we are tired of gridlock in our government and we demand that

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our representatives drop the vitriolic name calling and mud slinging, and work within party and across aisles to come to reasonable compromises that our nation can live with. The time for non-yielding partisanship is over. If those of you we elected cannot govern in an effective manner, you will see even more of us at the polls in the next election and you will be replaced SEE LETTERS, P13

make a difference. his column is not about I also heard that some of you felt vote shaming – we all have too uninformed to cast a reasonour reasons for what we do. able ballot, especially given Rather, it’s about competing issues such as what I’ve learned since the ALCHEMY Propositions 109 and 110. Othmidterm elections.

Did you know that Coloers told me that, as in the 2016 rado’s voter turnout was presidential campaign, you among the highest in the nadidn’t like any of the candition? As of Nov. 11, the U.S. dates and, rather than vote Elections Project reports a 49 for or against someone, you percent turnout rate nationdidn’t vote at all. ally, the highest for midterm I talked with Coloradans so elections since 1966. The I didn’t encounter many barProject reports, however, riers to voting, such as access that in Colorado nearly 60 or transportation, because percent of eligible voting-age Andrea Doray of our mail-in ballot system, adults participated. but I did hear that it was too In our state, women cast nearly inconvenient and time consuming, 100,000 more votes than men, and again, perhaps, because the complex unaffiliated voters were the largest issues. group. And, perhaps not surprisingly, Many of you mentioned the barvoters aged 18 to 34 made up more rage of negative attack ads – many than 21 percent of the total. of which (if not all) were proven Many of you who chose not to by truth testers to be misleading at vote, though, told me your vote best and outright lies at worst – that doesn’t matter, some of you because turned you off politics altogether. you believe that nothing changes, For those who did vote, the overno matter who gets elected. Others whelming reason was to send a responded in terms of sheer numbers … that your one vote won’t SEE DORAY, P13

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by those who can get the job done.

Within my small sphere of influence I for one will do all that I can to make sure that the spotlight of public responsibility is trained on you and am encouraging all voters to do the same.

Richard Kurtz, Arvada

Sad about 73 outcome Coming from a family of teachers in Colorado, we are saddened and heartbroken about the lack of support Colorado voters gave to Colorado public schools, educators and students in our state in voting down Amendment 73. Had it passed, the funding that would have gone to our schools could have made the difference in attracting and retaining quality teachers, lowering class sizes, improving much needed technology and supplies, as well as providing adequate salaries to teachers so they can afford to live in our state. Instead we got slapped in the face.

When will Colorado begin to care about public education in our communities? Maybe when our teachers start crossing state lines to teach in districts that pay twice as much.

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achievement gaps in education is between boys and girls. In fact, women outpace men in earning college degrees by almost 20 percent. And that gap begins early.

Boys are being educated in an environment that is very unnatural for them, and then they chase entertainments that retard the maturation process. And if you don’t think boys’ maturity issues aren’t huge, I would advise you to spend time in a school. It’s a double-whammy.

The antidote? Like in everything, the real world. Make boys play outside, play team sports, take them to games, point out the good guys. Help them form values.

Encourage them to grow up according to those values. For God’s sake, don’t let them subscribe to Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.

Show them the way.

Someday, they’ll be voters.

message – a resist message, a support message, a mad-as-hell-and-notgoing-to-take-it-anymore message. To whom we’re sending these messages varies, but usually it’s one or the other of the political parties, either nationally or locally or both.

I also heard another viewpoint that I want to believe about our government: By voting in elections, we are sending a message to the rest of the world, a message that we believe our democracy is such a vital political system that we are compelled to participate in one of its most foundational values.

For me personally, I vote for several reasons. For example, I honor both my parents, who served in World War II against tyranny on multiple fronts. Also, I happened to visit Nepal during their national parliamentary elections in 2013. Transporta-

tion was shut down, candidates were killed or maimed, and opposition parties bombed polling stations. Yet, an astounding 70 percent of Nepal’s registered voters braved the volatile situation to show up.

Finally, in a heartbreaking insider ambush, National Guard Major Brett Taylor (and North Ogden, Utah, mayor) was killed in Afghanistan as he was providing security for Afghan elections, days before our midterms.

In his last Facebook post, Major Taylor wrote: “As the USA gets ready to vote in our own election next week, I hope everyone back home exercises their precious right to vote … and that whether the Republicans or the Democrats win, that we all remember that we have far more as Americans that unites us than divides us.”

Rest in peace, Major Taylor.

Andrea Doray is a writer who encourages us to cherish our hard-won freedoms and protect the rights of all Americans. Contact her at a.doray@ andreadoray.com.

Michael Alcorn is a teacher and writer who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children.

His new novel, “Charon’s Blade,” will be available November 16 at Amazon.com, on Kindle, or through MichaelJAlcorn.com.

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QUIET And holiday music. Some of it t is the first of November. I conducted by chipmunks. am braced for what is about to DESPERATION What was once a week, two at the happen, against my wishes and most, of observation and anticipaagainst my will. tion, has become a quarter of the My belief is that it comes earlier annum, and God forbid (he said) every year as an antidote to reality, that you are an atheist, or someone as a form of comfort food in the who simply prefers to contemplate face of the news that, day after day, certain things very privately. is harsh and abrasive on our deliNo. My grocery emporium is cate systems, especially mine. loading up with absolutely appallThis will be Harry’s first true ing décor, and I am counting the Christmas. I’ve warned him. days until the already awful music To give you an example: the Hall- Craig Marshall is replaced by seasonal music, most mark Channel began its uninterSmith of it sounding like an anesthetic. rupted Christmas movie marathon Some people like it. last month.

The thought that some might not is not a Home shopping channels have had holiparticipant. day-themed must-haves since September.

The majority gets its wish.

Now that Halloween is behind us, and But there is one (at least) in every crowd, with only Thanksgiving on the horizon, and I am that one. which involves no history of gift exchanges There is no subtlety left anywhere. or baleful music, the coast is clear for merThis is not the United Zen of America. chants. mostly, to take over where exasperatIf you want to hear Andy Williams around ing political campaigns left off, and inundate every corner, so be it. Even my beloved clasevery corner with solicitations.

sical music station will turn on me soon.

If this sounds like Scrooge is afoot, he’s not. Am I a curmudgeon? Yes. Am I a wet blanket? Possibly.

My adage is this, tried and true: “There’s a time and place for everything.”

Understandably, when it comes to money, the lines of distinction are blurred, and what started as a religious holiday has turned into a greedy realm of merchandising, with a playlist that includes Gene Autry and Jimmy Boyd.

Boyd’s recording of “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” was recorded in 1952 when he was only 13.

The record was condemned by the Roman Catholic Church in Boston.

Because it combined kissing with Christmas.

Oh, brother.

Boyd traveled to Boston, met with the Archdiocese, and the ban was lifted.

Whatever subtlety there was in any design, in any event, in any production, is gone.

There is hoopla instead. A football team might enter the field through manufactured fog and fireworks.

There is even a Red Carpet in front of an award for Best Supporting Actor Supporting a Supporting Actor.

There is so much rancor in America right now, and daily events that depress the heart and soul, that relief of any kind is understandable.

However, the bombardment, attending to a majority perception, only adds to the dismay.

Once upon a time, I drank my way through this time of year, and came out of it on the other side. Others do the same. Rehab enrollment spikes in January.

There is a great consolation prize: My favorite author wrote something I read every late December, with unsurpassed character and setting depictions.

Dickens.

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

Barr Lake contains a deep history of agriculture, sewage and renewal OUTDOOR LIVING

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he naturalist-minded resident, be they youth or adult, are fortunate to have a variety of natural venues in a short driving distance for virtually anywhere in the Metro Denver area. This column has reported on the urban national wildlife refuges over the past few years. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) agency has much to offer as well in its State Wildlife Area and State Parks System. Neighboring Barr Lake State Park, near Brighton is an example.

Man’s movement into the

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Celebrating American Indian heritage During this month, our nation and the Lakewood Blue Spruce Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrate and recognize the accomplishments of the Native Americans who were the original inhabitants, explorers, and settlers.

Lakewood Mayor Adam Paul has proclaimed November as National American Indian Heritage Month by stating the contributions of American Indians have enhanced the freedom, prosperity, and greatness of America today. He further states that their customs and traditions are respected and celebrated as part of a rich legacy throughout the US. As far back as the early 1900’s, the Boy Scouts set aside a day for the “First Americans.”

In 1986 Congress established “American Indian Week.”

Congress chose the month

developing Denver and South Platte River Basin resulted in the construction of Oasis Reservoir, an agricultural impoundment, in 1891. Oasis was later expanded into what we know now as Barr Lake. Over the years, the reservoir stored diverted water from the South Platte River, was abused as the storage bucket for raw sewage from the upstream rapidly expanding suburban communities and Denver itself.

Mother Nature’s massive and damaging 100 year rain storm in the spring of 1965 did Barr Lake

of November as this month concluded the traditional harvest season and was a time of thanksgiving and celebration for the American Indians.

In 1989 Congress passed the “National Museum of the American Indian Act” providing for a National Museum which is a part of the Smithsonian system. In the following year, President George W. Bush being inspired by the museum, issued a proclamation, making November as National American Indian Heritage month.

President Bush stated that the “national museum is dedicated to the preservation of American Indian history, art, language, anthropology, and culture that will help enhance public awareness of – and appreciation for – these proud people”. Each president since then has proclaimed November as National American Indian Heritage Month.

In President Donald Trump’s 2018 Proclamation he encourages all Americans to learn more about American Indians and Alaska Native cultures as we celebrate and honor the many native peoples who have given

a big favor by essentially flushing the accumulated raw sewerage from the canals that fed Barr Lake and the lake sediment itself. The lake’s value as a recreation site as well as irrigation storage resulted in agriculture interest and state officials agreeing to combine its useS by creating the Barr Lake State Park in 1977.

The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and CPW have identified 370 species of birds at Barr Lake and that number as grown since the original lake was created in the late 1800s. Today one can fish, walk

so much to our great nation.

Colorado Governor Hicklenlooper also issued a Proclamation for this special month.

Dorothy Burke, Lakewood Blue backlash at ballot box As a long-time Colorado conservative, I can only see what happened here as a “Blue Backlash” rather than a “Blue Wave.” It seems that there are two factors. First, we have many citizens who are not happy with what has been a gridlock situation in Colorado Government. Secondly, we have had an influx of Democrats/Liberals in this state. Many residents have moved here because they were fed up with the high taxes and liberal agenda of their various states. So, why do they move here and then vote for exactly the same thing?

It is like that with some immigrants that leave their country but want similar laws passed in the US. Isn’t that contradictory? Yet, that seems to be the mind-set of many immigrants, no matter what their place of origin.

trails that surround the lake, participate in educational programs at the Nature Center, hunt waterfowl below the dam, volunteer with the CPW professional staff, support park as member of the Barr Lake Friends Group, observe Bald Eagle pairs during nesting or just relax absorbing the natural beauty of the lake, the water, greenery, wildlife and the bird species.

Outdoorsman and Westminster resident Ron Hellbusch can be reached at Ron-Hellbusch Comcast. net

Colorado has been a conservative stronghold. That is what has made our state a vibrant economy over the years. Perhaps, as time goes on and we start to look like the high tax, restrictive, liberal states our citizens will begin to reconsider what they have done. Maybe!

William F Hineser, Arvada Ban smoking in public I think that smoking shoudn’t be allowed in public. I think this because the smell is horrid, most people cause litter with their cigarettes, and worst of all second hand smoking happens.

The litter is gross and bad for the environment, especially for the animals that may eat them.

The smell is bad and second hand smoking happens, which isn’t good for you.

Levi Stewart, Golden Vapeing is a growing issue As someone of my age, I see a side of youth smoking that adults do not, and I wish that you would address this in your next publication. I have noticed

kids at my school who are missing their education for a break to “Juul.” I see this as a growing issue and I believe that making parents aware of this issue would help calm it down and save some people from the grim future it creates.

Jack Kelley of Troop 21, Arvada McIntyre trouble One issue that there is in my life right now is the traffic around my house. It’s not all that bad except this one intersection at McIntyre and 56th. Right now it is under construction but when it wasn’t there was no light and every morning we had to leave five minutes earlier just to account for the time we would lose just waiting for traffic to clear up.

Now like I said, McIntyre is under construction to make two lanes instead of just one. If this works, it will very much improve our daily drive time but in addition to this for me being a new driver it could be hard to cross this double street.

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hanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever you and your family celebrate is right around the corner. The holidays are supposed to bring a light of happiness to life with traditions, food, gifts, relaxation and — whether you like it or not — family.

Maybe seeing your family isn’t a problem, and family holiday gatherings are something that you look forward to each year. It’s not like that for everyone, though, and seeing the family during the holidays can be a stressful time for plenty of Americans.

We talked to three licensed family therapists about how to deal with stress that family can bring during the holidays. Whether you’re preparing to deal with family members whom you don’t see often, or to deal with family members who may have strong opinions that differ from yours, these therapists have pointers to make things easier as the holidays approach.

Dr. Reo Leslie “You must’ve been watching some movies,” said Leslie as he chuckles over the phone when asked about his tips for dealing with family holiday gatherings. Leslie is full of knowledge about the subject, and he has the credentials to show it. The licensed marriage and family therapist founded the Colorado School for Family Therapy, a nonprofit organization and school that educates counselors, clinical supervisors, licensure candidates, psychotherapists and ministers.

Therapist Cory Reid-Vanas suggests treating difficult family as an opportunity.

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Leslie’s first message to those who are dreading spending time with their family is to determine how long the interaction is going to be in order to better prepare yourself for what you’re getting into.

His second message to those who are stressed about family gatherings? You’re not obligated to participate in family functions.

“Family systems are really good at initiating emotions like shame and guilt, but you don’t have to buy into that. You don’t want to harm your stress and mental health,” Leslie said. “A lot of my clients choose not to participate in the holiday family situations. It’s harmful emotionally to go into bad family situations.”

For those who are worried about political discussions at the holiday dinner table, Leslie has a simple suggestion — don’t participate in it.

“If uncle Joe is a Democrat and aunt Sally is a Republican, you don’t want to discuss politics close to the turkey knives. Suspend that around the holiday time. There is no need to argue your opinion,” said Leslie.

“Normally, expressing your opinion is important, but none of that needs to happen over the holiday dinner.

Being with the family around the holidays is like moving into an alternative universe. You have to suspend reality for the time of the activity.”

Letha Atwater Letha Atwater is soft-spoken and well-educated about coping with family holiday gatherings. She starts off a conversation about the subject with a similar suggestion that Leslie made — be prepared.

“One of the biggest things is being able to plan ahead for knowing that person (whom you don’t want to see) is going to be there,” said Atwater, direcAtwater tor of clinical family therapy for Counseling Center of Colorado LLC. Atwater’s suggestion for planning ahead involves having an escape plan. She said that having an escape plan can come in handy if nothing is going the way you want at a family holiday gathering. That escape plan can even be just going outside and taking a walk to separate yourself from a family member who is giving you issues.

Atwater emphasized how impactful relaxation techniques like taking deep breaths can be if someone is giving you anxiety. She also suggested using positive imagery as a coping mechanism, like imagining that you’re on a beach in Hawaii.

hen most people see red carpets, they’re on television and full of recognizable faces from the worlds of entertainment or sports. Most of us will never get to walk one, have our photos taken and answer questions from the press.

But thanks to the Denver Film Festival, which hosted its 41st iteration Oct. 31 through Nov. 11, local actors, directors, writers, producers and others in the industry based in the metro area had the chance to do just that outside of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.

Most, like producer Anthony Cross, used the opportunity to not only speak about their work, but champion the city and state’s film scene — a scene that has been growing in recent years.

COMING “Film here in ATTRACTIONS not just a stagnant art form.

It is a living, breathing thing,” Cross explained.

“It is important we make it something that is worthwhile and accessible to everybody.”

Clarke Reader This year’s festival included more than 200 screenings, from three-to-five-minute short films to feature-length titles that will soon be mainstays during awards season in just a few months. There were documentaries, spotlights on the films of Hungary and the United Kingdom and even music videos.

“Our audiences have become really good at trying new things as part of the festival, which is pretty unique,” said Andrew Rodgers, Denver Film Society executive director.

The aim of such a wide variety of offerings is not only to entertain and enlighten, but to inspire filmmakers of all ages to tell their stories.

“It’s unbelievable to see how much the festival has grown over the past 41 years, and now we’re working on building up a younger audience,” said Ron Henderson, Denver Film Society and Festival founder.

I picked three movies from the eclectic lineup that I think you should make a point to spend time with when they come to a screen, large or small, near you.

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“People don’t know what is going on in your mind. Sometimes you really have to take yourself out of a situation if it is going to cause a lot of anxiety for you,” Atwater said. “I can’t stress enough that we control how we feel and think. If we look at it in that way, it really takes a lot of other people’s stuff off of our plate.”

Cory Reid-Vanas Cory Reid-Vanas is a friendly, welcoming licensed marriage and family therapist who is the founder of Rocky Mountain Counseling Coaching Consulting, a counseling service for individuals, families and couples.

“This is a really important time of year to practice taking good care of ourselves. Obviously, it is important to attend and spend time with family, but it’s also important to practice that sentiment that our responsibility is to take good care of ourselves,” Reid-Vanas said.

Reid-Vanas said that having a family member who is challenging for you,

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‘The Front Runner’ For Coloradans and political junkies alike, director Jason Reitman’s latest film, “The Front Runner,” tackles a story many of us might think we know — the failed presidential bid of Colorado Sen. Gary Hart in 1988.

The film centers on Hart (a restrained, torn Hugh Jackman) as he navigates the pressures, lies and half-truths that come with running for the highest office in the land. The film brims over with fantastic performances from Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Molly Ephraim and many, many others.

Written by Reitman, Jay Carson and Matt Bai (based on his book, “All the Truth Is Out”) the film explores questions of what is interesting vs. important, the culpability of politicians and the media alike in turning politicians into celebrities and the standards to which we hold ourselves and our lead-

or who increases your stress level, can be an opportunity to practice self-care.

Part of practicing self-care includes getting rest through doing things you enjoy, practicing better nutrition and getting exercise. All of those things are great methods for dealing with stress that the holidays and family can bring on, according to Reid-Vanas.

“You are going to experience stress.

The goal isn’t to control stress. The goal is to manage stress to minimize it so that you can enjoy your holiday,” ReidVanas said.

Reid-Vanas has other methods for dealing with stress that family can create during the holidays. He calls them “plug ins” and “plug outs.” Plugging in is about connecting with yourself and focusing on your values and priorities.

Plugging out is about connecting with “the external,” and that involves everything from people and the natural world.

“I think that with how our world is set up, holidays can be stressful around expectations of spending time with family, preparing meals, or purchasing gifts. Stress levels can easily go up,” said Reid-Vanas. “We all have family members. Families are complex. They’re both difficult and beautiful all in the same sentence.”

ers. In other words, a film made for these fraught political times.

“When we’ve created a process where we make politicians into celebrities, eventually we were going to have celebrity candidates,” Bai said during a post-screening discussion that included Carson, Reitman and producer Helen Estabrook on Nov. 8 at Ellie Caulkins. “This campaign was really the moment when the world of politics and entertainment collided.”

With instantly quotable lines like “The world changes when young people give a damn,” and an exploration of what the American public will and won’t stand for when it comes to their leaders and the fourth estate, “The Front Runner” should not be missed.

‘The Invisibles’ In February 1943, the Nazi regime declared Berlin “free of Jews.” But that count was off by about 1,700 people.

People who did everything they could to remain hidden and blend in. To become invisible.

Claus Räfle’s film, “The Invisibles,” is a fascinating and unique blending

Family therapist Dr. Reo Leslie suggests setting time limits on family interactions.

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of documentary and historical drama, which tells the true story of four Jewish Berliners and the lengths they went through to avoid being deported into the Third Reich’s concentration camps. Some of the survivors actually worked in the underground resistance, undermining the Germans wherever they could, while others’ sole focus was staying a step ahead of the Gestapo.

The movie uses actual interviews from the four survivors as they remember traumatic events like, as one put it, “the day I became illegal.” That the film manages to be as uplifting and even funny as it is stands as a testament to Räfle’s craft and the ordinary heroes he celebrates.

Unsurprisingly, it’s the survivors who make the biggest impression — testaments to the power of the will to live and the regenerative grace of humanity.

‘Roma’ To me, there is a kind of otherworldly beauty that comes with a movie shot in black and white. The contrasts are deeper and the shadows and light

become a more visceral part of the storytelling. All of which is to say, Oscarwinner Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film, “Roma,” takes Mexico City of the early 1970s and turns it into a world of everyday enchantment and poetry through black-and-white cinematography and personal storytelling.

Based on his own experiences growing up in the city, Cuarón (“Children of Men,” “Gravity” and “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”) cast firsttime and unknown actors in the role of a middle-class family at a time of personal and political change. The movie feels more like a documentary than a scripted drama, and Cuarón (who also wrote and shot it) uses a poet’s eye to tell extraordinarily moving stories to which everyone can relate.

The film is coming straight to Netflix, so you have no excuse to miss what is undoubtedly one of the year’s best films.

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

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‘The Humans’ mines rich ore of family life Regional premiere of solid new play is on stage at Curious Theatre

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

“This is the second holiday show in 21 years,” said Chip Walton, Curious Theatre’s artistic director, as he welcomed the Nov. 3 opening-night audience to a performance of “The Humans” by Stephen Karam — a regional premiere. While the scene is a family Thanksgiving dinner, “The Humans” stays on the path of openness to different ways of thinking/ living/working — Curious Theatre’s trademark theme.

“The Humans,” a strong new play, the type which Curious consistently chooses to deliver, won the 2016 Tony Award for Best New Play and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer drama award, setting audience expectations high. With a fine cast and direction

by Dee Covington, it is a pleasure to watch.

The spare set, designed by Markas Henry, shows the small, sparsely furnished two-story apartment in Chinatown, New York City, where young musician Brigid Blake (Anastasia Davidson) and her fiancé, Richard Saad (Antonio Amadeo) have recently moved. Furniture is yet to arrive in

IF YOU GO “The Humans” runs through Dec. 22 at Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., in Denver’s Golden Triangle. Performances: 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays (Thanksgiving excepted); 2 p.m. Sundays. Adequate free parking. Tickets: curioustheatre.org, 303-623-0524. general … and strange, loud bumps persist from the apartment upstairs, where an older Chinese woman lives.

Readers may be reminded of a first visit to a beloved offspring’s new home and trying so very hard to feel “at home.”

Brigid’s attorney/sister Aimee (Susan McLeod) has arrived and soon, their parents: Dierdre (Anne F. Butler) and Erik (Kevin Hart) appear — a bit frazzled after a trip from their home in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (The playwright grew up there.) With the parents is the grandmother Fiona, “Momo,” who has dementia (Kathryn Gray).

The concept of the conflicted dinner party, where strong opinions clash, is certainly there, with underlying stories about each character woven together and assorted problems pretty much unresolved.

No question, however, about how strongly this family loves one another.

Karam’s script is beautifully written and carries the story along through dialogue. The cast is skilled and all the characters carefully crafted.

Arvada author receives national book award STAFF REPORT

Arvada author Helen Starbuck has won the 2018 12th annual National Indie Excellence Award for her mystery “The Mad Hatter’s Son, An Annie Collins Mystery.” The book is an adult contemporary medical mystery set in Denver. The main character is an OR nurse who helps to solve the illness and murder of Starbuck her best friend.

The book has also won a Colorado Independent Publisher’s EVVY Merit Award and received a 10 out of 10-point review from the BookLife Prize Contest. This review pushed the book into the quarterfinals for the BookLife Prize, which will be announced in December.

The next book in the series No Pity In Death will debut Nov. 14. The books can be purchased in paperback at the Tattered Cover and The Book Bar in Denver. They can be purchased in ebook, paperback, and audiobook on Amazon. The audiobook may also be purchased on Audible and iTunes.

“The Mad Hatter’s Son” by Helen Starbuck.

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A family toast at Thanksgiving unites the Blake family who gather together in “The Humans” at Curious Theatre.

COURTESY PHOTO Brigid, a composer in the making, is working two jobs as a bartender while she seeks a professional path as composer and Richard works at a job, wanting to return to school, while looking forward to a family inheritance sometime soon. Tense Aimee has recently lost her girlfriend/ partner and is in pain with ulcerative colitis, but unable to afford needed medical care, unwilling to undergo surgery …

The Irish Catholic parents, of course don’t approve of her lifestyle, nor of Brigid’s. “When are you getting married?” the mom asks Brigid, more than once …

Money for Momo to move into as-

sisted living isn’t available either — Erik has worked in maintenance at St. Paul’s school for years and doesn’t have savings, nor does Dierdre, who has an office job. During the play, Gray’s Momo sleeps a lot, babbles some and perks up to participate in a family prayer — until near the end …

Nicely portrayed by Gray, a veteran local actor, educator and frequent dialogue coach, who keeps a lid on it.

Hart, as father Erik, often dominates a scene. On edge, in his first visit to New York City since 9/11, he tends to discount his daughters’ opinions — and/or fails to understand them.

I found myself getting angry with him — which is exactly the desired response.

And the widely experienced Butler, as Dierdre, tries to hold things together, relying on her faith to make things right. She’s the familial glue …

The legendary mother figure — sure she’s right, not willing to accept her daughters’ choices, but loving them.

Strong delivery here.

I felt that later in the 90-minute play, actors were shouting at each other fairly consistently, which diluted the effectiveness of the well-crafted dialogue — we wondered about director Dee Covington’s reasoning for that increased noise level, especially when each cast member was so skilled at expressing Karam’s words and feelings.

The ending, by contrast, is quiet and spooky! The air leaves the room …

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Think dodgeball, but played with bows and foam-tipped arrows in an indoor arena. That’s the premise behind Archery Games Denver, which opened in Arvada the weekend of Sept. 15.

The action-packed game is aimed at offering a family-friendly experience, with each session running 75 minutes long — 25 minutes of briefing, basic archery training and practice time followed by 50 minutes of game play.

No archery experience is needed to play and the recommended age range is 10 and older.

“The key is to have everyone keep moving,” said Jesse Warlick, co-owner of Archery Games Denver.

Warlick, who had previously worked in investment banking, got the for Archery Games after his business partner returned from a bachelor party in Montreal, Canada, where he played a similar game.

“He told me he had a blast, we should look into it and that it could really work in Denver,” Warlick said.

After checking out the concept for himself, Warlick saw potential for kids’ parties as well as corporate team-building outings.

“Varying types of crowds really enjoy this,” Warlick said. “Men, women, kids, adults… guys are an easier sell, but girls, once they are in there, they really enjoy it. For team building its’ a pretty fun thing because it’s active.

People sit at their desks so much now,

At Archery Games groups are split into two teams and play against each other. so if you get them out there and get them active it breaks down that barrier of boss verses employee.”

Team building is exactly why Warren Fernandes and his co-workers visited Archery Games.

“My default is usually an escape room or a brewery,” Fernandes said, of their team building activities. “But this gets you a different side of team building. I didn’t except it to be this much of a workout.”

Archery Games is meant to be physical and participants are encouraged to dress for the gym. But the Warlick said the arrows are designed for safety, specially engineered to leave no bruises or marks. Masks are also required at all times in the arena to protect the eyes.

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Honoring Israel: When a local church takes on an international issue

BY LIAM ADAMS SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

LIST OF POLITICIANS WHO ATTENDED

Though Faith Bible Chapel is overjoyed to celebrate their 40th anniversary of hosting, “A Night to Honor Israel,” not everyone in the community is equally enthusiastic.

Teenagers dancing in Orthodox Jewish garb, videos explaining Israel’s God-given right to the land, and the former Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson celebrating Israeli military strength. These were a few features of Faith Bible Chapel’s “A Night to Honor Israel” in Arvada on Oct. 21.

While the number of Christian churches hosting similar events has grown in recent years, Faith Bible Chapel was one of the first in the United States. In fact, Faith Bible Chapel celebrated 40 years of hosting “A Night to Honor Israel” this year.

Beginning as “Israel Awareness Day,” Faith Bible Chapel wanted to show solidarity with the Jews and promote the idea that Jews returning to Israel is, “Biblical fulfillment of prophecy,” said Rev. George H. Morrison.

Morrison, who began attending Faith Bible Chapel in 1971, was senior pastor at Faith Bible Chapel for 33 years until retiring in January 2017.

He said the church’s support for Israel goes back “to the roots of our very own church.”

For the event, the church was adorned with American and Israeli flags, while vendors stood outside

According to Faith Bible Chapel, the following politicians and officials attended the annual “A Night to Honor Israel,” Oct. 21.

State Representative Perry Buck State Representative Tracy Kraft-Tharp State Representative Kevin Priola State Representative Kim Ransom Congressman Ken Buck Congressman Mike Coffman State Senator Tim Neville State Senator Angela Williams State Senator Chris Holbert Douglas County Commissioner Diane Holbert Canadian Consulate General Stephane Lessard the service hall representing organizations including the Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, Jewish Colorado and Jewish National Fund.

The service began with a rock concert in Hebrew. The worship band banged on drums and riffed on guitars, while children and teenagers entered from off stage to sing

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A scene from the 40th annual “A Night to Honor Israel” at the Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada. Performers on stage included international singers and dancers, including two students from Jewish Colorado’s Teen Israel Emissaries and a children’s choir of children from Faith Bible Chapel.

COURTESY OF FAITH BIBLE CHAPEL and dance. The dancing teenagers wore black robes and hats and curled their hair in a similar fashion to Orthodox Jews.

The children were part of the church’s youth group and had practiced for many months prior to the event, said Senior Pastor Jason King.

The guest speaker, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman for the foreign media, spoke on his specialty of knowledge: the Israeli military.

He detailed foreign hostility against Israel and described how Israel isn’t backing down.

Lerner said, “freedom doesn’t descend like rain or snow from the skies. Freedom is won by defeating our enemies.”

Though Lerner detailed Israeli military offensive and defensive strategies, he also said, “We will do everything possible to avert war.”

In the past, Faith Bible Chapel has hosted rabbis or other prominent Israel supporters, like Dennis Prager.

King said it was good to have Lerner this year to inform the audience about their military strengths and weaknesses.

Jennifer McDaniels, a Colorado resident and a long-time attendee of the event, said in an email that hearing from Israeli military leaders over the years has given her “a perspective of what they have faced and how they will defend themselves.”

McDaniels said the event is important for the Jewish community in Colorado and in Israel “know that a church is willing to stand by them …

Even when the rest of the world is intolerant towards them as a people, and as a state.”

Not everyone in the community is happy that Faith Bible Chapel holds this event, however. In fact, Morrison said that there’s been protesters at least 15 out of the 40 years it’s been held.

Groups like Friends of Sabeel –

Colorado and We Hold These Truths have held peaceful vigils to express dissatisfaction. They believe Faith Bible Chapel is wrong to support Israel, who has been known for mistreatment of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.

In 2015, We Hold These Truths wrote a letter to Morrison and held a “vigil” to protest “A Night to Honor Israel.” The letter said, “Christian Zionism does NOT resemble Jesus and is incompatible with His teachings.” Christian Zionism is the phrase used by critics to describe Christians who take a strong, proIsrael stance.

Richard Forer, a Colorado resident and leader within Friends of Sabeel – Colorado, participated in the vigil himself. He said they waved posters and offered brochures, but very little conversation occurred between them and the attendees. Forer said representatives of the church would come out and quickly usher attendees inside to prevent conversations with the protesters.

Chuck Carlson, a Wheat Ridge resident and co-founder of We Hold These Truths, said it’s problematic for Faith Bible Chapel to hold this event because congregants are led, “to look the other way and accept murder and mayhem, starvation and continued destruction,” he said.

When a local church frames international policy for a congregation, the congregation is less willing to consider other sides of the debate, Carlson said. These church leaders are obligated, “to tell the truth,” he said.

Today, Faith Bible Chapel seeks to uphold Morrison’s vision. King acknowledges that Israel, like any nation, does wrong, but sees the issue first and foremost “as a Biblical issue versus a political one,” he said.

“The controversial stuff doesn’t bother us because that’s not our point.”

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

The Nutcracker Ballet: 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Nov. 28-29 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood.

Presented by Ballet Melange in collaboration with Classical Ballet Academy. Go to http://www. classical-ballet-academy.com/ events/ “Seussical”: through Dec. 29 at Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Call 720-898-7200 or go to https://arvadacenter.org/seussical-2.

MUSIC

Timothy P. & The Rocky Mountain Stocking Stuffers: 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1-2 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Call 303987-7845 or go to lakewood.org/ lccpresents for tickets. Timothy P. Irvin and his 10-piece string band perform bluegrass, country and folk renditions of favorite holiday songs.

ART

Dinosaurs and Other Fantastical Creatures, Art Club: 4-5:30 p.m.

Wednesdays through Nov. 21 at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Led by artist Dave Sullivan. For ages 6-12. Go to https://campscui.active.com/orgs/ MajesticViewNatureCenter Wire Wrapping Class: 1-5 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 25 at Lithos Mineral Shop, 5695 Yukon St., Arvada.

Create a wire-wrapped pendant using square copper wires and traditional wire-wrapping techniques. Go to http://www. lithosarvada.com.

Make Something: A Dish Garden: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave., Wheat Ridge. Materials included with registration. Go to https://jeffcolibrary.org/ DIY Holiday Card: 3-5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Call 303-425-9583 or go to www.apexprd.org to register. Create your own homemade holiday cards.

ers, free burritos from School House Kitchen and Libations; and register to win prizes (for first 100 people).

this week’s TOP FIVE Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Call 303-987-7845 or go to lakewood.org/lccpresents for tickets. Alasdair Fraser, regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador, and brilliant cellist Natalie Haas perform Scottish dance rhythms.

History’s Mysteries, A Murder Mystery: 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 at Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada. Call 303-235-5275 or visit www.jeffcolibrary.org. Famous figures from history team up with your favorite detectives in this story of deceit, mischief and betrayal.

Gallery and Studio, 445 S. Saulbury St., Lakewood.

An opening reception is Saturday, Nov. 17, from 5-8:30 p.m. Go to www.valkariefineart.com.

Thanksgiving Break Fun: Harry Potter: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 at Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada. Call 303-235-5275 or visit www.jeffcolibrary.org. Share love for Harry Potter with trivia, house sorting and mysterious potions. Registration is required.

“A Christmas Carol”: showing Nov. 23 to Dec. 23 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. A fast-paced adaption that challenges six actors to bring all the Dickens’ characters to life. Call 303-935-3044 or go to minersalley.com for show dates and times and ticket information.

In This Particular Ghost Town: artwork of Josh Davy and Zachary Reece on display through Dec. 9 at Valkarie

Golden High School Holiday Bazaar: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at 701 24th St., Golden. More than 90 local artists offer oneof-a-kind gifts. Free admission.

Presented by the Golden High School PTA. Artists who would like to participate can contact Tammy Copper at tcoop9698@ comcast.net.

Arvada Center Fall Exhibitions: “Laura Merage: Nausy Nausy,” through Dec. 23 in the Theatre Galery. Go to https://arvadacenter.org/laura-merage-nausynausy.

HEALTH

EVENTS

Holiday Craft Fair Open House: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 16-17 at Warm Hearts Warm Babies, 6429 Miller St., Suite D, Arvada. Admission is free. Go to http://warmheartswarmbabies.org.

3D Design: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 at Golden Public Library, 1019 10th St., Golden. Go to https://jeffcolibrary.org.

Global Sundae, Multicultural Family Ice Cream Social: 2-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18 at Golden Public Library, 1019 10th St., Golden. Go to https://jeffcolibrary. org.

Grain Free for the Holidays with Natural Grocers: 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 at Arvada Library, 7525 W. 57th Ave., Arvada. Call 303-2355275 or visit www.jeffcolibrary.org.

Learn from an expert nutritional health coach from Natural Grocers the best ways to incorporate this eating style during the tempting holiday season.

Jefferson County Republican Men’s Club-ers and Friends: 7-9 a.m. Mondays at Davies’ Chuck Wagon Diner, 10151 W. 26th. All Republicans, especially women, students and youth invited.

Cost is $5, plus pay for any food ordered. Upcoming speakers: Nov. 19, Nat Weeks, cogent thoughts about Thanksgiving.

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.

Countdown To Turkey: Thanksgiving-themed activities at Arvada Library, 7525 W. 57th Ave., Arvada.

Call 303-235-5275 or visit www. jeffcolibrary.org. Activities: Lego Stop Motion, 1-3 p.m. Nov. 19; Lego Play and Build, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Nov. 19; Turkey quilling for non-turkeys, 3:30-5 p.m. Nov. 20; Picnic movie: “Early Man,” noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 21; Thanksgiving Tales: 4-5 p.m. Nov. 20 at Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada. Call 303-2355275 or visit www.jeffcolibrary. org. Stories, Madlibs and a craft or activity.

Lifetree Cafe: The Bible Explored: noon Tuesday, Nov. 20 at Peace Lutheran Church, 5675 Field St., Arvada. “The Bible: Real? Relevant? Reliable?” features a filmed interview with

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Eugene Peterson, author of the best-seller “The Message.” Admission is free. Lifetree Cafe is a place where people gather in comfortable, casual setting for conversation abotu life and faith. Contact Tim Lindeman at 303-424-4454 or tlindeman@peacelutheran.net.

Wildlife Viewing: Starting with Birds: 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20 at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Get tips to help you view back yard visitors and be a better neighbor when we visit wildlife’s homes.

Superhero Training Camp: 1:302:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21 at Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada. Call 303-235-5275 or visit www.jeffcolibrary.org.

Preschoolers and kindergartners design their own capes, complete training exercises and conquer challenges as they gear up to save the day.

Arvada Fair for the Band: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23 and Saturday, Nov. 24 at Arvada High School, 7951 W. 65th Ave., Arvada. $3 entry fee. Fine arts and handmade crafts. Benefits Arvada High School band and color guard.

Gingerbread House Contest: 1-4 p.m. Nov. 24 at Arvada Library, 7525 W. 57th Ave., Arvada. Call 303-235-5275 or visit www. jeffcolibrary.org. Teams create gingerbread houses, which will be displayed until Dec. 4. Winners announced Dec. 5. Registration required.

Small Business Saturday: 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 24 in Olde Town Square, Arvada. Free coffee from Hunter Bay Coffee Roast-

Lifetree Cafe: Overcoming Childhood Pain: noon Tuesday, Nov. 27 at Peace Lutheran Church, 5675 Field St., Arvada.

“Overcoming Childhood Pain: Facing Unresolved Family Issues” features a filmed interview with Delisa Mayer, a woman whose family took part in an ill-fated university study during her childhood. Contact Tim Lindeman at 303-424-4454 or tlindeman@ peacelutheran.net.

Elected Officials Meet and Greet: 5-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27 at Rockley Family Foundation Recital Hall, 8591 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood. Jefferson County Business Lobby and the West Metro Chamber of Commerce reception. All elected officials will be introduced at 5:45 p.m. No formal presentations. RSVP to Clare Gonzales at office@westchamber.org.

TRIAD: Don’t Fund Fraud, Charitable Scams: 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27 at the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, 500 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden.

Free and open to the public, 303271-6980.

EDUCATION

Exploring the Great Ideas: 2-3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16 at Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada. Discussion group dedicated to exploring how we engage in classic, timeless philosophical pursuits every day of our lives.

Call 303-235-5275 or visit www. jeffcolibrary.org

Free Legal Clinic: Get Help With Visitation Plans: 1-2:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Jefferson County Department of Human Services, 3500 Illinois St., Suite 1300, Golden. Volunteer attorneys meet via computer link to provide assistance. Call 303271-4329. Dates are Nov. 20 and Dec. 18.

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.

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HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Editor’s note: Send new listings or changes to hharden@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

Deadline is noon Wednesday a week before publication.

Foothills Art Center: Golden’s premier art facility.

Contact: volunteerinfo@foothillsartcenter.org Founders and Friends of Two Ponds National Wildlife Refuge: Restores native habitat and wildlife; provides opportunities to experience wildlife and nature; promotes awareness and appreciation of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Need: Volunteers needed to update website and Facebook page by developing relevant resource materials, articles about refuge events and calendar postings; assist with developing a short introductory video for website; manage and organize volunteer activities; maintain and update information posted in the refuge kiosks; remove noxious weeds from the refuge; and perform regular clean-up and maintenance (picking up trash, spraying weeds, cutting grass with weed whacker) of the kiosk areas.

Location: Two Ponds National Wildlife Refuge is at 9210 W. 80th Ave., Arvada.

Age requirements: Adults, or children with adult supervision; training will be provided if needed.

Contact: Janet Torma-Krajewski, 303-4232069 or jtorma79@gmail.com.

Gateway Battered Women’s Services: Serves domestic violence victims in Aurora and Arapahoe County.

Need: Volunteers for various fundraising, planning committees Contact: Jeneen Klippel, 303-343-1856; email jkworden@gatewayshelter.com.

Girl Scouts: Youth organization for girls.

Need: Volunteers for jobs ranging from running troops to helping with a science event or office work Age requirement: Men and women, 18-plus Contact: girlscoutsofcolorado.org, email inquiry@gscolorado.org or call 1-877-4045708 Global Goods and Coffee Shop: Supports the efforts of Global Refuge International, which provides medical support and training to refugees in Uganda. Shop sells fairly traded global goods and coffee, lattes, homemade paninis and pies.

Need: Cashiers at the coffee shop; barista experience a plus but not required. Also need musicians to provide live music in the evenings, especially Fridays and Saturdays. We’d love to hear a sample of your music.

Location: Olde Town Arvada Requirement: Must be at least 16 years old; cashiers must be willing to volunteer at least one shift per week, for at least six months.

Must love coffee and serving others.

Contact: scheduling@globalgoodsandcoffee. com or stop by the shop to fill out a volunteer application.

Global Orphan Relief: Develops and supports programs bringing light, comfort and security to orphans around the world.

Need: Super stars with website development, users of the abundant resources of social media. Those with great connection ability are needed to help with the development of the donor pool.

Contact: Those interested serving this faith-based Colorado nonprofit can contact Deitra Dupray, 303-895-7536 or dadupray@ comcast.net.

Golden Optimists Bicycle Recycle: Group helps repair or recycle bicycles in the community.

Need: All ages, knowledge levels to work on bicycles Contact: www.goldenoptimists.org Golden Visitors Center: Provides information about Golden and surrounding areas.

Need: Volunteers to man front desk and greet visitors, open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; two 4-hour shifts offered Requirement: Must be 18 and older, training provided Contact: Mary Gomez, 303-279-2282 or marygomezvisitorcenter@gmail.com Habitat ReStore: Nonprofit home improvement stores and donation centers.

Need: Volunteers for Wheat Ridge, Denver or Littleton Habitat ReStores, helping with the cash register, dock and warehouse floor Contact: 303-996-5468, email Alice Goble at Alice@habitatmetrodenver.org Hospice of Covenant Care: Nonprofit, faithbased hospice.

Need: Volunteers to support patients and families Contact: 303-731-8039 Legacy Grace Community Development Corp.: Starts social enterprises, provides low-cost transitional housing and job training/placement for all people in the Denver area.

Need: Volunteers to help with resumes, 5-8 p.m. Wednesdays. Also need help in the art gallery (from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday); training provided.

Contact: legacygrace@live.com or Rick Rob-

erts, 303-815-4914 Literacy Coalition of Colorado: Volunteer to support literacy in MetroDenver and impact state-wide literacy programs.

Need: Volunteer for special projects, training classes or provide clerical and administrative support. Volunteer for a few hours a week or occasionally as needed.

Contact: literacyvolunteercolorado@gmail. com or 720-251-3141. Go to Literacycolorado. org to volunteer for literacy providers nearest you.

Lutheran Family Services: Cultural Mentoring Program: We welcome refugee families and help them adjust to their new home.

Need: People who can commit to working with refugees on skills for self-sufficiency and helping them learn about their new home.

Requirements: Must be 18 or older (although children of volunteers are welcome to participate). One-hour training and orientation required.

Contact: David Cornish, 303-225-0199 or david.cornish@lfsrm.org; go to www.lfsrm.org.

Lutheran Hospice Need: Volunteers to assist in a couple of areas: 1. Be a friendly visitor by providing companionship or emotional support to patients and families in their own homes or visit patients in nursing facilities. Visits may include providing respite for caregivers. 2.

Work at the Collier Hospice Center reception desk, welcoming family members and visitors, and assisting with administrative projects.

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Holiday

Craft Show and Mini-Market Admission is free to the public Saturday Nov. 24

10am - 5pm

Sunday Nov. 25

10am - 4pm

Jefferson County Fairgrounds

15200 W. 6th Ave. Golden, CO.

Come shop for unique gifts and special items during the first-ever Colorado Community Media Holiday Craft Show and Mini-Market; With more than 100 exhibitors filling the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, this is the best place to find that special, personal gift for friends and family. The show will feature handmade crafts in all areas from metal and leather, to flowers, baskets, ceramics, and so much more.

Santa will be at the Holiday Craft Show!

Saturday, Nov. 24 between 10 AM – 2 PM No purchase required: Take your own photos

Vendors Needed | Interested in selling your handmade crafts??

Contact Event Producer Thelma Grimes at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com All applications must be approved to participate

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LOCAL

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SPORTS

Double impact — Emsbo twins making waves at college level Lakewood High School’s Emsbo twins — Kira and Camilla — signing there National Letter of Intent back in 2017 to play basketball at Princeton University and Yale University respectively.

STAFF REPORT

First-year Yale forward Camilla Emsbo was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

Emsbo scored 15 points in the season opener and 21 in the second game, placing her third in the league with an 18.0 points per game average.

No other Ivy rookie averaged more than 15.0 points per game last week.

Emsbo totaled 22 rebounds, tied with junior forward Megan Gorman for the league lead, and had seven blocks (second in the league).

Emsbo was a five-star ESPN recruit out of Lakewood High School, and ESPN ranked her as the No. 34 best recruit in the country (sixthbest at her position). She was the Gatorade Player of the Year for Colorado.

Emsbo is in Branford College at Yale. Her identical twin sister, Kira, plays for Princeton.

Princeton Head Coach Courtney Banghart was quoted by the Princeton Alumni Weekly earlier this

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month, saying she expected all six of the freshmen on her team, including Kira Emsbo, would be likely to see gametime “early and often.”

“This freshman class has been as talented as we’d hoped,” Banghart said. “We knew it was a good class. It’s

been nationally heralded, but they’re freshmen and they can’t hide because there’s four of them on each team in practice.”

The two teams are scheduled to play eachother twice this season, Feb. 8 and March 9.

Faith Eagles beat defending state champs to move into playoff semis

BY NATHAN MAULDIN FOR FAITH CHRISTIAN

Faith Christian and Bayfield squared off on a brilliant sunny Saturday afternoon at Faith Christian High School in a 2A State Quarterfinal.

Bayfield came in as the number one overall seed and as the defending state champions. The Faith Christian Eagles entered the game playing their best football of the season, on an eight-game winning streak.

Faith stopped Bayfield on the opening drive and proceeded to take the ball 65 yards and ended it with an Isaiah Kroll 11 yard touchdown pass to Jordan Abbott. Bayfield responded with a 70 yard drive of its own, which ended in a Hayden Farmer 3-yard touchdown run.

Faith took their next drive 77 yards — and converted six times on third down — and were able to score on a 16 yard touchdown pass from Kroll to Brian Turner. Faith would carry the 14-7 lead into halftime.

In the second half the Eagles would start with the ball, but Bayfield was able to intercept Kroll for the first turnover of the game.

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Faith Christian junior quarterback Isaiah Kroll (11) options away from Bayfield senior Rhett Hoover (57) during the 9-seed Eagles’ 21-13 upset of the #1 Wolverines in Arvada Nov. 10, in the CHSAA Class 2A State Playoffs’ quarterfinal round. Now 9-2 overall, FC will next face unbeaten 4-seed La Junta in the semifinals.

COURTESY OF JOEL PRIEST

Time to kick soccer shootouts to the curb

D

riving to EchoPark Automotive Stadium for the Class 5A soccer semifinals on Nov. 7, I had visions of seeing well-played, competitive matches with no shootouts.

But what did I see? A shootout.

Arapahoe eliminated defending champion BroomOVERTIME field with a 4-3 win after six shootout rounds. Neither team scored in regulation time or the two 15-minute overtime sessions which got me to climb on the soapbox.

I’ve always felt Jim Benton that soccer shootouts are fun, exciting and nerve wracking for regular-season games but they don’t belong in the playoffs when teams are putting all their hard work on the line with a chance to win the state championship.

Yes, both teams have an equal chance of winning a shootout to decide a playoff winner. But shootouts eliminate the passing, dribbling, marking, teamwork and physical play that are part of successful teams. Shootouts resort to an individual game of shooting prowess.

The goalkeeper’s skill and quite frankly good intuition and luck are also involved.

This season in just the 5A division there have been three teams ousted from the 5A playoffs because of shootout losses after the two overtime sessions that have been increased to 15 minutes each for the playoffs. There was one shootout in 2017 and four in 2016 including Broomfield, which lost the 2016 state title match after being outscored in a prolonged shootout against Boulder, 13-12. Broomfield won a second-round shootout this season over Denver East.

“I’ve never been a big fan of penalty kicks to end a soccer match,” said Arapahoe coach Mark Hampshire.

“It really takes away the integrity of what the sport is, a team sport, and it puts it on the shoulders of an individual or two but it does test the mental resiliency and focus.”

Rock Canyon won a first-round shootout this season but coach Aaron Carpenter has an idea to avoid shootouts.

“I’m not a fan of shootouts,” he said. `This is a bit unorthodox, but I would have the matches go two 10-minute halves of golden goal. At that time, if it remained the same, I would play 8-v-8 with two more 10-minute halves of golden goal.”

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Pomona pieces together playoff win over Arvada West

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ARVADA — Pomona was able to fit the puzzle pieces together Saturday afternoon to advance to the quarterfinals of the Class 5A football state tournament.

The No. 2-seeded Panthers took a 34-7 victory over No. 10 Arvada West on Nov. 10 at the North Area Athletic Complex. Pomona faces No. 2 Columbine at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at Jeffco Stadium with a ticket to the semifinals on the line.

Pomona (7-4 record) has suffered injury-after-injury to key players all season. The latest blow came this week in practice when junior linebacker Kyle Moretti suffered a broken ankle. He underwent season-ending surgery Thursday.

“It was just another hit,” Pomona senior captain Jack Thiele said. “Obviously, Kyle is one of our better players.

It hurt, but we knew we just had to rally around him.”

Pomona coach Jay Madden moved around several pieces, including putting Thiele at linebacker from his normal safety spot. Madden counted on the likes of defensive backs Thor Bourgeois and Isaiah Tshimanga to step into bigger roles facing A-West’s all-time leading passer and four-year starting quarterback Johnny Krutsch.

“You got four all-state guys on the bench, but we’ve got a good program with a lot of good kids,” Madden said.

“They stepped up big. It feels good.”

Krutsch still put up some big numbers going 29-for-47 for 283 yards through the air, but the Panthers also intercepted the A-West quarterback four times. Tshimanga, Thiele, David Ross and Dominic Bettini all picked off Krutsch.

The only score for A-West was a 68-yard touchdown pass from Krutsch to senior Cory Carignan in the third quarter. Carignan finished with 10 catches for 144 yards and the one score.

The biggest interception came when Tshimanga picked off Krutsch with the Wildcats (7-5) driving into Pomona territory early in the second quarter with the game scoreless. Pomona took over and four plays later quarterback Riley Welsch hit a wide-open Ross for a 56-yard touchdown.

“That was huge,” Thiele said of Welsch’s touchdown pass to Ross. “It not only gave the offense, but the defense momentum. I think that was one of the biggest plays of the game.”

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Bayfield with momentum moved the ball deep into Eagle territory but on a fourth down play Bayfield fumbled the ball which was recovered by Faith’s Joel Burck. Faith was not able to capitalize on the turnover but pinned Bayfield deep in its territory with a punt.

The Eagles’ defense was able to pres-

Pomona senior David Ross (23) celebrates a 56-yard touchdown catch with sophomore Jack Pospisil as Arvada West senior Cameron Wilbur (6) walks off the field during the Class 5A football secondround state tournament game Nov. 10 at the North Area Athletic Complex. The Panthers won 34-7 to advance to the state quarterfinals.

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Pomona eventually scored touchdowns on five of six possessions after turning the ball over on its first two offensive possessions.

Defensively, a main focus for Madden was to limit A-West leading receiver Chris McEahern. Madden handed that task over to Bettini.

“I told him (Bettini) I wanted to play him on offense, but we have to shut down (Chris McEahern),” Madden said. “I needed an unselfish player and he said, ‘I got it.’ Inside the 20 we were going to give him the ball on offense.”

Bettini held McEahern to three catches for five yards.

“He (McEahern) has shown he is one of the top receivers in the state,” Bettini said. “I had to step up and my teammates around me did a really good job helping me. It was a good game-plan.”

The senior move-in transfer from Highlands Ranch also got his touches on the offensive side. Bettini had 17 carries for 117 yards and four touchdowns.

In the first meeting this season between the Arvada-area rivals, Pomona

sure Bayfield all game and finally that pressure resulted in an interception, returned by senior Jordan Abbott 30 yards for a game changing touchdown.

Bayfield was able to score again in the 4th quarter and attempted an onside kick but it was recovered by the Eagles.

The 2017 State Champion, BHS finished the year 8-2 overall.

Faith Christian moved to 9-2 on the season and now will host the undefeated La Junta Tigers (11-0) at Faith Christian, Nov. 17.

Arvada West senior Tony Cass (2) is stacked up by Pomona sophomore JuJu Howard during the first half Nov. 10 at the North Area Athletic Complex. The Panthers had a number of players step up after losing all-state middle linebacker Kyle Moretti due to a broken ankle during practice earlier in the week. leaned heavily on Bettini. He had 44 carries for 270 yards and five touchdowns in the Panthers’ 41-27 victory.

Sophomore Ben Cruz had a huge game on the ground. With starting running back Therious Robison out due to injury, Cruz had 29 carries for 221 yards.

Next up for Pomona is a familiar foe.

The Rebels dominated No. 15 Highlands Ranch to the tune of 49-7 on Nov. 9 at Jeffco Stadium. “(Columbine) kind of put it on us the last time we played,” Thiele said.

“I think that will motivate us a lot.”

Columbine handed Pomona a 35-13 loss in a 5A Metro West League meeting earlier this season.

“When we play Columbine it normally doesn’t come down to tricks. It comes down to dudes. It’s been a lot of fun over the years,” Madden said of the rivalry. “I think they are as good as anybody in the state of Colorado. It’s going to be a tough challenge, but we are looking forward to it.”

A-West closed out its fourth season under coach Brad Pyatt. The A-West graduate who was on the Wildcats’ 1997 Class 5A state championship team praised his seniors that helped A-West become relevant again on the state stage.

“The great thing about where we are as a program is we believe we can not only compete, but beat a team like this,” Pyatt said. “For me, I’m just excited about the future of A-West. I’m really proud of this group of seniors that really resurged this program. We had a great four years with them.”

Despite playing Pomona tough through the first couple of quarters twice this season, A-West wasn’t able to end the drought against Pomona.

The last time A-West defeated Pomona on the football field was in 2009.

Dennis Pleuss is a communications specialist for Jeffco Public Schools with a focus on athletics and activities. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow.com/Jeffco.

Faith Christian senior lineman Jacob Theilen (59) receives congratulations from Bayfield head coach Gary Heide, after the 9-seed Eagles pulled off a 21-13 upset of the #1 Wolverines in Arvada this past Saturday, Nov. 10.

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I still remember the triple overtime in Florida when the Avalanche captured their first NHL Stanley Cup title in 1996. In the playoffs in the National Hockey League, teams keep playing until one team wins.

High school soccer coaches routinely practice penalty kicks and keepers are schooled on what to watch to maybe get a hint on where the shooters plan to aim their attempt.

Tied World Cup knockout games were first replayed, which isn’t an answer for high school teams. World Cup shootouts were introduced in 1978, and 30 matches have been decided by penalty-kick shootouts.

The biggest problem is there hasn’t been a viable alternative to a shootout.

Fatigue and sloppy play, especially for high school players, is a disadvantage of letting teams continue until a winner is determined.

“We have not had any recent conversation about changing our playoff overtime format,” said CHSAA assistant commissioner Ernie Derrera.

A few proposals have been made internationally to improve endings to tied matches. One would be to change the format of the shootouts, since the team that shoots first wins 60 percent of the shootouts. Arapahoe shot first against Broomfield in the Nov. 7 semifinals.

Instead of teams alternating shooters, the first team would shoot once then the second team twice, then the first team twice until it gets to the final round shooter, which would be a player from the second team. Another

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Pomona, Boll vault to top Pomona won its fourth consecutive girls Class 5A gymnastics team title Nov. 1 at the CHSAA state meet with a narrow victory over Overland, but the Panthers’ accomplishment had to be shared with an individual from Lakewood.

Lakewood’s Amber Boll, a senior who has committed to the Air Force Academy, won the 5A all-around title on Nov. 1 but drew more attention in winning the individual vault competition with a perfect 10.0 score on Nov. 3. She also captured individual titles on the uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.

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idea would be to reduce a player on each team and keep decreasing players as the overtimes progress.

The notion I like is to have the penalty shootout after regulation match ends and before the overtime sessions begin. It gives the losing shootout team a chance for redemption. If neither team scores during the ensuing OT periods, then the winner of the shootout would be declared the winner of the match. But for now, I will just have to enjoy the drama provided by shootouts and keep quiet.

Arapahoe goalkeeper Spencer Cobb probably best summed up penaltykick shootouts.

“PKs are the definition of soccer because it’s so fickle,” he said. “It can go both ways. You like PKs when you win. It shouldn’t always come down to that.”

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4905 S. Galapago St., Englewood, CO 80110-6434 Amazing, updated ranch • 3 Bedrooms • 2 Full baths • 3-Car garage with big attic storage Huge, professionally landscaped yard • Fenced • Granite and stainless kitchen All appliances provided • 4 Ceiling fans • Hardwood flooring • Auto lawn sprinkler • Central air conditioning Corner lot • Extra off-street parking • Computer room/Office • Small dog under 20 lb considered RENT COVERS SUMMER...

Pet Policy: Cats not allowed, Small dogs allowed

Home for Sale

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Office Rent/Lease VARIOUS OFFICES 100-2,311 sq.ft. Rents from $200-$1750/month.

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405-409 S Wilcox

Castle Rock

SELL your home $ 2495

*when purchasing another home *1% fee if selling only *+ buyer agent co-op

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Cornerstone Homes Realty

32 Lakewood Sentinel

November 15, 2018N

DISCOUNTS AT THESE STORES ONLY:

CENTENNIAL LAKEWOOD

The Streets at South Glenn 7001 S University Blvd.

Westland Center 10785 W Colfax Ave.

STORE CLOSING

EVERYTHING MUST GO!

25 ALL IN-STOCK WALL OVENS 40 40 ALL FOOTWEAR 40 60 % ALL CRAFTSMAN TOOL STORAGE off

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off

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off

% to

% ALL FASHION CLOTHING off

(Excluding Lands’ End)

PRICED TO SELL!

MAJOR APPLIANCES & MATTRESSES

70

(Excluding Electrolux and Tempur-Pedic)

% ALL FINE GOLD, SILVER, DIAMOND * off

AND GEMSTONE JEWELRY *10K gold unless otherwise specified.

Now Hiring, Full & Part Time Seasonal Help, apply in store or online @ https://jobs.sears.com

SHOP NOW FOR BEST SELECTION!

ALL SALES FINAL, NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES. OPEN DAILY REGULAR HOURS. WE ACCEPT VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, AMERICAN EXPRESS AND SEARS CARD. WE ACCEPT SEARS GIFT CARDS. DISCOUNTS DO NOT APPLY TO PREPAID GIFT CARDS AND PHONE CARDS. INVENTORY IS LIMITED TO STOCK ON HAND. THESE STORES ARE NOT PARTICIPATING IN CURRENT SEARS CIRCULARS. THIS EVENT EXCLUDES ELECTROLUX AND TEMPUR-PEDIC.