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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: Area teens learn about the stock market P8 GONE TOO SOON, PART 2: A rural town is stunned following the slaying of a popular teacher P6

A PUSH FOR CHANGE: Students walk out in effort to end gun violence P5

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Nine candidates vie for three seats on South Suburban board obtaining an absentee ballot. This is a district regular election and will feature only the election of board of directors candidates.

Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton; Goodson Recreation Center, 6315 S. University Blvd., Centennial; The Lone Tree Hub, 8827 Lone Tree Parkway; and South Suburban Golf Course, 7900 S. Colorado Blvd., Centennial.

To request an absentee ballot, go to http://ssprd.org/Portals/0/ Board/SSPRD-application-forabsentee-ballot-2018.pdf. For questions about voter eligibility, send an email to elections@ssprd.org or call 303-483-7011.

Existing board members are John Ostermiller, Pam Eller, Mike Anderson, Scott LaBrash and Jim Taylor.

Ostermiller, Eller, and Anderson are term-limited and cannot seek re-election, and LaBrash will reach his term limit in May 2020. Taylor is eligible for re-election in May 2020.

Nine candidates are seeking election for three seats on the South Suburban Park and Recreation District board of directors. The districtwide polling place election is May 8.

The order of the names appearing on the ballot was determined via lottery drawing March 7 at the South Suburban Administration Building, 6631 S. University Blvd., Centennial.

The ballot order is: Susan Pye, Michael G. Kohut, Jeff Monroe, Dave Lawful, Jerry Bakke, Dan Purse, Tom Wood, Charlie Blosten and Pete Barrett.

The five-member board of directors is elected at large to four-year terms, on a nonpartisan basis.

The board of directors meets on the second and fourth Wednesday evenings of each month at Goodson Recreation Center in Centennial.

Additional study sessions or special meetings are called as needed.

The election will be a polling place election, with the option of

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Coloradan came from Illinois to be closer to grandchildren About me I moved to Colorado with my husband Dean in 2006, from Oak Brook, Illinois, to be near our grandchildren.

We have three children and four grandchildren. I am an independent distributor for Shaklee Corporation, a health and nutrition company that has enabled me to help people live better, healthier lives. After witnessing a train wreck when I was 8 years old, I watched a doctor rush in to help save people. I had planned to go to medical school and become a doctor myself, but ended up leaving college to go to work. As it turns out, I’ve been able to help people in a different way — I help them stay healthy rather than treat them when they get sick.

Why I love Colorado I love the sunshine in Colorado, and the winters are certainly different than in Chicago. I also think the people are just very friendly. I’m a reader and belong to a neighborhood reading group, as well as the Great Books group that meets at the library, where we read the classics. We’re also charter members of the Arts Guild, and like to attend the musicals and lighter comedies.

In my opinion the world would be a better place ...

If people put a higher value on education. I think if everybody would read and the educational level could be higher, it would be a much more peaceful world. The other big thing is

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Lone Tree resident Priscilla Smith enjoys traveling, reading and attending comedy plays at the Lone Tree Arts Center.

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mental health. We have to do a better job of understanding and improving mental health. There’s not too many people who are not touched in some way by mental health.

My inspiration My father, David Wightman, taught the four of us children how to think, not what to think. I think that’s important for people to understand. Mr. Wegner, one of my teachers in high school, taught debate, and he found out how we felt about a subject, then made us argue the opposite side. He taught us to see both sides of an issue.

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Douglas County, Castle Rock institute Stage 1 fire restrictions Open burning, fireworks use prohibited under regulations STAFF REPORT

Douglas County and the Town of Castle Rock announced March 15 that both are instituting Stage 1 fire restrictions, which limit the use of open fires, open burning and fireworks.

Under Stage 1 fire restrictions, open burning of any kind and the use of fireworks are prohibited.

Violations in unincorporated Douglas County are a class 2 petty offense with a possible fine of up to $1,000 and a $10 surcharge. Violations of Castle Rock’s fire restrictions are also punishable by a $1,000 fine, 180 days in jail or both.

Residents are still permitted the following uses of fire: • Fires with liquid-fueled or gas-

fueled stoves, fireplaces within buildings, charcoal grill fires within developed residential or commercial areas and fires within wood-burning stoves within buildings only.

• Some professional fireworks displays • Fire suppression or fire department training fires • Small recreational fires at developed picnic or campground sites contained in fixed permanent metal or steel fire pits with flame lengths under four feet. Rock fire rings are considered temporary and not allowable.

• The use of residential charcoal grills, tiki torches, fires in chimineas or other portable fireplaces or patio fire pits, so long as fires are supervised by someone at least 18 years old.

More information on fire restriction stages is available at the Douglas County Emergency Management website on dcsheriff.net or the town’s site, CRgov.com.

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Solutions to gun violence explored at church forum Four panelists discuss gun control laws, mental health

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jane Dougherty’s sister, a school psychologist, was one of 26 people killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut. On March 18, Doughtery, a Littleton resident, stood in a room of roughly 200 people and pleaded for Douglas County leaders to take action on gun violence.

“What we have become is a reactive society,” said Doughtery. “If we just keep arguing that someone has the right to bear arms, more people are going to die.”

Contemporary Issues, an adult Sunday school class at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch, 9203 S. University Blvd., hosted the forum, called “Protection of Law Enforcement, Churches and the General Community From Potentially Unstable Individuals.” The Nov. 5 shooting at a church in rural Texas that left 26 dead and the Dec. 31 shooting in Highlands Ranch that killed a Douglas County deputy prompted organizers to host the event, which was open to the public.

On a stage in an open room, sat four panelists: District Attorney George Brauchler; Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock; Andrew Romanoff,

Jane Dougherty pleads for more gun control laws at a March 18 forum hosted by St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd. Dougherty’s sister, a school psychologist, was one of 26 people killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.

PHOTOS BY ALEX DEWIND CEO of Mental Health Colorado, an organization that advocates for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental health and substance-use disorders; and Mary Blegen, a volunteer at Colorado Ceasefire, a gun-violence prevention group that promotes responsible firearm ownership.

Attempts to invite six state representatives and senators were unsuccessful, said Steve Baska, a member of the Sunday school class.

“Which was disappointing to us because it makes it look like they are afraid to discuss the issue,” he said.

A moderator asked panelists a series of questions on the prevention of gun violence, mental health and early intervention by the sheriff ’s office when dealing with a mentally ill person.

Panelists discussed possible new gun control laws, such as the Extreme Risk Protection Order, which allows police or family members to petition

District Attorney George Brauchler addresses gun violence at a March 18 forum at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S University Blvd. “Evil is going to find a way,” he said. “Mental illness and evil are not mutually exclusive.” a state court to order a temporary removal of firearms from someone who is a risk to themselves or others.

A version of the statute is currently in place in five states: California, Washington, Oregon, Indiana and Connecticut. There was also talk of the bill to ban bump stocks in Colorado, which was scheduled to have its first committee hearing on March 19.

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Douglas County students leave class to advocate for safety Walkout lasts 17 minutes for 17 victims of Florida shooting

BY ALEX DEWIND, TABATHA STEWART AND JESSICA GIBBS STAFF WRITERS

In front of the main entrance to Highlands Ranch High School stood about 100 students. Some held up large posters with writing. Others chanted, “We want change and we want it now,” and, “Show me what democracy looks like.”

Some students delivered speeches, pleading for action, before declaring a moment of silence for the people killed in the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

“We want something — something is better than nothing,” said Trenten Peacock, a member of the school’s left-leaning group called Falcons for Progress, who helped organize the March 14 walkout. “We can’t keep having this repetitive cycle of death with nothing being done.”

The high school, at 9375 Cresthill Lane, was one of at least 10 schools in Douglas County and thousands of schools across the country that had students participate in the event, called “#Enough National School Walkout.” Douglas County students organized the walkout, which was not sanctioned or organized by the Douglas County School District, through word of mouth and social media.

Student protesters carrying white posters gathered in front of Highlands Ranch High School for a national walkout on March 14. They were protesting for the victims of the Feb. 14 school shooting in Florida and for Congress to take action on gun violence.

ALEX DEWIND “It’s about the innocent young lives that are lost constantly and the lack of change that occurs,” said Emily Conway, a senior at Highlands Ranch High.

At 10 a.m., students left class for 17 minutes to honor the 17 victims of the Florida shooting and protest for Congress to take action on gun violence. Patrol cars and school resource officers from the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office closely monitored the participating schools.

In clusters of small groups, students at Castle View High School in Castle Rock emerged from in-between campus buildings and gathered on a grassy area in front of the school.

Many held signs urging gun control.

At first chants of, “This is what democracy looks like,” broke out. A series of student speakers filled the next 17 minutes, often garnering the cheers and applause of their peers.

Even from a few hundred feet away, sound bites of their impassioned

speeches rang out.

“We are not a minority,” one boy said.

“We are the generation of tomorrow,” a girl later added.

Nia Dudgeon, a senior at Legend High School in Parker, joined dozens of other students in the walkout to show her support for students killed in school shootings and raise awareness for gun control.

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Gone too soon: Part 2

‘He would want us to forgive’ An arrest was made more than seven years after the death of Kiowa teacher Randy Wilson

was wrong,” Morrone said. “I sat there numb. The tears kept coming but I wasn’t moving. It had to be a different Randy Wilson.”

Wilson’s death was big news, reported by every TV station in Denver.

As days passed and details emerged, the community’s shock deepened.

“Not just who did it, but why him?” asked McFarland. “Why the way it happened?”

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Kiowa High School let out for the summer in May 2010, with popular science teacher Randy Wilson’s youngest son Dean among the 29 graduates.

Wilson’s sons Cody and Weston had recently told their dad that they were both expecting children, who would be his second and third grandchildren.

Not long after graduation, as the cottonwoods along Kiowa Creek leafed out in the warm spring sun, Wilson, 52, drove to Montana to visit relatives.

On his drive back toward his Kiowa home on Sunday, June 13, Wilson stopped in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for dinner. At 10:45 p.m. he pulled off I-70 at exit 304 and stopped to gas up at a Conoco on the outskirts of Bennett, just north of Elbert County on Colorado’s eastern plains. The late-spring brilliance of the week prior had ceded to a gloomy cold front over the weekend, and the wind whipped.

One more exit down the interstate, opposite a rest area since torn down, was the junction with Kiowa-Bennett Road.

Only 30 miles of dark prairie separated Wilson from home. He never arrived.

‘Why him?’

The next day, June 14, 2010, dawned gray and drizzling on the plains north of Kiowa.

Tim Fry and his friend Greg were headed south along Kiowa-Bennett Road to get registration tags for Fry’s truck, according to a Denver Post article from the time.

At the crossroads with County Line Road, a rare bend in the route, almost exactly halfway between Bennett and Kiowa, they spotted a parked white sedan, facing north in the gravel. Across the road, in the grass, lay a body.

The two men had found the body of Randy Wilson, dead by asphyxiation with a bag over his head and a belt around his neck. The sedan, Wilson’s, was cold. A car jack sat beside it, though no tires were flat. A black glove lay near Wilson’s head. He lay face up, his hands bound behind his back.

Wilson’s wallet was missing, though his credit cards were never used.

“It just doesn’t seem like he fought,” Fry told a Denver Post reporter later.

“I didn’t see any scuff marks. His (clothes) were clean, almost pressed.”

In Kiowa, 16 miles to the south, news started to spread that a body had been found out on the prairie.

“I figured some bum had overdosed

Kiowa school counselor Liz Morrone stands behind a plaque remembering teacher Randy Wilson, who was found dead in 2010.

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The life and death of Randy Wilson: Part 2 High school teacher Randy Wilson was found dead at a lonely prairie crossroads in 2010. For more than seven years, those who knew him struggled with the mystery of his unsolved death.

Then, in December 2017, came a surprise arrest in the case. Part one last week looked at the legacy of the father of five and wellrespected educator. This week, part two of the twopart series looks at the shockwaves Wilson’s death sent through the rural town of Kiowa, as well as developments in the years-long investigation. out in a field,” said Sarah McFarland, a former student of Wilson’s who knew him well.

She was working at the 4-H office in Kiowa for the summer, preparing for the county fair at the end of July.

She got the news the next morning.

“I had just pulled into the parking lot of the office when a friend texted

me,” McFarland said. “I fell to my knees and sobbed. I couldn’t make any sense of it.”

Kiowa’s longtime school counselor Liz Morrone got a call from the superintendent. She put down the phone in shock.

“My fiancé, Joe, knew something

‘Amazing Grace’ An online memorial page began filling with condolences and memories.

“Mr. Wilson, you were the only person that has ever explained chemistry in ‘jock’ so I could understand,” wrote one former student.

“He stayed seemingly every day after school with a group of us trying to beat concepts into our heads until all of us got it,” wrote another. “He was such a brilliant man that he could have attained anything in life, but chose to spend his days roaming the halls of Kiowa High School and looking after his sons.”

Wilson’s funeral was held in the school gym the following Saturday, June 19. TV news cameras joined the dense crowd.

“People came pouring out from different places,” Morrone recalled. “I didn’t want to be there, but I needed to be. I couldn’t believe the guy I used to make espresso and joke around with was really gone.”

Cherie Wyatt, a fellow science teacher who worked closely with Wilson, remembered Wilson’s sister singing “Amazing Grace” at his funeral, and Wilson’s brother telling stories of growing up in Montana.

After the funeral, the TV crews left town.

‘Going through the motions’ With Wilson’s death a mystery and no suspects named, Kiowa, a town of about 740 people in Elbert County, took on a more suspicious air, McFarland remembered.

“People got less trusting,” McFarland said. “Before Randy died, I knew lots of folks who would’ve stopped by the side of the road to help a stranger.

People stopped doing that. I knew people who hadn’t locked their house in 30 years, who started to after that. It changed the way people looked at the world.”

Tidbits of information about the case trickled out in the months that followed. The Denver Post reported in August 2010 that the Elbert County Sheriff ’s Office was awaiting test results on evidence sent to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and that investigators had “good leads.”

Returning to school that fall was difficult, Wyatt recalled.

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thing without running into him.”

Wilson’s death took some of the color out of the world.

“The year of teaching afterwards was hard,” Morrone said. “We felt like we were going through the motions. A lot of the flair was gone.”

Morrone said she hung on to tangible effects long after Wilson was gone.

“The computers he set up for me, I wouldn’t let anyone touch them for the longest time,” she said. “They divvied up his belongings, and I got his little blue filing cabinet. It’s in my house now. It means a lot to me.”

The loss was wrenching for Kiowa’s students.

“It was terribly hard on the kids to have an influence, a father figure like that, and then for him to be ripped from them in such an awful manner,” Morrone said.

The investigation The year Wilson died closed without major developments in the case.

Wilson’s son Weston told a 7 News reporter in April 2011 that the family hadn’t heard anything from investigators since December.

Elbert County Sheriff Shayne Heap, who was the undersheriff at the time of Wilson’s death, held a news conference on the case on April 29, 2011, saying that investigators had collected DNA evidence in the case, but were unable to link it to anyone.

Heap asked for the public’s help in the investigation, saying investigators had been unable to contact a young couple who were at the Conoco near Bennett around the same time as Wilson.

A news reporter was able to contact the couple, who had been traveling to the Aspen Music Festival from Florida the night Wilson died. They were eventually cleared in the case.

Heap told a 7 News reporter at the time that investigators were working other leads.

“We’ve found multiple things that we haven’t shared with you, and we don’t intend to, that we’ll keep moving forward on,” Heap said.

Heap declined to comment for this article.

By June 14, 2011, a year had passed since Wilson died with no arrests in the case.

Elbert County investigators had crisscrossed the country chasing clues, Sheriff ’s Lt. Michelle Nail told 7 News at the time. Nail said they followed leads in Florida, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and Oregon, and had developed a “firm theory” for Wilson’s death.

“Proving it is another thing,” Nail said. She declined to elaborate on the theory.

In the absence of evidence, rumors and theories swirled.

“If he recognized a car, he would’ve stopped to help,” McFarland said.

“That’s my theory, that he stumbled

Students remember Wilson as a man of quiet intelligence and confidence, with a subtle sensitive side and a dry wit.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SARAH MCFARLAND

“I had just pulled into the parking lot of the office when a friend texted me, I fell to my knees and sobbed. I couldn’t make any sense of it.”

Sarah McFarland, Wilson’s former student upon something he shouldn’t have.

I honestly thought it was probably someone he taught. They would have known if he caught them doing something wrong, his first stop would’ve been the sheriff.”

Wilson’s son Weston posted on the online memorial page that he had spread his father’s ashes on the Grays Peak trail, southwest of Georgetown, on the one-year anniversary of his death. Weston added several photos of himself and his brothers climbing mountains with their dad. Wilson had climbed nearly every Colorado fourteener, Morrone remembered.

At the high school, teachers hung a plaque, topped by a framed picture of Wilson, for the Wilson “Einstein” Award, a $200 scholarship given to a senior each year in Wilson’s honor.

“Although Mr. Wilson will not be there to personally love and challenge Kiowa’s students, many will be blessed in the years to come in honor of him,” Wyatt wrote online at the time.

In 2012, Morrone helped raise funds for Kiowa’s school to build an outdoor classroom dedicated to Wilson: a cluster of benches arranged facing a lectern, fronted by a boulder bearing a plaque, reading in part: “Father, Son, Brother, Teacher, Mentor, Friend.”

At the crossroads A wooden cross memorializing Wilson stands at the crossroads where he

was found dead. A stone’s throw away, along a barbed-wire fence, a smaller cross, shrouded in grass, marks the spot where his body lay.

Heading south from Bennett at night, the crossroads stands out — it’s the first place a driver is forced to slow down, as the otherwise arrowstraight road jags a few hundred feet west around a tight curve. It’s also the first spot on the drive out of view of houses, and few lights are visible on the horizon.

Over the hill to the west, about a mile distant, lies Third Bridge, a low bridge over Kiowa Creek that has long been a pilgrimage for Denver-area teens, a location that legend says is haunted by spirits of various tragedies.

The site of Wilson’s death was eventually woven into the mystique of the bridge, with “ghost hunter” teens posting YouTube videos of themselves visiting the crossroads late at night.

The crossroads is a dark place to those who knew Wilson.

“My stomach gets tied up in knots when I drive past where he died,” McFarland said. “It messes with me. I try to keep driving and not focus on it.”

The years passed, and Wilson’s death began to scar over.

Then, just before Christmas 2017, 7 1/2 years after Wilson was found dead, came a startling announcement: Elbert County investigators had made an arrest in the case.

The accused On Dec. 19, the Elbert County Sheriff ’s Office announced it had arrested Daniel Pesch, 34, in Littleton. Pesch, who turned 27 only three days before Wilson died, was charged with first-degree murder, resisting arrest, obstruct- Pesch ing an officer and attempting to escape.

A judge sealed all records in the case almost immediately, and neither investigators, prosecutors, nor Pesch’s public defenders have shared any details in the case.

The news opened old wounds for those who knew him.

“Now we have to relive it all over again,” McFarland said. “We had gotten to where we could live without this overwhelming sense of loss and now they’re bringing us back to 2010.

I spent the first month after his arrest trying to figure out how I felt. I was relieved, confused, sad — every emotion I could feel.”

In some ways, Pesch’s arrest only added to the enigma.

“No news for seven years, then they arrest some guy nobody’s ever heard of,” McFarland said. “The way he died, I’m sure there was more than one person involved. Randy was 6 feet tall. He would’ve fought back. There’s no way one person could have subdued him to kill him in that way.”

Pesch’s online footprints give some clues to his life.

His LinkedIn profile says he earned a bachelor’s degree in legal studies from the University of Central

Florida, in Orlando, in 2006.

The profile says he worked as an assistant property manager for Vail Resorts in Keystone from October 2007 to November 2010, which would include the time of Wilson’s death.

After that, the profile says he held a handful of restaurant jobs in Breckenridge.

The profile’s last entry says Pesch had moved to the Denver area and started a job at a restaurant at Dry Creek Road and I-25 in May 2017.

A search of Pesch’s criminal record reveals a handful more details.

Pesch obtained a flurry of traffic tickets, all in either Idaho Springs, Summit County or Breckenridge, around the time of Wilson’s death.

In November 2016, Breckenridge police charged him with felony possession of ID documents from multiple people, possession of an illegal weapon and speeding. All the charges were dismissed in February 2017.

Breckenridge police were not immediately able to locate an affidavit in the case.

More about Pesch comes from his Facebook profile, which he maintained since 2007. The earliest photos on the page show Pesch in his early 20s, goofing around with friends in the mountains, sledding and throwing snowballs. More recent photos show him embracing family members.

Records show Pesch was evicted twice: once the winter after Wilson died, and again in September 2017, three months before his arrest.

Pesch’s final online footprint comes from December 2017, the month he was arrested. He spent much of the weeks preceding his arrest selling numerous children’s toys and pieces of furniture on a Littleton community Facebook page, posting new items nearly every day. Moving boxes can be seen in the background.

Pesch’s next court appearance is expected to be a preliminary hearing at the courthouse in Kiowa, where the prosecution will present some of the evidence against him. The hearing is scheduled for March 30.

Until then, those who knew Wilson are left to wait and wonder.

“I just want justice for him,” said Karen Carnahan, a former student of Wilson’s who now teaches at the same school. “But I know that no matter how upset we are, he would want us to forgive.”

In the meantime, Morrone draws solace from an experience she had in a Denver restaurant the winter after Wilson died.

“My wedding was scheduled for the same day as Randy’s birthday,” she said. “Before he died we were joking about how we’d have a great big party.

He died in June, and I got married the following November. On the first Valentine’s Day after he died, my husband took me out to dinner. We didn’t tell anyone where we were going.

When the waitress brought the bill, she said somebody already paid it for us. We asked who, and she said some guy who already left. We asked her to check, and she came back and said: ‘All I’ve got is Mr. Wilson.’ ”

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Make-believe trading is investment in future Stock Market Challenge lets students be brokers for day

BY TABATHA STEWART TSTEWART@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Some students stood on chairs.

Others waved their arms and made cryptic hand gestures. The noise in the room was deafening, and nobody stayed in their seats.

While it might sound like a classroom out of control, the students were actually participating in Junior Achievement’s semi-annual Stock Market Challenge on March 15, held at the Charles Schwab conference center in Lone Tree, where they got to be stock traders on Wall Street for a day.

More than 1,200 students from along the Front Range participated in the two-day event, where school teams tested their investing skills by “investing” $500,000.

Chalmers Powell, 14, a freshman at Regis, was dressed for the part of stockbroker, sporting a suit and tie.

He spent time before the opening bell searching for the “hot tippers,” or the people on the floor who would be delivering hot stock tips to the competitors.

“I’m trying to be the first one to get the hot tips,” said Chalmers. “My strategy for investing is to do it early, then buy low and sell high.”

The event was sponsored by Charles Schwab, and employees served in

A student from Rock Canyon High School gets excited over a hot stock tip during the Junior Achievement Colorado semi-annual Stock Market Challenge at the Charles Schwab campus in Lone Tree.

PHOTOS BY TABATHA STEWART volunteer capacities as traders and hot tippers. Students started with a portfolio of $500,000 and a list of 26 stocks, which they researched during class before the competition.

Students bought and sold stocks old-school Wall Street style, passing

orders and considering tips. Throughout the trading students were given updates that changed the dynamic of their portfolio, forcing them to change strategies.

“We’ll have someone announce, for instance, there was a storm that wiped

out most of the banana producers.

Students will have to decide what to do with the information,” said Jodi Wallace, development manager for JA. Aryana Taylor, 18, a senior at Highland Ranch High, teamed up with fellow students Alexandra O’Brien and Paige Fitzgerald, and their strategy was to watch which stocks went up, which went down, and make the trades. Being a broker is not for the faint of heart, though, according to Aryana.

“My strategy is to try not to get dizzy,” said Aryana. “There’s a lot of noise and a lot of activity. I’m going to focus on the stocks.”

Junior Achievement is a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and community businesses to teach financial literacy, entrepreneur- a ship and workforce readiness to stu- p dents in grades kindergarten through q p 12th along the Front Range.

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Toastmasters explains move from California to Douglas County Price, workforce needs drive nonprofit’s relocation

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

When Toastmasters International announced in October the nonprofit planned to relocate its global headquarters from California to unincorporated northern Douglas County, it marked the culmination of a yearslong search for a more affordable location with a talent-rich workforce, organization heads said.

Toastmasters International teaches public speaking and leadership skills to its more than 352,000 members in 16,400 clubs in 141 countries.

This month, Toastmasters scheduled a ribbon cutting signaling its transition to the new office, at 9127 South Jamaica St., near I-25 and E-470, which it purchased for $19.5 million.

Toastmasters will occupy approximately one-third of the 106,575-square-foot-building and is seeking tenants for the vacant office space.

With the move comes new jobs but also new residents to the Denver metro area.

The first round of employees began working from the new location in January, CEO Daniel Rex said.

They hope the rest can follow

by April. About 60 employees are relocating with the organization, and they’ll hire an additional 65 to 85 people within the first year of operation in Colorado for a variety of positions — from entry-level to senior leadership.

“As the company continues to grow, I don’t know what the limit is or how long that will take, but we’ll continue to hire. I’ve been very impressed with the workforce here,” Rex said.

In August 2017, Toastmasters International reported is 23rd consecutive year of membership growth. Membership rose by just over 2 percent in the 2016-2017 program year and saw the creation of 1,539 clubs, although there was also an increase in the number of suspended clubs, with 964 being suspended in 2017.

Lynn Myers, the vice president of economic development with Denver South Economic Development Partnership, said attracting a headquarters to the south metro area is always positive news to the organization.

“We are very pleased to have them in the area. Certainly they are a quality employer and they bring an international flavor,” Myers said.

The prospects of hiring from Denver’s “highly educated workforce”

was alluring to Toastmasters during its location search, Rex said, and based on the region’s growth they trusted the pool of qualified candidates would remain strong.

“Millennials are attracted to the Denver metro area and are moving here with or without jobs,” Rex said.

Toastmasters International left its home in California, where the nonprofit has operated for 93 years, partially because it outgrew its headquarters of 26 years in Rancho Santa Margarita, Rex said, but also in search of a more affordable location.

International President Balraj Arunasalam, who hails from Sri Lanka, said Toastmasters hasn’t forgotten its Golden State roots.

“Our legacy will remain that we started in California,” he said, adding that the need for a strong workforce and cost-effective location spurred the move.

Through its nationwide search, the nonprofit considered headquartering in locations on both the West and East coasts.

“We were looking for a place that was conducive to our way of working that was frankly priced better than the coasts are priced,” Rex said. “The Denver area, even though it’s not the least expensive, is priced better than many of the coastal areas are and some of the inland parts.”

The cheaper cost of living benefits Toastmasters employees as well, Myers said.

“The cost of doing business here and the cost of housing and supporting their workers here is much more affordable than Southern California,” Myers said.

And for an organization with members and leadership from across the globe, Denver’s freeway system, light rail and nearby airports served as another attraction.

Rex said he sees their relocation as a benefit for the Denver metro area.

“We are bringing a globally recognized, large not-for-profit into the south Denver area,” he said. “From what I can see, we’ll be the biggest, with the biggest brand recognition and the largest global reach.”

The organization will showcase that global reach come 2019 when it holds its Global Conference in Denver, an event Rex said brings in 2,000 people from around the world.

As of now they’re planning to hold the conference near Denver International Airport.

For now, Rex said he’s grateful the community and county have welcomed Toastmasters and its employees.

“We are 100 percent confident,” Rex said of the new headquarters, “that we made the right choice.”

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Brookdale resident Kaz Denkenbeiger, left, makes a puzzle with Edie Cingrani, a student at Mountain Ridge Middle School. The two came together because of Bessie’s Hope, a program that coordinates volunteers with seniors in assisted living centers.

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Program builds bridges to span generations Bessie’s Hope sets up visits between middle schoolers, seniors with memory loss

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First, you take your partner’s hand and look him or her in the eye. Next, you introduce yourself. Then, you ask for their name. Last, you give a compliment.

These are the guidelines of Bessie’s Hope, a program that brings generations together by coordinating visits between volunteers and seniors in assisted living homes. Linda Holloway started the foundation in 1994 after her grandmother, Bessie, with whom she had a close relationship with, moved into a nursing home.

“These people didn’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’m going to live in a nursing home,’” said Holloway, who lives in Thornton. “It helps them see that they are worth our time and attention.”

Bessie’s Hope works with a variety of people across the Denver metro area, from kindergarteners to at-risk youth to corporate groups. For one hour, they are trained on how to interact with aging adults who may have health or cognitive challenges, such as dementia. Then, the group meets at a nursing home or assisted living community and spends an hour or two making crafts and playing games.

On March 14, about 10 students from a community service club at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Highlands Ranch met at Brookdale Highlands Ranch, 9160 S. University Blvd. The residential community provides

HOW YOU CAN HELP Bessie’s Hope is hosting a Bridge of Love Gala from 5:30-10 p.m. April 7 at Denver Marriott Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse St., Denver.

The evening includes a silent auction, live auction, dinner and dance. Regular seating is $150; patron seating is $250. Proceeds benefit the foundation, which brings together nursing home residents and youths.

For more information, visit www.bessieshope.org/event/2018-bridge-love. memory care for seniors.

In a welcoming room with wooden tables and chairs, the young students sat next to or across from residents.

Together they talked, worked on puzzles and decorated totes.

“It teaches you patience and positivity,” said Ally Atkins, a 13-year-old who goes to Ranchview but participates in community service when she can.

“You want to make sure they know they belong in this world.”

The visits benefit both parties, said Holloway. Kids learn to respect and have compassion for their elders.

Residents get to interact with visitors, which many don’t have often, Holloway has found.

“Some don’t have any family, just the staff, who are also taking care of everyone else,” she said.

Atkins spent the hour creating a heart-shaped card for Arzella Dirksen, a resident seated next to her. When she received the gift, Dirksen lit up.

“You are so kind and beautiful,” the card said. “Don’t let anyone tell you differently.”

At the end of the visit, beaming with excitement, Dirksen said she was going to hang the card in her room.

“This,” she said, “was the best ever.”

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A state House bill and a ballot measure could increase education funding throughout Colorado.

Colorado House Bill 1232, which is currently awaiting hearing by the House Education Committee, seeks to create a new public school funding distribution formula for preschool through secondary Zenzinger education.

The modernized school finance formula, proposed by Colorado superintendents, aspires to provide all 178 Colorado school districts with an increased level of funding for all students, while at the same time establishing a more equitable distribution of funding for students who are underserved and/or face the greatest challenges to being ready for college or a career when they finish high school.

“The bill making its way through Legislature would change how the pie gets sliced,” said state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, D-Arvada, who sits on the Senate education committee and the Legislative Interim Committee on School Finance, which is charged with examining how to update the school finance formula.

“The last time the formula was updated was in 1994 through the Public School Finance Act of 1994.

“If coupled with a separate initiative for ballot, we can increase the size of the pie,” Zenzinger explained. “They go hand in hand. Why have a conversation about changing the formula if we don’t have a commitment to fund it?”

The Great Schools, Thriving Communities ballot initiative seeks to increase that pie by creating a quality public education fund financed through higher taxes on incomes above $150,000 and on “C” corporations.

Organizers maintain that if passed, the initiative would providing sustainable support for schools by stabilizing property taxes.

The ballot initiative is designed in a way to align with the House bill.

“We are working together, learning together and coming up with a proposal that would meet everyone’s interest,” said Susan Meek, communication director for Great Education Colorado, the organization sponsoring the ballot initiative. “It wasn’t a good idea to just raise revenue when we could lose it to the Gallagher Amendment.”

The Gallagher Amendment is just one factor that makes state education funding in Colorado complex.

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property to ensure the percentage of the assessed value of taxable residential real property relative to the assessed value of all taxable real property remains the same as in 1985.

The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), passed in 1992, also causes problems by putting pressure on state resources by generally reducing local share and increasing state share.

A third factor is Amendment 23, passed in 2000, which says that the statewide base per pupil funding must annually increase by at least inflation, putting pressure on state resources by increasing the amount of total program funding.

In 2010, nationwide recession resulted in lower state revenues, and Gallagher, TABOR, and Amendment 23 combined resulted in a state share amount that was more than the state could pay and still meet other budgetary demands.

Because of this, the General Assembly created the negative factor to reduce the state’s share of total program proportionately across school districts.

The effect is that the negative factor reduces total program funding for most school districts because of reduced state share.

“It’s a complicated set of factors,” said Dr. Jason Glass, superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools. “I think the punchline on school funding each year is that the final numbers are determined by the state Legislature.

They determine what money is for each school district through a complicated set of factors.”

One thing that Glass said makes state education finding even more difficult is that education is competing against other needs in the state.

“Everything the state funds is underfunded,” Glass said. “Legislature is going through the process of balancing needs to determine right mixture. We don’t know if it’s a year they want to highlight transportation over education.”

Issues in funding that the interim committee is looking at include whether the state is counting students correctly and whether it is adequately defining who is at-risk, cost-of-living adjustments and district sizes.

But Zenzinger said even if all those problems are addressed, there is still the local share problem that the Gallagher Amendment, TABOR and Amendment 23 create.

“We have to make sure that we are doing a better job of having the necessary resources to eliminate that negative factor that comes at the end of the process,” Zenzinger said. “The proposal the superintendents are putting forward will help modernize that formula, but it’s worthless if at the end of the day we end up carving up the same pie.

“We need to have a really honest conversation about whether that base amount is adequate and equitable and whether that base amount is even close to what the national average is. And it’s not.”

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March 22, 2018M Students at Castle View High School in Castle Rock took part in school walkouts happening across the nation March 14 protesting gun violence in schools.

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Students from Castle Rock Renaissance Secondary School hold signs during March 14 school walkouts.

COURTESY PHOTO Students from Legend High School walk out in a studentorganized show of support for lives lost in school shooting across the United States, as well as to raise awareness for gun safety issues.

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Two years ago, she moved here with her family from Australia, where gun control laws were tightened after a mass shooting in 1996.

“Yes, I’m afraid,” Dudgeon, 17, said.

“It happens in the places you think it won’t. For me, people’s right to education is more important than guns.”

She said she would like to see national leaders try a strategy that she saw work in Australia, when the government banned certain types of weapons and offered a buy-back program for gun owners.

“Our leaders need to not be afraid to try what other places have done, that end up working,” she said.

Not all students were protesting for the same cause. Among the crowd at Highlands Ranch High, a group of less than 10 students carried signs that said, “Do not tread on me,” signifying

their opposition to gun control. They chanted during what was meant to be a moment of silence for the 17 victims of the school shooting.

“We wanted to be as inclusive as possible when it came to political differences,” said Peacock. “I wasn’t expecting so much disrespect.”

Noah Pasley, a senior at Highlands Ranch High, wants to support school safety but doesn’t want to limit the rights of Americans, he said. He would like to see stronger school security and more focus on mental health.

“I feel like not enough attention has been on the actual people behind the shootings and taking care of the victims,” said Pasley, who had a free period during the walkout but rode his bike from home to join his classmates.

“The people in Parkland aren’t going to be the same.”

Peacock said his main concern is protecting people.

“I want them gone,” Peacock said of assault rifles. “Ban the guns that are meant to kill.”

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A bump stock is an attachment that allows a semi-automatic rifle to work as a fully automatic weapon.

ERPO addresses a temporary crisis situation, said Blegen, a former nurse, adding, “Colorado needs better mental health care.”

Romanoff had a similar outlook.

Colorado needs better mental healthcare, and cutting state and federal public healthcare programs would be a step in the wrong direction, he said.

“Most people with mental illness are not violent,” said Romanoff. “But there is a fraction of folks and we ought to make it harder for them to get firearms and easier for them to get treatment.”

Brauchler said he wants to stop the wrong people from getting weapons, but he doesn’t want pass laws that “infringe on people’s liberty.”

“It should be up to the state to determine if a person is a danger to himself or someone else,” he said.

Spurlock pointed out tools the sheriff ’s office has implemented to address mental illness. Last year, a community-response team — comprising a law enforcement officer, a paramedic and a mental health professional and case manager — was formed to respond to mental health calls.

“I ask you to call us,” Spurlock said, “because we can intervene.”

Some audience members were surprised by the forum’s turnout. Several

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock talks about gun violence and what the sheriff’s office is doing to address mental illness in the community. “I always ask to share that information as quickly as you can about anyone in those crisis modes,” he said at the March 18 forum. “I always ask, if you see it, please share it.” ALEX DEWIND people attended to educate themselves and see where county leaders stand on the issue. They agree that something needs to change to prevent more deaths from gun violence.

“I thought it was an interesting forum,” said Laura Reeves, a Highlands Ranch resident and member of Moms Demand Action, a grassroots organization that promotes gun reforms. “As a mom, I want to see bump stock bans.”

Kathy Kilmer said the event was timely, following the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

“I’m just thrilled that so many people came out,” said Kilmer, a member of the church. “I think it really resonates here because of all the gun violence in Colorado.”

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Police use of social media to deliver news concerns some experts Law enforcement agencies say they are being proactive

Parrish and other officers met during that call. Open government advocates also consider it a dramatic example of law enforcement agencies’ expanding efforts to release their own accounts of events to the public and media.

There’s nothing wrong with police communicating through social media, open government advocates said. But they worry it allows law enforcement to bypass questions from traditional media and warn that taking advantage of the tools requires agencies to be completely transparent, whatever the situation.

Parrish was among three deputies in three counties shot to death while on duty in barely more than a month.

The calls that preceded the killings varied — a mentally ill veteran, a reported fight and a stolen car investigation. But the departments took similar approaches, relying on their social media accounts to release information and giving news outlets limited op-

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It opens with a warning: This video contains footage from real police body cameras. Viewer discretion is advised.

Then, an introduction: “I would like you to hear from me, what happened,’’ Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock says, facing the camera.

The next eight minutes provide a carefully edited glimpse of the events that led to a 29-year-old deputy’s Dec. 31 death inside an apartment complex in Highlands Ranch.

The video posted Jan. 8 on the department’s social media accounts is punctuated by gunshots and shouts of panic and pain, and undoubtedly illustrates the danger Deputy Zack

portunity to ask questions about what happened.

Police have made use of social media for years, from viral videos of officers’ dance-offs with kids to the Boston Police Department’s extensive use of Twitter following the 2013 marathon bombing.

Agencies are eager to cut the middleman and tell their own stories, said Lauri Stevens, a former TV news reporter who founded an annual conference in 2010 that teaches departments about promoting themselves on social media.

“It’s not any less valid than any media, in this day and age,’’ she said.

Stevens said many agencies are getting better at connecting with residents on routine days, sharing updates and knocking down rumors during high-profile incidents.

Sgt. William Hutchison, Palm Springs, California, police spokesman, presented at Stevens’ conference last

year about his agency’s communications strategy after two officers were shot dead in 2016. Looking back, Hutchison said he would have posted even more information directly to Facebook and Twitter.

Hutchison said he doesn’t view social accounts as a way to avoid traditional media, and complimented local coverage of the officers’ killings.

“More people watch the news than the number of people who watch us, and you’ve got to maintain that relationship,’’ he said. “But law enforcement is becoming more skilled and has (our) own platform now that we didn’t have before.’’

But that takes a staff capable of providing regular updates as they balance other responsibilities, a challenge for smaller departments on any day.

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argaret Atwood — remember her? — said, “In the spring, at the end of QUIET the day, you should DESPERATION smell like dirt.”

To be honest, I had never heard of Atwood, but I liked the quote. The quote led me to her. She is a novelist and a poet and an inventor.

I invented something that never got off the ground. I am Craig Marshall still looking for an Smith investor.

I invented a smoke alarm that doesn’t chirp you to death. It says, in

a soothing voice, “My battery is low, Craig.”

(You could program it to say, “My battery is low, Otis,” if your name was Otis, or even if it wasn’t.)

Every time one of my smoke alarms fatigues and chirps, I spend 20 minutes or more trying to determine which one it is. In the meantime, the dog goes out of his mind.

I was looking for a good quote about spring, and that’s how I found Atwood.

She’s Canadian.

If she were an American, she’d be on a stamp someday. Her life has been impressive.

Of course, anyone can be on a stamp these days. You can have stamps made with anything you want on them, and they’re legal tender.

I don’t feel any differently about spring than I do about winter, unless we’ve had a good sock of winter. And we haven’t.

Spring will be welcome nevertheless, even though I don’t have any dirt.

I don’t plant anything, and I never have. Maybe it was too much apartment living when I was younger. Or maybe it is an ineptitude when it comes to home-growing flowers and vegetables.

There are a few things that change around here when spring arrives. Russell shows up, for one thing.

Russell will get the sprinkler system running and tell me a bad joke while he’s doing it.

The yard will be aerated and fed.

And finally the mower will come out

and make too much racket.

Spring cleaning? There will be none. Cleaning is year around, partly because of my mother, who at one time owned five vacuum cleaners.

They weren’t all alike. Each one was designated for a different purpose and zone.

The upright couldn’t go where the handheld could go.

Our house was never a home. It was always too clean. I keep a clean house, but it is nothing like the houses I lived in when I was growing up. I felt like the Bubble Boy without the bubble.

Crumbs were the enemy.

The bad boy in me then, which holds true today, left crumbs for my mother SEE SMITH, P15

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t’s a situation no one wants to think about — but it is our reality.

With recent school shootings in other states, as well as threats at some of our own GUEST schools in the DougCOLUMN las County School District, it seems appropriate to talk about the processes we have in place to keep our students and staff safe every day in our buildings.

We are an incredibly large district: 89 schools — 68,000 Erin Kane students — 8,800 employees. It is our duty to be ready to respond to any concern or threat

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at a moment’s notice. We partner with four different law enforcement jurisdictions in Douglas County: the police departments in Castle Rock, Lone Tree and Parker, as well as the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office.

As part of that partnership, local law enforcement provides a School Resource Officer (SRO) for each of our high schools, as well as School Marshal Officers (SMO) who make multiple unannounced security visits to our elementary and middle schools every day. Additionally, we have campus security specialists stationed at our middle and high schools.

The DCSD Safety and Security team monitors our schools and facilities SEE KANE, P15

ver the past 10 years, many of you have asked me a similar question. You have asked me for one of the best lessons that I have learned over the course of my career and my life.

Historically I have not called them out specifically, instead I have strived WINNING to pass along some WORDS of those lessons through insights shared in this weekly column.

Today, however, I will share what I believe is one of the greatest life lessons I have ever learned. May it have the same Michael Norton impact on you as it did on me.

In 2008, my boss, my mentor, and my friend Zig Ziglar was asked to speak at an executive retreat for about 400 people. The sponsoring corporation was a Fortune 50 company. The executive retreat was taking place over three days and they had several big-name celebrities, subject matter experts, and professional athletes who were going to speak to

the group at different times over the three-day event. Mr. Ziglar was going to be the last speaker on the final day of the retreat. And for me, well I was the president of the company at the time and I was invited to the event as well. Mostly I was just Zig’s bag man and I was happy and proud to have that job for Zig at any time.

Mr. Ziglar was scheduled to speak in the afternoon. The lunch that day was held oceanside with white linen tablecloths and a fine dining experience set up on the beach. We were invited to sit with the CEO, the CFO, and the chairman of the board along with the other guest speakers and celebrities who were participating that week. At that point they had all given their talk and the only one left to speak was Zig Ziglar later that afternoon.

As we enjoyed lunch, there were some very good discussions going on. Some very intriguing questions and stimulating conversation. I watched and observed Mr. Ziglar as he quietly and deliberately ate his lunch and took it all in. At a table with some very highly educated people, extremely business savvy

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folks, and celebrities who were not at a loss for opinions or words, it became obvious that Mr. Ziglar was not participating in the conversation. Not yet anyway.

A question came up and before anyone else could answer the CEO stopped and asked Mr. Ziglar if he would like to share his thoughts. And Zig looked at me, winked, put down his fork and knife and said, “Thank you, I thought you would never ask, and why yes I do have a thought or two I would like to share.”

The question was about character and integrity in a corporate environment. Zig summed it all up, confidently, quietly, with conviction, and from a position of confidence based on his own fundamental belief system.

I can’t include every single word Zig spoke that day, so I will give you the punch line, “Reputation is what you have done in this life, character and integrity is who you are.”

In sharing one of life’s great lessons with you, you might be thinking it is Mr. Ziglar’s response that I quoted above. Although it certainly is another great life lesson, the lesson I want to pass along is how Mr. Ziglar, at a table with prominent and powerful business executives, celebrities, and professional athletes, did not get caught up in the “who’s who” of life. He sat quietly, listened, waited for his moment, and then provided a response that had every single person at the table hanging on the edge of their seat.

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around the clock. They partner with our schools to conduct safety drills, install security cameras and monitoring systems, and review current safety procedures and update them as needed.

Every threat is investigated Anyone can report a concern or potential threat any time, day or night.

It truly takes all of us to keep our students safe! Our students and staff know they can use the Text-a-Tip app on the cell phones. If you are a parent or community member, you can contact Safe2Tell at 1-877-542-7233. This is an anonymous way to share a concern or potential threat.

What happens next When a concern or threat is received, there is an instant response.

The DCSD Safety and Security team, in partnership with local law enforcement, immediately launches an investigation. In many cases, the concern or threat is determined to be unfounded or non-credible, meaning there is no concern for the well-being or safety of our students and staff.

There is a lot of work that goes into determining that a concern or threat is unfounded. Is that a bad thing?

Absolutely not! We are committed to investigating each and every concern

How often do we just jump in and try and become part of a conversation, competing for air time, and wanting to prove our knowledge? How often do we think about what it is we want to say instead of listening, truly listening, and waiting for the appropriate time to respond? It’s one thing to read books, watch videos and take courses on best practices and business principles, and I strongly advocate for all of those as we grow personally and professionally. But I was so very blessed to have watched it happen real-time, live, and right in front of my eyes.

I still pinch myself whenever I think about my 12 years of working with Zig Ziglar, his family, and the many people who were part of the Ziglar corporation.

The lesson: Humble quietness, active listening, and responding from a position of confidence and conviction when appropriate. No blustering to hear yourself speak.

So how about you? Do you make it a point to listen, truly listen, and then respond when appropriate or are you already thinking about what you want to say? Maybe you too have mastered the art of quiet humbleness and active listening. Either way, I would live to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail. com, and when we are blessed enough to capture one of life’s lesson and then apply it in our own life, it really will be a better than good week.

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to ferret.

It wasn’t entirely objectionable to her: It rewarded her, and gave her day a purpose.

She’s gone, and I wish I could ask her what she did all day, home alone, while dad was at work, and while Cindy and I were in school.

I think I know the answer: She cleaned things over and over, and cleaned things that didn’t need to be cleaned.

I know she didn’t watch television or drink or take snoozes. She cleaned.

Former Texas governor Ann Richards said she did not want her tombstone to read, “She kept a really clean house.”

My mother, however, good old Shirley, would have loved a legacy exactly like that.

Dirt at the end of the day, Margaret Atwood, was unthinkable.

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

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Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the president of the Zig Ziglar Corporate Training Solutions Team, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach. or threat that is brought to our attention. That is our responsibility and our duty — to keep our children safe.

There are times when the situation escalates — we may not be able to determine whether or not a threat is credible right away — or, in a worstcase scenario, it is determined to be a credible threat.

Behind the scenes School and district administration supports the investigation and prepares parent communication. This takes time. It is nearly impossible to compete with the speed of social media, as we are committed to sharing up-to-date, confirmed and accurate information. We want our parents to know as much about the situation as we are able to share. There are times when we cannot say as much as we would like, as we do not want to jeopardize a law enforcement investigation in any way — especially when it involves the safety of our kids.

But know this: We are committed to keeping our students, staff and community safe. And we are committed to sharing as much information as we can, as quickly as we can.

It truly takes us all working together to protect our kids. So please remember, if you have a concern, let someone know — whether it is a school administrator, law enforcement, or Text-aTip/Safe2Tell.

Erin Kane is the interim superintendent of the Douglas County School District.

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which has no full-time communications staff. He became the primary spokesman during a June manhunt for two inmates accused of killing two prison guards on a transfer bus.

Sills provided no social media updates and instead held regular press conferences on the case. He continued taking reporters’ calls on his personal cellphone through the day the inmates were arrested.

Traditional media “get things right usually,’’ Sills said. “And if they don’t get things right, it’s usually our fault.’’

In Douglas County, the department cited an ongoing investigation to deny media requests for body camera footage from the call that led to Parrish’s death. Days later, the agency posted its video to Facebook and Twitter , which includes some of the material denied to media.

The video omits the shooter’s face and voice. And it includes only audio

of the moment Matthew Riehl fired through his bedroom door, fatally wounding Parrish and striking four other officers trying to take the shooter into custody on a mental health hold.

Speaking to The Associated Press nine days after the shooting, Douglas County’s sheriff defended releasing the edited video after the department denied journalists’ open-records requests for the complete footage.

“I knew that if I went to the press, radio and television, I’m going to get 60 seconds, and the rest was going to hit the editor’s floor,’’ Spurlock said.

“I’m not going to be able to tell the story in such a fashion that I thought was appropriate for the dignity of Zack Parrish and the other four officers that were shot — and what I believe the citizens of Douglas County deserve.’’

Spurlock’s office released roughly 50 hours of unedited body camera video the same day he spoke with the AP. It included Parrish’s shooting, the injured officers’ escape, and arriving officers taking cover as the shooter

continued firing.

No portion of the unedited footage suggests the office’s video posted on social media inaccurately portrayed the shooting.

The files didn’t include Parrish’s body camera footage, and sheriff spokeswoman Lauren Lekander said it won’t be released “due to the sensitive nature of the material recorded on his camera.’’ Members of the SWAT unit that entered the shooter’s apartment and killed him don’t wear body cameras, she said.

Social media’s widespread use makes it a tempting resource for law enforcement, but police must use it responsibly, said David Alan Sklansky, a Stanford criminal law professor who has studied law enforcement use of technology.

“If a department wants its feed to be trusted, it needs to earn that trust partly by making sure it is candid and forthright in what is posted,’’ he said.

Failing to uphold that standard can prove damaging, as in San Antonio where the Express News found that a promotional police department video

claiming to feature “real 911 calls “ actually included a fake call and two real calls with modified details. The newspaper uncovered the issue by requesting the original 911 recordings.

The agency admitted it was a mistake to include some of the calls but defended the video, which was intended to discourage the use of 911 except in emergencies.

“This was a hugely successful social media campaign that amassed 122,870 views on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and even more through traditional media nationwide,’’ Jeff Coyle, director of government and public affairs, said in a statement provided to the newspaper.

Law enforcement in the other Colorado counties that lost officers this winter, Adams and El Paso , also depended largely on social media to share updates about the shootings, repeatedly directing reporters seeking more detail to those feeds. Meanwhile, press conferences held within hours of the officers’ deaths allowed for no media questions after officials read statements.

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Tenor Nathan Ward and mezzo-soprano Katherine Beck in Opera Colorado Young Artist Program’s abridged, Englishlanguage, and family-friendly production of Rossini’s “Cinderella.”

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ven opera singers understand that their artform of choice can be easy to make fun of at times, even if the things people assume about opera are wrong.

“People think operas are impossible to understand, or that they’re just people screaming on stage,” said Cherity Koepke, director of education and community programs and From left, bassbaritone Andrew Hiers, baritones Heath Martin and Nicholas Kreider, and tenor Nathan Ward perform during the Opera Colorado Young Artists’ annual An Afternoon of American Song on March 4 at the Opera Colorado Opera Center in Englewood. OPERA COLORADO/JAMIE KRAUS

director of Opera Colorado’s Young Artist Program. “A lot of people think opera singers are all old, but they don’t understand the diversity of voices coming from the next generation of singers.”

Nathan Ward, who initially studied cello and piano in high school, understands the hesitancy many people have towards the centuries-old musical form.

“I was skeptical even while I was watching my first opera, right until the end, when I heard all these motifs woven together,” Ward, who is a member of the Young Artist Program, remembers. “Now, I get to be part of the first opera experience for students all over Colorado, and that means a lot.”

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WHAT: “Falstaff ” WHERE: Ellie Caulkins Opera House 1385 Curtis St., Denver WHEN: May 5, 8, and 11 — 7:30 p.m.

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or a long time, I was one of those people who wrote off horror films as cheap scares or excuses to get as gory as possible. But once you study what a good horror film can be, it becomes obvious the genre is especially suited to exploring outdated social norms COMING changes in the ATTRACTIONS and world.

That was one of the things that attracted Denver native Haylar Garcia to the genre, when he became interested in screenwriting and filmmaking after an initial interest in music.

Clarke Reader “Horror films are wonderful for mimicking issues seen in our culture,” he said. “I love allegory, and so social horror films are really interesting to me as a filmmaker.”

Now Garcia’s third film, “Apartment 212” which was shot in the metro area and in his RiNo studio, is being released in 10 cities, on-demand, and is available on iTunes, Google Play, and other streaming services, after being acquired by Gracitas Ventures.

The movie was released at the Sie FilmCenter in Denver, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., as well as theaters in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Detroit and other major cities.

Produced by Unreal Media and Wrecking Ball Productions, in addition to Gravitas, the film stars Penelope Mitchell, Sally Kirkland and Kyle Gass, of Tenacious D fame. Mitchell stars as Jennifer, a small-town girl fleeing an abusive relationship and aiming for a new start in the city. But when she starts waking up with bites taken out of her, she has to confront the demons hot on her trail.

“The film deals with empowerment and overcoming abuse, but it’s also about the things that eat at all of us in our daily lives,” Garcia explained.

“We all have things that scare us, things we need to face that take a lot out of us.”

The film has won several awards in the horror-film festival circuit, including Best Horror Feature Film at Los Angels’ Shriekfest.

As an Denver native, it’s important to Garcia that his films highlight the thriving arts scene in the metro area.

“There are so any great artists in the area that deserve a voice, and so many creative communities that deserve to be employed,” he said. “It just seems like the right thing to do to bring national talent here to be a part of it all.”

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‘Sleeping Beauty’ comes to stage at Denver’s Mizel center “Sleeping Beauty,” as conceived by Denver Children’s Theatre, which is presenting its 21st annual professionally staged production for children, involves a feisty Briar Rose and her friend Gryff, the half-dragon, as well as two witches and Prince Owain. Plays Sonya Ellingboe through May 4 at the Elaine Wolf Theatre at Mizel Arts and Community Center (Jewish Community Center), 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver.

Performances at 1 p.m. Sundays and for school groups weekdays at 10. Tickets $10, $12, 303-316-6360, www.jccdenver. org/event/denver-childrens-theatre/.

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Marlea Taylor Englewood artist and former teacher Marlea Taylor will exhibit her latest mosaic creations, inspired by vacation trips, in the café at Smoky Hill Library, 5430 S. Biscayne Circle, Centennial during the month of April. Library hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturdays; noon to 6 p.m. Sundays.

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Springtime for Lone Tree Brewing The Front Range is on the cusp of warmer weather, when greens start appearing amidst all the browns and yellows.

Which makes it the perfect time for Lone Tree Brewing Company, 8200 Park Meadows Drive, No. 8222 in Lone Tree, to announce its 2018 batch of Bière de Printemps. This is a spring seasonal that belongs to Lone Tree’s Branching Out Series of small-batch, specialty beers.

Bière de Printemps, a Bière de Mars, is a palate-awakening French-style spring ale fermented with French ale yeast that yields spicy aromas and subtle citrus notes. It is brewed with Noble Hops and a touch of soft winter wheat. The bright lemon notes from this beer’s yeast finish out the experience and open the senses to the aromatics of spring.

The drink was bottled for the first time in 2017, and is available on draft at Lone Tree’s tasting room and in bombers across Colorado while supplies last.

For more information, visit www. lonetreebrewingco.com.

This is the music you’re searching for There are some movies that just wouldn’t be the same without the

an opportunity for participants with mild memory loss to enjoy hands-on garden-related projects at 10 a.m. to noon on April 3. Free, but registration required. 1007 York St., Denver, 720-8653500, botanicgardens.org.

Rangers at library “Redwoods: Nature’s Tupperware for Carbon Storage,” “Legends of the Aurora Borealis” and “Spirit Trees” will be topics discussed by Red Rocks College Ranger Interpretation trainees at 7 p.m. April 10 at Bemis Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Free. 303-795-3961.

Women’s history The Center for Colorado Women’s History opened March 21 at the ByersEvans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., Denver. The focus of the first state museum on the past, present and future accomplishments of Colorado women will be on scholarship, research, public programs, narrative, lectures, public school tours and exhibits. Jillian Allison is director. Byers-Evans open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays; 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. Members free.

Tickets: $6/$5/$4. 303-620-4933.

Free community dinner The monthly free community dinner date for March is March 27 from 6 to 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd.

March menu: Easter ham, baked potatoes, confetti corn, Waldorf

score to deepen the story and add some nuance to characters. And composer John Williams’ score to the “Star Wars” films is perhaps the quintessential example of the power of the two forms.

For me, the first film, “A New Hope,” will always be the best entry into the series, and it features some of Williams’ most iconic themes. Now fans of the movies, music or both can experience them in a new way.

The Colorado Symphony will be performing the score to “A New Hope” live while the film shows at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 22 at the 1st Bank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane in Broomfield.

The performance is sure to leave you humming these classic tunes for the rest of the night. To get tickets, go to www.1stbankcenter.com.

God Save the Queens The Hi-Dive is a great venue for seeing bands for a good cause, and audiences can expect a raucous good time with some of the most creative and dynamic punk bands in the area.

The third installment of God Save the Queens: Denver Queer Punk Night will be at 9 p.m. on Monday, March 26 at the Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway in Denver.

God Save the Queens is an evening for all genders and gender expressions, queer people and allies alike to come together and hear a variety of punk subgenres, from postpunk to protopunk, goth, deathrock, queer-

salad, fresh fruit, handheld desserts. All are welcome. No reservations required.

Information: 303-798-1389 or fpcl. org/dinner.

Rachel Applehans Fia NyXX, Rachel Applehans from Westminster, will perform on March 25 at the Clocktower in Denver. She grew up in Denver and graduated from Standley Lake High School. 303-293-0075, clocktowercabaret.com.

Band members sought The Castle Rock Band invites percussionists, brass and woodwind players to join this community band and play under conductor Andy Goodiger for free community concerts. Rehearsals on alternate Monday evenings at Faith Lutheran Church, 303 Ridge Road, Castle Rock. Information: visit castlerockband.org or email CastleRockBand@aol.com.

Performance Now “The Producers” by Mel Brooks is presented March 23-April 1 by Performance Now Theatre Company at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays.

Tickets start at $20, 303-987-7845, Lakewood.org/LCCpresents.

core, riot grrrl, electropunk and more.

There’s no cover for the show, but it is a 21 and older only event.

For more information, visit www. hi-dive.com.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — A$AP Ferg at Ogden Theatre When it comes to A$AP Mob, a rap collective from New York City, the name most people probably recognize is A$AP Rocky. As the de facto leader of the group, Rocky has recorded with pop stars like Selena Gomez and Maroon 5 and with rap mainstays like ScHoolboy Q, Drake and Kanye West.

But A$AP Ferg, another member of the group, has proven himself to be the breakout star, bringing a dark menace to even his most radiofriendly tracks. He’s already released two very good albums, and now he’s heading to Denver.

A$AP Ferg will be stopping by the Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28.

In addition to Ferg, audiences will be treated to performances from Denzel Curry and IDK, both off whom are making serious waves in the hip-hop community.

For tickets, visit www.ogdentheatre. com.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. A community editor with Colorado Community Media, he can be reached creader@ coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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‘Linking Asia’ exhibit nearing end at Denver Art Museum Visitors can enjoy look back at ancient trade routes

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“Linking Asia,” at the Denver Art Museum only through April 1, starts with the legendary Silk Road, which included land and sea routes, illustrating how ideas, techniques, materials and trade goods traveled hundreds of miles and farther, setting the style in faraway lands, when it came to Asian china. (The emperor of Turkey in Istanbul had a huge collection of blue and white china, for example, and it was stylish in Europe as well.)

As a visitor enters the carefully organized “Linking Asia” gallery, there is a huge painted map of China during the Ming Dynasty, dated 1681, (loaned by Wesley A. Brown). Painted in Japan 40 years after the Ming Dynasty, it shows cities, mountains, trade routes in China — and also inspires the colors used in the exhibit, said Tianlong Jiao, Joseph de Heer curator of Asian Art, who organized this fascinating look at history in a part of the world much in today’s news. Trade goods from China, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Iran and Afghanistan flowed back and forth, not only across

Cup and saucer found in the Griffin Shipwreck are among items illustrating trade routes along the Silk Road by land and water-through April 1 at the Denver Art Museum. An elegant history lesson!

COURTESY PHOTO the continent, but to Europe and Turkey as well. Another large map shows more trade routes. Busy international trade (and, undoubtedly, arguments about it) is not new!

Enterprising businessmen years ago commissioned artisans to create objects like those being made in faraway places, and cultural exchange flourished. An interesting story of the travels of Buddhist images and religious practices through Asia adds another facet.

Tianlong Jiao, pleased with the way this exhibit illustrates interaction between nations, is thinking this may be the way to organize the Asian collection when it moves back into the “now under-remodeling” North Building, designed 50 years ago by Gio Ponti.

Gene Nieges, an active docent with the Denver Art Museum — and a Highlands Ranch resident, as is curator Tianlong Jiao — looks forward to improvements in that older building, recalling how he had to “fight with

other docents over two elevators, with 300-400 kids in tow” who needed to be upstairs.

Nieges thinks the Linking Asia exhibit, where he frequently leads tours, is “great for kids because it shows how we get goods and products today from all over the world. With the Silk Road, art and religion also moved across the world.” The exhibit is full of Islamic art, made in the French art form for Islamic Chinese. “Kids enjoy Funereal art, especially what was buried with the dead.”

Tianlong Jiao called special attention to a 268-inch-long scroll from the museum collection, painted in silk, which has never been displayed before. It is called “Tribute Bearers” and was probably painted by Qiu Ying in the 1500s. It shows 10 foreign delegations traveling to pay tribute to the Chinese court — each with exotic features, distinctive costumes and gifts.

It illustrates international relations in its period, according to catalog essayist Yang Wang.

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Critter creations fill ‘Stampede’ exhibit at art museum Curators chose animal figures for show during shutdown of North Building

IF YOU GO The Denver Art Museum is located on 13th Avenue and Bannock Street, just west of Broadway in downtown Denver, with entry to the parking garage off 12th Avenue. It is open seven days a week.

Members are admitted free, with admission charged for non-members, except on the first Saturday of the month, when all except special extra-fee exhibits (i.e. “Degas”) are free. denverartmuseum.org.

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When it was time to close down the Denver Art Museum’s 50-year-old North (Gio Ponti) Building for an update, curators from all departments were asked to select an assortment of animals, as portrayed by artists ancient and modern — creatures mythical and realistic — in two and three dimensions: sculptures, paintings, textiles, ceramics. Objects range from ancient fierce dragon-like temple guards to Deborah Butterfield’s relaxed recent bronze life-sized horses — and all sorts of wondrous critters in between.

These were to be combined into a large exhibit called “Stampede,” filling both the third and fourth floors at the more recently constructed Hamilton Building.

In addition to delivering an astonishing assortment of creeping, flying, walking, swimming and just plain magical creatures, a sense of humor emerged. The resulting well-organized display is a delight for children

ABOUT GENE NEIGES Children are enjoying this group of three Deborah Butterfield horses, exhibited in “Stampede.”

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Objects are divided into categories; Horses, Tales de Fabulas, Posters, Domesticated, Sacred, Elemental, Transformed ...

The Horses category, for example, includes a group of three Butterfield horses that are especially popular with kids, according to Highlands Ranch docent Gene Neiges.

Families can make up a game up — “how many cats can you see?” — for instance. Neiges mentions an elusive one hidden in a “Whistler’s Mother” type of painting, which includes an image of a small painting on the wall depicting said feline. Another enter-

taining image is Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting of a cow, with head turned up and tongue sticking waay out.

And, don’t miss Wenling Chen’s hilarious fiberglass procession, “Riding to Happiness (with 56 little pigs)!”

Images can range from an ancient ceramic Mexican “Standing Dog, Comala Style,” dated @ 300 B.C.-A.D. 300 and standing 10 inches tall to Kiki Smith’s fanciful near-life-sized “Genevieve and the May Wolf ” to Joe Andoe’s huge, in-your-face painting, “Untitled. Horse in Landscape,” which greets one entering the exhibit. The Horses area also includes Chinese artist Xu Beliong’s ink on paper rendition of a horse — and a life-sized mounted Indian with beaded saddle.

Back to the whimsical, one smiles upon finding a piece purchased for the DAM from the delightful Nick Cave exhibit: “Untitled” (2013), with a rotund furry creature riding a teeter-totter. And Peter Gugger’s “Dog Barking at Two Women,” from the textile collection that has appeared around town on posters — and Elliot Erwitt’s photograph, “New York City 1974,” with a small dog on a leash and wearing a hat — and only the legs of its owners shown.

A compelling one-minute film of a polar bear swimming is included in the “Elemental” collection, while Rick Barlow’s large painting in “Transformed” is called “Mas-

Gene Neiges, a Highlands Ranch resident who volunteers at the Denver Art Museum three or four days a week, said he had retired and was searching five years ago for something interesting to do when a friend told him about the concentrated one-year docent training program at the Denver Art Museum.

While he owns some artworks, he had no background in art history, but after the strong training program, he leads exhibit tours and can help visitors find a specific item and information about it, if they wish.

The active volunteer assists with Guest Services when not called upon to lead tours.

At present, he is focused on the “Linking Asia” and “Degas” exhibits, but is familiar with other areas as well. For each new exhibit that opens, docents receive concentrated training so they are ready to share history and technical information with the thousands of visitors, young and older, who enter the doors. (Visitors may request tour times and reserve a spot — or they may prefer to wander unassisted.) querade.” Under “Domesticated,” a visitor will find Robert Motherwell’s “Angus,” multiple black cattle spotted in a field, a Medieval procession that includes unicorns, a Mexican Colonial family with pets, the aforementioned O’Keeffe painting and a crude wooden ox cart. The variety seems endless and surely include items not previously displayed along with often-shown favorites.

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Take caution in construction zones Motorists should heed signs, be mindful of road crews

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Bumper-to-bumper and stop-and-go traffic.

Merging into a single lane of highway.

Traveling 20 mph below the speed limit during rush hour.

Work zones can be frustrating, said Stacia Sellers, a communications specialist with the Colorado Department of Transportation.

But motorists must remember to “go slow in the cone zone,” Sellers said, . reciting a well-known safety campaign slogan.

“Even if you don’t see the workers, it’s coned off for a reason,” she said.

No matter if it’s filling a pothole, replacing a guardrail, repairing a bridge, building a new road or cleaning up debris, road crew workers are out there to make the roads safer, Sellers said.

And they’re putting their lives at risk to do so, she added.

Whether it is a lane closed off or a traffic pattern realignment, for example, these are active work zones and are not normal driving conditions, said Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh rLewis. At any given time, a piece of machinery or a person on foot could suddenly appear.

People should follow the same guidelines when driving through a work zone as with any time they’re behind the wheel — be aware of your surroundings and not distracted, Lewis said.

But especially in work zones, “slow down and be vigilant,” he said. “These are real human beings out doing a job.

And they want to be able to go home at the end of the day.”

There will always be signs posted to warn drivers that they’re entering a work zone, said Kyle Cordova, a transportation maintenance supervisor for CDOT. “But,” he said, “for some reason, it’s quite common for somebody to drive into a coned-off lane.”

Distracted driving is an issue, but Cordova believes the biggest hazard is aggressive driving, he said.

“We have people fly by us, well over the speed limit,” Cordova said, noting sometimes people will drive 20 mph or even 30 mph over the posted speed limit.

Another thing people should mindful of are the driving conditions, such as sun glare or snow, Cordova said.

“You never know what you’re going to get,” he said. “In a split second, anything could happen. And it could cost a life.”

Other than paying attention and adhering to posted signs, another thing motorists can do is comply with the Move Over Law, Sellers said. In fact, she added, a lot of motorists don’t realize the law also includes road maintenance workers.

Colorado’s Move Over Law was im-

A team of construction workers work at the intersection of West Alameda Parkway and Bear Creek Boulevard in Lakewood on March 8. The Colorado State Patrol warns drivers that no matter the project, active work zones are not normal driving conditions and at any given time, a piece of machinery or a person on foot could suddenly appear.

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plemented on July 1, 2005, and requires motorists to make way for emergency vehicles, by way of pulling over and stopping, or slowing down and moving to a lane away from the emergency vehicle.

Motorists can also get hurt in a work zone accident, said Sara Aupperle, a project engineer with Kraemer North America, a full-service heavy civil contractor based in Castle Rock. “The impact is two-fold.”

Especially in the case of a collision with a large piece of machinery, cars can get damaged and a person could be injured, she said.

“The bottom line,” Aupperle said, “is that we plan our work to avoid and mitigate hazards for everyone, including Kraemer workers, subcontractors, inspectors, pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.”

Kraemer does a number of safety preparation mechanisms that follow through for the duration of a project, Aupperle said. Examples are site-specific safety orientations, during which workers review recognized hazards on a project, and safety critical planning, which helps to prepare for closures and other provisions related to traffic flow.

The company recently completed a project at U.S. 6 and 19th Street in Golden, work that came to be commonly known as Linking Lookout. Despite working directly next to about 43,000 cars and hundreds of pedestrians and cyclists each day, and working in volatile Colorado weather conditions, only two incidents were recorded over the duration of the project, Aupperle said.

One of the incidents involved an inattentive motorist not seeing and subsequently hitting a worker on foot crossing in a crosswalk in the construction area.

“Following that incident,” Aupperle said, “the City of Golden, Golden Police Department and Kraemer worked together and enacted enhanced protections for everyone.”

Motorists need to remember that if it weren’t for the road workers, people wouldn’t be able to easily get to work, to the doctor, to the grocery store or any other place that requires road travel, Cordova said.

A Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) crew works to clean up a ramp at exit 244 on I-70 after a beer truck heading westbound tipped over and spilled his load on Feb. 21. After about an hour into the cleanup, Kyle Cordova and three of his crewmembers were nearly hit by two vehicles that crashed into one another and spun out of control into the work zone.

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Special Olympians take to ice for championships Figure, speed skaters compete at South Suburban Ice Arena

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Their blades whispered across the ice as each athlete competed in the Special Olympics Figure and Speed Skating Championship Meet on March 10 at South Suburban Ice Arena in Centennial.

The area just off the ice rink hummed with conversation as family and friends helped the competitors prepare for the competition. Figure skaters in colorful costumes donned their skates as they waited for their turn on the ice and speed skaters made sure their skates were laced tightly so they were ready to go.

Inside the rink, sizable crowd was seated in the stands, watching skaters complete their warmups. Then, one at a time, a competitor moved out onto the ice to skate his or her routine. Applause greeted the skaters as they stood ready to begin their routines. Then the rink became silent except for the skater’s music. Applause and cheers echoed off the walls as the skater went through a special move, followed by more applause and cheers when the skater completed his or her routine.

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Hillary McAdams goes through her routine as she competes in the Special Olympics Figure and Speed Skating Meet on March 10 at South Suburban Ice Arena in Centennial. Approximately 50 athletes from across the state took part in the event that wraps up the winter Special Olympics sports season.

TOM MUNDS ing and communications for Colorado Special Olympics said the state meet in every sport is always a big deal for the competitors.

“We have kids and adults with intellectual disabilities and their unified partners here to compete today,” Vean said. “We have kids who are almost teenagers to adults in their 40s. It is a big deal for them to be here today because they had to win a gold medal

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in regional competition to qualify for state. Some of our athletes require special help so they have an able bodied unified partner skating with them.”

She said each competitor was judged on his or her competition by a panel of five volunteer judges. When the competition was completed, an awards ceremony was held with a podium and the award of gold, silver and bronze medals. Local firefighters in full gear presented each of the medals.

Figure and speed skating are Special Olympics winter sports. Vean said about 200 athletes are competing in winter state meets in sports such as skiing, with about 50 athletes and their unified partners competing in skating.

Holly Griffin sat with her 9-year-old daughter Shelby as the girl waited to compete in figure skating.

“I skated good today,” Stephanie Silvestain said after competing. “A friend’s family got me interested in skating and I love it. It is a lot of fun

skating. I get to see all my friends and I like competing in skating doing all the tricks and poses. I like wearing our pretty skating outfits too.”

She hugged a bear as she talked about skating. She said she hasn’t named the bear yet because it was new and special because it was thrown on the ice to her after she completed her routine.

Her mother Carol said figure skating is very special for her 27-year-old daughter.

“This is a very big deal for her to compete in figure skating as it gives her a sense of belonging and accomplishment,” the Littleton resident said.

“Special Olympics are so great for her.

She gets to compete in a lot of different sports with friends she knows and to meet new friends. It is special for the parents too because it a rich environment for them and their children.

Everyone likes getting together and it is as special for we who are parents as it is for our children.”

Stephanie’s routine was apparently very good because she received the gold medal for special category for her routine at the awards ceremonies.

Hillary McAdams also competed in figure skating.

“I really like figure skating,” the Centennial resident said. “I like figure skating because I love music, I like wearing the special outfits and I love to dance. I dance when I am on the ice and I dance off the ice. I think I like to dance the waltz the best but I like to salsa dance too because of the music.”

Her mother Marilyn also said Special Olympics are special for her and her 26-year-old daughter.

“She loves the challenge of competing in the Special Olympics sports,” she said. “I like the involvement in Special Olympics too. It is a social event for both of us, for her with her friends and for me with the other parents.”

Hillary skated well as she received a fourth-place ribbon for her routine.

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OPERA FROM PAGE 18

The cast and chorus of Opera Colorado’s season-opening production of Puccini’s “La Bohème” in November 2017 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.

MATTHEW STAVER lish versions of the touring productions — in this case, “Cinderella” and “The Elixir of Love.”

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Since its creation in 1983, Opera Colorado has been working to keep the form alive and thriving in the metro area and elsewhere in the state through performances at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, in classrooms, and theaters in towns like Telluride and Steamboat Springs.

“We produce two largescale, grand operas a year, and a contemporary, smaller chamber piece in the winter,” said Greg Carpenter, general and artistic director of Opera Colorado. “Some of our most significant work is our work with young people — by going into schools and touring with our young adults program, we reach about 40,000 students a year.”

In May, Opera Colorado will be producing Giuseppe Verdi’s comic opera, “Falstaff,” but it has an equally exciting day coming on Saturday, March 24 — Family Day at the Opera. Created as a free way to introduce parents and children alike to opera, the event allows people to see members of the Young Artist Program perform shortened, Eng-

translate it into English, but it’s still the classic. We’ve also found making connections to their lives helps kids relate to the opera.”

The Young Artist Program is eight months long and provides the seven members with smaller mainstage roles, mentorship, coaching, and opportunities to do community outreach. As a member, Ward sees how open to opera children can be, especially without the preconceived notions so many adults are saddled with.

“It’s great that kids be willing to try this art form, or at least listen to more of it, because of the performances we do,” he said. “This music has existed for centuries because it is good, and if we can get kids to have an open mind, that’s great.”

Even if the children who watch the opera aren’t inspired to be a performer of any kind, there’s still a variety of careers available, from lights and tech to make up and sound design.

“The themes of opera are as relevant today as when they were written,” Carpenter said. “Going to the opera a great chance to do something social with people, something you can go to dinner and discuss.”

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Need: Teachers or teachers at heart to lead or assist during outdoor field trips at CALF’s Lowell Ranch. Weekdays. Opportunities available April through October.

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Contact: Juli Asbridge, 720-733-2292

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Directed by Wren T. Brown, founder of L.A.'s Ebony Repertory Theatre, August Wilson's Fences revolves around the life of garbage collector Troy Maxson. When his rise through the Negro baseball leagues hit the ceiling of racial prejudice, Maxson turned away from a world of unfulfilled promises and denied opportunities. But in 1957, his son Cory, an emerging football star, sees the world through very different eyes, and his wife Rose yearns for an outlet for her love. Featuring a stellar cast of stars of stage and screen, Fences is a sensational drama that will move you deeply, staying with you long after you leave the theater.

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Children’s Hospital Colorado South Campus, Highlands Ranch Contact: 720-777-6887 Colorado Humane Society: Handles animal abuse and neglect cases.

Need: Volunteers to care for pregnant cats, dogs and their litters, as well as homes for cats and dogs that require socializing or that are recovering from surgery or injuries.

Contact: Teresa Broaddus, 303-961-3925 Colorado Refugee English as a Second Language Program: Teaches English to recently arrived refugees, who have fled war or persecution in their home country. In Colorado, refugees are from Afghanistan, Burma, Bhutan, Somalia, Iraq, Eritrea and D.R. Congo, among others.

Need: Volunteers to teach English. Tutoring takes place in the student’s home. Refugees live throughout Denver, but the largest concentrations are in Thornton, near 88th Avenue and Washington Street, and in east Denver/Aurora, near Colfax Avenue and Yosemite Street.

Other Details: Tutors do not need to speak the student’s language. Most participants are homebound women and small children, adults who are disabled, and senior citizens.

Many are not literate in their first language, and remain isolated from American culture.

Requirements: Volunteers must attend training at Emily Griffith Technical College in downtown Denver. Sessions take place

every 6-8 weeks. Go to www.refugee-esl.org for information and volunteer application.

Contact: Sharon McCreary, 720-423-4843 or sharon.mccreary@emilygriffith.edu.

Court Appointed Special Advocates: Works with abused and neglected children in Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties.

Need: Advocates for children, to get to know, speak up for and ensure their best interests in court Contact: 303-695-1882 or www.adv4children.org.

Douglas County Libraries: elevates our community by inspiring a love of reading, discovery and connection.

Need: Volunteer opportunities consist of event assistance, weekly shelving or bookstore shifts, tutoring, Storytime helpers, and more.

Requirements: Attend an orientation. We will provide training. Specific requirements are listed in each opportunity’s details.

Contact: Visit VolunteerConnectDC.org and search for Douglas County Libraries opportunities.

Douglas/Elbert Task Force: Provides assistance to people in Douglas and Elbert counties who are in serious economic need, at risk of homelessness or in similar crisis.

Need: Volunteers to assist in the food bank, client services and the thrift store Treasures on Park Street.

Contact: Marion Dahlem, 303-688-1114, ext. 32 Dumb Friends League Harmony Equine Center: Cares for homeless horses and other equines.

Need: Volunteers to work with horses and other opportunities.

Requirements: Must be 16 years old, pass a background check, and be able to commit to at least three hours a week for three months.

Contact: 303-751-5772.

Other Information: Two-hour orientation provides an overview of the services provided, learn about the volunteer opportunities, take a tour of the center, and talk with staff and volunteers. Contact www.ddfl.org.

Elbert County Sheriff’s Posse: Supports the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of Emergency Management with detentions support, patrol, administrative duties, event security, emergency services support, and call-outs as need arises.

Need: With proper training and clearances, volunteers help with patrol, fingerprinting, records keeping, community event security services, disaster response and management (wildfire, tornado, blizzard, flood, disaster relief, etc.).

Requirements: Must be 21 years or older; retired individuals are great. Must complete an employment application, pass a background check, and complete interviews. After being sworn in, in the first three months of membership, complete a minimum of 45 hours of orientation and training curriculum. After this 90-day probationary period, members must log a minimum of 10 hours of month and attend monthly training meetings. Persons ages 15-20, may join the Elbert County Sheriffs Explorer POST that is associated with the Posse.

Contact: David Peontek at djp1911@msn.com or 303-646-5456. Go to http://www.elbertcountysheriff.com/posse.html; print out and complete an employment application and turn it into the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office in Kiowa, “Attn: David Peontek.”

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March 22, 2018

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

Deadline is noon Wednesday a week before publication.

Political Douglas County Democrats executive committee meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday of every month at various sites.

Contact Mike Jones at 720-509-9048 or email info@DouglasDemocrats.org. Socialdiscussion meetings take place in Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock, Parker, Lone Tree and Roxborough. Visit douglasdemocrats.org and click on calendar for information.

Douglas County Republican Women meets at 11 a.m. the third Wednesday each month at the Lone Tree Golf and Hotel for dialogue about current issues presented by informative speakers. Call Barbara Piper at 303-768-8370 or go to www.dcgop.org or www.dcrw.org.

Highlands Ranch, Roxborough, and Lone Tree Democrats meet at 7 p.m. the third Thursday of every month for topical speakers and lively discussion at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 S. Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Visit www.douglasdemocrats.org for more information.

Libertarian Party of Douglas County: 6 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at On the Rox Sports Bar, 11957 Lioness Way, Parker. Topics include items of general libertarian interest and organization for local activism to make a difference in our political landscape. All welcomed. Go to lpdg.org.

Lone Tree Democrats meet for First Friday Happy Hour the first Friday of every month at Los Arcos. Call Gordon at 303-790-8264.

Parker Democrats meets at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month for discussion of timely topics, led by knowledgeable speakers, at the South Metro Fire Station 45, 16801 Northgate Drive, Parker. Visit www. douglasdemocrats.org for information.

Professional AAUW, American Association of University Women, Littleton-South Metro Branch, invites graduates who hold an associate or higher degree from an accredited institution to participate in activities that advance eqt uity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. For details on upcoming events and membership information contact 2president1719@ gmail.com.

BNI Connections of Lone Tree (www.thebniconnections.com) invites business owners to attend its meeting held each Tuesday, 7:15-9 a.m. at the Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 Ridgegate Circle. There is no charge to attend a meeting as a guest.

Please visit www.thebniconnections.com or contact Jack Rafferty, 303-414-2363 or jrafferty@hmbrown.com.

League of Women Voters of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties encourages community members to participate in one of our three monthly meetings. Help us create a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate. Feel free to call or email Jo Ann Feder at 904-608-3932 or jolvs10s@gmail. com for details.

Lone Tree Networking Professionals is a networking/leads group that meets Tues-

days at 11:30 a.m. at Rio Grande Restaurant in Lone Tree. Exclusive business categories are open. Visitors and new members are welcome. Contact Don Shenk at 303-7460093.

Professional Referral Network meets at 7:15 a.m. Tuesdays at Great Beginnings, east of I-25 at Lincoln Avenue. Call Ronald Conley at 303-841-1860 or e-mail www. professionalreferralnetwork.org.

Recreation Camping Singles is a group of Colorado single adults who enjoy camping, fishing, hiking, swimming, biking, sightseeing, photography, the camaraderie of others, and starry nights around the camp fire. We usually camp in designated forest service or state park campgrounds within 2 to 5 hours of Denver. We welcome all single adults.

Our membership ranges from the 40s to 60-plus. We usually meet at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month. For specific meeting information, contact campingsingles@ gmail.com Front Range Woodturners Club meets from 6-9 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month in the basement of the Rockler Woodworking store at 2553 S Colorado Blvd. Anyone interested in woodturning is welcome.

Contact Jim Proud at cavaleon1956@gmail. com for more information.

Learn to Fly Fish: 9-11 a.m. Saturdays at Orvis Park Meadows, 8433 Park Meadows Center Drive, Unit 149, Lone Tree. The free Fly Fishing 101 course teaches the basics including fly casting, outfit rigging, and knot tying. After completing FF101, sign up for the free FF201 class at a local stocked pond and practice hooking, playing and landing fish. For information or to sign up, call 303-768-9600 or go to www.orvis. com/s/park-meadows-colorado-orvisretail-store/620.

Lone Tree Ladies 9-Hole Golf. Applications are now being accepted for the upcoming Thursday morning 9-hole golf group. The group is open to women golfers ages 18 and older. Applications and more informaiton are available in the Lone Tree Pro Shop.

Contact Nancy Cushing, league president, at 720-560-9333 or email LTL9hole@gmail. com.

Salty Dog Sailing Club If you love to sail or want to try, if you don’t have a boat, if you have a boat but don’t sail enough because you cannot find a crew, the Salty Dog Sailing Club is for you. The club meets the second Thursday of the month. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. with the business meeting commencing at 7 p.m. Go to www.saltydog. org for meeting locations and directions.

SilverSneakers Fitness, Silver&Fit at ACC The Arapahoe Community College fitness center offers the SilverSneakers Fitness and Silver&Fit programs for seniors in the south metro Denver area. For more information about health and fitness options at ACC, call 303-797-5850.

Third Thursday Mystery Book Club Join us for a discussion of mystery books with an emphasis on the unusual. Do you like Swedish Noir, historical mysteries, humorous mysteries? We read authors that have something to offer besides the quirky twist at the end of the story. If you’re tired of the same old best-selling mystery writers, come join us for lunch and mystery discussions at 11:30 a.m. every third Thursday at the Lone

Tree Grille at the Lone Tree Golf Club and Hotel. Call Sue at 303-641-3534 Social/Service AAUW (American Association of University Women), founded in 1881, is the oldest women’s organization in the United States.

It has a mission of promoting equity for women and girls through advocacy, education and research. Scholarships are provided to Douglas County women who are in college, and cash awards are presented to senior girls from Douglas County high schools who have an interest in the areas of science, technology, engineering or math (STEM). Meetings are in Castle Rock the third Wednesday of the month, at various times and locations. Go to douglascountyco.aauw.net. Contact Beryl Jacobson at 303-688-8088 or berylmjacobson@gmail. com.

A Dreampower Animal Rescue / PAALS adoption for cats, dogs and more meets from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Park Meadows PetsMart. Call 303-688-9503.

The Breakfast Club: A great way for single people ages 50-plus to meet new friends and have fun. We are an active and social group enjoying activities ranging from card games to white-water rafting, international and domestic travel to bowling, and all things in between. Our signature breakfast, which takes place at 8:30 a.m. every third Saturday, is at The Ridge Golf Club in Castle Pines. Interested? Call our hotline at 303814-8428 or go to www.TBC50plus.org.

Castle Rock Bridge Club plays a friendly, ACBL-sanctioned duplicate game at 1 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday at Plum

Creek Golf Club, 331 Players Club Drive, Castle Rock. For assistance in finding a bridge partner, call Georgiana Butler at 303-8108504. Go to www.castlerockbridge.com.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Columbine Chapter meets at 1 p.m. the second Saturday of each month from September through May at the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce at the Streets at SouthGlenn, Centennial.

If you are interested in attending or have questions regarding eligibility, contact Krispin at Krispin_L_Andersen@Q.com or Jewel Wellborn, regent, columbineregent@ hediusa.com.

DTC Kiwanis Club meets at 7 a.m. every Tuesday at Mimi’s Cafe, 9555 Park Meadows Drive, at the corner of Yosemite and Park Meadows. We are a growing club with 51 members. Our mission is assisting communities and “at risk” children in difficult home environments with financial and personal help and mentoring. Call Frank Zieg at 303-796-1213.

Douglas County Elks Lodge 2873 meets at 7 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of every month at the Calf Building at Lowell Ranch, 2330 S. East I-25 Frontage Road, Castle Rock. All “Stray Elks” are invited to attend and to be involved in the growth and activities of this new social and community service organization. Call 303-941-0135 or e-mail swgilbert@comcast.net.

Duplicate Bridge ACBL sanctioned open game at noon Mondays at The Hub, 8827 Lone Tree Parkway, Lone Tree. Reservations are required; partners are arranged. Call Sue at 303-641-3534.

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

Something’s Afoot, A Musical Whodunit: through March 25 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton. townhallartscenter.org/somethings-afoot.

Comedy & Cocktails: 8-9:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 31 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. http://parkerarts.org/.

ART/CRAFTS

Watercolor Class: noon to 3 p.m.

Saturday, March 24 at Hobby Lobby, 10901 S. Parker Road, Parker. Registration required. www. parkerartistsguild.com/classes/ youth.

Craft Lab: Beginners Embroidery: 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 25 at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch.

303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Santo Collection Road Show: 2 p.m. Monday, March 26 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton.

Sit-N-Knit: 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 28 at Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Go to http:// www.englewoodlibrary.org/ Spring Crafts: 1-2 p.m. Thursday, March 29 at Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway.

Call the children’s department at 303-762-2560.

Stamp Collecting for Tweens: 2-3 p.m. Saturday, March 31 at Southglenn Library, 6972 S. Vine St., Centennial. Register at arapahoelibraries.org.

Watercolor Workshop: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 5-7, at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. Go to www.heritageguild.com.

MUSIC

Juice O’ The Barley Benefit Concert: 7 p.m. Friday, March 23 at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 8545 E. Dry Creek Road, Centennial. Benefits NAMI Arapahoe/ Douglas Counties. Go to www. gshep.org/music-with-a-missionconcert-series.

Uncharted Series: FACE: 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 23 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. http://parkerarts.org/

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this week’s TOP FIVE Douglas County Youth Initiative Lunch-N-Learn: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 29 at Park Meadows Center, 9350 Heritage Hills Circle, Lone Tree. Learn about CASA and its youth mentoring program. Lunch is provided. RSVP at malston@douglas. co.us.

The Parker Players Present: Improv Duel: 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 24 at The Studio at Mainstreet, 19600 Mainstreet, Parker. Team vs. team improv comedy in the style of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”

Family-friendly. Go to www.eventbrite.com and search Parker events.

Easter Week Prayer Walks: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday, March 26 to Friday, March 30 at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church, 10150 E. Belleview Ave., Englewood. Go to http://cherrycreekpres.org/easter. Theme is “Whiter than Snow.”

Intro to Theater Workshop: Reader’s Theater: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. Learn the basics of how to take care of your voice and the importance of warm ups, and then explore ways to bring characters to life through vocal work with readers theater. No experience is necessary. Go to arapahoelibraries.org.

ABBA-MANIA: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Go to http://parkerarts.org/ Skean Dubh Band Performs: 2 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton, Call 303-795-3961.

Rocky Mountain Brassworks: Celtic Extravaganza: 2-4:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 25 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Go to http://www.rockymountainbrassworks.org.

Tchaikovsky in Florence: 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 1 at Schoolhouse Theater, 19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker. Go to http://parkerarts.org/ Potluck Ballroom & Latin Dance Party: 8-9:30 p.m. Friday, April 6 at Adventures In Dance Studio, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd.

Suite 207, Littleton.

Go to https://www. adventuresindance. com/event/potluck-ballroomlatin-dance-party-4/.

FOOD/COOKING

Serving the Blue: 5 p.m. Friday, March 30 at SkyView Academy, 6161 Business Center Drive, Highlands Ranch.

A volleyball tournament between the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and SkyView Academy students and teachers will raise money for the Highlands Ranch Law Enforcement Training Foundation. Go to http://hrletf.org/donatevia-paypal to donate online.

FILM/MOVIES

Lifetree Café Discussion Group: 5-6 p.m. Monday, March 26 (Do Good Dogs Go to Heaven? Questions About Animals and the Afterlife) at DAZBOG, 202 Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Call 303-8140142. Go to LifetreeCafe.com.

Movie Day: Madagascar: 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 at Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Call 303762-2560.

READING/WRITING

Fandom Fun: 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, March 23 at Southglenn Library, 6972 S. Vine St., Centennial. Go to arapahoelibraries.org.

Laughs with Joy Johnson: 1-2 p.m.

Saturday, March 24 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. “The BOOB Girls: The Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12.” Go to arapahoelibraries.org.

Lego Maniacs: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, March 24; 1-5 p.m. Monday, March 26; and 1-5 p.m. Friday, March 30 at Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway.

Call 303-762-2560.

Knights of Columbus Lenten Fish Fry: 4-6:30 p.m. Fridays in Lent at Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E. Parker Road, Parker. Final date is March 23. Homemade desserts.

Sports Card Collecting for Tweens: 2-3 p.m. Sunday, March 25 at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Uinta St., Centennial. Go to arapahoelibraries.org.

Free Community Dinner: 6-7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27 at First Presbyterian Church, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Meal made from scratch by volunteers. March menu is Easter ham, baked potatoes, confetti corn, Waldorf salad, fresh fruit and handheld desserts.

All welcome; no reservations needed. Call 303-798-1389 or go to fpcl.org/dinner for information.

Wednesday Book Club Buzz: 12:30-2 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 at Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Go to www.englewoodlibrary.org/ Meet Author Dhonielle Clayton: 7 p.m. Thursday, March 29 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. Go to arapahoelibraries.org.

EVENTS

Easter Egg Hunt: Saturday, March 24 at Resolute, 7286 S. Yosemite St., Ste. 110, Centennial. Sessions: 11:30 a.m. for ages 1-3 years; 12:30 p.m. for ages 4-5 years; and 1 p.m. for ages 6-8 years. The Closet Cooperative and Foster Source will collect gently used children’s clothing.

Chili Cookoff: noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at VFW Englewood, 2680 W. Hampden Ave., Englewood. Sponsored by the Front Range American Cancer Society Optimist Club. Go to the FRACSOC Facebook page.

Make Your Escape: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Registration required; call 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Spring Craft Bazaar: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at Recreation Center at Eastridge, 9568 University Blvd., Highlands Ranch.

Go to www.hrcaonline.org/events South Metro Bridal Expo: noon Sunday, March 25 at the Falls Event Center, 8199 Southpark Court, Littleton. Go to www. coloradocommunitymedia.com/ weddingexpo Fort Building: 1-2 p.m. Tuesday March 27 at Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway.

Call 303-762-2560.

Coffee and Coloring: 4-8 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27 at the Douglas County Libraries Louviers branch, 7885 Louviers Blvd. Call 303-7917323 or DCL.org.

Ridgeline Wranglers Trail Maintenance: 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 at The Grange, 3692 Meadows Blvd., Castle Rock. Go to crgov.com/2370/Trail-Maintenance-Groups Conversations Over Coffee: 10:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday, March 28 at Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Go to www.englewoodlibrary.org/ Pint for a Pint: 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Friday, March 30 at Resolute, 7286 S. Yosemite St., Ste. 110, Centennial. Donate a pint of blood, receive a free pint card.

Burrito Blitz & Egg Hunt: Saturday, March 31 at Calvary Church Englewood, 4881 S. Acoma St., Englewood. Go to http://englewood.thecalvary.org Easter Egg Hunt: 10-11:30 a.m.

Saturday, March 31 at Jared’s Nursery, Gift and Garden, 10500 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton. Donate canned food for local food banks.

Start times staggered by age. Go to http://jaredsgarden.com.

Easter Sunrise Service: 6-7:30 a.m. Sunday, April 1 at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church, 10150 E. Belleview Ave., Englewood. Go to http:// cherrycreekpres.org/ easter/. Prefer to sleep in? Other Easter services at 8, 9:30, 11 a.m.

The Power of Story: 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 4 at PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Nanette Fimian Randall, of Memoirs by Design, presents program with topics including becoming a storyteller; sharing memories and making them last; remembering our special storytellers; and learning that life has something to teach us still. Go to parkerarts.org.

Rhyolite Bike Park Dirt Crew: 7-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 4 at Philip S. Miller Library, 100 Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Group helps maintain and improve the bike park at Rhyolite Regional Park. Go to http://crgov.com/2370/TrailMaintenance-Groups.

HEALTH

Mind Diet: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 at South Denver Heart Center, 1000 SouthPark Drive, Littleton. Call 303-744-1065 or go to www. southdenver.com.

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.

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March 22, 2018

End of an era: Toys R Us is going the way of stickball Retailer to close or sell all of its stores in the United States

“You weren’t just buying a toy. You were going into a magical experience.”

Jim Silver New York-based toy expert

BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO ASSOCIATED PRESS

For decades, children ran down the sprawling aisles of Toys R Us in awe of the Barbies, the bikes and other toys laid out in front of them. Parents lined up for the latest Christmas fad, even if it meant standing in the rain.

And, of course, there was that jingle that bored into your brain: “I don’t wanna grow up, I’m a Toys R Us kid ...’’

But all of that looks as if it’s coming to an end.

Toys R Us is going out of business in the U.S., announcing plans recently to close or sell its 735 stores across the country, including its Babies R Us stores, in a move that jeopardizes more than 30,000 jobs.

The superstore chain could no longer bear the weight of its heavy debt load and relentless trends that hurt its business, namely competition from the likes of Amazon, discounters like Walmart, and mobile games.

At shopping centers around the country, the news was met with sadness and nostalgia.

“My first toy came from Toys R Us when I was young, and I had a Barbie Corvette that you could drive,’’ recalled Raven Cornell, 29, at a Toys R Us in Fayetteville, Georgia.

Sidney Corum, 4, was with his grandfather at the same store when he heard the news.

“Mad. I go so angry. I fight. I will fight them,’’ he said.

Plenty of other toy chains have gone out of business over the past few years, among them KB Toys and Zany Brainy. But with the likely demise of Toys R Us, a piece of Americana is going away. (Toys R Us still has more than 700 stores outside the U.S., but those, too, are contracting fast.)

Toys R Us traces its roots to 1948, when its founder, Charles Lazarus, opened Children’s Bargain Town, a baby furniture store in Washington.

Lazarus opened the first Toys R Us in 1957, and in 1965 Geoffrey the giraffe became the company’s mascot. He appeared in his first TV commercial

in 1973.

Toys R Us dominated the toy store business in the 1980s and early ‘90s, when it was one of the first of the category killers — big stores that are so totally devoted to one thing and have such impressive selection that they drive smaller competitors out of business. Lazarus, who remained at the helm until 1994, stacked the merchandise high to give shoppers the feeling it had an infinite number of toys.

But it wasn’t just the stuff that Toys R Us sold; it was the feeling parents and children would get when they roamed the aisles.

“You weren’t just buying a toy. You were going into a magical experience.

It was like going into Santa’s workshop,’’ said Jim Silver, a longtime New York-based toy expert.

Over the decades, children used Toys R Us as a playground where they would meet others they wouldn’t see in the schoolyard. In the 1990s, when Pokemon was hot, children would

bring shoeboxes filled with the cards, and they would trade them in the store.

Toys R Us was also the launch pad for what became some of the industry’s hottest toys, such as Zhu Zhu pets in 2008. Other retailers like Walmart wouldn’t take such risks on new toys from little-known brands.

It will be a little sad,’’ said Serone Francis, a mother of two who was loading her car at the Toys R Us in Fayetteville. She said her kids ``like to just come and look around even if I don’t buy anything. They’re going to miss it. I’m going to miss it.’’

Erin Finney of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, was at her local Toys R Us with her two of her three sons, ages 2 and 4.

“This is the toy store,’’ she said, noting she comes with her boys because they love to play with and actually touch all the toys. “The look in their eyes is ooooh,’’ she said.

But over the past decade, Toys R Us had been losing ground. Shoppers were increasingly using the stores as showrooms: They would check out the toys and then buy them cheaper online at places like Amazon.

“I grew up at Toys R Us,’’ said Bryan Mann, a father of two who was at the Fayetteville store. “Things came out new. You go to the stores and grab them. Fight in line to get things. Kind of glad I won’t have to do that anymore. It’s nostalgic, but I understand why they struggle.’’

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Serving the southeast Denver area

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Highlands Ranch

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Sunday Services - 10 a.m.

4825 N. Crowfoot Valley Road Castle Rock, CO. 80108 303-663-5751 www.CanyonsCC.org

Sunday Services: 9:30am – Traditional 11:00am – Contemporary (Nursery & Sunday School offered during 11am service)

First United Methodist Church 1200 South Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.3047 www.fumccr.org

Services:

Sunday Worship 9:00am & 10:45am 9:00am - Sunday School Little Blessings Parents Day Out www.littleblessingspdo.com

Cimarron Middle School 12130 Canterberry Parkway Parker, CO 80138 www.CSLParker.org

Trinity Lutheran Church and School

Sunday Worship Times 8 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Trinity Lutheran School and ECEC

Congregation Beth Shalom Serving the Southeast Denver area

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Call or check our website for information on services and social events!

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Centennial St. Thomas More Catholic Parish & School

Seven Sunday Masses Two Daily Masses Confessions Six Days a Week STM Catholic School Preschool – Grade 8

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Open House for Friends and Neighbors Come & See “Meet the Mormons” Sunday, March 25 at 6:30 pm

9800B Foothills Canyon Blvd.

Highlands Ranch, Colorado Find out what we are all about, what we believe, and why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Tour and refreshments will be provided.

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SPORTS SEASON-OPENING WIN

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Mountain Vista’s Landon Nolta, right, wins the face-off with Prairie View’s Matt McGrane. The Golden Eagles won their season opener, 14-1, at Shea Stadium in Highlands Ranch on March 15.

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Runs in the fifth inning helped the Ponderosa baseball notch a 10-4 comeback win over Northglenn on March 14.

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Goals in the first half for Mountain Vista compared to none for Prairie View in a 14-1 boys lacrosse win on March 16.

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Goals scored by either team in the fourth quarter of Castle View’s 7-5 boys lacrosse victory over Chatfield on March 16.

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Hit given up by Legend pitchers Troy Lincavage and Kevin Olson in a 10-0 baseball win over Aradia (Phoenix) on March 15.

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Hits for the Lutheran baseball team, which drew 14 walks in the first two games of the season.

Standout Performers Nick Englhard, Mountain Vista The junior left-handed pitcher got the final two outs with the tying run on base to earn the save in an 8-7 baseball win over Cherry Creek on March 16.

Justin Sandberg, Chaparral The senior won the pole vault at the ThunderRidge Invitational track meet March 17 with a 13-6 vault.

Blake Wilton, Ponderosa The junior won the 50 freestyle in 20.97 and 100 butterfly in 49.43 at the Coaches Invite boys swimming meet on March 17.

Cam Coburn, Highlands Ranch The senior finished with 11 points after scoring six goals and recording five assists in an 18-3 boys lacrosse victory over Alta (Utah) on March 15.

Shayne Jones, Mountain Vista The sophomore scored in the first half, which held up for the game-winner in a 1-0 girls soccer victory over Columbine on March 15.

Blake Hart, Castle View The junior went 4-for-4, scored three times, had an RBI and stole two bases in an 11-1 baseball win over Rangeview on March 13.

STANDOUT PERFORMERS are six athletes named from south metro area high schools. Preference is given to those making their debut on the list. To nominate an athlete, contact Jim Benton at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com

arch Madness is here to entertain most of us.

But spring break has also arrived as students, faculty from schools and universities in the United States take time off from studious routines to relax and have fun.

Colorado high school baseball teams have been or will be flocking to the warmer climates of Arizona, CaliOVERTIME fornia and Florida to bond, practice, play a few games, visit some colleges and, yes, have a little fun.

I remember my longest high school road trip was all the way to Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, but times have changed.

Some of the benefits of spring trips include usually Jim Benton guaranteed playable weather and exposing Rocky Mountain players to the perspective of baseball from other states, and this can offset the increasing expense of heading south for a few days.

Some schools conduct fundraising endeavors to help offset some of the cost of the spring break trips but parents often chip in most of the money.

Fees vary depending on the itinerary of trips, but a typical cost would be around $850 per player.

Chaparral’s baseball team is in Phoenix.

The Wolverines took in an Arizona State and Rockies spring training game before playing five games that started with a March 19 game against Edmond, Okla.

“Things have changed and with CHSAA giving us four more games next year, it makes us able to add more games on these trips,” said Chap coach Alan DiGiosio. “This could be something where we add one or two more games. We played a game against a team from Oklahoma on March 19 and it was their 15th game and it was on our third.

“The competition is great and it’s fun. And it’s good to just be around and see how the guys on the next level conduct themselves and how they train. We feel like we get better, although we often get pressured when you have five games in four days and then come home and sit for a week (next game March 30). Next year with four more games we might be able to keep that game schedule more consistent.”

Legacy rotates between going to Arizona and Florida, and this spring between March 26-31 the Lightning will compete and train at Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Fla. Coach Ty Giordano tries to schedule some fun into the spring break baseball trip.

“We work all year around,” he said. “We work out in the fall and the winter, so when spring break comes around you utilize that as a chance to get away. You take a little break and it is kind of cool for the kids. Even though from our perspective it is treated as a baseball trip.

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On campus: Highlands Ranch • Junior Drake Nugent, the defending state champion, won the boys shot put with a throw of 51-04.00 at the ThunderRidge Invitational Track Meet on March 17. The boys team finished fifth and the Falcon girls were sixth but had two individual winners.

Junior Shantine DeMasse won the long jump with an effort of 16-07.50 and junior Elena Opp was the discus winner with a throw of 116-00. Opp was third in the shot-put competition.

• Jenna Chun took medalist honors at the Continental League meet held March 15 at Spring Valley with a 1-over-par 73.

• The girls soccer team has played two overtimes in its first three games. The Falcons are 1-1-1 and will host Chaparral on March 27.

Mountain Vista • The baseball team is the new topranked team in the Class 5A CHSAANow.com poll released March 19. The Golden Eagles, second in the previous rankings, edged No. 1 Cherry Creek, 8-7, on March 16, and flipped positions with the Bruins in the rankings. The team plays at Smoky Hill on March 26.

• The defending state champion girls soccer team is ranked third in the CHSAANow. com Class 5A rankings with a 2-1-0 record. There are four Continental League teams in the top 10 with Vista third, ThunderRidge sixth, Rock Canyon seventh and Castle View ninth.

• The boys lacrosse team is ranked sixth in the CHSAANow.com 5A poll, ahead of league rivals Rock Canyon (seventh) and Highlands Ranch (ninth).

Rock Canyon • The baseball team is 3-2 and has a 15-day break in the schedule before playing Fruita Monument March 31 at home. The Jaguars blanked the Wildcats in this season’s first game, 11-0, in Grand Junction.

• Junior goalie Jack Thompson has a 2.0 goals against average in 96 minutes of action to lead the Douglas County Lacrosse League. His .846 saves percentage also ranks near the top of league statistics.

• Jamie Tatum’s second goal of the game came in overtime as the girls

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soccer team edged Cherokee Trail 2-1 on March 15. The team takes a 2-1-0 record the spring break.

SkyView Academy • The girls soccer team got two goals each from Maddy Etten and Kaedren Close in a 5-1 win over Middle Park and took a 2-1-0 record into spring break. In the past four years, coach Miles Martin’s teams have gone 47-20-2.

• The baseball team picked up its first win of the season by scoring six runs in the top of the seventh inning for a 7-3 win over Manual on March 16. The Hawks had only five hits in the game but sophomore Ryan Guerin and junior Andrew Pippin each had two runs batted in.

ThunderRidge • The girls soccer team is 4-1-0 to start the season with the lone setback a 1-0 overtime loss to Ralston Valley. Junior forward Mckenna Kercher leads the Continental League in scoring with eight points with four goals. Junior goal keeper Maddie WardBrown has made a league-high 22 saves in 305 minutes of playing time.

• Senior Logan Derosia had six goals in a 13-12 girls lacrosse win over Cheyenne Mountain March 15 and leads the Continental League with 18 goals. She is second in scoring with 19 points.

Valor Christian • MaxPreps has selected the best baseball teams in each state for the 2017 season and the Eagles were the Colorado pick. The MaxPreps story said “The Eagles captured the Class 4A state championship last year and return 4A state Player of the Year Luke Ziegler (3B/RHP). Other All-State players back for Valor Christian (22-5) include catcher Noah Kuzma and infielder Josh Danyliw.” Valor Christian is currently the top ranked 4A team in the CHSAANow.com poll with a 2-0 record.

• The girls soccer team is off for 19 days before challenging Littleton in an April 3 game at Littleton Public Schools Stadium. The team is 2-0-2 and the ties were a pair of scoreless, doubleovertime games against Cheyenne Mountain and Palmer Ridge.

• Morgan Hamler tied for ninth place with an 82 at the Valor Girls Golf Invitational March 15 at Highlands Ranch Golf Club. The team finished third behind Windsor and Ralston Valley, which tied for first place.

Valor forward achieves impressive numbers on ice Luke Wheeler gets nod as hockey player of year

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Luke Wheeler finished his short Valor Christian hockey career in impressive fashion.

The senior led Valor into the Colorado state hockey tournament finals, topped the state in scoring with 56

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points and was selected as the 2017-18 Colorado Community Media South Metro Hockey Player of the Year.

Last season was his first complete season with the Valor Christian Eagles.

Wheeler enrolled as a freshman at Valor but played hockey for the Colorado Thunderbirds. As a sophomore he asked Valor coach George Gwozdecky if he could practice with the Eagles and the Thunderbirds at SEE WHEELER, P35

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first approved. He actually played a few games for Valor but not enough to be eligible for the state playoffs.

He played hockey as a junior at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, but returned to Valor for his senior season to play for Gwozdecky.

“I was happy with the season I had,” said Wheeler. “The biggest thing I wanted to get out of it was improvement. Just like a lot of other guys, I am working to play at the next level. The biggest thing to get there is

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“We are always going to practice, work out and play games but we do try to have some fun, go to the beach once or twice, so we try to create a little bit of a vacation out of it but the main focus is baseball.

“It gives us a chance to clear the cobwebs, refocus and come back ready for league play.”

Arapahoe will be in the Phoenix area for three games starting March 28.

“For sure the weather is a benefit but more than that is the bonding side of traveling down there,” said

games and the classroom.”

Wheeler, who resides in Golden, was the Colorado Hobey Baker High School Character Award winner and he organized and directed a Military Appreciation Night for the Jan. 6 Valor hockey game at the Ice Ranch.

Gwozdecky still gets comments from people saying it was one of the best events Valor has ever put together.

“The idea has been around all over in the NHL, NBA MLB and everywhere,” said Wheeler. “I just wanted

to bring something like that to my high school. We actually did that last year at the prep school that I attended and it gave me the idea of what I wanted to bring back to Valor.

“I thought it would be cool to do because I love our country and the veterans that served. I got together with some of the faculty and some players on the hockey team. The more and more we got into and the more people heard about it, the bigger and bigger it got. It was real cool we pulled it off.”

Arapahoe coach Jim Dollaghan. “We fly together, we stay together, we eat together and we play together. I invite and want parents to go but I don’t want them to take their kids away from the team.

“We’ll go see a comedian one night, go to a Rockies game one night. It’s just a time to get the kids away from school and can just focus on being a kid and playing baseball. We have whiffle ball game that we give out trophies. We just want to kind of have that mesh.”

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to get better. I felt like I did that this year with skills, smarts, quickness and all that. I was happy with all the points. It was a good year for me.”

Wheeler, a 5-foot-9, 170-pound forward, finished with 30 goals and 26 assists but dislocated his shoulder in Valor’s semifinal win over Monarch and had to sit out the championship loss to Regis Jesuit.

“We had a very talented offensive team,” said Gwozdecky. “Luke wasn’t the only big scorer on the team. He was equally excited making great plays and setting up someone else. He won 60 percent of his face-offs.

“He is one of those guys that is very quiet, humble and responsible. He is extremely mature for his age. You know you will get his best in practice,

Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com or at 303-566-4083.

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source Exploration and Mining Inc - CT Corporation System, Registered Agent Rampart Ventures Inc fka Resource Exploration and Mining Inc - Ronald L Kahler, Registered Agent The Stroh Ranch Partners Ltd

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Public Notice PUBLIC INVITATION TO BID

Public Notices You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 21st day of October 2010 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to Kim Haarberg the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit:

ALL MINERAL INT IN PT N1/2SW1/4 27-6-66 & PT N1/2SE1/4 28-6-66 MIN INT = 62.386 AM/L

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to:

OCCUPANT - Stroh Ranch Development LLC Kim Haarberg - DENCO Investments LLC Town of Parker Colorado - Resource Exploration & Mining Inc, a Wyoming corporation South Cherry Creek Land Company a Colorado general partnership - Stroh Ranch Development, a Colorado joint venture - South Cherry Creek Land Company, a Colorado general partnership

by Ronald L Kahler Vice President Resource Exploration & Mining Inc a Wyoming corporation, partner - G H Bryant, Partner South Cherry Creek Land Company a Colorado General Partnership - Floyd Winslow Jr, a general partner Winslow Construction Co, a Colorado general partnership, partner - Stroh Ranch Partners Ltd, a Colorado limited partnership, partner by Richard D Palmer Jr, Vice President Resource Exploration & Mining, Inc a Wyoming corporation, General Partner - Resource Exploration and Mining Inc a Wyoming corporation By Robert A Elred Asst Secretary - Resource Exploration & Mining Inc a Wyoming corporation by Ronald L Kahler Vice President - Gary L Hunter as Manager Stroh Ranch Development LLC Robert Shaiman, Registered Agent Stroh Ranch Development LLC - Floyd M Winslow Jr, Registered Agent Winslow Contruction Company Rampart Ventures Inc fka Resource Exploration & Mining Inc - Ronald L Kahler, Registered Agent Resource Exploration & Mining Inc nka Rampart Ventures Inc - Ronald L Kahler, Registered Agent Rampart Ventures Inc fka Resource Exploration & Mining Inc - G H Bryant, Director Rampart Ventures Inc fka Resource Exploration and Mining Inc - Bruce Bryant, Director Rampart Ventures Inc fka Resource Exploration and Mining Inc - Ronald L Kahler, Director and President Rampart Ventures Inc fka Resource Exploration and Mining Inc - Beverly A Bryant, Secretary Rampart Ventures Inc fka Resource Exploration and Mining Inc - CT Corporation System, Registered Agent Rampart Ventures Inc fka Resource Exploration and Mining Inc - Ronald L Kahler, Registered Agent The Stroh Ranch Partners Ltd You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 21st day of October 2010 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to Kim Haarberg the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit:

ALL MINERAL INT IN PT N1/2SW1/4 27-6-66 & PT N1/2SE1/4 28-6-66 MIN INT = 62.386 AM/L

and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to Kim Haarberg. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2009. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of Stroh Ranch Development LLC for said year 2009.

That said Kim Haarberg on the 4th day of December 2017 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 28th day of June 2018Notice unless the same has Public been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said TO saleTHE at any time prior PURSUANT LIQUOR LAWto the actual execution of saidOF Treasurer’s Deed. WitOF THE STATE COLORADO, ness my hand this 15th day of March 2018.

The Kitchen Café, LLC d/b/a The Kitchen /s/ Diane A. whose Holbertaddress is, 1601 Pearl St # Next Door, County Treasurer of Douglas County the Li200, Boulder, Colorado has requested censing Officials of Douglas County to grant a Legal Retail Notice Hotel No.: and 932841 Restaurant Liquor License at First Publication: MarchPark 15, 2018 the location of 1485 Central Drive Unit Last 2018 #300,Publication: Highlands March Ranch,29, Colorado, to sell at rePublisher: Douglas News-Press tail malt, vinous andCounty spiritous beverages for consumption on the premises. The Public Hearing on this application is to be held by the Douglas County Local Liquor Licensing Authority at 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 at 1:00 p.m.

City and County

Date of Application: March 2, 2018 Officers: Kimbal Musk Manager/Member Hugo Matheson Manager/Member Legal Notice No.: 932917 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to Kim Haarberg. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2009. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of Stroh Ranch Development LLC for said year 2009.

Misc. Private Legals

That said Kim Haarberg on the 4th day of December 2017 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 28th day of June 2018 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 15th day of March 2018. /s/ Diane A. Holbert County Treasurer of Douglas County Legal Notice No.: 932841 First Publication: March 15, 2018 Last Publication: March 29, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

City and County PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on March 27, 2018 beginning at 2:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Commissioner’s Hearing Room, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Douglas will conduct a public hearing concerning the proposed adoption of a resolution amending the 2018 adopted budget. Any interested elector of Douglas County may file an objection to the proposed amendment to the budget at any time prior to it’s final adoption by the Board of County Commissioners. A copy of said resolution may be obtained for inspection at the offices of the County Commissioners at the above address in Castle Rock, Colorado, or viewed on-line at www.douglas.co.us.

Legal Notice No.: 932900 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice PUBLIC INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for 2018 CONCRETE PAVEMENT REPAIR PROJECT, DOUGLAS COUNTY PROJECT NUMBER CI 2018-004 will be received by the Owner, Douglas County Government, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104, until Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. This project consists of concrete pavement repair, other miscellaneous work, and traffic control.

The Contract Documents will be available after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 19, 2018, through Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website (www.rockymountainbidsystem.com) or they may be obtained at the above address.

Electronic versions of the Plans obtained by any other means than as described above may not be complete or accurate, and it is the Bidder’s responsibility to obtain a complete set of the Project Plans and Specifications. Douglas County will not be held responsible for misinformation received from private plan rooms.

City and County

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at the Department of Public Works Engineering, PUBLIC NOTICE Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, COTO 80104.

All questions are PURSUANT THE LIQUOR due LAW to Daniel Roberts, P.E., Project Engineer by OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. The Bid Opening will1,be conducted at 2:00Cuts p.m.and on Clan 6 Ops LLC, d/b/a Bishops Tuesday, Apriladdress 10, 2018,6213 at the address.

Color, whose W.same Flora Place, Denver, Colorado has requested the Licensing The Project includes County the following major items & Officials of Douglas to grant a Beer and approximate quantities: Wine Liquor License at the location of 1525 Park Central Drive # 300, Highlands Ranch, Color• Removal of Concrete ado to dispense malt andPavement vinous by the drink for – 14,344 on SYthe premises. The Public Hearconsumption • Aggregate Base Courseis(Class ing on this application to be 6) held by the – 756County Ton Board of County CommissionDouglas •ers Concrete Pavement Grinding at 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado (Spot Grinding) – 13,779 SY p.m. on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at 1:30 • Concrete Pavement (9 Inch) (Class E) SY Date-13,573 of Application: March 6, 2018 Prior to submitting Bid Proposal, Bidders shall Officers: Trista M a Borrego President have status (active Brian received J Thomasprequalification Treasurer status) with the Colorado Department of Transportation to bid on932918 individual projects of the size Legal Notice No.: and of work March as set forth herein.

Firstkind Publication: 22, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Any questions on the bidding process shall be Publisher: Douglas County News-Press directed to Daniel Roberts, P.E., Project Engineer at 303.660.7490.

Plan holder information, can be found on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website.

Legal Notice No.: 932843 First Publication: March 15, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Notices

Separate sealed bids for 2018 CONCRETE PAVEMENT REPAIR PROJECT, DOUGLAS COUNTY PROJECT NUMBER CI 2018-004 will be received by the Owner, Douglas County Government, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104, until Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. This project consists of concrete pavement repair, other miscellaneous work, and traffic control.

The Contract Documents will be available after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 19, 2018, through Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website (www.rockymountainbidsystem.com) or they may be obtained at the above address.

Electronic versions of the Plans obtained by any other means than as described above may not be complete or accurate, and it is the Bidder’s responsibility to obtain a complete set of the Project Plans and Specifications. Douglas County will not be held responsible for misinformation received from private plan rooms.

City and County

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at the Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104. All questions are due to Daniel Roberts, P.E., Project Engineer by 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. The Bid Opening will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at the same address.

The Project includes the following major items and approximate quantities: • Removal of Concrete Pavement – 14,344 SY • Aggregate Base Course (Class 6) – 756 Ton • Concrete Pavement Grinding (Spot Grinding) – 13,779 SY • Concrete Pavement (9 Inch) (Class E) -13,573 SY

The Woodmoor Mountain Homeowners Association (WMHOA), through Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible and qualified firms for the work needed on the Woodmoor Mountain road system. The Woodmoor Mountain Subdivision is located approximately four-miles north of Palmer Lake on Highway 105.

can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website. While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Two (2) copies of your IFB response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 010-18, 2018 Woodmoor Mountain Road Projects”. Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 1:00 p.m., on Thursday, April 12, 2018 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Four (4) copies of your bid response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 011-18, Election Laptop Computers”.

Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 4:00 p.m., on Monday, April 9, 2018 by the Douglas County The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado System website at www.rockymountainbidsys80104. Bids will not be considered which are retem.com. While the IFB documents are availceived after the time stated, and any bids so reable electronically, Douglas County cannot To advertise yourceived public callunopened.

303-566-4100 willnotices be returned accept electronic bid responses.

City and County

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Any questions on the bidding process shall be directed to Daniel Roberts, P.E., Project Engineer at 303.660.7490.

Plan holder information, can be found on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website.

Legal Notice No.: 932843 First Publication: March 15, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #010-18 2018 WOODMOOR MOUNTAIN ROAD PROJECTS The Woodmoor Mountain Homeowners Association (WMHOA), through Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible and qualified firms for the work needed on the Woodmoor Mountain road system. The Woodmoor Mountain Subdivision is located approximately four-miles north of Palmer Lake on Highway 105.

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Two (2) copies of your IFB response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 010-18, 2018 Woodmoor Mountain Road Projects”. Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 1:00 p.m., on Thursday, April 12, 2018 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

City and County

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No.: 932908 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No.: 932903 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Prior to submitting a Bid Proposal, Bidders shall have received prequalification status (active status) with the Colorado Department of Transportation to bid on individual projects of the size and kind of work as set forth herein.

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Public Notice INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #011-18 2018 ELECTION LAPTOP COMPUTERS The Elections Division of the Clerk and Recorder’s Office of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible qualified firms for the provision of the acquisition (via rental or purchase/lease with guaranteed buyback) of seventy-six (76) laptop computers to use for voter registration systems. The County’s intent is to award to only one (1) firm for the provision of the laptop computers; however, the results of this IFB do not obligate the County in any manner. The bid responses, fees, reference checks, and past-experience will be considered in the evaluation process.

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. IFB documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website. While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Four (4) copies of your bid response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 011-18, Election Laptop Computers”.

Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 4:00 p.m., on Monday, April 9, 2018 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Public Notice REQUEST FOR APPLICATION (RFA) NO. 012-18 CORE SERVICES for the DEPARTMENT of HUMAN SERVICES for DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO

The Department of Human Services of Douglas County Government hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests Applications from responsible and qualified providers for the provision of evidence-based and non-evidence based therapeutic programs and services.

Awards will be given to individuals or agencies that are able to demonstrate proficiency in the goal areas through family centered programming and that can attend to the detailed qualifications.

The RFA document may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. While the RFA documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic RFA responses.

RFA responses will be received until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 20, 2018 by Douglas County Government, Finance Department, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104.

RFA responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope, plainly marked “RFA No. 012-18, Core Services”. Electronic and/or faxed application responses will not be accepted. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated and any responses so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all RFA responses, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said RFA and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the respondents.

Please direct any questions concerning this RFA to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No.: 932910 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

BE Informed!

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No.: 932908 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No.: 932903 First Publication: March 22, 2018 Last Publication: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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