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SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING: Twice in a

recent two-month span, Denver-area women killed their children, then themselves. In a special report, one father shares the heartbreak of losing his family, and experts give insight into the reasons tragedies like these happen. P 7-10

THE RESULTS ARE IN: Community survey offers direction for school district P4

TAKING FLIGHT: Preschoolers release ladybugs for Earth Day P5

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Coalition will hunt for funds to pay for highway widening

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Widening what’s known as “The Gap” along Interstate 25 between Castle Rock and Monument is top of mind for government officials across the Front Range.

The stretch where the roadway narrows to two lanes in each direction for 17 miles presents a safety hazard because of congestion, officials said. Plus, officials hope a better interstate will act as an economic catalyst and improve what’s

also a national security corridor.

In January, the Colorado Department of Transportation announced plans to accelerate environmental and planning processes to have an improvement project shovel-ready by 2019. The catch was funding — somewhere between $300 million and $500 million still needed to be secured.

On April 19, numerous officials came together at a news conference held in Douglas County to announce the founding of a coalition that will seek to identify

those dollars at the local, state and federal level.

Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said the I-25 Gap project has wide public support among his constituents, and that El Paso residents “want it done.”

“What we need now is focused, legislative support,” he said at the news conference. “We’re in this for the fight. We’re going to make sure it happens.”

Hopefully, Douglas County Douglas County Board of Commissioners Chairman Roger Partridge speaks at a news conference announcing the formation of the I-25 Gap Coalition.

SEE HIGHWAY, P11 JESSICA GIBBS

NEWS IN A HURRY

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Creative spirit, coffee entrepreneur Loving it here I really like Colorado. I’ve lived here for 17 years. You can always find me outside rock climbing, mountain biking or hiking.

If I don’t have access to the mountains, you can find me in the sunshine at a park with my pup.

Coffee meets lifestyle I like coffee so much that I have started my own coffee company, Wake N Brake.

We provide coffee in a sustainable method without using water or electricity; We serve Nitro Cold Brew out of keg backpacks while riding bicycles.

We promote the health activism of ourselves and our employees. We are all about living a passion-driven lifestyle, whether it be a passion for the arts, pushing a physical limit or having a healthy, spiritual mind.

I started the coffee company this year with my best friend, Brandon. We started talking about how we could pair coffee and community into our company of traveling the world and pursuing our passions.

We finally found a niche that we received great responses from. We wanted to start from a grassroots level, so all our partners are local and have a similar vision as we do. We want to remain at 100 percent sustainability and educate our community about health activism, sustainability and a passion-driven lifestyle.

Daniel Zoetewey is a young entrepreneur living in Lone Tree.

COURTESY PHOTO We only operate at festivals and events right now, but people can find us at wakenbrake.com where we have a schedule of upcoming events.

Expression of the mind I love the expression of the mind in different art forms. For me, that come through writing, especially through music.

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I like to express the inner workings of my mind and I do it for myself. All the giftings I have and the way that I see the world can only be witnessed through my eyes. It is an expression of God within me showing his beauty through unique conduit.

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BY MIKE DIFERDINANDO MDIFERDINANDO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Findings of a comprehensive new survey show that about two-thirds of high school students and parents believe that Douglas County schools are offering a “good” or “very good” education.

But some other findings from the $220,000 survey commissioned by the Douglas County School District show a less-positive experience.

Almost 40 percent of parents and guardians with children in the district do not believe the district values their opinion, according to the survey conducted late last year and in early 2017. And 30 percent of parents and 40 percent of other community members do not believe the district appropriately spends tax dollars.

The survey of 16,968 people — parents, high school students, district employees and community members — was presented to the school board and community April 18. Parents of children attending DCSD schools made up 63 percent of those surveyed.

“I think a lot of this information and data is not exactly a surprise to us,” board of education President Meghann Silverthorn said. “Some of it is very critical, and I think the board has already started to try and be more responsive to what the community has told us.”

Board member Anne-Marie Lemieux said the survey will inform how the district makes decisions in the future.

“I think we got some good information on the direction we need to go as a board, not just for what the community wants, but what our students need,” Lemieux said.

In July 2016, the board of education approved the money for Corona Insights, a Denver-based research and strategy firm, to conduct the extensive community survey. While the district conducted surveys in the past, this was the first time DCSD contracted with an outside firm for an in-depth, scientific survey.

The Douglas County Federation, the teachers’ union, conducted its own surveys in 2012 and 2015.

“We sincerely hope that DCSD will realize that their employees need a seat at the table, and that their voices need to be heard,” said Kallie Leyba, president of the Douglas County Federation.

“Employees offered similar feedback in multiple surveys over the past several years, but DCSD discounted each of those surveys. We are grateful that the district finally conducted their own assessment to validate the previous results.”

School board member James Geddes suggested that a similar survey be conducted every few years to help guide the district and keep it connected to the desires of the community.

“It seems to me that a serial measure, maybe every two to three years, would help us to know if we’re doing the right thing when we’re making some of these changes,” Geddes said.

The following is a look at survey results among the various groups.

ABOUT THE SURVEY

Corona used the district’s email database to contact people for the survey, which meant all parents and employees with correct email contact information were invited to participate.

The collected data was aggregated and reported without identifying any individuals, Raines said.

During the eight-month process, Corona collected feedback from roughly 3,200 employees, 10,000 parents, 2,913 students, 165 community members not connected to the district and 36 employers and higher-education professionals.

DCSD SURVEY BY THE NUMBERS

70 60 40 36 33 29

— percent of parents and guardians rated the district as good or very good in terms of providing a safe environment for students.

— percent of employees reported that they have high morale.

opinion.

— percent of parents and guardians do not think that the school district values their

— percent of employees don’t trust the board of education at all.

— percent of students don’t think it’s easy to get help with personal problems at school.

— percent of employees believe that their coworkers have high morale.

Source: Douglas County School Parents/community members Kevin Raines, president of Corona Insights, said the two biggest concerns revealed by the survey were the need to retain quality teachers and whether or not the district is using taxpayer money wisely.

Almost a third of parents rated the district as poor or very poor in terms of appropriately spending taxpayers’ money.

Forty percent of parents rated the district poor or very poor when it comes to retaining quality teachers.

Thirty-nine percent of parents and 50 percent of community members indicated that they do not believe the district values their opinion.

The group Douglas County Parents said it hopes the district will use the new information to “make the appropriate corrections.”

“We are pleased to see the district requesting community feedback again,” said Jason Virdin, spokesman for the group. “The reform-minded board and superintendent have spent much of the last eight years forcing a reform agenda on the schools in DCSD while dismissing the concerns of parents, teachers and community members.”

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BY STEPHANIE MASON SMASON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

- On April 21, thousands of little, red bugs crawled across the hands of Merryhill Preschool children while they released them into the world in honor of Earth Day. “One of them almost went up my nose,” said Paislee d Braithwaite, 5, while giggling.

The kids and teachers put ladybugs in their favorite spots on the playground behind the Lone Tree school.

“I like that they can fly,” said Luis Hernandez, 5. “I hope they fly everywhere except Antarctica.”

In preparation for the event, the children worked on craft projects that taught them about the bugs. All the kids wore their own ladybug hats while releasing the insects into the world.

“They look forward to this every year,” said Jodi Fernandez, a Merryhill Preschool teacher. “The kids love it.”

Jodi Fernandez, known to her students as Miss Jodi, puts ladybugs into small containers so her students can release them during the ladybug release at Merryhill Preschool.

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SURVEY FROM PAGE 4

The survey also found that community members without children feel more negative about the district than parents do.

Views about the district do seem to be trending more positively, Raines said.

Those views included “a lot more positive comments about the new superintendent.”

Students When asked to rate the quality of their education in the district, 65 percent of students responded with “good” or “very good.” Among parents, 67 percent responded that way.

“It’s the ultimate customer service question,” Raines said.

Overall, Corona found that students are having a very positive experience in Douglas County schools, but feel like they could be better equipped to move on to the real world after graduation.

This was especially true of students who reported they did not plan on attending a four-year college or university.

According to the survey, 41 percent of seniors “strongly agree” that they feel ready for the next phase of life and 60 percent of seniors “strongly agree” that have a plan to achieve their goals after graduation.

With large numbers of students indicating they did not feel as though they were prepared for the next phase in life, saying they wished their schools had taught them more basic life skills,

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the board highlighted this as an area of concern.

Almost 70 percent of students said they want to be involved in helping design what they learn in class.

“We give a lot of support to our juniors and seniors, but I think our students are telling us they need that a few years earlier,” board of education Vice President Judith Reynolds said.

Board member David Ray agreed.

“That’s a fairly significant message for us in a district that says every student should be college-bound,” Ray said.

When it comes to retaining quality teachers, students are less concerned about teachers leaving than the community or their parents — just 18 percent indicated they were concerned.

Teachers/district employees The survey found that when it came to curriculum changes that took place under former Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen — such as the Guaranteed Viable Curriculum, 21st century Skills and World Class Outcomes — the majority of employees generally supported the concepts but not how they were implemented.

“People really don’t know what guaranteed and viable curriculum or world-class outcomes are,” Raines said.

“People are open to the concepts, they just don’t understand them enough to support it.”

In 2009, county residents elected school board members who voted for numerous reform policies over the next several years. The board hired Fagen in 2010.

Fagen left the district in the summer of 2016 to take the same position

A TIMELY ISSUE On the heels of recent talk of a bond issue and/or mill levy override being placed on the local ballot to help bring more money for school district needs, the survey offered some insight as to potential support for the tax measures.

A combined 57 percent of parents and community members surveyed said they would support a tax measure to increase teacher pay, 49 percent said they would support a measure to update aging schools and 48 percent said they would vote for a tax increase if it helped to reduce the studentteacher ratio in the district. in Humble, Texas, near Houston. The board of education hired Erin Kane as interim superintendent at the start of the 2016-17 school year and recently extended her contract through the 2017-18 school year.

On the most contentious reforms was the implementation of a performancebased pay system.

Seventy percent of district employees either “somewhat disagree” or “strongly disagree” that the current pay system is fair and that it helps retain employees, attract employees or motivate employees to increase work quality.

More than 40 percent of employees said they feel that there’s more competition in the district than collaboration.

Only 20 percent said they believe there’s more collaboration than competition.

However, 60 percent of employees said they are proud to work at the district.

“The morale in the district is higher than it may seem,” Raines said.

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‘I LOST ALL OF THEM’

BY ALEX DEWIND | ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Portraits of Ethan Laber, 5, and his brother Adam, 3, teddy bears and blue gemstones — which the boys loved to find in backyard treasure hunts — were displayed for guests at a memorial service at St. Philip Lutheran Church in Jefferson County on Dec. 6.

ALEX DEWIND

In a world of grief, Ryan Laber keeps memories of family close

A

t times, Ryan Laber feels as if he is drifting in the ocean.

Grief washes over him in waves, recedes, then comes in again.

Other times, he stands in a valley, staring at sheer cliffs encircling him, wondering how he will ever climb out.

“Losing all of your children and your spouse — that is a pretty earth-shattering thing,” he says.

Since his wife shot and killed their sons and then herself five months ago, the days flash back and forth between memories of life as it was and the reality of life as it is now. He is trying to move forward, wading through the sorrow, coming to terms with his wife’s depression and bipolar disorder, holding onto the joy his sons brought him.

“It’s this nonstop buzz of emotion,” Laber says.

“What you’ll find is that you’re just trying to look for tangible memories of the things you lost.”

Laber, 40, is a 6-foot-3 solidly-built man with a welcoming demeanor and a dimpled smile, a director in an electronics company whose life revolved around his family. The sadness in his brown eyes wells into tears when he remembers.

On Nov. 30, police found his wife of 12 years, Jennifer, 38, and their two sons, Adam, 3, and Ethan, 5, dead in the family minivan on an abandoned loading dock outside of a shuttered Sports Authority in Lone Tree. The Douglas County coroner determined the boys each died of a single gunshot wound and Jennifer from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Laber was upstairs in Ethan’s bedroom, where

he and Jennifer read bedtime stories to their sons, when he saw the police car pull up to their Highlands Ranch home later that day.

“I put my arms on his bed and I tried to talk to them.” He knew. They were in heaven.

• WHY WE WROTE THESE STORIES See page 12 for an editorial explaining the thought process behind this package.

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On a March afternoon, Laber sits in a Highlands Ranch coffee shop, next door to Salsa Brava, a favorite Mexican restaurant of his sons. As he talks about their deaths and his grief, his eyes dart from his coffee cup to the room

around him.

The day his world shattered was Nov. 29.

Laber had left his work at Arrow Electronics in Centennial by 5 p.m. to make it home in time for dinner, as he did every evening. But their home was dark. Jennifer, Ethan and Adam were gone.

Confused, Laber started calling friends and family. He wondered if he had unconsciously said or done something to upset Jennifer, a stayat-home mom. He wondered if she had taken the boys and started driving to Minnesota, where they had lived until moving to Colorado two years ago. She had talked about wanting to move back.

SEE GRIEF, P8

‘You can only see what’s immediately in front of you, behind you and beside you. You can’t focus on the future.’

Ryan Laber

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What drives a parent to kill a child?

Experts point to a variety of reasons, a key one being mental illness

‘Part of the reason that the recent deaths of children at the hands of their own mothers captures our horrified attention is because it is so rare.’

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Every day, Stephanie Schmalz drives by Highlands Ranch on C-470 from her home in Morrison to her job in Lone Tree.

So when she learned in November that Jennifer Laber, a Highlands Ranch mother, had killed her two young sons and then herself, the tragedy stayed with her. It moved her to post a message on a Highlands Ranch Facebook page called Word of Mouth: “I didn’t know these kids. I didn’t know this mom. I do, however, know this mom’s heart. She was likely depressed, overwhelmed, feeling worthless, not measuring up to standards that she thought others have set for her — that the world has set for her.”

Her post received more than 600 likes and dozens of comments thanking Schmalz, a mother of three, for her words and extending compassion for the family involved.

“I feel like what I wrote is what people think about but don’t say,” Schmalz said. “It takes a village to raise kids — it takes a village to raise a family.”

Randi Smith, psychology professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver

Variety of reasons for ‘rare’ occurrence The Laber tragedy — followed two months later by a similar case involving another Highlands Ranch mother and her 10-year-old daughter — generated an outpouring on social media of compassion, shock and disbelief.

Many comments came from women, who although not in any way condoning — or understanding — the killings, expressed empathy for mothers who are struggling with stressors of everyday life or a mental illness such as depression.

The resounding questions became: How could this happen? Why the kids?

Even among mental health and forensic experts, there is no clear answer.

According to a 2014 study by Brown University in Rhode Island, over the past three decades U.S. parents have committed filicide — the act of a parent killing his or her child — about 500 times every year. Seventy-two percent of the children killed were age 6 or younger. One-third were infants.

Ten percent of children killed were between 7 and 18 years old.

When a parent also kills himself or herself, the act is referred to as filicidesuicide.

Filicide is rare: About 74 million children from infancy to 17 years old live in the United States, according to the U.S. Census. The average number of filicide cases has stayed at about 500 a year for

GRIEF FROM PAGE 7

He called the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office at about 8 p.m. Deputies came to his house, took down information and sifted through credit card transactions. The Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun that Jennifer had purchased earlier that day had not yet shown up.

Laber went to bed at about midnight. He slept, somehow knowing he would need energy for the next day.

He awoke at 5:30 a.m., and soon after, a neighbor called, asking if he had seen the news. Police had discovered three bodies in a van near the old Sports Authority in Lone Tree. Helicopters circled over the scene.

Laber immediately called the sheriff ’s department. He was told there wasn’t enough information yet.

“That was code for ‘we are worried about you hurting yourself and we are not going to tell you anything,’ ” Laber remembers thinking. “That’s when it sunk in.”

Four months later, Laber still doesn’t understand what went wrong. Friends and family of Jennifer didn’t see signs. Her behavior hadn’t changed. Looking back, Laber believes that she had been planning her suicide for months and reached a point of calm in knowing her life would soon end.

The sorrow is overwhelming. But, he

After the tragic loss of his wife and two sons, Ryan Laber passed out blue stones at a celebration of life gathering at O’Brien Park in Parker on Dec. 3. His sons loved to treasure hunt, he said, especially for blue gemstones in the backyard.

ALEX DEWIND says, he is not angry: His wife was ill.

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Ryan and Jennifer met in Minnesota, where they both grew up. Ryan, 26 at the time, was out to dinner with work clients at a restaurant. Jennifer, then 24, was at the same restaurant with friends. They met, dated for two years and married in September 2005.

Shortly after, Jennifer was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression, Laber says. She was hospitalized more than once in her late 20s following a suicide attempt.

It was the first time Laber had ex-

perienced mental illness in someone close to him. And, at first, it angered him, coming so soon after their marriage. One time, after visiting her, he pounded so hard on the armrest in his two-door sports car that it broke.

“It was at that point in time that I recognized that I couldn’t sit there and tolerate it,” he says. “I had to do something differently.”

Laber reached out to his pastor, who coached him into redirecting his anger. He started going to therapy with Jennifer and attending classes to learn about mental illness.

Eventually, Jennifer learned to manage the depression and bipolar

the past 30 years, though the population of the country has grown.

According to Randi Smith, a psychology professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver, when parents cause their children’s deaths it’s more likely to be accidental or, in some cases, part of an ongoing pattern of child abuse.

“Part of the reason that the recent deaths of children at the hands of their 1 own mothers captures our horrified at- a tention is because it is so rare,” Smith e said.

Reasons for filicide range from murders committed out of “love” — described as altruistic killings — to child abuse and neglect, but mental illness often stands at the forefront.

That’s especially true in cases of the killing of a toddler or adolescent, who has formed an attachment with the parent, said Phillip Resnick, an internationally known forensic h psychiatrist and professor c at Case Western Reserve i University in Ohio.

“Killing children once i their role is established i in the family would be an J Resnick extreme measure,” said v g Resnick, who has studa ied filicide for 50 years. “It wouldn’t be done casually or incidentally — it t would require some extreme forces p coming together.” c p SEE PARENTS, P10

disorder with medication and lifestyle changes. The couple felt stable enough to think about starting a family and Ethan and Adam were born a few years later.

“We reached a point, years ago,” Laber told mourners at a Dec. 2 vigil, “where the darkness had subsided for a family to be born.”

The family’s move to Colorado was prompted by a job opportunity for Laber at Arrow Electronics. Though they were leaving close friends and family, Laber and Jennifer saw it as a fresh start.

The family moved to an apartment in Parker before settling in a home in a kid-friendly cul-de-sac neighborhood of Highlands Ranch.

Life was easy, simple, with a happy flow from day to day.

Laber made it home for dinner every weeknight. He and his sons loved to wrestle. He and Jennifer took turns cooking.

On Saturdays, Laber woke up with the boys while Jennifer slept in. They made chocolate chip pancakes. Saturday nights, the four of them went out to dinner, then came home to watch movies on the couch. It was a family ritual.

Jennifer was kind and caring with the boys, consistent about teaching them good manners. A vegetarian, she encouraged the boys to eat healthy. She instilled a love for cuddling.

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‘Grief is unique — there is no one-box-fits-all’ Therapist talks about importance of working through grieving process

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Linda Coughlin Brooks lost her 17-year-old daughter nearly 20 years ago, when she died unexpectedly from epilepsy in her sleep.

Brooks, a therapist who knows the grieving process all too well, has since dedicated her life to helping others.

“I help someone who doesn’t know if they want to live or die,” said Brooks, sitting in her Greenwood Village Brooks office. Photos honoring her patients’ loved ones who have died cover the walls. “I help them reengage in life.”

A former nurse of 37 years, Brooks is certified in death and grief studies. In her private practice, the Grief Journey, she provides care for individuals and families experiencing grief, loss and life transitions, such as a divorce.

She also serves as the regional director of Compassionate Friends, a nonprofit organization with more than 700 chapters across the United States for parents who have lost a child.

MANY EXPERIENCE MENTAL ILLNESS

WHERE TO FIND HELP

One in five adults nationwide experiences a mental illness, according to the National Association of Mental Illness. One in 25 lives with a more serious mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Half of all chronic mental illness begins by the age of 14 — three-quarters by the age of 24, the association reports.

About 2.6 percent of adults live with bipolar disorder. And almost 7 percent of American adults live with major depression, the leading cause of disability worldwide, the National Institute of Mental Health reports.

Nearly 60 percent of adults with a mental illness didn’t receive mental health services in the previous year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has found.

Mental health and suicide prevention • Suicide Prevention Coalition of Colorado: Provides a statewide network of suicide prevention resources and hotlines by county. suicidepreventioncolorado.org/ page-18121.

• Colorado Crisis Services: Operates a Crisis Line and Support Line and provides referrals to other mental health services in the Denver metro area. 24/7 crisis line: 844-493-TALK (8255).

• AllHealth Network: Behavioral health services, including inpatient and outpatient programs and group, individual and family counseling, offered in locations across south

Research says that individuals experience grief in five stages: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But Brooks said that grief is not linear — the experience is different for every individual.

She saw a patient one time for the loss of a dog, a companion. She saw a patient for nearly two years for the loss of a mother.

“Grief is unique,” she said. “There is no one-box-fits-all.”

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gret, it would be that — even after you think you reach a point of stability — you still need to have the conversation.”

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After the deaths, family and friends stayed with Laber in his home. But he felt alone. He couldn’t eat. He compared the feeling to an episode of the old, black-and-white television show “Twilight Zone.”

The main character travels to Earth to find that there are no other people, only buildings.

“There’s this stagnation,” he

• Jefferson Center for Mental Health: Offers a variety of services, from hotline, therapy, counseling and wellness classes. Hotline: 303-425-0300, jcmh.org.

• Jennifer Laber battled depression and bipolar disorder. “She wanted nothing but for Ethan and Adam to have a mother they could depend on, a mother that felt well,” Ryan Laber said. says. “You can only see what’s immediately in front of you, behind you and beside you.

You can’t focus on the future.

Your eyes can’t look forward.”

He sees the boys’ playset in the backyard, the toys in their rooms and the clothes in their closets. Jennifer’s clothes hang in his closet. Her jewelry box rests on the dresser. A pan inscribed with Laber and Jennifer’s names sits in the kitchen.

To honor them and be reminded always, Laber printed and hung photos of Jennifer, Adam and Ethan all over the house. Everywhere he looked,

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Grief support • The Grief Journey: Bereavement care of all types including support groups and individual counseling. 303951-9240, griefandgrowth. com.

• Compassionate Friends: Support groups for parents who have lost a child. compassionatefriends.org.

• Parents Surviving Suicide: Support groups for those who have lost individuals to suicide. 303-322-7450.

• Parents of Murdered Children: For families and friends of individuals who have died by violence. Colorado-pomc. org. For Front Range chapter, contact Phil Clark, 303-7486395.

guilt, and provides resources, such as support groups. Coming to terms with guilt and regret can shift the focus from how a person died to how they lived.

And being around peers who have experienced loss and moved forward in life can instill a sense of hope in a grieving individual, Brooks said.

The goal, she said, is “to see someone choose life, choose reengagement in a productive way.”

they were there.

One day, he opened their urns, wanting to touch their ashes. Overcome with emotion, he collapsed. Mentally and physically exhausted, he stayed on the couch for the rest of the day.

“You want to expose yourself to those feelings,” he says, “but sometimes you push too hard.”

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Adam, 3, was a defender of people, his dad, Ryan Laber, says.

Ethan, 5, would seek out the kid on the playground who was alone and play with him or her.

To honor them, Laber would like to work with an organization for parents who have lost children.

• Adams County Mental Health Center (Community Reach Center): Offers crisis services, and treatment and counseling in the Metro North region for children to seniors for mental health issues from depression and anxiety to more severe disorders. 303-853-3500, www. communityreachcenter.org.

Often, phone calls and check-ins from family members and friends become less frequent as time goes on, as life goes on. But mourning loss is not a journey that an individual can do on his or her own, Brooks said. It requires a safe environment where the individual can honor and work through his or her grief.

In her practice, Brooks listens, normalizes the feelings associated with grief, such as anger, regret and

GRIEF “She wanted nothing but for Ethan and Adam to have a mother they could depend on, a mother that felt well,” Laber recounted at the Dec. 6 memorial service for Jennifer and the boys. “In her mind, they deserved the utopia each of them had brought to our lives.”

Ethan would seek out the kid on the playground who was alone and play with him or her. Adam, big for his age, was a defender of people. Though he was two years younger than Ethan, they weighed the same. Their favorite activity was treasure hunting for the blue glass gems the family hid in the backyard.

Everything seemed to be going the right way for a young family, Laber says.

They kept in contact with friends and family in Minnesota. They had a decent home, great neighbors, good schools.

“Despite all that stuff, it still crept up,” Laber says of Jennifer’s bipolar disorder and depression. Tears well in his eyes. “If there was any re-

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These days, when he has the energy, he spends a couple of hours sorting through his family’s belongings. A friend who lost a loved one told him to take down some of the photos on the walls, so he did, and it helped.

In his grieving, Laber has connected with others who have lost a child, a spouse, a close friend.

But he finds his situation is different: “I lost all of them. It’s not like I could even be grateful for something that was still left.”

The faith community, friends, family and coworkers have helped him on his road to healing, he says.

Pastors from four churches reached out to him — he has relied heavily on his faith.

People flooded his Facebook and mailbox with messages

and letters. Neighbors, family and friends have continually been by his side. He sees medical professionals and attends support groups to help him cope.

He could have shut out the world, Laber says, but he knew that would have led him to depression.

Instead, he lets the grief pass through him, following the path of others who have experienced a devastating loss.

“I invited them all in to share with me where they found the footholds,” he says. “I take different pieces from what I understand from different people.”

Laber is unsure if he will stay in his house. Once a place of memories, he says, it is becoming a house of ghosts.

He knows he will never let go of Adam, Ethan and Jennifer.

To remember Jennifer, he would like to join forces with an existing statewide organization on suicide prevention.

To honor his boys, he would like to work with an organization for parents who have lost children.

The future remains too murky to see.

But he is certain of one thing: He would like, someday, to be a husband and father again.

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chologist at the University of Denver, cited a variety of reasons for filicide, including an “end-ofthe-world” psychosis, when a parent feels that he or she is trying to spare their child from what is to come.

Postpartum depression, a hormonal imbalKarson ance that can affect new mothers following childbirth, can be a cause in rare instances, Karson said.

In instances of postpartum psychosis, the mother most likely has a history of bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder, a mental disorder characterized by symptoms of schizophrenia and mood disorder, according to a 2016 report of filicide in the United States authored by Resnick and published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry.

That was the case for Andrea Yates, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2001 drowning of her five children. The Texas woman reportedly experienced severe postpartum depression and psychosis. She is now in a state mental hospital.

Postpartum psychosis occurs in about one out of 1,000 new mothers, as opposed to the two or three out of 100 new mothers who might experience postpartum depression, a common and treatable malady, Resnick said. But, he emphasized, “most people with postpartum de-

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In a 2005 study of 30 filicide-suicide cases published by the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law — written

by Resnick and four other authors — 70 percent of the motives were identified as murders committed out of “love” to relieve the real or imagined suffering of the child.

The second most prevalent reason was acute psychosis, such as schizophrenia, which can cause delusions.

That was the case for LaShuan Harris, a 23-year-old who, in 2005, dropped her three boys, ages 6, 2 and 16 months, into San Francisco Bay. Harris, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, believed she was listening to God and sending her children to heaven. She was found criminally insane and sentenced to a psychiatric hospital.

Other motives of filicide have included mistreatment, such as child abuse resulting in death; having an unwanted child; and revenge against a spouse.

In March, a Chicago father shot and killed his twin daughters. According to national media outlets, police dispatch heard the father tell his wife he wanted her to live and suffer before shooting her in the leg — she survived — and then shooting and killing himself.

Michael Karson, a clinical psy-

pression don’t go on to harm their child or commit suicide.”

In some altruistic filicide cases, the report in the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law says, the parent was depressed and considered the children’s deaths as extended suicides rather than homicides.

The study found that parents who killed their children and themselves overall appeared to have high rates of mental illness.

Smith echoed that finding.

Filicide-suicide scenarios, such as the two recent cases involving mothers and their children in Highlands Ranch, she said, usually occur in the midst of a deep depression with psychotic features or in the midst of a bipolar episode.

After the death of his wife and two sons, Ryan Laber publicly spoke of his wife’s battle with depression and bipolar disorder. Jennifer Laber, 38, was diagnosed in her mid20s after a suicide attempt, he said.

Her autopsy revealed that she had bipolar-disorder medication in her system at the time of her death.

According to the police report, Cristi Benavides, 40, the Highlands Ranch woman who was found dead with her daughter, Emma, in February, had a history of post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.

‘Things pass, things get better’ How to prevent such tragedies is the challenge.

World Psychiatry, an office

journal of the World Psychiatric Association, suggests that psychiatrists should assess filicide risk in a systematic way, as they do for suicide, by asking questions about childrearing practices, parenting problems and feelings of being overwhelmed — and then provide steps to ensure the safety of all involved.

And although many resources exist for those contemplating suicide, Karson wonders whether a parent thinking of filicide would admit to those thoughts.

“How,” he asked, “can we arrange a world in which a person in that situation would tell someone?”

Several mental health and education experts also say establishing connections for parents to community and the support that can be found there — whether personal or professional — is key.

“Many people can profit from talking with mental health care professionals, experiencing support and seeing how to change situations so that they can manage stress more productively,” said Judith Fox, associate professor of the University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology.

Psychology experts agree that in many filicide-suicide cases the parent acts on impulse.

“Things pass, things get better,” Karson said. “All the lost opportunities — if they could just get past that impulse.”

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Board of Commissioners Chairman Roger Partridge said, the coalition can find that money by the end of the year.

Coalition membership includes representation from areas like Monument, Palmer Lake, Castle Pines, Centennial, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree and Arapahoe and Pueblo counties.

“It’s just such an important project that we have many, many included,” Partridge said, opening the news conference on April 19.

Douglas County commissioners have already traveled to Washington D.C. and stressed this project’s important to the Colorado delegation, Partridge said.

And although the county has not been approached with a request for local dollars, Partridge said, the county is ready and willing to be a financial partner.

The event had federal representation with the likes of Congressman Mike Coffman, who serves communities such as Aurora and portions of Littleton and

Centennial.

“Certainly, the I-25 corridor is important to the state of Colorado,” Coffman said.

A spokesman for Congressman Doug Lamborn, who mostly represents Colorado Springs, read a statement on his behalf.

“The coalition represents a strong and unified effort along the Front Range to move this project into the state’s top transportation priorities,” the statement read. “It is absolutely vital that the section known as the ‘Gap’ is widened and improved at the earliest possible time.”

The statement also promised Lamborn would continue advocating the project to leadership in the Colorado Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation to ensure funding is made available.

For Partridge, there’s no denying the task is tall order, but he remained optimistic that the coalition could bring in the dollars.

“The good thing is, it’s on the radar with the state,” Partridge said after the conference, “and on the federal level.”

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VOICES Our thought process behind this week’s special report

On Nov. 30, Jennifer Laber was found dead with her two sons, ages 3 and 5, in the family minivan outside a closed Sports Authority.

Just two months later, on Jan. 30, Cristi Benavides and her 10-year-old daughter were found dead in the basement of a home.

In both instances, law enforcement authorities determined the mothers had killed their children, and then themselves. Both families lived in the Douglas County community of Highlands Ranch, one of the more than 20 towns, cities and counties that Colorado Community Media covers.

The tragedies devastated family members, neighbors and school communities and generated an outpouring of comments on social

OUR VIEW

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Craig Marshall Smith

ao, Dao, daylight come and me want to go home.”

Let’s say a 69-year-old man is forcibly volunteered off of an airplane, and he’s a doctor, a father, a grandfather, he’s Chinese, maybe there are some skeletons in his closet, and you have an opinion about it.

Snap.

It’s never been easier to let other people know what you are thinking, and no one is holding back.

As soon as someone, let’s say a White House spokesperson, puts his foot in his mouth, posts and tweets are all over it.

What is in it for the poster? Social media and the internet give the illusion that your opinion matters.

Having your thoughts made visible for a potential audience of millions — worldwide — is very alluring. It can be done easily, cleanly, and privately.

They are little hit-and-run commentaries that once were reserved for paid commentators.

Your opinions can be right there next to theirs now.

It becomes progressive, like SEE SMITH, P25

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Teachers deserve respect, adequate pay Just a few short months after being sworn in, new school board directors Vogel, Ray and Lemieux were able to secure the survey that community members had been requesting for more than four years. Tuesday night (April 18), the results of that survey were shared at a Board of Education meeting. I knew that the pay and evaluation structures created by district administrators were controversial, but I was shocked to learn what a low opinion our professional educators had of them.

Many of the people hired into our district administration over the past six years have

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One in five adults experiences a mental illness; one in five children ages 13-18 has, or will have, a serious mental illness. It’s time to talk about the issue and make sure resources and support systems exist to help. Douglas County began doing that three years ago following several tragedies related to mental illness. County officials have pulled together a 31-member collaborative coalition — the Douglas County Mental Health Initiative — that has pooled its resources

SEE OUR VIEW, P13

Everyone is ready with an opinion, and the world is no better for it QUIET DESPERATION

LET’S TALK ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS

media. There was compassion for all involved. But there also was shock and disbelief: Why would a parent kill his or her child?

Because the tragedies occurred in such proximity to each other, and because one of our communities was struggling with the ensuing grief, we thought it important to try to understand why this happened and to put these cases in context of issues surrounding them. Those stories are packaged as a special report in this week’s editions, on our communities’ websites and at coloradocommunitymedia.com.

little to no experience in education. Perhaps this is why 83 percent of our licensed teachers do not believe that the pay structure the district created retains and attracts quality employees to Douglas County. Since 2010, I have watched many, many teachers and building administrators leave our county for greener pastures. More are leaving this year.

It’s past time for us to address the problems in our school district — starting with respect and adequate pay for our teachers!

Stephanie Chancy Highlands Ranch SEE LETTERS, P13

Waiting for the punch line?

Stay hopeful if it never comes

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here is nothing like a good joke or very clever story that captivates us and then makes us laugh or think WINNING a little deeper based on the WORDS punch line.

The timing and delivery of the joke or story and the punch line itself are both very important to the success of the Michael Norton joke or story and how it is received.

As we watch in horror sometimes at what is happening locally and globally, I’ll bet there are people out there like me who are still waiting for that “punch line” to be delivered.

But sadly and unfortunately, the punch line never comes, and as a matter of fact, typically the story, or what we thought might have been a prank or joke only gets worse and results in intended or unintended tragedy. Sorry, no punch line here.

An example may be, “Hey did you hear about the people on board a major airline carrier?

So get this, they were sitting

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and services, assessed where gaps exist and is implementing programs to filll the holes. One of those programs will pilot in May, which is Mental Health Awareness month. A statewide public health campaign led by Tri-County Health Department also gets underway May 1. “Let’s Talk Colorado” focuses on eliminating the stigma around mental illness so that those who need the help will seek it. Look for our stories about the two programs in next week’s editions.

on the plane, already seated and the flight crew announces that they need four seats and that paying customers would have to be willing to give up their seat for credit and a flight home the next day. And then the flight crew says …” Oops, again no punch line here. “So the flight crew, gate agents, pilot, operations team, and security personnel of a major airline got together to see how they could get four paying passengers off of an airplane so that they could get four of their own staff on to the plane.” So the pilot says …, or the person in charge of security says …, or the flight crew says …, or any one of them says “Why don’t we just take people out of their seats. That has to be our best option.” Wait, what? Where is the punch line here, certainly there has to be one.

Now imagine you didn’t know that this event really happened, you might be waiting for the punch line or ending to a funny story. But the ending wasn’t funny, there was no “punch line,” only stunned disbelief.

Now sometimes a reaction like stunned disbelief is what a storyteller or comedian may SEE NORTON, P13

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be going for, however I am sure that this major airline was not looking to have a ridiculous incident erupt into stunned disbelief across the world.

We watch every day in stunned disbelief don’t we? We don’t know what is real or what is fake when it comes to the news do we? And even when we know it to be absolutely true, we still watch or listen in stunned disbelief, waiting for that punch line or some sign or hint that is was just a joke or prank or simply just not real.

LETTERS FROM PAGE 12

Charter process needs a review I sat on the Douglas County School District Charter Application Review Team as a parent volunteer for three straight years, ending just last year, and not once did I hear that there was student competition for seats. Thus, this new insight — as reported in this newspaper several weeks ago — affects both current charters and public

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Reporter Alex DeWind spent weeks researching and reporting to find answers to the why. She found that the act of a parent killing his or her child is rare. And that the reasons are varied, but that mental illness is at the forefront. In both of these instances, family members and law enforcement say depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder were present.

To ensure we presented this sensitive topic appropriately, we followed the media resource guide compiled by the World Health Organization and the International Association for Suicide Prevention to help journalists cover suicide, along with other guidelines for reporting on homicides.

We worked not to sensationalize the stories, to explain in context the reasons that could lead to these tragedies and to find sources with knowledge and authority on the issue. We hope the stories spotlight the importance of public community discussion on mental illness and the need for support systems. Also,

And we do this because although we live amongst the chaos and situations where we have no control or where we have not participated in any way shape or form, we look for the punch line or good news turnaround because we live with hope. The goal is that the majority of the hopeful will be able to bring back the hopeless from the brink of stunned disbelief and hopelessness.

There was an episode of the television show “Seinfeld” where Jerry and George are on a double date.

George asks Jerry not to be funny so that his date would not find Jerry attractive. Jerry pouts most of the evening, comes across as dark and

depressed and then he makes this statement when asked why he was so sad, “There is just too much sadness in the world to be happy.” Obviously this was a sitcom and that line was intended as a punch line or comedic statement.

Our world is filled with very sad and serious situations; they are not laughing matters at all. To fix them or attempt to fix them we have to balance our fear, anger, anxiety, and angst with hope and encouragement, love and kindness, love and forgiveness. Not tolerance and not political correctness, but hope and encouragement, love and kindness, and love and forgiveness.

So how about you, are you waiting in stunned disbelief and for somehow some way a punch line will bring closure to a sad or tragic event, or have you figured out how to filter the noise and news in such a way where you can live with hope, encouragement, and love? I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can rise above the hopelessness by living with hope, it really will be a better than good week.

schools in the district.

The intent of the 1993 Charter School Act is not being carried out by many of the charter school applications. The district canceled charter school bus transportation last year, effectively limiting choice. There is no charter school student exit data and if the student returns to their home school after the October count date, the home school receives no money and must admit the student. If all the accepted applications begin by next fall, the district will have the highest number of charters in Colorado.

The timing of the report requested by the board to examine the impact of charters is questionable and will not affect this year’s application process. The district needs to get a better plan in certain areas than simply using charters to absorb student count changes.

Maybe it is time to stop the current application process until the board members have a completed report and specific policy to which they all adhere.

Barb Cousins Highlands Ranch

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Finally, when Ryan Laber shared with us the story of his family and his experience with devastating grief, we committed to him that it would be told with great care, compassion and respect.

Journalistic ethics guidelines call on us to minimize harm in the telling of truth. We do that by treating our sources as human beings who deserve our respect and compassion, particularly in circumstances such as these. And to ensure Mr. Laber did not incur any more harm because of our story, we made an exception to our guideline that does not allow sources to read articles before publication.

We are conscious of the privilege of telling his story. We wanted to make sure we got it right.

We realize these stories may be uncomfortable to read. Our hope is that they bring some understanding of not only the consequences for those left behind but also what can lead to these kinds of tragedies.

As one mother said: “It takes a village to raise a family.”

In the broader sense, a community is a family. We must take care of each other.

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‘Exploring the Light’ displayed in Lone Tree Contest awards creativity through photography

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Dale Ralph, who describes herself as a recovering certified public accountant, did not take photography seriously until after she retired.

Ralph won first place in Lone Tree’s Exploring the Light Photo Show in the black-and-white category at the beginning of April.

Ralph believes her photo was

IF YOU GO The photo show can be seen Monday through Friday through May 17, Lone Tree Arts Center, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Photographer Dale Ralph’s photos can be seen on her website, daleralphphotography.com.

chosen because it was different than many other entries. While Ralph described many photographs to be landscape-oriented, she describes her own art as “weird and wonderful.”

“I chose Dale’s image primarily for the creativity and thought that went into it as a photograph standing out

Juror Joseph Roybal’s photographs can be seen on his website, josephroybal. com.

as something new and different; it captivated me,” said Joseph Roybal, the juror for the photo contest. “... it simply came down to my initial impression of a unique and new subject matter in a category that can be so commonplace for content. “ Exploring the Light is a photography show and contest presented

by the Lone Tree Arts Commission w and the Lone Tree Photo Club. The e display hosts photos in the catego- m ries of Animals, Architecture, Black p and White, Human Element and n Landscape. p Total cash prizes for the show p amounted to $3,250 and winning photographs received gallery space n for several weeks at the Lone Tree y Arts Center.

Roybal is a Denver-based full-time “ I professional landscape photograu pher. m “Looking at these photos, they

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were all fantastic,” Roybal said. “I ended up having so many honorable mentions because so many of the photos were truly excellent.”

Roybal said image balance, sharpness and presentation were all important factors to his judging, but he primarily wanted to see something new and creative.

“Being in Colorado, a lot of times you see landscapes,” Roybal said.

“When I went through entries, I looked for something new and unique — something that grabbed me.”

Roybal was impressed with the creativity in the images submitted this year and encourages photographers to continue shooting interesting photographs.

“If you have a passion for photography and a desire to do it, don’t be afraid to push forward,” Roybal said. “Just don’t give up.”

Ralph creates composite photos, meaning she manipulates multiple images to create a single scene. Her particular composite photos create scenes from her imagination or from popular stories, such as “The Wizard of Oz.” Ralph’s first-place black-and-white photograph is titled “Untethered Spirit.” It is a photo of dense clouds with a portrait of a woman rising through the sky.

“I think it got selected because it was different,” Ralph said. “I

On March 20-22, numerous organizations supporting people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) joined forces for the 2017 Disability Policy Seminar in Washington DC. The seminar offered an opportunity to come together with passionate advocates, self-advocates, experts, and professionals in the field to learn and discuss the key issues on Capitol Hill and make a powerful impact on Congress.

Dale Ralph’s composite photo “Untethered Spirit” took first place in Lone Tree’s Exploring the Light photo contest, on display at the Lone Tree Arts Center.

COURTESY IMAGE only submitted one photo. I was surprised when it got selected. The Lone Tree Photo Club tends to be more landscape-oriented.”

Ralph said her photos carry a message of light, symbolic of value within an individual.

“We have all that we need inside of us,” Ralph said. “What a wonderful world it would be if we all realized our own self-worth.”

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HOME-SCHOOL PROGRAMS The Home School Connection offers groupsetting classes for home-schooled children in grades kindergarten through sixth.

Students may attend one class a week.

Subjects include performing arts, creative writing, science and physical education.

Locations are in Westminster, Lakewood and Evergreen.

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ecause of her experience as a student in public schools, Ashley Maes decided to homeschool her 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter.

“When I was in school, I never felt challenged,” the Littleton resident said. “I was present in school but not participating, and I felt like I could do more for my children.”

She continues home schooling because of the freedom it provides — her family isn’t restricted to a school-day schedule and her kids can explore their passions and interests, Maes said.

Maes’ decision to home-school reflects a trend that has significantly grown over the past two decades.

In 1999, there were about 850,000 home-schooled students ages 5 through 17 in the United States, according to a household education survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. That number jumped to an estimated 1.1 million students in 2003 and an estimated 1.5 million students in 2007, the most recent year of the survey.

In Colorado, 7,659 students were registered with public school districts as home-schooled in 2016, up from 6,462 students in 2010, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

Douglas County School District currently has 509 home-schooled students, the district reports. In fall of 2016, according to records from the Colorado Department of Education, Jefferson County Public Schools had 436 home-schooled students and Adams 12 Five Star Schools had 313. All of the districts’ home-school counts have increased since 2010.

Families home-school for a number of reasons. Considered the most important are religious or moral instruction, concern about the school environment and dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools, the survey by the U.S. Department of Education reported.

Colleen Sprister, of Sedalia, wanted her four children, ages 7, 9, 11 and 13, to have a Christ-based education.

Private school was not in her family’s budget, so she and her husband decided to home-school.

Sprister’s children are enrolled in Classical Conversations, an international home-school program with an emphasis on classical learning and Christianity. They work in group settings one day a week with other

For more information, call 720-289-9230 or email info@wwahomeschool.org.

Two Roads is a K-12 charter school that offers home-school programs at its two campuses — 6980 Pierce St., Arvada, and 5890 Alkire St., Littleton. Home-school students are required to take a minimum of 6.25 hours of classes per week on campus.

For more information, call the Arvada campus at 303-423-3377 or the Littleton campus at 720-425-6163.

The Academy Charter School, based in Castle Rock, offers a home-school program with curriculum, lessons and classes for homeschooled students in Castle Rock, Lone Tree and Parker. The program is tuition-free with a small cost for materials.

For more information, visit academycharter. org/home-school.

FAST FACTS Home school programs must have no less than 172 days of instruction, averaging four hours a day.

Colleen Sprister, a resident of Sedalia, home-schools her four children, ages 7, 9, 11 and 13. She made the decision because she wanted her kids to have a Christ-based education. “I get to see my kids through the good and the struggles every day ,” she said, “and we get to work through it as a family.”

COURTESY PHOTO Classical Conversations students from Castle Rock, Parker and Elizabeth.

The other four days, they work on assignments at home.

Her kids also participate in recreational activities, such as gymnastics and football, and work on their family’s small-scale farm.

Home schooling has strengthened the relationship of her family, Sprister said.

“I get to see my kids through the good, the struggles, every day, and we get to work through it as a family,” she said.

Like Classical Conversations, many resources provide curriculum for families who home-school. Programs are offered online or as an extension of a public or charter school. Some are free; others have a fee for curriculum and material.

When a parent or legal guardian decides to home-school a child, they take on the responsibility for the student’s education, according to the Colorado Department of Education.

That includes providing curriculum, books, supplies and tests and maintaining permanent records. That also includes making sure the student has at least 172 days of instruction a year in basic subjects, such as reading, writing, math, history, science and others.

For Maes, taking on the role of a teacher has been challenging. Keeping her kids focused and interested can be difficult, she said.

“It’s hard being with your kids all the time and getting them motivated,” Maes said. “Because you’re Mom, they feel like they can argue with you.”

Another challenge that some homeschool families face is being labeled with stereotypes, such as socially awkward or sheltered.

Maes had concerns about socialization when she first started homeschooling her children, she said. But she no longer worries about that. Her children interact with others when they are out running errands. They play with kids in their neighborhood,

Students in a home-school program must have academic progress evaluated in grades 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11.

Home schooling is considered nonpublic and is not regulated by the state of Colorado. The parent who oversees the homeschool program is responsible for obtaining and paying for books, supplies and tests.

Home-school resources vary because programs can be purchased from private companies or the parent or guardian can create the curriculum.

Source: Colorado Department of Education kids on their sports teams and students at the charter school they attend one day a week.

“I used to be terrified that they would be hermits,” Maes said. “They are learning to interact with a variety of age groups.”

Maes isn’t sure if she will homeschool her children through high school. She is taking it year by year.

For now, the positives outweigh the negatives.

“The relationship I am developing with them is different,” Maes said, “and I’m treasuring that because I won’t get that time back.”

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ABOUT THIS SECTION Late spring and summer bring a wealth of activities and events to the Denver metro area.

Consider all of this: • Miles and miles of hiking and biking trails.

• State parks, including Roxborough, Chatfield and Cherry Creek.

• Annual family-friendly events that draw thousands of people. Those include Parker Days, Western Welcome Week, Buffalo Bill Days, the Arvada Harvest Festival, the Wheat Ridge Carnation Festival and Westy Fest.

But sometimes — especially as the weather warms up and the days get longer — you just want to get out of town. Colorado has a multitude of welcoming destinations, and we explore some of them in this section.

Some of the destinations in this section are just on the outskirts of the metro area. One of those nearby spots is Estes Park, where you might see an elk or two and can stay at a worldfamous hotel.

If you want a longer road trip, consider Telluride. It’s about a sevenhour drive, but you’ll still be in the beautiful state of Colorado.

Maybe such a trip will become an annual tradition for your family, one to join the county fair outings and those long summer bike rides.

— Chris Rotar

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is in Aspen, of course. Photo courtesy of Chris Council and Emily Chaplin

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Durango

ELEVATION: 7,908

ELEVATION: 6,512

WHERE IS IT? Most Denver-area road trippers go west on I-70 to Glenwood Springs, then turn southeast on State Highway 82, altogether a trip of about four hours. In the summer, consider going through Leadville to Twin Lakes, then over stunning Independence Pass.

NEED TO KNOW: Though typically thought of as the domain of the jet set, Aspen’s got a lot to offer regular folk as well. The Aspen Music Festival and School hosts hundreds of live musical performances though the summer. The free Aspen Art Museum, housed in a daring structure that looks a bit like a wicker basket, houses a bevy of striking pieces.

More adventurous visitors might consider a hike to Conundrum Hot Springs, a clothing-optional geothermal spring accessible by an eight-mile trail south of town.

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The Stanley Hotel. Photo courtesy of Visit Estes Park

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Aspen went through several incarnations before it became some of the most expensive real estate on the planet. Before World War II, Aspen’s population had dwindled to less than a thousand. In the 1970s, counterculture icons like Hunter S. Thompson and John Denver popularized Aspen as a funky, bohemian colony.

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WHERE IS IT? The quickest way is down Highway 285, turning west at Del Norte on Highway 160. The most beautiful way is Highway 285, turning west at Poncha Springs, west on Highway 50 to Montrose, then south on Highway 550 – the Million Dollar Highway, a spectacular wend along the shoulder of giant mountains.

NEED TO KNOW: Durango is uniquely situated between the desert of the Four Corners region and the mountains of the igneous San Juans. Mesa Verde National Park, with its ancient and mysterious ruins, is just down the road.

The Durango and Silverton Railroad heads north out of town through magnificent scenery. Little-known Navajo Lake is 50 miles southeast, straddling the New Mexico border, where a bevy of boat rentals can be had.

FUN FACT: Hike back to Denver on the Colorado Trail – the south end is in Durango, the north in Waterton Canyon.

Fun fact: The original name of the Animas River that runs through town was the Rio de las Animas Perdidas – the River of Lost Souls.

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Fort Collins

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ELEVATION: 7,522

ELEVATION: 5,003

ELEVATION: 7,761

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WHERE IS IT?

There are several gorgeous routes into Estes Park, though the most common is to take Highway 36 northwest out of Boulder. It’s about an hour and a half from Denver. The Peak to Peak Highway, a more scenic route, departs from Golden and goes through Nederland.

North of Denver on I-25 by about an hour and a half. If you hit the Wyoming border, you’ve gone too far – or you’re headed to buy fireworks.

NEED TO KNOW: There are few better jumping-off points to experience Colorado’s high alpine tundra during its brief summer than Estes Park. Trail Ridge Road, which traverses the crest of the Rockies through Rocky Mountain National Park, starts just outside of town. About 11 miles of the road are above timberline. The park is loaded with world-class hiking, views, wildlife and natural splendor.

Though quite a bit less remote than the 1980 horror movie “The Shining” made it out to be, the stately old Stanley Hotel offers late-night ghost tours to guests, though they are asked to refrain from hacking open doors with fire axes.

FUN FACT: For years, the death toll from the 1976 Big Thompson flood that swept through the canyon to the east of Estes was listed as 144, until in 2008, supposed victim Darrell Johnson was found to be alive and well, living in Oklahoma. It turned out he had decided to ditch a crummy cabin rental without telling anyone, and was presumed dead when the cabin was washed away.

NEED TO KNOW: Fort Collins teems with old-school charm, from the restored trolley that clatters between City Park and College Avenue to the quirky shops in Old Town. Stop at Walrus Ice Cream on Mountain Avenue for a root beer float made with Coopersmith’s Root Beer, or at the Silver Grill Café for gooey cinnamon roll French toast.

West of town, head up Poudre Canyon to see the strange folded granite of northern Colorado. The Mishawaka Amphitheatre holds concerts by the river all summer.

No visit would be complete without a tour of the New Belgium Brewery.

FUN FACT: Horsetooth Reservoir, on the west side of town, submerged the town of Stout when it was filled in 1949. Legend has it that the town’s old stone buildings are still standing deep beneath the surface.

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West on I-70, just shy of three hours.

NEED TO KNOW: Glenwood Springs has long been known for the Glenwood Hot Springs Pool, a massive geothermal soaking pool alleged to have healing properties. Same with the Yampah Spa & Salon, featuring naturally occurring “vapor caves” filled with minerals that some say can cure a range of ailments.

Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, largely perched atop a mountaintop at the edge of town, features zip lines, a Ferris wheel, roller coasters, and giant swings that fling visitors over the abyss below.

Get someone else to drive on the way into town, so you can gawk at Glenwood Canyon.

FUN FACT: Doc Holliday, the Old West gunfighter, died in a Glenwood Springs hospital in 1887. Holliday had always figured he’d “die with his boots on,” and his last words – while looking at his bare feet – were “This is funny.”

MORE INFORMATION: visitglenwood.com

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The Durango & Silverton Railroad. Photo courtesy of Yvonne Lashmet

Summer color at Linden and Mountain in Fort Collins.

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Places to go The free gondola from Telluride ascends to Mountain Village. Photo courtesy of visittelluride. com

Grand Lake ELEVATION: 8,369 FEET WHERE IS IT?

Go west out of Denver on I-70, then north on Highway 40 west of Idaho Springs. Turn north on Highway 34 at Granby.

NEED TO KNOW:

Grand Lake is Colorado’s largest natural body of water, and boating, sailing and fishing abound.

The town of Grand Lake, on the lake’s north shore, boasts a boardwalk with dozens of shops and restaurants. The Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre hosts musicals all summer – this season’s lineup includes “Mamma Mia!”, “Newsies,” “West Side Story” and “Almost Heaven.”

Hit up one of the many boat-rental outfits to head out on the lake – local marinas rent everything from paddle boards to pontoon party boats.

FUN FACT:

Though on the western side of the Continental Divide, Grand Lake provides water to the Front Range via the Alva B. Adams Tunnel.

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Grand Junction ELEVATION: 4,583 FEET WHERE IS IT?

Due west on I-70, about four hours. Can’t miss it.

NEED TO KNOW:

The undisputed capital of the Western Slope, GJ (as the locals call it) is the hub of desert adventure. Colorado National Monument is just west of town, featuring landscapes of spires and cliffs.

Main Street between First and Seventh streets is

a lovely walk of quirky shops and good eats. Stroll a block south on Fifth to check out the top-notch Museum of the West. Venture south of town to journey onto the Uncompahgre Plateau, a vivacious landscape of canyons. East takes you up Grand Mesa, to fab fishing in 10,000 lakes. West goes deep into the Colorado River Canyons.

North is no-man’s-land.

And, of course, there are the wineries in town and in nearby towns, like Palisade, which is also known for its peaches.

FUN FACT:

Peter Heller’s 2012 post-apocalyptic novel “The Dog Stars” is largely set in and around the ruins of Grand Junction.

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Great Sand Dunes National Park ELEVATION: 7,520 TO 13,604 FEET WHERE IS IT?

The easy way is south on I-25, turning west on Highway 160 at Walsenburg, then north into the park. The prettier way is down Highway 285, turning off onto Highway 17 at the north end of the San Luis Valley.

NEED TO KNOW:

The tallest dunes in North America, the Great Sand Dunes cover 80 square miles of the valley floor. Close to Memorial Day, visitors can experience Medano Creek, a temporary stream that flows in successive waves. Intrepid trekkers can head up into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains for some stunning scenery.

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Sunrise over Colorado National Monument.

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Places to go ALSO IN THE AREA: Crestone, a lost-in-time hippie village, and Colorado Gators, a geothermal outpost home to some massive reptiles. South of the park is Sand Dunes Swimming Pool, a geothermally heated pool and greenhouse with low-cost rental cabins.

FUN FACT:

Legend has it that mysterious web-footed horses roam the dunes in the moonlight.

MORE INFORMATION: nps.gov/grsa

Telluride ELEVATION: 8,750 FEET WHERE IS IT?

Go west on I-70 to Grand Junction, then south on Highway 50 to Ridgway. Go west on State Highway 62 to Placerville, then east on State Highway 145. At roughly seven hours from Denver, it’s about as out of the way as a Colorado town gets.

galleries and gourmet restaurants on Colorado Avenue, but for a bird’s-eye view, check out the gondola to Mountain Village – a free, 13-minute ride to a mountaintop town featuring eye-popping views.

The other joy of summer in Telluride is access to the high country of the San Juan Mountains, teeming with waterfalls and ghost towns. Coming into Telluride from the east are two of the West’s most famous four-wheel-drive roads: Imogene Pass and Black Bear Pass, the latter dropping precariously into town with a spine-tingling descent down a series of unforgiving switchbacks.

FUN FACT:

The summit of Imogene Pass – more than 13,000 feet high – is home to a restored Colorado National Guard installation called Fort Peabody, which was built in 1904 to keep deported striking miners from sneaking back into town.

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Photo courtesy of Grand County

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Telluride is nestled in a stunning box canyon beneath towering peaks. Visitors can stroll the

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Woodland Park

ELEVATION: 8,022 FEET

ELEVATION: 8,465 FEET

WHERE IS IT?

Due west on I-70 about 2 ½ hours from Denver.

NEED TO KNOW:

Though the town’s name is synonymous with skiing, Vail is loads of fun in the summer as well. Events abound. The Bravo!

Vail Music Festival will run from June 22 to Aug. 4 this year, featuring chamber, classical and jazz performances. The Vail International Dance Festival will run from July 29 to Aug. 12, and boasts top-notch dance talent from around the globe.

The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, showcase all manner of high elevation plants in a variety of settings, crowned by a 120-foot waterfall.

FUN FACT:

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WHERE IS IT? Head northwest out of Colorado Springs on Highway 24, about 20 miles from I-25.

If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, take the back way through Deckers.

NEED TO KNOW: The hot new thing in Woodland Park is the Dinosaur Resource Center, a handson kid-friendly dinotopia featuring more than 30 skeletons and “life restorations.”

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is 15 miles west of town, home to fossilized redwood tree stumps and displays of some of the exquisite fossils found in the area. Rangers host night sky programs several times through the summer, taking advantage of the glorious night skies.

The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 10 miles west of town, offers a variety of tours to meet the center’s resident lobos.

FUN FACT: At nearly 8,500 feet above sea level, Woodland Park’s average July high temperature is only 74 – the perfect place to beat summer heat within easy reach of the big city.

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Spending the summer with live music

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f there’s a better part of summer than music under the stars, I don’t know what it is.

Colorado has no shortage of picturesque LINER locations for summer concerts, NOTES and while everyone is well aware of places like Red Rocks, many more intimate venues exist that provide a lovely setting for some classic acts.

The Denver Botanic Gardens, Clarke Reader Arvada Center and Hudson Gardens in Littleton have concert lineups that are shining jewels.

“What makes a good concert series is a mix of the new with the familiar,” said Barry Osborne, marketing manager with Swallow Hill Music, which puts on the concerts at the Botanic Gardens and Arvada Center. “We want these experiences to be like relaxing in your backyard, listening to

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graffiti. One post leads to another to another.

I think — it’s just a hunch — that we’re all fed up. We’re fed up and feeling helpless.

A nocturnal tweet is better than warm milk. Get something off your chest, and crawl in bed. At least you said something, even if you can’t do anything about it.

I limit myself to this column, which is plenty. I am not on social media. I was, briefly, and it was unpleasant.

There are trolls who shame, and for some of them, it’s a calling and a career.

If a celebrity, for example, posts a photograph that can be found in any way to be objectionable, look out.

What I don’t understand are the disbelieving reactions when someone gets shamed.

This is America. It’s what we do.

Post almost anything and it’s a piñata for every imaginable configuration of insight and intelligence.

All people, deep down, are not good. There are busloads of the other kind.

Can you see Gandhi on a smartphone? Nope.

But if images of him in his khadi wrap were posted, it’s Katy bar the door.

WHAT’S PLAYING? To find the Summer Stage Concert Series at The Arvada Center, call 720-898-7200 or visit www.SummerAtTheCenter.com.

To find the Denver Botanic Gardens Summer Concert Series, call 1-877-435-9849 or visit concerts.botanicgardens.org.

To find the Hudson Gardens & Event Summer Concert Series, visit www.altitudetickets. com. something you really love.”

The lineups at all three venues tend toward classic rock acts, with musicians like Three Dog Night coming to the Arvada Center, Joan Jett, Firefall and Yes heading to Hudson, and Stephen Stills, Judy Collins and Randy Newman performing at the Botanic Gardens.

“People are really excited about Stills and Collins, particularly because Collins is a Colorado musician,” Osborne said. “Newman is such a great songwriter. I think it will be really interesting to see

I don’t know why people continue to be so trusting. There may be some faith-based root in it that I don’t have.

Maybe teaching gave that to me.

Students turned on a dime, if they didn’t get the grade they wanted, or if they had an untoward agenda.

One anonymously wrote with a Sharpie on my office door. I was the problem, why she couldn’t draw. Not her inability to know which end of a pencil to sharpen.

Then she took to campus-wide emails.

Learning when to zip your lips is no longer being taught.

My alma mater is afflicted with someone who won’t shut up.

He has three sons, and they all play basketball. He is embarrassing the school, his sons and himself, but he doesn’t care.

In fact, he is rolling around in his own comments like a backyard dog in its own scat.

The catch is that his sons are good, and the team wins, and in sports that’s what matters.

Dr. David Dao boarded a flight in Chicago. All he wanted to do was what we all want to do. Go home.

Not so fast, doctor.

An opinion is a judgment founded on probabilities. Or not.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident.

He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

how he balances his deep, sarcastic songs with his popular movie songs.”

Blues wizards are always fantastic performers, and this summer offers a mix of old hands and the new guard performing.

The Robert Cray Band and Jonny Lang will be stopping by Arvada, Littleton will host The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, and the Botanic Gardens hosts blues god Buddy Guy and a special coheadlining performance with Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’.

“The Taj Mo’ show is going to be really special, because they’re in such high demand as solo artists,” Osborne said. “They’re well-known friends, and seeing them together will reinvent the way they approach their music.”

Among the three venues, all your stylistic bases are covered. A fan of country and bluegrass? Clint Black and The Punch Brothers are heading your way.

More of a jazz fan? You can’t miss Herbie Hancock and Béla Fleck & The Flecktones and The Chick

Corea Elektric Band.

For pop lovers, The B-52s, Michael McDonald, Loverboy and Survivor will all be in town.

And if your leanings take you off the beaten path, José González and Dweezil Zappa playing years of his father’s music will more than serve.

As the saying goes, variety is the spice of life. So I encourage you to check out one of these venues and see someone you’ve always been curious or have heard good things about.

“We’ve got the whole summer ahead,” Osborne said, “and we’re really excited about it.”

Me, too.

Clarke Reader’s column on how music connects to our lives appears every other week. A community editor with Colorado Community Media, he is so excited to see Randy Newman live — he better play “Sail Away.” Check out his music blog at calmacil20.blogspot.com.

And share what concerts you’ll be going to this summer at creader@ coloradocommunitymedia.com.

Join the City of Lone Tree and South Suburban Parks & Recreation in celebrating the grand opening of The Lone Tree Hub, a multigenerational, flexible space that will provide the Lone Tree community access to a variety of classes and activities for the entire family to enjoy.

Monday, May 1st 8827 Lone Tree Parkway 12:00 – 12:15 p.m.

12:15 – 12:30 p.m.

12:30 – 1:00 p.m.

Ribbon-Cutting and Opening Remarks Light Refreshments and Facility Tours Parent/Grandparent Tot Lego Time (Bring your kids to participate!)

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Palmer Lake art show offers great reason to drive south

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Doors open and refreshments at 6:30 p.m., followed by presentations at 7.

Awards will be given to Bristlecone Construction, 2420 W. Main Street, Littleton, for Outstanding Achievement; the Littleton City Councils, past and present, for Stewardship; and former councilmembers and community activists Susan Thornton and Pat Cronenberger for Advocacy.

The community is invited.

ocal sculptor Reven Marie Swanson, who has completed several public art pieces for South Suburban Parks and Recreation District over the years, has an exhibit of her works, “Delicate Balance,” at Tri-Lake SONYA’S Center for the Arts, 304 Highway 105 in SAMPLER Palmer Lake through June 2. Included is a fluttery mobile of colorful butterflies.

Area art-lovers who have yet to discover this pleasing gallery will enjoy a trip south. We especially suggest the beautiful 105 drive Sonya Ellingboe Highway from Sedalia. (And a stop at Rock House Ice Cream at 24 Highway 105 might also appeal.) Gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays to Fridays; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. 719-481-0475.

Local artist Reven Marie Swanson exhibits these floating butterflies in a show of her works at Tri-Lake Center for the Arts in Palmer Lake.

COURTESY OF REVEN SWANSON ‘Color in Action’ Watercolorist Patricia Barr Clarke of Highlands Ranch will teach a May 6 workshop, “Color in Action,” for the Heritage Fine Arts Guild, which is open to non-members as well. She will focus on limited palettes in weton-wet applications and glazes and will have handouts on color theory and pigments. A full supply list is at heritage-guild.com/membership,

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as is information on the guild and reservations. Fee is $50 non-members and $30 members; reservations are necessary.

Preservation awards Littleton Preservation Awards will be given by Historic Littleton Inc. and the city’s Historic Preservation Board on May 4 at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St. , Littleton.

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All are welcome to the Lord’s table

Lutheran Church & School

Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 a.m.

Sunday School Bible Study 9:30am Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

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

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8:45 am & 10:30 am 9030 MILLER ROAD PARKER, CO 80138 3038412125 www.pepc.org

10035 Peoria Street Meeting every Sunday at 9:30 Tapestry United Methodist Church on Facebook

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

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Methodist Church

1200 South Street  Castle Rock, CO 80104   303.688.3047

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FAITH COMMUNITY

Castle Rock Chorale The Castle Rock Chorale’s Spring Concert will include selections from “Frostiana,” by Thompson. Folk tunes from Copland’s “Old American Songs” and romantic settings from “Five Hebrew Love Songs” by Whitacre.

Concerts will double: May 12, 7:30 p.m.

— Christ’s Episcopal Church, 615 4th St., Castle Rock; May 13, 7:30 p.m. — Smoky Hill United Methodist Church, 19491 E. Smoky Hill Road, Centennial.

Tickets cost $15/$10 and free under 12.

Congregation Beth Shalom Serving the Southeast Denver area

Call or check our website for information on services and social events! www.cbsdenver.org

303-794-6643

Little Blessings Day Care www.littleblessingspdo.com

Sunday Services - 10 a.m.

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

Joy Lutheran Church Sharing God’s Love

To advertise your place of worship in this section, call Karen at 303-566-4091 or email kearhart@ColoradoCommunityMedia.com

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SundAy 8am & 10:30am

9:15am Education hour

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Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 • ELCA • www.joylc.org

Pine Lane Elementary South 6475 E Ponderosa Dr. Parker, CO 80138 303-941-0668

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Temple collaboration The Temple Artists, who collaborate at the Temple, 2400 Curtis St., Denver (Historic former Temple Emmanuel) offer new free programming, in cooperation with Platteforum youth art space on its first floor.

• On May 2, at 6:30 p.m. Katie Caron, Anne Cunningham and Nathan Abels, a tactile artist and teacher at the Colorado School for the Blind, will present “Sensory Advantage.” It is focused on the exhibit that was created with Arapahoe Community College students and Abel’s classes in a show in the Colorado Gallery for the Arts. Admission is free.

• On May 16 at 6:30 p.m., Temple artists Eden Myles and local artist/ writer Will Mier will present “Black and White,” a one-time performance on the ways chess can represent life, art and business, while playing a game. Signed interpretation will be available.

Littleton Symphony “Colossal Classics and Surprising Concertos: King of Instruments” will feature organist Rick Seaton with the Littleton Symphony Orchestra in St. Saens’ “Symphony No. 3,” known as the “Organ Symphony.”

Soloist flutist Brooke Ferguson will perform Mendante’s “Flute Concerto in E minor” Also on the program: Wagner’s “Entrance of the Gods Into

Valhalla.” Tickets and information: littletonsymphony.org or 303-933-6824.

Call for artists The Annual Friends’ Craft Fair, held Oct. 7 in Littleton, is already half full. Registration form: littletongov.org: click City Services, City Departments, Littleton Museum, Programs/Events, Friends Craft Fair for an application. Information: Sherry Kling at the Littleton Museum, 303795-3950, skling@littletongov.org.

ACC concerts The Arapahoe Community College Music Department will present three free concerts in May, in the Waring Theatre. Information: Dr. Hidemi Matsushita, department chair, hidemi.matsushita@arapahoe.edu, 303-797-5867.

• May 5, 7:30 p.m. ACC Jazz Ensemble. (Follow the Art Walk with Jazz.)

• May 8, 7 p.m. ACC String Orchestra • May 9, 7 p.m. ACC Concert Choir `Begin With Books’ The Arapahoe Library District wants to expand its Children’s Literacy Outreach, “Begin With Books,” near Smoky Hill Library. Volunteers provide storytimes, puppets, books, songs and finger plays to children birth to 5 years old who attend community in-home daycares. (Currently about 30 are served.) No experience needed — training will be provided.

Arapahoelibraries.org/volunteerat-arapahoe-libraries or call 303-7928960.

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SOLEMN REMINDER

Douglas County employees gather to hear county commissioners speak before setting out to “plant their pinwheels” in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Douglas County residents may have seen displays of blue pinwheels throughout the county this month. The pinwheel gardens are part of a nationwide effort made by Pinwheels for Prevention, launched by Prevent Child Abuse America in 2008, which seeks to raise awareness for child abuse prevention.

Douglas County participated by placing 200 pinwheels outside the Douglas County Human Services Building in Castle Rock on April 17, plus additional pinwheels at the sheriff ’s office substation in Highlands Ranch. The county received 3,700 calls to its child abuse and neglect hotline in 2016, approximately the same as 2015, a county spokeswoman said.

“I’m glad that people are reporting but it’s unacceptable. We shouldn’t have any abuse,” Douglas County Commissioner David Weaver told county employees April 17. “Our children are tomorrow.

These children are precious.”

Pinwheels are used as the national symbol for child abuse prevention.

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

‘The Robber Bridegroom’: 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, through Sunday, April 30, at 2450 W. Main St., Littleton. The musical follows a rascally robber of the woods as he courts the only daughter of the richest planter in the country. The proceedings go awry, however, thanks to a case of double-mistaken identity. Tickets available at the box office, by calling 303-794-2787 or online at townhallartscenter.org/ robber-bridegroom.

Banachek, ‘The Alpha Project’: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 5-6, and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock.

Banachek is the only mentalist ever to fool scientists into believing he possessed psychic powers then later reveal he was fooling them.

Tickets available at http:// Tickets.

AmazingShows.com or call 303660-6799.

‘Toy Story, the Children’s Muical’ Auditions: 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 at Spotlight Performing Arts Center, 6328 E. County Line Road, Highlands Ranch. Class lasts 8 weeks; students learn acting, dancing and vocal techniques while preparing for musical. For ages 3-10 years. Classes run from 3:45-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Performance in late June. Go to www.spotlightperformers.com or call 720-44-DANCE for information and tuition rates.

ART

Studio Art Sale and Workshops: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 6 at 6628 S. Marion St., Centennial.

Presented by the artists of the SoSu Artists Collective. Workshops include: Boho necklace workshop, 10 a.m. to noon (contact hoodartworks@yahoo. com); mixed media collage workshop using spring themes, noon to 2 p.m. (contact janetm52@comcast.net); paint a spring birdhouse, 2-4 p.m. (contact pandjvincelette@ msn.com); bag o’ tricks workshop: recycle, paint and fuse plastic shopping bags into original pieces of art (contact ml3baird@gmail.com).

Workshops are limited to 8 students each. Email each workshop’s contact for cost and other information.

For information, call 303-246-3987.

MUSIC

Concert Organist: 2 p.m. Sunday, May 7 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Performed by Tom Trenney. Contact: Mark Zwilling at 303 794-2683 or mzwilling@ gostandrew.com.

both before and since 9/11. We will also take a look forward at what the future holds for this war-torn country. Call 303-797-0600 to RSVP.

this week’s TOP FIVE United in Love Concert: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Benefits Denver Actors Fund. For tickets and information, call 720-509-1000 or go to www.lonetreeartscenter.org.

International Tabletop Game Day: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 29 at the Castle Pines Library, 360 Village Square Lane. Drop in to this family-friendly free event. Presented by the Lone Tree Low-tech Gaming Group. Play all types of board games, card games and RPGs. Learn a new game or bring your own. Contact Izzy Corbo at LTLTGames@yahoo.com.

Hey, Good Lookin’: 6-7 p.m. Monday, May 1 at Dazbog, 202 Wilcox St., Castle Rock. This Lifetree Café program looks at a healthy approach to body image. Call 303-814-0142.

Go to LifetreeCafe.com. Group meets every Monday for coffee and conversation. Group watches a new video every week about life, faith, and ups and downs.

Good Ol’ Fashioned Hoedown: noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 29 at Coventry Farms, 7990 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton.

Horse rides, horse painting, craft fair, face painting, silent auction, live music and more. Proceeds benefit The Right Step Inc. Tickets available at therightstepinc.org.

Littleton Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert: 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 12 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Colossal Classics and Surprising Concertos: King of Instruments is the final concert of the season.

Information and tickets available at www.littletonsymphony.org or by calling 303-933-6824.

EVENTS

Ships of the Sea: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 29 at the Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way. Learn about pirates, passages and ships through the ages, along with model shipbuilding. Register to receive the day’s schedule. Call 303-7917323 or go to DCL.org.

Spring Book Sale: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, April 29 at the Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way. Purchase used books, CDs and DVDs. No registration required. Call 303-791-7323 or go to DCL.org.

Masters of Disguise: 1 p.m. Saturday, April 29 at the Parker Library, 20105 E. Mainstreet. Learn tips and tricks to prep for cosplay and costume making with Colorado Fabrics.

Program for teens and adults. Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to DCL.org.

Celebramos El Dia: 2 p.m. Sunday, April 30, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock.

Kids will learn about diverse cultures and heritages through crafts, stories, dance and more. Registration is

Help Teens Cope With Stress: 6-8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 3 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. Moms Fight Back presents this free community event. Learn to recognize and respond appropriately to signs of depression and mental health crisis in our youth. For parents only.

Space is limited. RSVP at https://www.facebook. com/events/153809218473438/

required; call 303-791-7323 or go to DCL.org.

Dynamic Mars: Getting to Know the Planet: 1 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch.

Join Dr. Laura Kerber of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explore the wild Martian landscape, including current scientific and engineering plans for Mars’ future. Ideal for teens and adults. Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to DCL.org.

Free Legal Clinic: 2-3:30 p.m.

Monday, May 1, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain the process and procedures for all areas of civil litigation. Walk-ins welcome; everyone seated first-come, first-served. Clinics offered the first Monday of each month. 2017 dates are June 5, July 3, Aug. 7, Oct. 2, Nov. 6 and Dec. 4. Call 303-791-7323.

1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: 7 p.m.

Tuesday, May 2 at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. An estimated 500 million people were infected worldwide, and 50 million to 100 million died of the disease. Learn more at this Highlands Ranch Genealogical Society program. Arrive at 6:30 p.m. for conversations with fellow genealogists.

Victoria’s Tea Fundraiser: 2-4 p.m.

Saturday, May 6, at The Gathering Place at Christ’s Episcopal Church, 615 4th St., Castle Rock. Enjoy tea, scones, music and stories. Proceeds benefit the Castle Rock Historical Society and Museum. Purchase tickets at the museum or online at

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Pies And Tarts Culinary Class: 6-9 p.m. Monday, May 8 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Learn to make pie crusts with simple ingredients and turn them into pies and tarts. For ages 16 and older. Call 303-805-6800 or go to www.parkerartscenter.com.

Finding Hidden Treasures in Family Search: 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial.

Program of the Columbine Genealogical & Historical Society is presented

by Barbara Elliott, society member, and features the FamilySearch. org website.

Contact ColumbineGenealogy@ gmail.com. Go to www.facebook. com/ColumbineGenealogy Afghanistan: 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, May 10 at RiverPointe, 5225 S. Prince St., Littleton. In October of 2001, the U.S. led a coalition invasion of Afghanistan seeking to oust the ruling Taliban and find Al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Join Active Minds for a look at the story of Afghanistan,

Book Discussion: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 11, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Dr. Max Frazier leads the discussion of “One of Ours,” by Willa Cather.

Frazier specializes in autobiography and women writing from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Refreshments served at 6:45 p.m.

Contact the Castle Rock Museum at 303-814-3164, museum@castlerockhistoricalsociety.org, or www. castlerockhistoricalsociety.org.

Admission is free.

Birding Insights Workshops: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 13, time TBD (Spring Migration), at Audubon Nature Center, 11280 S. Waterton Road, Littleton. Register at http://www. denveraudubon.org/event/. Workshops give adults and teens birding knowledge and tips, including techniques for identification, food preferences, life cycle and more.

Broken Tee Women’s 18-Hole Saturday Golf Club: play on Saturday mornings; season starts in April.

Broken Tee Golf Course is at 2101 W. Oxford Ave., Englewood. Good for working women and mothers.

Contact BTWSGC@aol.com ROAD CarFit for Seniors: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month through September, at Dahlia Campus for Health and Wellbeing, 3401 Eudora St., Denver. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month through September, at AAA-Colorado Southglenn, 700 S. University Blvd., Centennial.

Presented by the Reaching Older Adults Program, the 20-minute checkup is free but registration is requested.

Call 303-991-5740 for an appointment.

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Douglas County AAUW Scholarship: application, transcripts and letters of recommendation due July 15. Scholarship is open to Douglas County residents only. Money may be used for tuition, books or child care while attending school. Scholarship application and instructions available online at douglascounty-co.aauw.net.

Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send listings to calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

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Pushing through the pain can pay off

V U a p hile talking with Jack Huber, I n could only think about how it takes a few steps to get every- o thing working after sitting for a while and how things I used to be able to P i easily do are now harder.

L And I’ve never had a major injury.

Jack Huber, a senior wrestler and football s player at ThunderRidge, t has undergone surgeries p OVERTIME for injuries to his shoulder, P knees and chest.

U Despite pain plus long d rehabilitation stints, he kept grinding and qualified for the state wrestling tournament three straight seasons. He finished fifth at 182 pounds in the 2017 Class 5A tournament.

Jim Benton “The injuries started my sophomore year,” he said. “I had to decide if I wanted to keep doing this because of all the money spent for the surgeries, and it was painful. I decided to stick it out, one more year, one more time.”

Huber signed a letter of intent to wrestle at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo during an April 27 signing ceremony at ThunderRidge. He will join his brother Joe on the Mustangs’ wrestling team. Joe Huber was a 2015 Ponderosa High graduate.

“A year ago, I didn’t know if I would be able to wrestle,” Jack said. “I didn’t know with the surgery if it was going to work. I feel good now. I feel normal again.”

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Valor Christian sophomore Eric Pacheco controls a faceoff against Ponderosa sophomore Andy Bauer during an April 11 game at EchoPark Automotive Stadium. Pacheco claims winning faceoffs in high school is about efficiency.

JIM BENTON

Faceoffs are where it all begins Techniques to gain possession have huge influence on outcome in boys lacrosse

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It might not look like a game of rock-paper-scissors when two players trot to the center of the field for a faceoff in boys lacrosse, but that’s a complicated form of what it is.

The player who has the better plan to counter the other player’s move and is able to execute usually is the winner.

And winning faceoffs is crucial to a team’s success.

Teams face off at the start of the game, the beginning of each quarter and after every goal is scored.

“Possession is a big part of the game,” Bear Creek coach Issac Nelson-Garner said.

A faceoff starts with two players crouched with their sticks lying horizontally on each side of the midfield line.

The ball is place between the head of each stick and the butt-end pointing down the midfield line. Once the whistle is blown, each player fights for the ball in an effort to gain possession.

SEE LACROSSE, P39

ALL THE RIGHT MOVES Basic moves used by players taking faceoffs in boys lacrosse.

Clamp: A player using the clamp quickly moves his wrists over so the pocket of the lacrosse stick is clamped down on the ball before the opponent can do so.

Jam: The jam is a move where the stick is punched over the ball to block the opponent from any access.

It is a defensive move to gain possession of the ball instead of creating a fast break.

Rake: The rake is when the player moves his stick

under the jam before the opponent gains possession.

The ball is usually raked away from the opposing faceoff specialist.

Jump: Used to counter almost any move by picking up the head of the stick and pushing it forward over the ball, with the stick usually under the stick of the opponent.

Punch: A move to counter the jump where the ball is punched with the stick forward to be scooped up.

Sources: www.coachup.com; Stack.com; blog.comlax. com/nation/articles/ thelacrosse-faceoff

STANDOUT PERFORMERS Anna Hall, track, sophomore, Valor Christian: She won the 200 meters (25.29 seconds) and the 400 (56.41) at the Dakota Ridge Invitational on April 22. She was second in the 100 hurdles.

Pearl Schwartz, lacrosse, junior, Cherry Creek: Schwartz scored five goals and had two assists in the Bruins’ 14-5 win

over Arapahoe on April 19.

Cole Carman, baseball, senior, Arapahoe: He threw 87 pitches, struck out seven batters, allowed five hits and three earned runs in six innings in the Warriors’ 7-5 victory over Smoky Hill on April 21.

Jacob Dack, track, senior, Lutheran:

Dack was a double winner April 18 at the Holy Family Tiger Invitational. He was first in the discus (148 feet) and shot put (53-11).

Jack Lisowy, baseball, junior, Douglas County: The Huskies trimmed Heritage, 6-5, in eight innings on April 22 and Lisowy went 2-for-3 with a homer and had three runs batted in.

STANDOUT PERFORMERS are five 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

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No mercy for boys volleyball bid Boys volleyball took a called third strike at the Colorado High School Activities Association’s Legislative Council meeting on April 20.

The club-level Colorado Boys High School Volleyball Association and the CHSAAsanctioned Tri-Peaks League prepared a proposal requesting that boys volleyball be sanctioned as a two-classification spring sport.

But, for the third time in recent years, a bid to have the sport sanctioned was denied when 54 percent of the 72-member council voted to not even open the classification and League Organizing Committee report for consideration.

Also at the meeting, a mercy rule for all levels of boys and girls basketball was considered by the council and approved by a 59-11 vote. If a team has a 35-point lead after three quarters, a running clock will start and only stop for timeouts, injuries and free throws.

In hockey action, Chaparral and Woodland Park will be added as new teams for the 2017-18 season.

Former swim coach honored Former Littleton boys and girls swim coach Maurice “Stringy” Erwin will be one of six people inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame.

The 53rd annual induction banquet, set for April 27 at the Denver City Marriott, is sold SEE BENTON, P33

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Pugh pursues pro soccer career CARS & BARNWOOD Elbert STAFF REPORT

Mallory Pugh made one decision but still faces another choice.

Pugh, the 18-year-old Mountain Vista graduate and member of the U.S. women’s Olympic soccer team, announced she is leaving UCLA to pursue professional soccer opportunities.

The unanswered question is which opportunity she will pick.

According to Sports Illustrated, Pugh would like to play for Portland in the National Women’s Soccer League but Washington has the top spot in the 10-team NWSL distribution order to claim an incoming player.

Pugh turned down an offer to join Portland before deciding to attend UCLA but deals could be made if she decides to play in the NWSL. Portland has eight national team

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out and Erwin’s family and friends have reserved three tables to honor the longtime coach.

The three-sport letterman at Litteton was a Lions coach for 46 years.

He coached baseball and football in addition to swimming. His boys swim

players on its roster, including five from the U.S. team.

Teams in France, like Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain, are also reportedly interested in acquiring the services of Pugh if she doesn’t play in the NWSL. SI has reported that Portland has offered a trade for the right to sign Pugh, but apparently Washington isn’t listening. The stalemate could be settled at the NWSL owners meeting April 28 in Orlando, Florida.

Pugh enrolled at UCLA for the 2017 winter quarter and played in three spring matches and was set the make her freshman varsity debut this fall.

“The decision was certainly not easy for me to make,” Pugh said in a UCLA news release. “UCLA is such a special place and being a Bruin was an incredible thing. UCLA soccer SEE PUGH, P38

teams won seven state titles and the girls squads captured five state crowns.

Valor Christian quarterback Dylan McCaffrey will be honored as Boys High School Athlete of the Year.

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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7April 27, 2017

Falcons chalk up win on the pitch Highlands Ranch girls soccer team shuts out Westminster

coach Spencer Ward said. “We are a young team but I feel we have been much more competitive this season and we are playing better soccer this year than we did last year.”

He said the five graduating seniors will be missed but he expects he will have quite a few girls who gained varsity soccer experience this season returning who will help the team continue to improve.

“This is a great group of young ladies who get along well together and know how to play hard as a team,”

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Highlands Ranch scored less than two minutes into the game and went on to post a shutout as the host team outscored Westminster 5-0 in the April 22 non-league girls soccer game.

“We are coming to the end of a season that hasn’t gone quite like we hoped it would go,” Highlands Ranch

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Highlands Ranch forward Sara Gallegos, right, and Westminster defender Jocelin Macias race to be first to the ball during the April 22 non-league girls soccer game. Gallegos scored the Falcons’ first goal as Highlands Ranch went on to win the game, 5-0. TOM MUNDS

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the coach said. “They know there were games this season that they should have played better. But the effort has been there in every game. I feel this is a learning season for our young players who have improved as we work to be even more competitive next season.”

Key moments Highlands Ranch set the tempo of the game early as the Falcons mounted a swift attack and freshman Sara Gallegos scored a goal less than two minutes into the game.

The Falcon won the battle for loose balls and pressed the attack, so most of the game was played on the Westminster side of the field. Highlands Ranch scored five goals in the first half.

Key players/statistics Makayla Kinzel paced the Falcons as she scored a pair of goals. Gallegos, Brittney Kerr and Jamie Guszak each scored a goal for Highlands Ranch,

PUGH FROM PAGE 33

brought amazing things to my life and chasing after a national championship with my friends and teammates would’ve been special but I could not turn down this opportunity. I want to thank my teammates, coaches, UCLA athletics and everyone else for the support I have behind me.”

UCLA coach Amanda Cromwell understood it was difficult career decision for Pugh.

“We are sad to see Mal depart UCLA but it’s exciting for her to have such a unique opportunity,” said UCLA Cromwell. “Our relationship with Mal started a long time

while teammates Anna Gallo, Sophia Sheppard and Sarah Baird each had an assist.

The Falcons took 39 shots on goal.

The aggressive attack and solid defensive play limited the Wolves’ opportunities to take shots at the goal. Senior Izzy DePinto and junior Jessica Shumer shared each played goalie for one half of the game. DePinto had the Falcons’ only save.

They said it The game was special for Kerr as the senior scored her first goal of the season.

“I am an outside midfielder so I don’t get a lot of scoring opportunities,” Kerr said. “Today, we had the attack going, I controlled the ball as we pushed past the defense and I put it into the net. It felt really good to score and hear my teammates cheer for me as I score my first goal of the season.”

Going forward The win over Westminster raised the Falcons’ season record to 3-6-1 as they head into the home stretch of the regular season. They close out the schedule at home May 4 against Regis.

ago in the recruiting process. We’ve seen here develop and grow into an amazing young women and player.

Mal will always be a Bruin and we have no doubt that she is destined for great things as her career progresses.”

Pugh has four goals since she made her national team debut in January 2016 when she was 17.

Pugh played parts of three seasons for Mountain Vista but didn’t play her senior season because of U.S. national soccer team commitments. In 32 games for the Golden Eagles, she tallied 47 goals and 21 assists.

She helped Vista win the state championship as a freshman when she scored 10 goals. She played just 10 games her junior season and didn’t play in the state playoffs but had 24 goals and 60 points.

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LACROSSE

LEADING THE WAY

The top boys faceoff percentage leaders from area schools, through games of FROM PAGE 32 April 20: “Winning faceoffs is a mixture of • Nick Pacheco, Valor: .786 power and speed,” ThunderRidge se• Ryan Stewart, Cherry Creek: .780 nior Brett Naves said. “If you’re faster • Brett Boos, Chaparral: .747 than the other guy, you can win, but if you are stronger than the other guy, you • Eric Pacheco, Valor: .722 • Mike Madayag, Golden: .719 can also win. So it’s kind of like a rock• JT Simonton, Cherry Creek: .716 paper-scissors match.”

Basic faceoff techniques include the • Duke Hindman, Littleton: .713 clamp, jam and rake. The clamp can be •Shawn Casebolt, Lakewood: .694 neutralized by a jam. The rake usually • Alex Fielding, Heritage: .647 loses to the clamp but the rake can beat • Landon Nolta, Mountain Vista: .636 the jam. volved in gaining possession following “I start with the clamp, but if I’m geta faceoff. ting beat with a clamp I usually like to “An excellent faceoff unit can control switch it up and try jumping him,” Ponthe game for its team,” Parades said. derosa sophomore Andy Bauer said.

“While the faceoff player himself is the A jump is when a player holds down central part of that unit, the three playthe stick of the opponent who has ers combined really make a difference. clamped. A player using the clamp There will be games when your faceoff quickly moves his wrists over so the player wins most of the balls himself.” back of the head is clamped down on Good faceoff players are specialists the ball before the opponent. The jam and FOGO (faceoff and get off) has is a move where the head and shaft become a revered position. are punched over the ball to block the Valor Christian sophomore Eric opponent from any access. The rake is Pacheco is one of the state’s top faceoff when the player moves his stick under specialists. the jam before it can disable him.

“At the high school level, everyone is “You have to have the right body really an elite faceoff guy,” said Eric Paand special muscles. You need special checo, whose senior brother Nick also reflexes and you need more shoulder takes faceoffs. “You are not really going power to press and you need good foot to run into anyone with faster hands or movement,” Wheat Ridge sophomore quicker reaction time. It’s more about Tanner Spirek said.

Public Notice efficiency. Nick and I really work to be But physical attributes just might be NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE effi cient We work on not secondary.

AT TAX LIEN SALE ANDon OF faceoffs.

APPLICATION OF TREASURER’S DEED having wasted movements and being “The most important quality for aFOR ISSUANCE technical.” faceoff player is competiveness,” LittleTo Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Chaparral junior Brett Boos is ton coach Andrew Paredes said. “IfLot that or Premises, and to the Person in Whose was Taxed or Specially second in the state inAswinning faceoff player has a refuse-to-lose attitude,Name he the Same sessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or percentage leads in ground balls. will fight and scrap for every looseTitle ball of Record in or to the said and Premises and To Whom It MayBut Concern, more especially to: as a defensive he and also plays some and win them more often than he loses OCCUPANT midfi - Robert K Barrows Amanda Dgame against elder.

In a- recent them.”

Hyatt - Ann B Peters - Colorado Title Guaranty Ponderosa, heRwon 15 of Paredes also points out that, as in Co, El Paso Abstract Co - Daniel Grossman - 19 faceoffs by Daniel R Grossman and Pamela M Grossman pushing the ball downfi eld and picked hockey, other players need to be in-wife - Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service - Eugene L Grossman - Eugene L Grossman and Daniel R Grossman - G J CarterLouis, ACS SBSE C/O Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service - John J Wilkinson, Secretary The Woodmoor Corporation Margie Clemmer - State of Colorado Department of Revenue - Steven N Arnold, President The Woodmoor Corporation - The Women's Bank NA - The Women's Bank NA nka COBIZ Bank - The Woodmoor Corporation - W K Tevebaugh Vice President The Women's Bank NA

Girls game features a different move

up six ground balls.

“Quickness and strength are the keys to winning faceoffs,” he said. “And ground balls help the team keep possession.”

A winning faceoff percentage can usually be traced to winning teams.

CA$H FOR YOUR HOUSE Public Notice

INVITATION TO AnyPUBLIC Condition •BID No Commissions Separate sealed bids for 2017 HOT IN-PLACE Close at your convenience • Buyer pays all closing costs REPAVING PROJECT, DOUGLAS COUNTY PROJECT NUMBER 2017-006, will be received by the Owner, Douglas County Govern-

of Public Works If youment, areDepartment interested in Engineering, selling and would like to Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104, until Tuesday, an Mayreceive 23, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.as-is This projectcash consists offer, call of hot in-place repaving throughout Douglas County.

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 - Robert K Barrows - Amanda D Hyatt - Ann B Peters - Colorado Title Guaranty Co, El Paso Abstract Co - Daniel R Grossman Daniel R Grossman and Pamela M Grossman wife - Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service - Eugene L Grossman - Eugene L Grossman and Daniel R Grossman - G J CarterLouis, ACS SBSE C/O Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service - John J Wilkinson, Secretary The Woodmoor Corporation Margie Clemmer - State of Colorado Department of Revenue - Steven N Arnold, President The Woodmoor Corporation - The Women's Bank NA - The Women's Bank NA nka COBIZ Bank - The Woodmoor Corporation - W K Tevebaugh Vice President The Women's Bank NA You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 12th day of November 2013 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to Amanda D Hyatt the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: LOT 161 SOUTHDOWNS AT ROXBOROUGH 0.38 AM/L

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LOT 161 SOUTHDOWNS AT ROXBOROUGH 0.38 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to Amanda D Hyatt. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2012. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of Robert K Barrows for said year 2012 That said Amanda D Hyatt on the 1st day of February 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 3rd day of August 2017 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 20th day of April 2017 /s/ Diane A. Holbert County Treasurer of Douglas County Legal Notice No.: 930917 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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The Contract Documents will be available after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, May 1, 2017 through Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website (www.rockymountainbidsystem.com) or they Disclaimer: NetWorthmay Realty is ownedatbythe licensed real estate brokers. This is not a solicitation for any sort of be obtained above address.

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Public Notices You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 12th day of November 2013 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to Amanda D Hyatt the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit:

Once a team scores, wins a faceoff, keeps possession and has another chance to score, it often leads to scoring sprees.

“If you don’t have the ball,” Valor coach John Grant Jr. said, “you can’t score.”

Notices

City Public andNotice County PUBLIC INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for 2017 HOT IN-PLACE REPAVING PROJECT, DOUGLAS COUNTY PROJECT NUMBER 2017-006, 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, May 23, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. This project consists of hot in-place repaving throughout Douglas County.

The Contract Documents will be available after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, May 1, 2017 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.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 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, May 16, 2017. The Bid Opening will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, at the same address.

The Project includes the following major items and approximate quantities: • Hot Mix Asphalt (Grading SX) (75) (PG 6422) (Haul and Asphalt) (Full Depth Patching) – 330 TON • Hot Mix Asphalt (Grading SX) (75) (PG 6422) (Haul and Asphalt) (Paving) – 5,297 TON

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at the Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite Public Notice 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104. All questions are due to Daniel Roberts, P.E., Project Engineer by NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16, 2017. The BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION Toatadvertise your public notices call 303-566-4100 Bid Opening will be conducted 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, at the same address.

A public hearing will be held before the Planning Commission on May 15, 2017, at 7:00 The Project includes the following major items P.M., in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 and approximate quantities: Third St., Castle Rock, CO., for a change in zoning from PD -Planned Development and RR• Hot Mix Asphalt (Grading SX) (75) (PG 64Rural Residential to PD-Planned Development.

22) (Haul and Asphalt) (Full Depth Patching) The subject property is located approximately 2,000-feet to the southeast of the intersection of – 330 TON • Hot Mix Asphalt (Grading SX) (75) (PG 64State Highways 83 and 86. For more informa22) (Haul and Asphalt) (Paving) – 5,297 TON tion call Douglas County Planning, 303-660• Hot In-Place Recycling and Repaving – 7460.

96,299 SY • Pavement Marking Paint (Waterborne) – 177 File #/Name: ZR2012-008 / GAL Franktown Village Planned Development

City and County

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.

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.: 930948 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Second Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION A public hearing will be held before the Planning Commission on May 15, 2017, at 7:00 P.M., in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock, CO., for a change in zoning from PD -Planned Development and RRRural Residential to PD-Planned Development.

The subject property is located approximately 2,000-feet to the southeast of the intersection of State Highways 83 and 86. For more information call Douglas County Planning, 303-660-

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Legal Notice No.: 930952 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: April 27, 2017 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION

A public hearing will be held before the Planning Commission on May 15, 2017, at 7:00 P.M., in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock, CO., for an appeal concerning water regulations in the Douglas County Zoning Resolution for properties located 1) approximately 2,000-feet to the southeast of the intersection of State Highways 83 and 86 and 2) southwest of and abutting and southeast of and abutting the intersection of Tanglewood Road and Burning Tree Drive, continuing easterly to Bibles Hill Drive. For more information call Douglas County Planning, 303-660-7460.

File #/Name: ZR2014-003-WS / Franktown Village PD Water Appeal.

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