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June 30, 2016 VOLUME 15 | ISSUE 24

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The two sides of teacher pay, evaluations District says its system puts best people in place, while some educators say it creates turmoil

By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@colorado communitymedia.com

S

teve Cook, a Douglas County School District assistant superintendent, remembers being a young teacher who gave a lot and got little in return.

He spent the first seven of his 25 years in education at a small school where he taught six grades of science classes.

“Which meant six different preps

— and in science that means labs and things like that, and at the time I was making $20,000,” Cook said of his time in Kansas during the 1990s.

“I was busting my hump to do good by the kids.”

The teacher two doors down never got up from his chair.

“He was like the guy you saw on ‘Ferris Bueller’ who would read the paper and everyone would drop their packets in the in-box and the next week they would be in the outbox,” said Cook, who will be interim

superintendent when Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen leaves July 4 for her new position in Texas. “He was making twice what I was making and it was just so disheartening. What do you do with that as a new teacher?”

Thanks to the district’s marketbased, pay-for-performance system, Cook said, that inequity of effortversus-reward no longer exists in Douglas County. That same system, however, has been a lightning rod of Teachers continues on Page 6

COMMISSIONER RACE

Former coroner wins GOP primary Lora Thomas will run against Democrat Erica Bullock-Jones in November general election

By Alex DeWind adewind@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Cyclists pedal out of the Lone Tree bike-to work-station at C-470 Trail and Willow Creek Trail. Over 100 cyclists visited the station in the first hour on June 22. Photos by Rick Gustafson

Bike to Work Day rolls around Commuters urged to try alternative transportation

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media For the 27th consecutive year, commuters in Colorado were encouraged to leave cars, minivans and SUVs parked in the garage and dust off two-wheeled transportation for the Colorado Bike to Work day on June 22.

The Denver Regional Council of Governments organizes the annual event to encourage commuters to try riding to work in the hope that cycling will become a regular part of their daily routine and thereby reduce congestion and improve air quality.

Cyclists like Scot Szatkowski, who bicycled along the C-470 path from Ken Caryl to United Launch Alliance in Centennial, were invited to take a short break from their morning commute at Bike to Work breakfast stations, such as the one sponsored by the City of Lone Tree at the intersection of the C-470 Bike Trail and the Willow Creek Trail.

Lora Thomas, the former county coroner, won the Republican primary election for Douglas County commissioner, District 3, by a wide margin.

She will now face Erica Thomas Bullock-Jones, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, in the November general election for a seat on the three-member board in the heavily Republican county.

The winner will replace term-limited Jill Repella. District 3 is largely made up of Highlands Ranch.

Thomas won the June 28 GOP primary with 57 percent of the vote in her race against businesswoman Monica Wasden, who had received the endorsement of many of the county’s leaders.

Election continues on Page 4

Greg and Barb Timmons enjoy a muffin and free breakfast burrito. The Willow Creek Bike-to-Work-Day station was sponsored by the City of Lone, the Lone Tree Brewing Company, Starbucks, Safeway, Costco, Target, RidgeGate and South Suburban Parks and Recreation District.

At the station, volunteers set up tables with muffins and breakfast burritos, sliced fresh fruit, and stocked coolers with bottles of juice and Gatorade. Riders could also pick

up buy-one-get-one-free Chipotle coupons and a certificate good for a cold pint at the Lone Tree Brewing Bike continues on Page 11

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Celebrations center on Sweetwater Park

FACES AMONG US

Food, fun, fireworks set for Independence Day

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media

Lone Tree resident Rebecca Pyle lounges at the summer concert series in Sweetwater Park. Photo by Rick Gustafson

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My passions I’m in master swimming, and we are delighted with the new pool at Cook Creek. We have practice at 5:15 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I get up for that, because it’s really fabulous swimming in that pool, in the summer, outside in the morning.

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Summers are spent in Maine I go for the whole summer, and I do about the same. My mother has this place on the beach and I swim, body surf and hang out.

Retiree loves being in, near the water A little about me I’ve lived in Lone Tree since 2000. I don’t work anywhere, which is great. I retired a few years ago from a United Airlines reservations systems company.

We used to get travel benefits, but they went away years ago. All the planes are full anyway. You don’t get on, because it’s

My favorite thing about Maine The water, definitely.

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The City of Lone Tree will hold its Independence Day celebration beginning at 3 p.m. on July 4 at Sweetwater Park, 8300½ Sweetwater Road.

The celebrations start with a children’s bike parade. Bike decorating begins at 3 at the entrance to Club Terrance Drive, and the parade starts at 4. The route will travel east down Lone Tree Parkway onto Sweetwater Road and into the south entrance of Sweetwater Park.

Throughout the evening, there will be multiple activities for kids, an artists’ corner with face painting, glitter tattoos and wacky hair art.

Pre-fireworks performances begin at 4 and include the BMX Stunt tTeam, the Gora Gora Orkestar, 101st Army Rock Band and headliner Funkiphino.

Food trucks will be distributed around the park offering menus ranging from Mexican food to crepes and the fireworks begin around 9:15.

Admission to the Independence Day celebrations is free but limited to residents of Lone Tree and Acres Green.

The wristbands required for entry have been available at the Lone Tree Arts Center since June 5.

“We really encourage people to get them early and don’t expect them to be

LONE TREE’S FOURTH OF JULY SCHEDULE • 3-3:45 p.m. — Bike decorating • 3:50 p.m. — Line up for bike parade • 4 p.m. — Bike parade • 4-9 p.m. — Events open • 4-8 p.m. — Kids’ activities open; lines will be shut down at 8 p.m.

• 4-5:45 p.m. — Animation from BMX Stunt Team and Gora Gora Orkestar • 4:30-6 p.m. — 101st Army Rock Band • 6-6:30 p.m. — BMX Stunt Show • 7-9 p.m. — Funkiphino • 9:15 p.m. — Fireworks available on the day of July Fourth or even that last pickup day,” said Kristen Knoll, Lone Tree community outreach coordinator.

The city began distributing wristbands at the March Fourth Marching Band concert on June 18.

Four wristbands are available per residence, and up to four additional bands may be purchased for $5 each.

The last day to pick up wristbands is June 30 between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.; they are not required for children under 3.

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DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS

Tax hike would fund salaries, capital needs Benevento will make pitch to community at July 19 school board meeting

HOW OTHER DISTRICTS COMPARE Adams 12 Five Star

$77,762,118

ter schools): $71,574

By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Mill Levy Override Rate: 17.045

Override $/Student: $1,523

Denver

Mill Levy Override $: $26,997,784

Mill Levy Override $: $35,399,587

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $67,940

Mill Levy Override Rate: 10.976

Override $/Student B: $1,051

Override $/Student: $960

Littleton

Mill Levy Override $: $145,121,314

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $48,024

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $57,561

Mill Levy Override Rate: 17.525

Override $/Student: $1,780

Jefferson County

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $50,247

Mill Levy Override Rate: 13.937

Aurora

Mill Levy Override $: $26,498,159

Mill Levy Override Rate: 19.894

Override $/Student: $1,815

Douglas

Mill Levy Override $: $113,293,007

Mill Levy Override $: $42,699,062

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $64,739

Mill Levy Override Rate: 5.999

Override $/Student: $1,420

Override $/Student: $1, 122

Boulder Valley

Mill Levy Override $: $33,714,715

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $54,923

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools):$54,230

Mill Levy Override Rate: 11.348

Override $/Student: $558

Average

Mill Levy Override $: $66,412,663

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $51,274

Mill Levy Override Rate: 13.625

Cherry Creek Mill Levy Override Rate: 14.925

Override $/Student: $2,273,94

El Paso

Mill Levy Override $:

Teacher Salary (Includes char-

Mill Levy Override Rate: 10.980

Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools):$57,835

Douglas County school board member Doug Benevento has two new tax proposals that would help raise teacher pay and address high-priority capital needs in the district.

“I said let’s take a look at Benevento capital needs and teacher salaries and figure out what the cost of the solution is,” Benevento said.

The solution that Benevento will propose at the next board meeting July 19 is two mill levy overrides, which would need voter approval. One worth $28.9 million would go toward raising teacher salaries and another worth $25 million would go to urgent capital needs projects. Benevento said he would not support any money going toward new construction.

The recently approved 2016-17 budget for the district includes $9 million that will be spent on a 3 percent average pay increase, including retirement and Medicare, for all district employees and $1.6 million on PERA (retirement savings) rate increases.

The district has set aside $3.2 million for technology updates, $750,000 for upgrades and maintenance of the professional development and evaluation software system InspirEd, $1 million for school innovation and growth — which could include some capital improvement needs — and $1 million for general facility needs.

On top of that, the district has a $5 million contingency budget to address unexpected breakdowns and other needs, according to DCSD Chief Financial Officer Bonnie Betts.

Benevento said with the help of Betts, he compared Douglas County to eight peer districts to determine the average teacher salary. Benevento’s plan would raise the average salary for a district teacher to the average plus 1 percent.

With the new money, the average teacher salary would rise from $51,274 to $58,412.

The HOPE Online facilities included in the capital needs override would include only those facilities in Douglas County, according to Benevento.

“If we did this, it would raise our mill levy rate to about average for peer (competitor) districts,” he said.

The increase would bring the district slightly above the average mill levy override for the peer districts, he said.

“Currently the average for what we

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consider our peer or competitor districts is 13.63 (that includes our MLO). Currently Douglas County is at 5.9 MLO. My proposal would bring us to 15.2,” Benevento said.

Benevento said the November 2015 school board election — in which three incumbents were ousted — showed him the community supports improvements in these areas and he would like to “put it in front of the voters.”

“We had an election and that election told us something,” Benevento said.

He said the measures could be separate or combined into a single tax measure if there was support for both.

If the measures get on the November ballot and if they pass, the tax increase would be about $75.67 annually per $100,000 of assessed value or about $302.68 annually for an average homeown-

Override $/Student: $1,389

er, according to the district.

Board member David ray said he appreciates Benevento’s willingness to support a tax initiative that will improve teachers’ compensation.

“This would certainly be a step in the right direction for reversing our high rate of teacher turnover,” Ray said.

Board Vice President Judith Reynolds said she has not made a decision about the proposed tax increase since there has been no board discussion on the issue.

BOE President Meghann Silverthorn said she would need to see an analysis of the plan’s impact to Douglas County voters before making a decision on the matter.

“I’m disinclined to support tax increases in this fiscal environment,” Silverthorn Tax continues on Page 5

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Sheriff’s office asks residents to ‘Lock It or Lose It’ Countywide campaign to reduce theft from cars, garages Staff report Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has a message for residents: “Lock It or Lose It.” The campaign is an effort to reduce crime trends through education, social

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“I am just elated,” Thomas said on Election Night. “We built the most incredible team of volunteers to support us because this is about the future of Douglas County.”

Wasden was not immediately available for comment on Election Night.

Thomas, 60, is a third-generation Coloradan who grew up in Denver.

She has lived in Highlands Ranch for 17 years and in Douglas County for 25 years.

Thomas was the Douglas County coroner from 2011-15, often finding herself at odds with then-Sheriff David Weaver, who is now a member of the board of county commissioners. Before that, she attained the rank of major in the Colorado State Patrol, where she served for 26 years. Thomas is the president of A Night With the Coroner, a nonprofit organization for suicide-prevention awareness.

In the weeks before the primary election, Thomas said she is not “the party insider.”

“I’m the candidate who is ready on day one to manage tax dollars wisely while ensuring government services are provided,” she wrote in a Q&A with Colorado Community

media posts and strategic enforcement efforts, a media release says.

From January to May, the sheriff’s office has received more than 404 reports of theft, stolen vehicles, garage burglaries and vehicle break-ins.

“Typically, these are out-of-county individuals coming into northern Douglas County between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m.,” the sheriff’s office said in a media release.

Media. “Growth will be balanced so that the character of Douglas County does not change.”

Wasden, 48, held a $60,000 to $26,000 advantage in campaign contributions from donors, but Thomas spent more money on her campaign, according to documents filed with the state. Thomas reported nearly $108,000 in loans that she made to her own campaign, and she spent $118,212. Wasden reported no loans and spent $52,377.

Wasden was endorsed by Repella, District Attorney George Brauchler, Sheriff Tony Spurlock and state Rep. Kevin Van Winkle, among other area leaders, according to her campaign website. She owns PROformance Apparel in Littleton and has been a delegate for the Highlands Ranch Community Association for 16 years.

The winner of the District 3 race in November will represent an area primarily made up of Highlands Ranch. However, commissioners in Douglas County are elected “atlarge,” meaning all county voters can weigh in on each district.

The primary races for county commissioner, District 2, featured two candidates who ran unopposed: Republican incumbent Roger Partridge and Democrat Nathaniel Kaiman, who will square off in November. The district includes Castle Rock and nearby areas.

Weaver’s District 1 seat is not up for election this year.

These criminals tend to target vehicles that have valuables in plain sight, such as a purse or cell phone on the seat.

They have been stealing vehicles if keys are left inside and are known to target unlocked vehicles or open garages, the sheriff’s office said.

These crimes typically occur at night but the sheriff’s office has received reports during the day.

These criminals can be violent, the

sheriff’s office says, and may be armed.

The sheriff’s office is urging residents to be diligent in removing valuables from vehicles, locking vehicles and closing garage doors.

“Many of the crimes being reported are crimes of opportunity and could have been avoided had some precautions been taken,” the media release says.

“Don’t let the criminals go shopping in your car,” Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.

RESULTS FROM THE JUNE 28 PRIMARY ELECTIONS REPUBLICAN

DEMOCRAT

County commissioner, District 2 Roger Partridge (unopposed)

County commissioner, District 2 Nathaniel Kaiman (unopposed)

County commissioner, District 3 Lora Thomas: 57 percent Monica Wasden: 43 percent

County commissioner, District 3 Erica Bullock-Jones (unopposed)

4th Congressional District Ken Buck (unopposed) 6th Congressional District Mike Coffman (unopposed) State Board of Education, District 6 Debora Scheffel (unopposed) State Senate District 4 Jim Smallwood: 39.04 percent Benjamin Lyng: 38.58 percent Jess Loban: 22.38 percent State House District 39 Polly Lawrence (unopposed) State House District 43 Kevin Van Winkle: 72 percent Cindy Barnard: 28 percent State House District 44 Kim Ransom (unopposed)

4th Congressional District Bob Seay (unopposed) 6th Congressional District Morgan Carroll (unopposed) State Board of Education, District 6 Rebecca McClellan: 62 percent Ilana Spiegel: 38 percent State Senate District 4 Christina Maria Riegel: 66 percent James Clark Huff: 34 percent State House District 39 Richard Opler (unopposed) State House District 43 Scott Wagner (unopposed) State House District 44 Tim Hicks (unopposed)

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State House District 45 Shantell Schweikart (unopposed)

District attorney George Brauchler (unopposed)

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From the post office to the primary Detailing the journey of a mail-in ballot

e By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com Though the mail-in ballot process has been in place in Colorado for three years, it has almost completely replaced the traditional system of waiting in line at polling stations in Douglas County.

Less than a week before the June 28 primary election, the staff at the Douglas County Elections Building was preparing for its big night.

“In the last election, we had 805 polling place ballots out of over 93,000 voters,” said Merlin Klotz, Douglas County’s clerk and recorder. “That’s less than 1 percent.”

Ballots went out on June 8 and began returning to the elections building at 125 Stephanie Place in Castle Rock on June 10. Since then, a team of 11 fulltime employees, six voter-support employees and two temporary support staff have been busy processing the ballots.

The Douglas County elections staff is aware of the sentiment among some voters who are reluctant to send their ballot through the mail. Klotz said the “paranoia” is understandable but added that most of the population pays utility and other bills through the mail, and if they trust the post office with their money, they should trust it with their vote.

Klotz added ballot boxes, made of plate steel and weighing 650 pounds each, are built to ensure security.

“They’re like tanks,” Klotz said, joking that one box “ran into a car” last year. The only damage it suffered was a dented leg, faring much better than the car.

Drop boxes, located at libraries and other government buildings throughout the county, are watched over 24 hours a day, seven days a week by an election judge, a camera or both. If a judge or camera views any suspicious activity near one of the boxes, a quarantine protocol is put into place and law enforcement, the district attorney and the secretary of state are notified.

Six election judges, working in teams of two, selected from different political parties, collect ballots from drop boxes once a day Monday through Friday, placing them in locked bags to deliver them to the Douglas County election facility, which is also monitored around-theclock by cameras. They ramp up their schedule the Monday before election day, hitting each box at least twice, and they make a minimum of five collections on Election Day.

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said. “However, as the board liaison to the long-range planning committee, I’m aware that the district has many capital needs that must be addressed.

The state of Colorado provides no capital funding for school districts, so we must raise the funds ourselves, which can be a challenge.”

The group community group Douglas County Parents said it “recognizes the need for funding to address capital needs and to pay teachers competitively.”

“Capital needs have grown considerably in recent years and DCSD wages are significantly less than neighboring districts,” Jason Virdin of Douglas County Parents said. “We would like to see these issues corrected. The district has conducted a survey to gauge the likelihood of a MLO and bond passing. This is a prudent measure and we

Election judges remove ballots from their envelopes and count, then recount, then recount again the number of ballots and envelopes on June 24 in the Douglas County Elections Building in Castle Rock. Deputy of elections Sheri Davis refers to the teams of three as a “dealer” and two “players” because the process appears similar to a game of blackjack. Photos by Tom Skelley All access to rooms where ballots are stored is restricted to certified personnel, and judges can only access ballot storage in groups of two or more, again, from different parties. Klotz said ensuring the team members are registered to different political groups ensures transparency.

“Everybody has a bias,” Klotz said.

“But we’ve set up a process where everybody is looking over everybody’s shoulder… Nobody can mess with anything.”

Cameras, located in every corner of every room at the elections building, are also looking over the shoulders of everyone involved in the process.

Once ballots are collected and delivered to the elections building, they are run through a machine that verifies ballot authenticity. A camera takes photographs of each signature to compare it to the existing signature in a voter’s file, and to make sure that only one ballot has been returned by each voter. The signature is then verified by judges from different parties.

Deputy of Elections Sheri Davis, who has worked in the department for more

look forward to the presentation of the results. Without knowing the results of the survey or the details of Director Benevento’s MLO and bond proposal, it is difficult to determine the level of support at this time.”

Benevento acknowledged tax increases have not traditionally been popular in Douglas County.

The community voted down a $200 million bond in 2011 that would have gone toward building three new schools in Castle Rock and Parker and a $29 million mill levy override that would have provided funding for instructional expenses and pay for performance for teachers.

In 2008, Douglas County voted down a $395 million bond and a $17 million mill levy override to support building new schools, student achievement, recruiting and retaining the workforce and improving the district’s technological advances in the face of expanded enrollment.

“A tax increase is a personal decision for each voter and is decided around each dinner table,” Benevento said.

than 11 years, said every effort is made to validate signatures in a fair fashion.

The machine “marries” each signature to the one a voter has on file, Davis said.

If they don’t match, it takes two judges, one Democrat and one Republican, to reject the ballot. The rejected ballot is then evaluated again by a second-tier team that looks at all of the signatures in the voter’s file to see if the current one is similar enough to others to allow the ballot to be counted. If it is rejected again, a signature verification letter is sent to the voter, who has up to eight days after the election to clarify the issue.

Once ballots are accepted, they are removed from their envelopes and security paper in a three-person process that looks a lot like a dealer and two players playing blackjack. Ballots and envelopes are hand-counted by the “dealers” and “players.” Then they are counted again.

And a third time.

“I ask them to treat the envelopes like cash,” Davis said.

Voters’ choices on ballots are then recorded, but not tallied until the mo-

BENEVENTO’S FOUR-POINT PLAN • Capital money is for neighborhood school system. No new construction or capacity. “I believe we need to manage our maintenance backlog before we add new capacity,” Benevento said.

• A pay increase for teachers this upcoming year (after the tax increase goes into effect).

No spreading it out over multiple years • No bonding. “I don’t want debt, this is all Mill Levy Override,” Benevento said.

• Charter schools share equally in all the funding and the funding is allocated as all charter funds are currently allocated. Charter schools make their own decision over how funds are spent.

A tax increase is a personal decision for each voter and is decided around each dinner table.”

Doug Benevento, Douglas County school board member

ment polls close on election night. A scanner makes images of each ballot and the information is stored in an encrypted machine. Davis said the machines are all on a closed system, so hacking or manipulating totals isn’t possible.

Once polls close, the images taken from each ballot are uploaded into a machine that rapidly tallies votes and records results. Though the process of collecting the ballots takes weeks, initial results are usually available within 15 minutes. This stage of the process is also monitored by election judges from different parties.

Despite an average of 12,000 ballots being processed daily at the center, the atmosphere is surprisingly calm. About 30 employees and judges smile as they “deal” envelopes, carry trays of ballots and finish the afternoon’s work. Four days from now, Klotz said, the environment will be a little different when 52 staff members will work to calculate and report returns as quickly as possible.

“You should see it (on Tuesday,)” he said. “This place is going to be packed.”

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Effective July 1, 2016 DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT LICENSED SALARY BANDS BAND - 25 BAND - 30 BAND - 35 BAND - 40 BAND - 42 BAND - 45 fifth grade fourth grade freshman transition health e/m/s librarian phys ed e/m/s second grade social studies e/m/s speech middle third grade

art elem/mid/sen business consumer family studies counselor el/ed drama mid/sen first grade grade k homebound home school support math elem music elem music instrumental el/ed music instrumental mid music mid/sen (choral) music orchestra mid/sen science elem speech senior

ACE admin intern counselor mid/sen English mid/sen intervention specialist library media specialist music instrumental sen reading recovery sixth grade elem star/ccp lab STEM mid SWAP lead

agriculture American Sign Language criminal justice early childhood ed engineering ESL/ELL fire science foreign languages industrial arts math mid/sen moderate needs science mid/sen social worker

$36,000 — $67,000

$38,000 — $69,000

$40,000 — $76,000

$43,000 — $86,000

center-based (severe needs) center-based (sed/autism) nurse health services student support technology

$44,000 — $88,000

audiologist autism specialist behavior specialist DHH occupational therapist psychologist speech lang pathol SWAAAC specialist visually impaired

$48,000 — $94,000

Source: Douglas County School District

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controversy among teachers, principals and district officials since its implementation in 2012.

District officials say the system not only recognizes hard work and excellence in a fair manner, it also attracts and retains more talented teachers and makes it easier to hire teachers for hardto-fill positions.

But many teachers and principals strongly disagree. They say it pits teachers in competition against each other, requires hours of time teachers don’t have to complete evaluations that determine raises, creates inequity in pay and has contributed to a level of dissatisfaction that has driven teachers to leave the district in increasingly large numbers.

Jerry Goings, principal of Highlands Ranch High School for 10 years and educator for 32 years until retiring in 2015, believes the pay system and how teachers are evaluated have been the biggest issues affecting teacher morale.

“It caused so many inequities and issues within the system,” Goings said. “As principals, we had a hard time defending the way we were evaluating and, thus, impacting the pay of our teachers.

There are so many examples of issues that go into that, let alone paying a firstgrade teacher more than a second-grade teacher.”

How market pay works Most school districts have a traditional step-and-lane system, in which school district employees are hired and paid based primarily on longevity and their educational background. Douglas County did, too, until the conservativeleaning school board and Fagen introduced a market-based pay system in 2012, the same year longstanding ties with the teachers’ union were severed.

The system, district officials say, takes a wider picture of not only a candidate’s education, experience and skill, but also supply and demand of the position, to determine pay. That means teachers of harder-to-fill subjects like science and math are paid at a higher rate than those of easier-to-fill subjects, such as English or social studies. The district evaluates the salary bands several times a year so it can adjust the scale to help find candidates the district needs.

In addition, raises are offered yearly based on effectiveness ratings ranging from highly effective to ineffective rather than on tenure and level of education.

In DCSD, more than 70 positions are differentiated into five pay bands based on demand and rarity of skill.

For the 2016-17 school year, salaries range from $36,000 to $67,000 in the first band for subjects such as physi-

“

There is a big difference between a high school business teacher and a high school business teacher that is DECA-certified. That is the kind of flexibility that is very valuable in this system. It gives you the opportunity to zone in on exactly what the needs of the district are,”

cal education, social studies and upper elementary grades. In the highest band, salaries range from $48,000 to $94,000 for specialists like psychologists.

Benefits of market pay School district officials maintain that offering different levels of pay based on subject — what they say reflects market economics of supply and demand — has helped recruit new teachers in hard-tofill subjects.

The district’s applicant-to-position ratio is 18-1 and the average starting salary for a new teacher is $40,000, said Brian Cesare, chief human resource officer for the district. The district has no set starting salary, and incoming teachers can negotiate their starting pay.

“It’s much better than it used to be when you were paying everybody the same,” Cesare said.

Cook agreed.

“When you are trying to find teachers that are qualified to teach things like automotive tech or cosmetology or fire science, it can really make a difference,” he said. “There is a big difference between a high school business teacher and a high school business teacher that is DECA-certified. That is the kind of flexibility that is very valuable in this system. It gives you the opportunity to zone in on exactly what the needs of the district are.”

An October 2015 report by Peter Groff of the Common Sense Policy Roundtable — a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to the promotion of Colorado’s economy — praised the district’s market-based pay system for similar reasons.

“Opponents grouse that the system will send good teachers whose positions have been labeled as less important to other school districts, but the argument seems to offend the professionalism of those staff members who are hard workers,” wrote Groff, a Democrat who was former state Senate president and former head of the U.S. Department of Education’s faith-based initiatives center. “General practitioners don’t leave their hospitals or the profession because surgeons or anesthesiologists earn more than they do.”

Drawbacks of market pay But for some teachers and principals, a system that bases a pay-scale structure

Steve Cook, assistant superintendent

Douglas County School District

AVERAGE TEACHER SALARIES FOR 2015-16 A look at the average teacher salaries for some area school districts: Elizabeth: $38,419 Lewis-Palmer: $45,929

Englewood: $52,439 Jefferson: $54,923 Adams: $57,561

Denver: $50,247

Littleton: $64,739

State average: $51,204

Cherry Creek: $67,940

Douglas: $51,274

Source: Colorado Department of Education

on subject only, without considering talent or experience, negates a key component to good teaching.

In a column to the community posted on social media earlier this year, Goings criticized the system’s development as haphazard, rushed and based on little market analysis.

The problems became clear to administrators, who lobbied district officials unsuccessfully for a teacher survey for feedback, soon after its implementation in the fall of 2012, Goings said.

“It is complicated, it is subjective and confusing to work with,” he wrote of market pay, “and it is inequitable to staff.”

Because teachers coming into the district can negotiate a starting salary, the result is salaries of some teachers with less experience are greater than those of more veteran teachers.

“I had an outstanding special education teacher in my building with three years experience who questioned why a newly hired teacher with no experience was making $8,000 more,” Goings said.

Starting salaries in some of the bands are considerably less than the average starting salary of other school districts in the area — about $4,000 less for a second-grade teacher, for instance, Goings said.

And although level of education, such as master’s and doctoral degrees, are considered when negotiating salaries for new hires, current employees who earn those degrees receive no additional compensation, Goings said.

The district does offer teachers up to $2,000 per year in tuition reimbursement, according to Cesare, which he said could improve a teacher’s performance — thus earning him or her a larger raise if they reach the next performance level.

The bands also impose a value on

what is taught, some educators say.

A first-year, first-grade teacher in the second-level band makes $38,000. The salary for a first-year, second-grade teacher in the first-level band is $36,000.

“What can justify this obvious disparity?” Goings said. “The jobs require similar skills, carry similar responsibility and are equally important to the learning progress of a child.”

A new evaluation system Any raises to pay are tied directly to the district’s pay-for-performance system.

Teacher and principal evaluations are required in all Colorado school districts under 2010’s Senate Bill 191, also called the Educator Effectiveness Bill. Districts were allowed to adopt either the state’s teacher-evaluation program or create their own. DCSD is among six districts that designed its own.

Former Douglas County Board of Education president Kevin Larsen, who was on the board when the evaluation criteria and market salary system were implemented, said DCSD wanted to take a broader approach to using the new tool.

“Experience is generally going to make you better at your craft, and more education should translate, but a lot of studies have shown that just getting a master’s degree doesn’t necessarily produce the better teacher of a subject,” Larsen said. “The position of the board was that just getting those doesn’t automatically make you better at what you do. The idea is to find ways to measure what is happening and translating that experience and those skills into the kids learning better.”

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evaulation tool has six components for measuring teacher effectiveness: outcomes, assessment, instruction, culture and climate, professionalism, and student data. Each of those categories contains a number of standards with a subset of criteria — totaling 31 in all — against which teachers are evaluated, according to the district website. The state’s evaluation tool, by comparison, has five quality standards with a number of subsets totaling 27.

Based on self-evaluations, evaluations by administrators and other factors, such as use of the district’s Guaranteed Viable Curriculum — which specifies what students need to know and be able to do — each teacher is rated highly effective, effective, partially effective or ineffective.

Mary Lee taught sixth grade at Copper Mesa Elementary School in Highlands Ranch and spent 10 years in the district.

She resigned in January because of what she described as philosophical differences with the district.

The evaluation system for teachers “does not truly weigh ability and gives no credit for the gifts and talents of teachers,” Lee said. “No one can fit talent into a little box. You can’t find it on the drop-down menus or check it off from a list. It comes from within and the only way to measure it is to watch it work. That’s not happening in Douglas County School District.”

Lee contends the process can turn teachers against one another as they try to differentiate themselves in evaluations tied to pay increases.

“They feel like they have to hoard their work,” she said. “If they create something great, they don’t typically share it with others because it is what they will be evaluated for and they have to be credited for something.”

The process, teachers say, is also incredibly time-consuming, forcing them to use valuable time to document their work rather than create and plan inspiring, meaningful lessons for students.

Ann Herrell worked in the district for 30 years and was a professional learning specialist at Flagstone Elementary in Castle Rock when she retired in June 2014. She now works as an independent contractor, coaching and training teachers nationwide.

“During my last two years working in DCSD, I was rated highly effective and then effective in the final year,” she said. “I chose not to attempt to be rated highly effective when the CITE criteria changed and were even more vague. It was not worth my time to enter the endless documentation it would have required.”

Some teachers also say the work is not worth a raise that they describe as minimal.

Howard Wolsky came to the classroom after more than 20 years in mortgage banking.

He taught social studies for a year at Sierra Middle School in Parker before leaving for a charter school in the Jefferson County School District at the end of 2014. The logic of using a business model for pay in a school district poses problems, he said.

“I came to education from 23 years in business and fully comprehend pay for performance,” Wolsky said. “However, if someone in another industry

proves themselves to be a valuable resource in the business world, (the business) does not usually look to replace them with someone less experienced and less expensive. Companies value top production and reward it with top-of-the-scale compensation. DCSD can talk about their highly proficient tier, but that pay is nominally better.”

A look down the road Last November, Douglas County residents elected three new board members who campaigned in opposition to the seven-member board that had led the district since 2011 with a unified, conservative-minded reform approach. Although the board tends to split 4-3 in favor of the reform majority, philosophical differences are apparent in debates over issues before it.

Whether those differences — along with the departure of Fagen, who spearheaded the development of the initiatives and is leaving for the superintendent position in Humble, Texas — will affect market pay and the pay-for-performance evaluation metric remains to be seen.

In Jefferson County, the election of a new school board in November that opposed the previous conservative-minded board resulted in a return from a short-lived pay-forperformance model similar to Douglas County’s to its previous grid-like, step-and-lane system based on longevity and education, but with the significant addition of a pay-for-performance evaluation component. The change in direction was part of a five-year contract recently negotiated between Jeffco district and teachers’ union officials.

But some Douglas County board members said they did not expect any changes to the pay-for-performance system.

“I do expect continued, ongoing review and adjustment to the system going forward, as has been happening in the past, and is happening now,” board vice president Judith Reynolds said. “I support pay for performance and the continued efforts to improve the system.”

Board president Meghann Silverthorn agreed.

“Performance pay has been part of the DCSD compensation package for over two decades,” she said. “I don’t see this changing with a new superintendent.”

The school district began incorporating aspects of performance-based pay, such as goal-setting and professional development programs, in 1992 — with the support of the now-sidelined teachers’ union.

Silverthorn, however, said she is open to looking at how to improve the teacher-evaluation portion of the system.

“I’d like for the evaluation system to reach the point where principals have, in principle and in practice, the autonomy and flexibility to rate their teachers in a resultsoriented manner,” Silverthorn said. “We are working this summer to ensure that principals — those who know their teachers — are able to evaluate them without intrusive thirdparty interference. We must work with our school leaders to ensure that they are entrusted with the autonomy to evaluate and place their teachers.”

Board member David Ray, one of the newly elected members and a retired DCSD principal, said he also doesn’t foresee an immediate change to the pay-for-performance system.

“However, the fact that this

2015-2016 MERIT INCREASES

Effective July 1, 2016

Licensed Range position First third

HIGHLY EFFECTIVE 4.5 percent

EFFECTIVE 3.3 percent

PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE 1.4 percent

INEFFECTIVE 0 percent

Middle third

4.0 percent

2.8 percent

1.2 percent

0 percent

Final third

3.5 percent

2.3 percent

1.0 percent

0 percent

HIGHLY EFFECTIVE

EFFECTIVE

PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE

INEFFECTIVE

3.65 percent

2.75 percent

1.2 percent

0 percent

Admin/Pro/Tech/Classified

Source: Douglas County School District

How ratings and raises are connected

By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com District officials say the evaluation system allows teachers to take their pay into their own hands and incentivizes them by rewarding effort and excellent work.

But some teachers say the raises are marginal in comparison to other districts.

Teachers earn raises every year they are rated highly effective, effective or partially effective. For the 2015-16 school year, teachers rated highly effective earned a raise of 3.5 to 4.5 percent. Teachers evaluated as effective received a raise of 2.3 to 3.3 percent.

Partially effective teachers earned between 1 and 1.4 percent.

The difference in the amount of raise reflects a first, middle and third tier in each category that is tied to the overall point rating of the teacher.

Teachers rated highly effective receive an incremental raise as a percent increase of their salary. Raises for teachers rated effective or partially effective are given as a onetime lump sum only.

Teachers who are rated highly effective may also choose to submit evidence and work to be evaluated for each of the district’s nine-world class outcomes, which are rigorous outcomes based on the Colorado Academic Standards and require higher-level

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thinking. The names of each submission are redacted and a panel of teachers and administrators decide on a case-by-case basis if the application is worthy of an additional $500-per-outcome bonus.

Teachers rated ineffective do not receive raises, but are provided with feedback and resources to improve, said Brian Cesare, the district’s chief human resource officer.

The district has no cap on the number of raises or amount a teacher could continue to earn over the years, district officials said.

“We have people in the lowest band making $90,000 per year,” Cesare said.

But at some point, Cesare said, the district might have to consider capping salaries at $100,000 because the money for salaries is contingent on state dollars and varies each year.

Some teachers have said — and at least one principal has told his staff — that the district maintains a cap on the number of teachers who can be rated highly effective.

The district refutes these claims.

“Last year we had 20.4 percent of people highly effective,” Cesare said. The district has 3,362 teachers. “This is preliminary, and we don’t have the final numbers, but the early data shows that it is at 26 percent for this year (2015-16). So, it’s all criteria based.

There is no forced distribution or anything like that.”

I had an outstanding special education teacher in my building with three years experience who questioned why a newly hired teacher with no experience was making $8,000 more.”

is one of the most contentious issues for our teachers, a change has to be considered regardless of who is the superintendent,” Ray said. “The resolution to authentically and meaningfully survey our staff is scheduled to be conducted at the beginning of the school year. My hope is that this feedback will be the catalyst to overhaul our evaluation process to decrease the unacceptable percentage of staff turnover.”

As for the market pay structure, Reynolds said it has been positive for the district.

“I do believe there is benefit in differentiating jobs based on a number of factors, with scarcity being the most important of those. It is my understanding that it has been a successful strategy for filling more of the most difficult-to-fill positions,” Reynolds said. “Market-based pay and differentiation between jobs does not mean one educator is valued less than an-

Jerry Goings, former principal of Highlands Ranch High School

other, it is simply a reflection of how many other individuals are competing for that position.”

Board member Doug Benevento, however, seemed to acknowledge a need for higher pay when he recently announced he will propose a tax increase at the July 19 board meeting to help raise salaries for teachers. He has asked district Chief Financial Officer Bonnie Betts to compile data on mill levies and teacher salaries of eight districts similar to DCSD. “Based upon what I saw in those districts,” he said, “the tax increase would be for a ($28.9) million mill levy override to increase our teachers’ salaries to the average plus-1 percent.”

But Ray, a staunch opponent of market-based pay, believes it should be replaced entirely by a salary schedule “that rewards classroom experience, positive student growth, and attainment of advanced training and

education.”

Performance pay, he said, should be included as a bonus tier that compensates outstanding performance, taking on extra responsibility and achieving collaborative goals with other colleagues.

“Our current system compensates teachers based on the number of applicants there are for a specific position.

Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade teachers are paid less because there are more applicants for these positions,” Ray said. “Just because we have 100 applicants for third grade versus five applicants for first grade has nothing to do with whether our current third- and firstgrade teachers should be paid differently. Teachers should be paid based on their experience, skills and performance, not on whether their position has more or less applicants in the candidate pool.”

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SMFR buys building from town to keep reserve truck at the ready

By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com An unassuming cinder block-andconcrete building that had been used to store sand and road salt for the Douglas County School District will now house reserve fire engines for the South Metro Fire and Rescue Authority.

The building was owned by the town of Parker and the Douglas County School District. On June 6, town council approved the sale of its 88 percent share to South Metro Fire and Rescue for $77,352, giving the authority a convenient storage option when a vehicle needs a tune up or other maintenance.

The school district is in talks with South Metro to sell the remaining share.

“It got to be a little bit of a hassle,” Fleet Bureau Chief Brian Brown said, referring to the process of rotating vehicles between South Metro’s 17 stations for scheduled repairs, tests and upgrades.

Vince Turner, South Metro’s assistant chief of support services, said the purchase was an easy fix for the problem.

Brian Brown, left, and Randy Brighton talk about a “switch out,” a process of transferring equipment from one fire engine to another, on June 20. The South Metro Fire Rescue Authority recently purchased a storage facility to keep reserve engines close by. Photo by Tom Skelley “Storage space is always an issue,” he said. “This was an opportunity to buy an existing facility and use it to store emer-

gency apparatus on site.”

A reserve truck is dispersed to any district when one of its vehicles needs to

be in the garage at 17801 E. Plaza Drive. f Having the extra space means a reserve truck can be at the ready and out of the B elements. k The new storage building also allows more elbow room for the authority’s staff of maintenance technicians, who p are always busy testing, inspecting or S repairing the authority’s engines and ambulances as well as vehicles from t other local fire departments. d “There are only two things we can’t fix o here,” Brown said, looking around the garage. “We can’t fix a broken heart, or H the crack of dawn.” e As part of intergovernmental agreet ments with both districts, South Metro t has a mechanic on duty 24 hours a day, t seven days a week year-round to service C any vehicles from the Elizabeth and S Cunningham fire protection districts. m “It’s kind of like having AAA,” Brown p said.

The newly-bought building will need f a few repairs itself, mostly electrical refurbishing, according to Turner. But it a already has one occupant. w “The Judge,” a World War II-era crash f truck most Parker residents will recognize, went directly to the facility after its o annual appearance in the Parker Days parade. g

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A look ‘Behind the Mask’ Teen shares suicidal experience with other on weekly radio show

Douglas County offices will be closed on July 4 in observance of Independence Day. Many County services are available online at www.douglas.co.us

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A mission and a purpose “Connecting with other people was really huge for me,” she said. “Volunteering and getting out in the community.”

Volunteering with homeless groups and other organizations opened Perkins’ eyes to how her problems compared to those of others who were less fortunate.

“I didn’t know if it was a mission or a purpose at the time, I just knew that I didn’t want anyone else to go through what I felt,” she said. “It was a realization for me that a lot of others have to go through this and don’t have the (same) support.”

Perkins took it upon herself to provide that support.

She started a group at Sierra called “Be the Voice” for students to share their feelings and experiences. Soon after, she began writing a monthly column about bullying

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By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com At her lowest point, Cassandra Perkins thought she was the only person who understood the pain and darkness she felt.

Years later, as she sits in a broadcast studio in Aurora, she’s talked to a lot of people who have sought her out to say “me too.”

After attending a small private elementary school, Perkins decided to go to Sierra Middle School in Parker for seventh grade.

She was excited to be able to dress the way she wanted and express herself more openly, but that excitement turned to isolation and depression after some of her classmates began harassing and intimidating her.

“It was always negative and it was constant,” she said. “You don’t think words can affect you like that, but they get in your head and they start to mess around with things.”

Perkins had a supportive family and regularly visited the school’s counselor, but the bullying didn’t stop. An incident that stands out in her memory was being cornered and threatened in a locker room in eighth grade.

Soon after, at 14, Perkins attempted suicide.

“I tried to hang myself and the rope snapped,” she said.

Perkins said she realized she had hit bottom, and she began to look for a way to “pull (herself) back up.” She found support in her family, friends and counselors.

Even as she worked to bring herself out of depression, she realized she could bring others with her.

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Cassandra Perkins talks with a caller during her weekly radio show at KLDC in Aurora on June 21. Perkins has hosted the weekly show, “Behind the Mask,” since she was 17. Photo by Tom Skelley and cyber bullying, “Ask Cassie,” for BYou Magazine, a Centennial publication that focuses on self-esteem and empowerment for girls between 7 and 15.

“I was able to reach out and talk to kids and to have that similar ‘me too’ story, ‘I feel that too, that’s how I feel too,’” she said.

“That’s how the mission really started.”

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Taking to the airwaves Perkins’ mission became a personal crusade. In the five years since her suicide attempt, she has traveled around the United States, speaking to groups devoted to helping at-risk young women like Scars to Beauty, Young Women Lead and the California Women’s Conference. And for the last two years, Perkins has paid for and hosted a weekly radio show, “Behind the Mask,” every Tuesday at 10 a.m. on 95.3 FM and 1220 AM KLDC. The show is also streamed online at cassandraperkinsradio.com.

She got the idea for the show’s name c from a papier-mâché mask she made in a middle school, when her outlook on life T was less hopeful than it is now.

“We all wear this mask in life of how we want to be perceived and how we want peo-g ple to see us, that we’re perfect,” she said. w “But we come out from behind that and we b go beyond that … We talk about suicide, we i talk about struggles, we talk about every- a p thing.”

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And she knows it has helped save at least a T one listener’s life.

In April 2015, one of Perkins’ listeners T contacted her through Facebook after a b Radio continues on Page 11

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Accident survivor stays active on prosthetic legs Gym hosts fundraising event for Highlands Ranch woman

By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com On May 4, 2014, Kristin Hopkins had planned to be challenging herself at a Spartan Sprint obstacle course race.

Instead, she was taking a helicopter ride to St. Anthony Hospital after spending six days trapped in her Chevy Malibu, 80 feet off the side of Highway 285 near Fairplay.

Just over two years later, the 46-year-old Highlands Ranch mother of four completed her goal. It took her nearly five hours to run, climb and crawl her way through the steep, rocky course that wound its way through five miles of the range area at Fort Carson that made up the course for the Spartan Military Sprint on May 15. But she made it. And she made it running on two prosthetic legs.

Hopkins had both lower legs amputated following her crash in April 2014.

The crash and loss of her legs was a bump in the road for Hopkins as she worked to get in shape. She had registered for the race as way to kick-start her efforts.

“I was out of shape, I was fat, I just kind of needed motivation,” she said.

In the spring of 2013, Hopkins had begun working out, but going to traditional gyms was intimidating.

“You go to the gym and you’re overweight, you’re embarrassed, you cry before you go in the gym,” she said.

Hopkins got her prosthetic legs in June 2014. The gym that she worked out at donated personal training sessions, and she began lifting weights. She accompanied a friend to a Crossfit gym.

“I drank the Kool-Aid,” she said, referring to a common half-joking accusation that Crossfit is a cult.

The gym closed, and Hopkins began

Kristin Hopkins works out at Tour de Fit at F.I.T. Park Meadows on June 18. The event helped raise money for Hopkins to buy a set of prosthetic legs that will allow her to be more active. Photos by Kyle Harding working out at F.I.T. Park Meadows Crossfit in Lone Tree, finding that gym owner and trainer Nathan Lemon’s bootcamp-style workouts suited her.

“I use her as inspiration,” Lemon said.

“It’s a great way to tell people ‘yes, you can do this.’”

With Lemon’s help, Hopkins prepared for another chance at the Spartan Race.

She had planned to run it in 2015, but she didn’t feel ready yet.

Hopkins can’t do everything that is included in the gym’s WODs — workout of the day — because her prosthetics don’t flex. For instance, she can’t do full squats, a staple of Crossfit workouts. This also her on the Spartan course, making the downhill running sections especially difficult.

The race wasn’t easy while she was do-

Bill supports teenage students, businesses Measure funds grants for on-site job-training opportunities

By Alex DeWind adewind@coloradocommunitymedia.com High school students will now have more internship, apprenticeship and other job training opportunities following the passing of House Bill 1288, signed into law mid-June by Gov. John Hickenlooper.

State Sen. Jack Tate, R-Centennial, backed the bill, saying it bridges the gap between emerging high school graduates who need skills and businesses that have Tate a growing demand for skilled talent.

“The bill incentivizes industry to champion creating career opportunities and training for our next generation,” Tate said.

HB-1288 creates a public-private grant program within the state workforce development council for businesses — which is responsible for improving the workforce system — and their industry associations that provide on-site training for high school graduates.

The bill has a fund for providing grants and the state will match these grants to implement worksite apprenticeships and training programs, Tate said.

“The beauty of this approach,” Tate said in a media release, “is that it bridges the gap between emerging high

school graduates who need skills and businesses who have a growing demand for skilled talent.”

The Bill will also open a career path to high school graduates who may not be interested in attending a four-year college but still want to excel in the workforce.

The signing was hosted by Mikron Corporation, which develops, produces and markets automation and machining systems, at its 70,000-square-foot facility near Dove Valley and Centennial Airport.

Mikron initiated a student internship program as a model of the HB 1288 grant program.

“In attendance were five high school students from Cherry Creek Schools who are starting their technical careers as interns at Mikron,” a media release says.

The programs that will be developed are strongly aligned with the competency and skills that businesses are looking for, said Wendy Nkomo, chief operating officer of the Colorado Technology Association.

The Colorado Technology Association is a 600-person trade association that represents technology companies in Colorado, including AT&T, Universal Mind, Ping Identity, First Bank and Comcast.

“This bill is a public-private partnership,” Nkomo said, “and that’s really important because it will make for a stronger result.”

It’s not an education or corporate program — it’s a combination of the two that is mutually beneficial.

“These programs are competency based and competency driven,” Nkomo said, “based on what a student is learning in school and what a business is looking for in a job.”

ing it, and she felt it afterwards as well.

“My back, my knees, they told me ‘please don’t do this again,’” she said.

“I’ll do it again,” she clarifies. “I’ve already forgotten the pain.”

Hopkins is raising money to buy a more advanced set of prosthetics, not just in order to further her own workouts, but to become a personal trainer and help other disabled people realize their fitness potential.

“She’s really determined,” said Hopkins’ prosthetist, Zach Harvey of Creative Technology Prosthetics in Denver.

Harvey said that active patients are challenging because the fit of their prosthetics needs to be precise.

Hopkins’ quest for new legs was the beneficiary of the first of four charity

In 2014, Kristin Hopkins lost both lower legs after spending days trapped in her car following a crash. Now she does Crossfit workouts and has competed in a Spartan obstacle course race with the help of her prosthetic legs. events Lemon’s gyms are hosting. Tour de Fit, as it’s called, kicked off on June 18 at the Park Meadows location as dozens turned out for a friendly team competition.

The F.I.T. location in Thornton will host an event later this summer to benefit WOD for Water, an organization that uses workout events to raise funds for clean drinking water in poor countries. F.I.T. Loveland will host an event benefitting a local school lunch program. Lemon is still searching for a beneficiary for an event at his newest location, F.I.T. Littleton.

Hopkins is still working toward raising the $10,000 for her new prosthetics. She has a crowdfunding effort set up at www. gofundme.com/footlessgoddess.

At the June 18 event, about $3,000 was raised, Lemon said.

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Ask yourself: What’s the good word?

There are so many people who enjoy a good crossword puzzle, word search puzzle or unscrambling a word jumble. There are many folks who love a good play on words, an anagram, a pun or a great riddle. These word games and puzzles help keep our minds sharp and our creativity flowing.

As we know, words are extremely powerful. They can be powerfully positive and energizing or they can be powerfully destructive and hurtful. Words can be factual to help transfer knowledge and information or they can be used to mislead or manipulate situations and people.

There so many events happening in our own backyard as well as around the globe that leave people thinking about powerfully negative words. We hear people using powerfully negative words like fear, terror, frustration, anger, rage, road rage, hopelessness, doubt, worry, anxiety, cynical, hate, mad, racism, revenge and others that are equally as negative or damaging when we dwell on them or let them change who we are or how we treat other people, especially people closest to us.

Obviously we all deal with very real and difficult situations and sometimes those powerfully negative words are just expressing very real feelings, I totally get that and understand how that can sometimes happen.

Yet in a world filled with uncertainty and change, we need to take the time to refuel our minds and our hearts with those power-

fully positive words. We need to be deliberate in thinking beyond the fear, doubt and worry and instead focus our thoughts on the good, the possible and the hope for a better and brighter tomorrow.

Sounds too simple, doesn’t it, maybe even a little naïve? Maybe Michael Norton so, but stay with me WINNING on this and just try it.

Make a list of all the WORDS positive and powerful words that you can think of, words that you may already have committed to your own personal word bank. Keep this list in a visible place, place copies of the lists around your house, your office, your car. Share the lists or even one word at a time with your family, your friends or your co-workers — even when, or especially when, they are using their own negative word banks.

I like to leave one-word notes around the house or send one-word texts or emails from time to time. I just simply write or type words like faith, love, hope, encouragement, kindness, truth, happiness, thanks, blessings, appreciated, grateful, forgiveness, success, opportunity, commitment, passion, purpose, XOXO, belief, special, goodness, sunshine, excellence, fantastic, joy, flourish-

ing, achievement, accomplishment, driven or any other powerfully positive words that may come into my mind. I write them down and put them in a visible place, or sometimes a hidden place where they can be found later. Or I quickly type it out and hit send.

The initial thought may be that I am doing this for the benefit of others, those who receive my encouraging words. But the reality is this, I am the biggest beneficiary of constantly, and consistently, using and sharing these very powerful and positive words each and every time I write them down, type them out, or allow myself to be deliberate in my thoughts. If we are not deliberate in thinking about the good, the possible and the hope for a better tomorrow, it’s just too easy to go along for the ride on the rollercoaster of negativity, up one side of a big problem and down the other side into the valley.

So how about you? What are your favorite words or what are those powerfully positive words you use to recharge your positive attitude and belief in the good and the possible?

I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we use the right words and the right time, it really will be a better than good week.

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Results of overtime rule might be ironic The most important thing to know about the Obama administration’s new overtime rule is that it has now disrupted or voided the arrangements 73,000 Coloradans had with their employers.

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Would that life worked so simply. It is worth noting that to explain its new rule, DOL used two cartoon characters, Sam and Mattie, not two human beings. Sam, the voice-over explains, will “have more of his own time” to do the things he likes.

“Sure, you might not make more money, but think of all the free time you’ll have to look for a second job,” noted Noah Rothman in Commentary magazine with bull’seye irony.

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Reaction to Philadelphia’s tax on soda is a big gulp Writer’s block is a myth, unless you are a writer. I mean a real writer. A writer of books.

Books are marathons.

Laura Hillenbrand holed up for a year to write “Seabiscuit: An American Legend.”

Then what? The pressure is on to do it again.

That’s not for me. I write the equivalent of a 50-meter dash three or four or five times a week.

Then one is chosen for publication.

I sometimes wish you could see what isn’t chosen. My editor is wiser than I am, and knows that I might shutter the paper with some of my ideas.

I read the news and watch the news and pluck.

There were so many topics today that I wrote them on cards and threw them in the air.

One landed face up.

It wasn’t the one with “Orlando” written on it. Or the Broncos’ off-season theme song, “Show Me the Money.”

It had “Philadelphia soda tax” on it.

Philadelphia has decided to tax sodas at a rate of 1.5 cents per ounce. A 12-ounce can or bottle will be taxed 18 cents.

Taxing sodas will generate about $90 million. It will go to good causes, to pay for

pre-kindergarten, for example.

I never went to kindergarten. I was home-crayoned.

The reason why I wrote “Philadelphia soda tax” on a card in the first place is because I drink the stuff.

The tax is inCraig Marshall Smith tended to cut down on the consumpQUIET tion of sugary DESPERATION drinks.

My sugary drink does not contain sugar. I drink diet soda. My nonsugary, sugary drink contains aspartame, an artificial sweetener.

According to one website, “Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.”

Wonderful.

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Bike

Sarah Nielsen of South Suburban Parks and Recreation slices apples for the morning ride.

In addition to fresh fruit, the first 50 riders received a coupon for a free pint at the Lone Tree Brewing Company Bike Party on the evening of June 22.

Photo by Rick Gustafson

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broadcast, indicating that he wanted to cut his wrists. Perkins found his personal information through his Twitter account and contacted police and, after three hours of communicating with the man, law enforcement reached him and took him to a hospital.

Just as she took the listener at his word about his suicide plan, Perkins said it’s critically important for everyone to listen to a friend or family member who says they’re having suicidal thoughts.

“If someone’s actually talking about

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If you think this increase only fair, think again.

“Entry-level management positions are going to disappear, and those employees will fall back to hourly jobs,” said Juanita Duggan, president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business.

“Obviously, that means higher costs for millions of small businesses regardless of whether they’re making more sales, generating more revenue or dealing with other rising expenses. Many are struggling now, and they’ll have to make tough choices that might affect the very same workers the Department of Labor thinks it’s helping.”

Added NFIB’s senior legal counsel, Beth Milito: “Struggling small-business owners can’t afford to pay more in overtime pay just because the Department of Labor says they should. Businesses can only afford more in payroll if they increase revenue, something the government is powerless to make happen. Most small-business owners will have to limit employees’ hours and career opportunities.”

But then, Duggan and Milito would say that, wouldn’t they? That is the tone taken

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fountain-fresh on the way home from my grandmother’s house near Flint. It was nectar, and I was hooked on soda.

I have cut back on my non-sugary, sugary drink. Water seems like a good option.

As you might guess, sugary drink manufacturers are not happy about this development in Philadelphia.

But what if the soda doesn’t contain sugar? Then it becomes a question of what is and isn’t a soda.

Carbonation might be the difference between a soda and other sweetened beverages.

More than 68 percent of the adults in Philadelphia are overweight or obese, so there are understandable concerns about the causes.

Sodas aren’t the only villains.

A Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich contains 620 calories or more.

I did some checking. The smallest soda offered at a Philadelphia Phillies game, 20

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Co. after work. In all, more than 148 riders stopped at the station between 6:30 and 9 Wednesday morning.

Szatkowski said it was the first time he had made the 17-mile commute on his bicycle and hoped to ride to work again when it is practical.

The C-470 station was organized by the city along with Lone Tree businesses the Lone Tree Brewing Company, Starbucks, Safeway, Costco, Target, RidgeGate and the South Suburban Parks and Recreation District.

Nationwide Insurance sponsored a second breakfast station at the Lincoln light rail station in Lone Tree.

“Lone Tree is committed to it and telling you that they want to kill themselves, it’s them literally saying ‘save me, help me,’” she said. “If someone has that strength to open up to you … don’t shut them down because they may never open up again.”

Reach back to a happy point Despite becoming an expert on the subject, Perkins said she isn’t immune from recurring bouts of depression. She said people who know her often assume she “has it all figured out,” but that isn’t the case.

“We all have down days,” she said.

“When it starts to consume you is when it becomes a serious problem.”

The key to overcoming depression and keeping it from spiraling out of conby The New York Times in an editorial praising the new overtime rule. “They (employer groups) have said that employers will cut base pay if forced to pay overtime, but that appears to be an idle threat.”

Had, however, the Times editorial board read more than its section that day, it would have come across a story by their reporter, Sarah Max, who analyzed the options available to employers: “They (employers) could even cut the base salaries of those who regularly work more than 40 hours ...”

Across the political divide from the Times, The Wall Street Journal put it right on the money: “The irony is that salaried workers will enjoy less personal flexibility once they have to record their hours, and those who become hourly wage hands will receive even less.”

Indeed, as business owner Kelli Glasser put it in Max’s Times report, “If somebody needs to pick up a sick kid or go to a doctor’s appointment, we let them do it because we know that at some point they’ll make up for it. Once you start tracking hours, all that changes.” Added businessman Lior Rachmany in the same article, “I think you get a better product when people are paid a salary. When a person knows there is a task to get done, it will get done, not on the clock.” Rachmany, reports Max, ounces, is $4.

(The smallest soda offered at a Los Angeles Dodgers game, 24 ounces, is $6.)

That means that a Citizens Bank Park soda will go up by 30 cents, at least.

Why point the finger at soft drinks?

What about pie?

What about cake and ice cream? Candy and cookies and doughnuts? Breakfast cereals?

Someone said, “Soda is the tobacco of the 21st century.”

There were ways around Prohibition.

There will be ways around this too.

A soda underground will bubble up in Philadelphia.

Families will head to Upper Darby to load up on Squirt.

I had a dream that I drowned in an ocean of orange soda, but it turned out to be a Fanta sea.

Imagine Rodney Dangerfield, tugging on his tie. “I’m telling you. This new tax. It’s soda pressing.”

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

the effective use of multimodal transportation,” said volunteer David Lawful, a member of the Lone Tree Citizens Recreation Advisory Committee. “The city is helping with things like expanding light rail and adding new bike lanes.”

The two Bike to Work breakfast stations and three bike party stations in Lone Tree were among 318 stations statewide.

For the rest of the country, Bike to Work Day is part of the observance of National Bike Month held on May 20, but unpredictable spring weather throughout Colorado prompted the state Legislature to create Colorado Bike Month in June and Bike to Work Day on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

According to Way to Go, a Denver Regional Council of Governments program, 19,112 people throughout the state registered for the event.

trol, she said, is to start small.

“I think a good first step is to find your passion,” she said. She mentions what worked for her most recent guest, musician Tyler Williams.

“Reach back to a point when you were happy in your life … If you were happy doing theater, go get involved in a theater program, if you were happy doing art, go get involved in an art program …

Just do the things that feel good for you.”

Perkins said the experience will not only reconnect someone with what they love, it will provide opportunities for personal connections with others with shared interests, creating a support system that may not have been there before.

Another suggestion Perkins has is to

do what she did — volunteer. For one thing, Perkins said helping less fortunate people made her aware of the positive aspects of her life she lost sight of when she was depressed. Another benefit, she said, is that it just feels good to help others.

“You realize how fortunate you are and how good you really have it,” she said. “And it makes you feel so good to help someone else. It’s a win-win.”

Counseling and speaking on a heavy topic like suicide may seem too heavy a task for a 19-year-old, but Perkins said it’s her passion. She was granted a second chance, she said, and she has a purpose to keep others from getting to the point she did.

“Ropes just don’t snap,” she said.

“said he would probably end up hiring more entry-level employees and minimizing overtime pay for his affected salaried employees.”

Finding real-life portrayers for DOL’s overtime script after Dec. 1 will be a most

difficult casting call. Watch for Sam and Mattie the sequel.

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June 30, 2016

CULTURE FA I T H FA M I L Y FOOD HEALTH

Old-fashioned approach Players in local food movement return to healthier connection

By Shanna Fortier sfortier@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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s the locally produced and grown food movement continues to gain traction in Colorado, bison rancher Neil Fischer wants to make it easier for residents to buy meat directly from ranchers.

“We looked at the landscape of organically and sustainably raised food and there is not great access from the farm to the consumer,” Fischer said.

That’s why in 2014 he and his wife, Teresa, launched The Farm2Table LLC Trading Post, a network of farmers, ranchers, local artisans and locals who buy direct. The model offers direct consumer distribution through an online marketplace — www.farm2tabletradingpost.com — and a year-round mobile market.

The mobile market is in Parker inside the Parker Garage restaurant on Mainstreet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m on Sundays and in Castle Rock in front of Briccy’s Coffee on Wilcox Street from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursdays. Fischer hopes to expand the Parker market to three days a week over the summer.

The Castle Rock market opened in May and resident Monika Wilmer couldn’t be happier.

“It’s fresh meat, fresh food and I just love it,” said Wilmer, who tries to buy chicken and farm-fresh eggs every week.

“There’s something about chickens straight from the farm.”

Wilmer moved to the U.S. from Poland 10 years ago and had been searching for farm-fresh meat and produce to help combat stomach problems she recently developed.

“Since I came to America, my stomach stared freaking out,” she said. “So I started reading labels and found out there’s sugar in everything we eat.”

Fischer said Wilmer’s story is not unique.

“There’s such a disconnect today for people and their foods,” he said. “With the increase of obesity, diabetes and many different forms of food allergies in kids today, people are asking `why?’ If it’s not in what we’re eating in commercial food, then what is it? People are looking to know the source of their food to know what the ingredients are.”

Fischer’s solution to eating healthier is knowing your farmer. Marcus McCauley, of the McCauley Family Farm in Longmont, supports that notion, too.

Neil Fischer is hoping to change the way Coloradans eat by offering local, grass-fed meat. Photo by Shanna Fortier

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“There’s no certification that can substitute for knowing your farmer and who is growing your food,” said McCauley, whose farm grows fresh produce and raises chickens. “And that’s what the local food movement really recognizes and embraces.”

One distributor who is embracing the local movement is CharcutNuvo, a premium sausage manufacturer owned by fourth-generation Swiss sausage master Eric Cutknecht. The Denver-based company makes sausage in natural casings from premium cuts of meat, including beef, bison, elk, “jackalope” (rabbit, pork

and antelope) and wild boar.

The proteins are sourced within 500 miles of Denver and are humanely and sustainably raised on family farms, Roelke said. Fruits and vegetables used in the sausage are organic. No nitrates or chemicals are used.

“Sausage has always had a stigma, but transparency is one of our core values,” said John Roelke, sales manager for CharcutNuvo. “We want people to know what goes into their sausage. We think it’s really important for the health of our country that we don’t use chemicals.”

CharcutNuvo sausages can be found at Whole Foods, Costco and Biker Jim’s and, this year, their bratwurst and Polish sausage are featured at Coors Field. They also are sold at Fischer’s Trading Post.

The company’s way of making sausage is not new, Roelke said. Rather it’s bringing food back to the old days, which is what Fischer is targeting with the Trading Post.

“Part of the idea of us being a trading post is going back,” Fischer said. “Our way of raising food is not new, it’s very old. I want to make a point with kids today that this isn’t a new food movement, this is how our grandparents ate — no

McCauley Family Farm in Longmont offers volunteer days so consumers can get more connected with their food. Courtesy photo

processed foods.”

In the two years Farm2Table LLC Trading Post has been operating, it has grown from a dozen farms and ranches to more than 30 that contribute on a regular basis. All are from Colorado.

“We coordinated with different ranches to provide products, so it’s not just one person with 12 cows trying to feed the public,” Fischer said. The cooperative now carries more than 100 meat items. “There’s no one that has this collection of meat, and it’s because most of us don’t make enough to sell to a King Soopers.”

In addition to the online store and mobile marketplace, the cooperative recently started a monthly buyers club, which offers 10 different meat boxes, offering 100 shares of each box.

“I think at the end of the day a lot of people think this is really cool, but they haven’t changed their habits of just going to the grocery store and buying meats for food,” Fischer said. “So, until people vote with their dollar, not much is going to change in our food system. It’s the actual involvement of buying your groceries from the local family farm that makes all the difference.”

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June 30, 2016

Nonprofit gives hope to homeless Less fortunate Douglas County students receive scholarships

Douglas County may be one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, but it isn’t immune from homelessness.

Despite being named the eighth-richest county in the country by Forbes magazine in 2014, last year 910 students in Douglas County schools met the criteria for homelessness.

Joe Roos wants those students to know someone believes in them.

“Our intention is to remove any barriers a homeless student would face that would prevent them from getting a post-second-

ary education,” Roos said.

In 2015, Roos founded Hide in Plain Sight, a nonprofit that provides college scholarships to homeless Douglas County students with at least a 3.0 GPA and a desire to pursue post-secondary education.

Three $3,000 scholarships were distributed last year, and this year five students received $3,000 awards. On June 16, the group held a reception at the Castle Pines Chamber of Commerce to celebrate this year’s recipients and look forward to their future.

“We’ve already had success in our first year,” Roos said, mentioning one recipient from 2015 who now has an internship at Disney.

Roos said his hope for Hide in Plain Sight’s future is to “spread the vison statewide” in the next five to seven years.

Scholarship arrangements with Arapahoe Community College and the Emily Griffith Technical College are in place, and Roos said more students will be able to attend those schools as a result.

The group raised $50,000 through fundraisers, donations and grants, and the state contributed a matching grant. The funds will be used for three disbursements of scholarships in the coming year, and Roos expects Hide in Plain Sight to expand its reach to Denver, Arapahoe, Adams and Jefferson counties.

He said the group is also adding a motto: Helping Our Puipls Excel, an acronym he thinks is perfectly suited to its goal.

“We want to provide hope,” he said.

This year’s five recipients of Hide in Plain Sight scholarships share their stories:

Damian Von Frank, 18, Castle Rock What are the circumstances around your homelessness?

“About two years ago I moved from Wisconsin to North Carolina to live with my mother. We lived in a house where people were doing drugs around me.”

Von Frank slept on couches as he and his mother bounced around a few different homes. In one, they stayed with one of his mother’s friends who died of an overdose while they were staying there. In another, Von Frank’s mother’s cousin, who had been physically abusing her, pulled a gun on him.

Von Frank realized he wouldn’t stop moving anytime soon and he enrolled in an online high school. In 2015, Von Frank moved across the United States to stay with his girlfriend and her family in Castle Rock.

“I found out about Hide in Plain Sight around January or February. I got an email from Mr. Roos about getting eyeglasses. I can’t even remember the last time I had had an eye exam, so I went in and got an eye exam and I got glasses.”

What do people need to understand about being homeless?

“For me it’s not like living on the street and begging for money. Being homeless is more like being helpless … Being 16 or 17 you don’t have the means or the money to take care of yourself … Fortunately, along the way I’ve found good people, second cousins, first cousins, aunts and uncles that let me sleep on their couches.”

What are your plans and outlook for the future?

“I’ll probably work my job another month, month and a half. I promised my mother I’d visit her before starting school, so I’ll visit her in North Carolina then go to Orlando to see my grandparents. Then college starts in August.”

Von Frank will attend the University of Tampa, majoring in international business and marketing.

“I think I now have the means to have a really bright future.”

Kyle Gallup, 18, Parker What are the circumstances around your homelessness?

“I grew up in Larkspur and moved to Parker in 2012 … My dad ended up leaving, so it was just me, my mom and my brother.

Then my mom was diagnosed with a condition somewhere between MS and transverse myelitis. It makes it difficult for her to work and for her to hold down a job …

We were evicted from our house in 2012 and moved into an apartment. Then we were evicted from the apartment, then we were evicted from that apartment.”

Gallup and his family went from house to house, staying in family friends’ basements. He started working at 15 to help pay for gas, bills and food for his family.

What do people need to understand about being homeless?

“As a society, when we think of homelessness we think of people on Colfax with signs asking for money, but that’s not the only picture frame that you can look through… As a kid, I didn’t even realize I was homeless, there was always somewhere for us to go, we weren’t on the street. Now I realize that one thing could happen and I would be there …

What homelessness is, is not having your own place to call home.”

What are your plans and outlook for the future?

Gallup will leave Colorado in late July to attend the University of Hawaii and play quarterback for the school’s football team. He plans to major in business.

“I plan on riding the wheels of football until they fall off,” he said.

“It’s kind of like a 360-degree spin for me … I didn’t think there was much hope for me, then I realized there were people out there who would help me….

Now I want people to hear my story and know what homelessness looks like, and that there are people out there, even though you may not know them, that genuinely want to help you.”

Jessica Reedy, 19, Castle Rock What are the circumstances around your homelessness?

“My mom had a boyfriend who moved in with us, then they got married and (there were) drug problems, alcohol abuse and some situations that weren’t quite right. She worked at night and wasn’t home, (I had to) lock my door every night … It was just a really unsafe environment … I just decided I couldn’t do it anymore. About a week after they got married, I moved out.”

Reedy moved in with a friend and her family during her sophomore year at Douglas County High School and stayed there until graduation.

“They were the only people who knew what was actually going on,” she said.

What do people need to understand about being homeless?

“I don’t think of having a home as just having a place to live, I think of it as having the love and the nurturing, caring relationships, people who support you and are there for you. Sometimes without that, it makes life difficult. It makes you grow up faster because you have to do all of that for yourself. Even though you may not be on the street, you’re supporting yourself … You’re learning to do it on your own because nobody’s teaching you.”

What are your plans and outlook for the future?

“I want to be a criminal profiler. I want to get my degree in psychology and forensics, that’s what I’m looking at now, a double major, and ultimately a doctorate in psychology.”

Reedy just got her first apartment in Colorado Springs, where she will attend the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs in the fall. Being awarded the scholarship, she says, has allowed her to stop worrying about trying to pay for school and focus on what she’ll be studying. Reedy said that, for her, the award isn’t just about paying tuition.

“It makes me really happy that I feel like other people believe in me too, it’s not just myself, and that I have somebody behind me kind of going ‘hey, we’re behind you’ …

It just really makes me happy.”

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Joe Roos, founder of Hide in Plain Sight, addresses attendees at the group’s award ceremony at the Castle Pines Chamber of Commerce on June 16. Roos told recipients that he and other members of the group believe in them. Photo by Tom Skelley

Wyatt Kuehster, 19, Castle Rock What are the circumstances around your homelessness?

“I’m living in an apartment on my own in Castle Rock.”

Due to family conflicts, Kuehster moved out of his parents’ house and started out on his own last year.

His parents help pay for food and expenses, but he makes ends meet by teaching trumpet lessons and tutoring math.

What do people need to understand about being homeless?

“Homelessness, I guess, just means that there isn’t really a place for you anywhere.”

What are your plans and outlook for the future?

“I’m going to go to the University of Alabama and study math and physics and music. I’m just going to go to college for as long as I possibly can and figure out something to do (for a career) afterwards.”

Kuehster said he went through a period of depression while he was finishing high school and living on his own, but a school counselor helped him get through it. He graduated as valedictorian of Douglas County High School.

“It just makes me feel a lot less stressed about going to college … I’m not worried that I’m going to be in debt the rest of my life.”

Alokik Nayyar The fifth Hide in Plain Sight scholarship recipient, Alokik Nayyar, was in Canada at the time of the ceremony and was unavailable for an interview. In an email, Nayyar said he came to the United States from India on his own and supported himself during high school.

Nayyar will attend the University of Colorado-Boulder in the fall, majoring in computer science. His scholarship, he said, will be like “food to a ravenous person.”

Nayyar said he hopes to graduate and find a career that will allow him to help others the way Hide in Plain Sight helped him.

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‘Incomplete is complete’ for visual artist A moment in time with painter Tadashi Hayakawa

TADASHI HAYAKAWA Tadashi Hayakawa, one of four children, was born in Tokyo in 1941 and began painting in elementary school. His father singled him out and insisted he pursue art because his own parents had forbidden him from doing so.

By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com The painter sits in an armchair on a drop cloth spattered with drops of dark paint like a negative impression of a night sky. He stares at the canvas standing 10 feet before him, alternately squinting and relaxing his eyes, searching for his vision in the streaks and shapes of oil.

Suddenly, all in one motion, he stands and strides forward.

His brush, already in his outstretched hand, pulls him to the canvas as an excited child pulls a parent along a sidewalk to show them some new and fascinating thing.

The brushstrokes come in quick, noisy bursts, shaking the tripod that holds the work in place. The sound of bristles scraping against the canvas, like a cat scratching at a door, drowns out the noise from the world outside the studio.

Once every minute, he takes four steps back, looking intently at the section of the piece he’s just worked on, and looking ahead to the area he’ll go next.

After a few seconds, he retraces his steps exactly back to the canvas.

An unseen yet tangible connection exists between Tadashi Hayakawa and his work — a tether that pulls him back each time he drifts away.

Streaks, swirls and lines spread across the piece like barely-formed storm clouds, pushed and dragged along by a divine hand. The process —

After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Otis Art Institute in 1969, Hayakawa became a graphic artist. He made good money, but the work left him unfulfilled.

“I realized that if I died today, I wouldn’t know why I was born,” he says, “because I wasn’t happy with what I was doing.”

Tadashi Hayakawa focuses on his work at the Deep Space Gallery in Parker. Hayakawa hosts an informal painting session each Monday in the building where other budding artists are welcome to work and collaborate. Photos by Tom Skelley retreating, returning, swiping and stroking the brush, creating forms and lines out of a glob of paint — repeats itself again and again for more than an hour.

The final time he steps away from the canvas his face changes from squinting skepticism to a wide-eyed smile.

“Ah,” bursts from his lips. He knows the work is finished.

“To me this one is done. I have just expressed the excitement of being alive,” he says, bringing his arms to his chest then raising them into the air as he says the words.

He is asked how he knows when a painting is completed.

He closes his eyes as he speaks, then slowly, deliberately, explains the unfinished quality of his work.

Hayakawa applies the finishing touches to his latest work at the Deep Space Gallery in Parker on June 20. Hayakawa says too many artists “explain” every stroke of their work whereas, for his work, “incomplete is complete.”

“Many artists explain every brushstroke, but this doesn’t leave any breathing room for the imagination,” he says. He paraphrases Einstein, who once said “imagination is more important

than knowledge.”

“In art, imagination is more important than technique,” he says.

“For me, incomplete is complete.”

In 1992, he divorced and quit working as a graphic artist to seriously pursue fine art.

“My financial situation decreased but my happiness increased,” he says.

Health problems led to a premonition in 2006 and, fearing he didn’t have many years left, Hayakawa put all of his energy into a large exhibit, his first major show, in 2011.

“A miracle” happened after that exhibit, he says.

“Suddenly, I became so relaxed and so happy. Now every day is happy.”

Hayakawa feels like he is “living on bonus time,” and his art is an expression of gratitude.

“Basically, my art is an expression of my appreciation for being alive, my belief in peace, harmony and love.”

Hayakawa holds an open painting session every Monday at the Deep Space Workplace and Event Center. The informal session is open to six people per week for a $10 fee and an RSVP is required.

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June 30, 2016 Debbie Brewer Binkley, concierge at the Wind Crest retirement community, has published a children’s book, “Brown Paper and a Piece of String.” Courtesy photo

South Suburban will light up summer nights

Children’s book stems from father’s message

Youth programs • Summer Night Games: Thursday nights, 8-9 p.m. at Sweetwater Park (Lone Tree). Ages 7-12. $35/$50 for the whole summer.

• Friday Nite Extreme: First Friday of the month at Family Sports Center, 6:30-10:30 p.m. Laser tag, climbing wall, bumper cars, ice skating and more. Ages 6-13. $12/$14.

• Kid’s Nite Out: Every Saturday at the Buck Center, 7-10:30 p.m. Have fun, make friends, win prizes. Ages 7-14. $15.

• Parents’ Night Out: Third Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m., Goodson Center. Enjoy a night out while the kids are safe and entertained with gymnastics, obstacle course, tumbling, more. Ages 5-12. $15-18; $20-$23.

Plenty of activities ready for participants of all ages Staff report Colorado’s summer nights are especially inviting — come out and play! South Suburban Parks and Recreation District has consolidated a listing of appealing programs in South Platte Park and elsewhere for families — some free, most with a modest fee. Some will surely appeal! Go online to ssprd.org or call 303-798-5131.

• Nature: Perseid meteor shower Aug. 12, 8-10 p.m. Carson Nature Center. Watch meteors, stargaze, understand connections with the solstice and equinox. $5-$8 resident, 7-$12 non-resident, $24 resident family, $32 non-resident family.

• Full moon walks throughout the year. Pre-register.

• Conjunction Campfire: Aug. 27, 7 to 9 p.m. A celestial conjunction of Venus and Jupiter just after sunset. The two planets will appear to be close together and will shine brightly as a pair, with Mars in tow. Campfire with s’mores and popcorn after the park is closed. Price same as Perseid meteor shower.

• Concerts: Hudson Gardens Concerts Sundays through Sept. 11, plus July 4. Rock, classics, blues, country, Motown, comedy. Ticket prices vary. See HudsonGardens.org for tickets.

• Art: Family Creativity Workshops July 18, Aug. 15 at the Creativity Lab, Sheridan Rec Center. All ages. $10/$11.

Wind Crest concierge was inspired by traditional holiday sermon Staff report Debbie Brewer Binkley, a Highlands Ranch resident and concierge at the Wind Crest retirement community, has published her first children’s book, called “Brown Paper and a Piece of String.”

Set in the 1930s, it was inspired by a message that her pastor father, Dr. Fred V. Brewer, preached every year from 1955 until his last Christmas in 2010.

“Brown paper is so plain, not used for special occasions. In fact, it was used for everyday ordinary things—to carry purchases from the general store and to wrap messy garbage like old coffee grounds.

It sometimes ended up in the compost heap to help

with the decomposition process.

“So why is there a brown paper package sitting under the Christmas tree with all the beautiful packages wrapped in fine, colorful paper and ribbon? Frankie was intrigued. Little did he know the importance of the plain brown paper package and he was horrified when he discovered its recipient …”

Brinkley has been involved in children’s ministry in Texas, Hawaii, California, Virginia and Colorado.

Together with her husband, Verle Binkley, she recently started Binks Books LLC “to share with others God’s wonderful gifts of hope and life.”

She and her husband of 46 years have three adult children and two grandchildren.

The illustrations are by Alabama resident J. Gail Aldridge, and are created with chalk and colored pencil as a tribute to the author’s mother, who was an accomplished chalk artist and illustrator.

Golf • Nite Golf: Selected Fridays at Littleton and South Suburban golf courses. Play with glow-in-the-dark balls. Call the pro shops to reserve a week in advance. Littleton: July 8, 22; Aug. 5, 19; Sept. 2. South Suburban Golf Course: July 1, 15, 29; Aug. 12, 26, Sept. 9.

• Glow Ball: Thursday nights 8-10 p.m., mini golf at Colorado Journey Miniature Golf Course. Regular price plus $1 per person.

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Irish Festival features food, music and fun Clement Park is site for annual celebration

Irish dancers come in all sizes to perform and compete at the Colorado Irish Festival on July 8-10 at Clement Park.

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IF YOU GO The 22nd annual Irish Festival runs July 8-10 at Clement Park, Bowles and Wadsworth, west of Littleton in Jefferson County. Tickets: (12 and under free each day; a Paddy ‘O VIP is available each day at higher price) July 8 $10; July 9 $13/$11; July 10 $13/$11. No dogs, except service dogs. (List of local kennels provided.) No outside food or beverages, marijuana, coolers, pets, roller skates, skateboards, bicycles.

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Gates are open at 5 p.m. July 8 at Clement Park and the Moxie Strings will strike the first note on the Clontarf Stage at 5:15. It’s the 2016 Irish Festival and thousands of Irish and wannabe Irish folks will enjoy a weekend of all things from that Emerald Isle: music, dance, food, drink, storytelling, special athletic events … and big, long-legged, sweet-tempered Irish wolfhounds.

Volunteers are sought for miscellaneous jobs — see the website for contacts.

At 5:30 on July 8, the Wick School of Dance Irish dancers will begin their intricate highstepping on the Main Stage, followed by a Welcome ceremony at 6 p.m.; the Screaming Orphans from 6:30-7:45 and the High Kings from 8:30-9:45. On the Clontarf Stage, Indigent Row plays 7-8:15 p.m. and Wild Mountain from 8:45-9:45.

On July 9, gates open at 10 a.m. and remain open until 10 p.m.,

with Bedlam Boys Irish Dance from 11 a.m.-noon, Mice in a Mug from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then bands continuing through the day. Visitors can also enjoy food and drink, a cultural tent, Irish harpists, Gaelic football (men’s and women’s); Gaelic hurling for men and camogie (for women.)

And they have an opportunity to meet some Irish wolfhounds.

July 10 begins with a Mass from 8:30 to 9:10 a.m. (free admission), followed by musical acts and other activities, including athletics, until 6:45 p.m.

The festival is handicappedaccessible on sidewalks and grass. No skateboards or bicycles admitted. Strollers and small lawn chairs welcome.

The 2016 headliners are: • The High Kings, Ireland’s Folk Band of the Year — multi-instrumentalists who each grew up in

an Irish music family.

• The Elders are a six-piece band rooted in Americana and Celtic folk rock.

• The Mahones are a 26-yearold band, formed on St. Patrick’s Day, 1990, recognized for their own brand of Irish punk and 10 successful albums. Featured in the Academy Award-winning film, “The Fighter.”

• The Moxie Strings, which will perform each day, combine a fiddler, cellist and drummer/percussionist in a combination of Celtic and Americana music.

• The Screaming Orphans are four sisters raised in County Donegal, where they played and sang traditional music and were able to form a contemporary band.

Eleven other bands will share the stages with these headliners.

‘On the Road’ exhibit carries viewers away

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com Best of Show in the new Depot Art Gallery exhibit “On the Road,” is Jennifer Riefenberg’s small pastel painting, “Road Grader.” Juror Chris Ilitis chose a colorful, appealing work that is about the basics of building or maintaining a road as his first choice, then went on to other vacation memories in the exhibit that will be at the Depot in Littleton until July 31.

“Painterly Pickup,” a shiny manipulated photo by Peggy Dietz, won the blue First Place ribbon. Second Place went to oil painter Sheila Marie for her “Torry Casa,” and photographer Joe Bonita’s charming “Najac, French Country Town” took Third Place. Watercolorist Jane Wing won an Honorable Mention for her delicate “Disap-

pearing Road.”

During a short visit, imagination can carry the viewer from Colorado’s mountains, lakes and canyons to a weathered farm in Walsenburg — in the subdued colors one sees there. Or, travel from a Southwestern American desert rock formation to narrow old cobblestone streets in Italy and France.

Where do they lead a walker? Perhaps to small plazas with a bubbling fountain, potted geraniums and laundry blowing in the breeze outside upstairs windows.

A Venetian gondola awaits passengers and a street market awaits shoppers …

A selection of pottery, jewelry and small unframed artworks is always available for gift buyers. A really imaginative, one-of-a-kind doll, “Girl With a Monkey,” by Julie Anderson, would interest a collector and small pottery items might be useful for outdoor summer entertaining that Coloradans enjoy on balmy summer evenings.

IF YOU GO The Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave. in Littleton, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is free. 303-795-0781.

Volunteer Littleton Fine Arts Guild members operate the gallery in a vintage Santa Fe Railroad Depot that once served Littleton with freight and passenger services.

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“Road Grader,” a pastel painting by Jennifer Riefenberg, was named Best of Show in the “On The Road” travelthemed exhibit at the Depot Art Gallery. Courtesy photo

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History Owner Scott Megan started Motospa in 2006, seeking to connect Castle Rock drivers with a service worthy of their cars. Though many people look at Motospa’s gleaming and immaculate facilities and assume it’s part of a big chain, it’s still independently owned and operated.

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June 30, 2016

Backpacks hold key to great outdoors On May 20, 296 libraries throughout Colorado received a pair of backpacks, filled with a state parks pass hangtag, set of binoculars, a variety of outdoor Colorado guides, a state parks guide and list of activity ideas. Each pass allows free entry to any of Colorado’s 42 state parks, where you can hike and bike. If you have a fishing license and a campground reservation, you can fish and stay overnight.

Littleton’s Bemis Library and Englewood Public Library both confirmed they had received them on May 20. (Englewood’s were already checked out later that day.)

We assume Douglas County’s libraries have them, but haven’t received confirmation to date. The hope is that people will realize what a treasure they have and purchase their own pass.

Veggie venue The farmers’ market that used to be at Littleton’s Broadridge Shopping Center, Broadway and Ridge Road, has returned after a stay at Aspen Grove. It will be open on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or sell-out.

Fun with Fitzgerald The Tunes on the Terrace series at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons Street, Lone Tree, will present comedian Kevin Fitzgerald, who also has a 25-year career as a veterinarian in his background.

Opening for him will be Colorado’s popular Chicken Lips Comedy Theater, which was started by Bob Wells. The perfor-

mance will be inside on the Main Stage and tickets cost $30.

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Colorado libraries received two backpacks each to be loaned for a week. They contain a state parks permit hangtag (so one can enter free), a Colorado state parks guide, a variety of Colorado guides, an activity list and a pair of binoculars.

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Wizardly ways Theatre of Dreams’ annual Wizard Camp is underway, with more Sonya Ellingboe sessions scheduled July 11-14, July SONYA’S 25-28 and August SAMPLER 1-4. To reserve a spot, send a check for $175 to cover supplies and props to Dream Masterz at 3721 Starflower Road, Castle Rock, CO 80109, two weeks prior (July 11-14 camp is already less than two weeks away). 303660-6799. Minimum class size: 10.

Western art “Art into the Sunset” extends the American Museum of Western Art’s (1727 Tremont Place, Denver) all-day self-guided tours on summer Wednesdays until 6 p.m. On July 11 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., the “Artful Insight” lecture will be about American Impressionists, including landscapes in the museum’s collection.

On July 18, Taos painter Ernest Blumenschein will be the topic, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Reservations are necessary ($10).

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RED ROCKS CONCERTS

Call for artists • Heritage Fine Arts Guild invites entries in its annual “This is Colorado” show, Oct. 10-Nov. 3 at Arapahoe Community College Colorado Gallery of the Arts. Juror will be Lian Quan Zhen. Entry form at: heritage-guild.com/shows. (Zhen will also teach a three-day watercolor workshop Oct 19-21 at the Littleton Museum.)

Deadline for entries: August 15.

• Reminder: Kaleidoscope Juried Exhibition entries (actual artwork) are due from 9 to 11 a.m. on July 9 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College/Annex Building. ($10 per entry — cash or check.) Juror is Angela Faris Bell. Information: trish.sangelo@ arapahoe.edu.

DLOG Summer Party Denver Lyric Opera Guild, which has members throughout the metro area,

will hold its Summer Party at Mount Vernon Country Club in Golden on July 12, featuring Central City Opera stars.

Social hour: 10:30 a.m., program: 11 a.m.; lunch: noon. Reservations: $40 by July 7. Guests and prospective members are welcome. Send check to: Diane Bakke, 8222 S. Peninsula Drive, Littleton, CO 80120 (303-738-9861, dianebakke@msn. com). Reserve by Paypal at denverlyricoperaguild.org.

Theater to relocate Cherry Creek Theatre has announced that it will become the resident theater company at the Mizel Arts and Cultural Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver (Jewish Community Center). Its home has been at Shaver-Ramsey Gallery in Cherry Creek, but extensive redevelopment has made this impossible from a cost standpoint, according to board chair Mark Rossman.

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THEATER/FILM

Summer Wizard Camp Learn magic and performance skills by professional magicians Carol Massie and Joe Givan at Summer Wizard Camp at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock. Camp dates are Monday to Friday, July 11-14 and Aug. 1-4 (more dates may be added). Camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to noon each day. Cost includes all supplies and recital show for family.

Open to ages 7 and older. Call 303-660-6799 for details and to sign up.

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MUSIC/CONCERTS

Hudson Gardens Summer Concerts Hudson Gardens presents its 2016 summer concert series at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Parking is free. Tickets on sale at www.altitudetickets.com. Prices and show times vary by artist. For information, go to www.hudsongardens.org or call 303-7978565. Concert lineup: Sunday, July 3, Super Diamond (with fireworks); Monday, July 4, Firefall (with fireworks); Sunday, July 10, The B-52s; Sunday, July 17, The Robert Cray Band with special guest The Delta Sonics; Sunday, July 24, Boz Scaggs; Sunday, July 31, Travis Tritt; Saturday, Aug. 6, “Weird Al” Yankovic -- The Mandatory World Tour; Sunday, Aug. 14, Los Lonely Boys/WAR; Sunday, Aug. 21, Gin Blossoms with special guest Tonic; Sunday, Aug. 28, Michael McDonald; Sunday, Sept.

4, Foreigner; and Sunday, Sept. 11, Kenny Loggins.

Young Writers Guild Aspiring writers ages 12-18 can drop in on the Young Writers Guild to practice their writing craft and perhaps learn a new tool at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, at the Douglas County Libraries’ Philip S. Miller branch, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Bring a pencil and paper or laptop. Snacks are provided. No registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries. org.

Nocturnal Wildlife Hike Join the Audubon Nature Center for its popular Bats, Beavers, and More! Program from 7-9 p.m. Friday, July 8, Friday, July 22, and Friday, Aug. 19, at the Audubon Center at Chatfield, 11280 S. Waterton Road, Littleton. Listen for coyote calls, check out the bat houses around the ponds, and see if the beaver are making progress on their South Platte River dam. Topics differ each date and highlight the curious critters of the Colorado night. Registration required at www.denveraudubon.org, by calling 303-973-9530, or via email at info@ denveraudubon.org.

Breckenridge Brewery Hootenanny Big Head Todd and the Monsters will headline this year’s Breckenridge Brewery Hootenanny festival Saturday, July 9, at its 12-acre brewery in Littleton. Other headliners are Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Larry & Jenny Keel, and Head for the Hills. The all-day music-fueled celebrations marks the brewery’s 26th year in the craft brewing scene. The event benefits Conscious Alliance, a Colorado-based nonprofit that fights hunger through food collection and hunger awareness programs. For tickets and information, go to www.breckbrew. com/Hootenanny.

Tunes on the Terrace: Kevin Fitzgerald Comedian Kevin Fitzgerald performs at Tunes on the Terrace at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 9 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Fitzgerald has performed as a professional stand-up comedian for more than 20 years. The opening act will be Chicken Lips Comedy Theater. For tickets and information, call 720-509-1000 or go to http://www.lonetreeartscenter.org/showinfo.php?id=393.

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Adventures in Dance Learn a number of dances at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Classes are for adults. Go to www.adventuresindance. com for cost information and to sign up. July class schedule includes: Swing aerobics: Learn swing solo moves while burning the floor with no partners at swing aerobics from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays from July 4 to July 25. Solo a variety of swing dances, such as the jive, the Lindy hop, the Charleston and the hustle in a workout format.

Lindy hop swing: Learn the popular retro dance, the Lindy hop from 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays from July 5 to Aug. 23. Dance to blues and popular rock.

Swing is always in style and is a popular dance at weddings.

Intermediate swing class: Learn how to swing, jive, and rock `n’ roll during intermediate swing class from 8-9 p.m. Tuesdays from July 5 to Aug. 23. Dance to big band and popular rock `n’ roll music.

Intermediate salsa: Learn to salsa and meet new people from 7-8 p.m.

Wednesdays from July 6 to Aug. 24.

Cha-cha: Learn the cha-cha club dance from 8-9 p.m. Wednesdays from July 6 to Aug. 2.

Argentine tango: Class is good for beginners to practiced steppers.

Learn the Argentine tango from 7-8 p.m. Thursdays from July 7 to Aug. 25.

Line dance aerobics: Dance a variety of line dances including the cowboy cha-cha, electric slide, cupid shuffle and the wobble in a workout format.

Class offered from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays from Aug. 8 to Aug. 29.

EVENTS

Nature’s Athletes Nature’s Educators presents Movin’ and Groovin’ in the Wild, during which kids ages 7-12 can discover nature’s amazing athletes and learn from live animal guests. Program is at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Friday, July 1, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Castle Pines, 360 Village Square Lane. Part of DCL’s Summer Reading Program; space is limited.

Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Operation Wedding Gown Compleat Couture Bridals & Formals joins Brides Across America, which honors American heroes with Operation Wedding Gown, a bridal fashion giveaway on Tuesday, July 5. Military and first responder brides-to-be are invited to choose from a number of free designer wedding gowns.

To participate, register at www. bridesacrossamerica.com.

Members of the military, or their fiances, may qualify with proof of recent or future deployment to hardship areas. Eligible first responders include women in the police force, firefighters, certified first responders and EMTs. Military brides must present proof of online registration, proper identification and deployment papers at participating salons on the day of the event. First responders will be asked to present a valid photo ID and proof of online registration. To further support the cause, Compleat Couture Bridals & Formals will contribute a portion of proceeds from ALL sales from July 5-10 to Brides Across America.

American Legion Post Meeting Officers elected in June will assume their positions at the July meeting of the George C. Evans Post 103, American Legion, of Littleton, at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, July 6, at the Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. The new officers will carry their positions through June 2017. Roger Masse, longtime member of the post, is the new post commander. Updates on the July 22 golf tournament at Raccoon Creek will be on the agenda.

Coffee and Coloring Spend an evening with a good cup of coffee, an even better coloring book, and a group of adults finding their Zen through coloring at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, at Douglas County Libraries in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Secrets to Great Phone Photos Well-known travel photojournalist Ron Stern will share tips for taking terrific photos using your iPhone or Android phone at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Learn nine picture taking secrets of your phone and the most useful photo apps.

Discover how to properly compose and take beautiful panoramas and time-lapse videos. At the end of the program Stern will take participants outside to practice what they have learned. Why lug around heavy cameras when your phone is capable of so many incredible functions. Call 303-795-3961.

Magic of Reading Magic of Reading, presented by master magician Mark Strivings, is a roller coaster of laughs and amazement for kids while learning about the fun of reading. Show time is 10 a.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Louviers, 7885 Louviers Blvd.

Part of the district’s summer reading program. Space is limited; register at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Adventures in Storytelling Adventures in Storytelling with children’s author Jessica Lawson gives kids a chance to interact with the author, ask questions, and brainstorm their own adventure tale at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Roxborough, 8357 N. Rampart Range Road, Suite 200.

Books will be for sale, and a book signing will follow the program. Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Ice Cream Social Highlands Ranch plans its ice cream social from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, July 13 at Civic Green Park, 9370 S. Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Children and their families can enjoy all-you-can-eat ice cream and snow cones with any toppings of their choice. Food trucks such as El Toro the Tot, Gusto’s Kitchen and Simply Pizza will be on location. Live entertainment will include Paul Borrillo at 6 p.m. and the Highlands Ranch Concert Band at 7 p.m. Littleton Fire Rescue will have an engine on display and will perform a live demonstration using the Jaws of Life at 6:35 p.m. Contact klarese@ highlandsranch.org.

Convention History Both the Democratic and Republican parties head into what promise to be historic conventions. Join Active Minds from 3-4 p.m.

Wednesday, July 13, as we discuss how the original process (Congressional Caucuses) gave way to conventions and how conventions evolved with the advent of primaries and caucuses prior to the convention. Program will highlight some noteworthy conventions such as the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention and the 1976 Republican Convention in which Gerald Ford faced a challenge from an upstart named Ronald Reagan. Program takes place at RiverPointe, 5225 S. Prince St., Littleton. Call 303-797-0600 to RSVP. Tuesday Morning Women’s Golf League The Englewood Women’s Golf Association is accepting applications for the 2016 season. The women play Tuesday mornings at Broken Tee Englewood golf course. Contact the membership chair for information, ewga18@gmail. com.

HEALTH

Community Blood Drives A number of community blood drives are planned in the area.

For information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-3632300, unless otherwise noted.

Go to www.bonfils.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Thursday, July 7, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., South Metro Denver Realtor Association, 7899 S. Lincoln Court, Littleton; Sunday, July 10, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E. Parker Road, Parker; Monday, July 11, 9-10:40 a.m. and noon to 2:30 p.m., Cascades Building, 6300 S. Syracuse Way, Centennial; Thursday, July 14, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., Plaza Tower One, 6400 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle, Greenwood Village

EDUCATION

Conversational English Group Practice your English is a group that allows adults from all language backgrounds to practice speaking English in a conversation group facilitated by a fluent English speaker. Discussion topics vary. Meets at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 2 and Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive, and at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 9, at the James H. LaRue branch, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. No registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

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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SPORTS

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Golden Eagles make quarterfinals Mountain Vista advances to final four in Broncos 7-on-7 tournament

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Mountain Vista emerged from the field of 82 teams and advanced to the June 18 quarterfinals of the Broncos 7-on-7 football tournament.

“I am very proud of what we accomplished,” Coach Ric Cash said as he watched his team in the finale of the tournament. “We only have nine guys with us today because so many of our guys are multisport athletes and there is a big lacrosse and a big basketball tournament going on. We have offensive guys playing defense and defensive guys playing offense. But they played their tails off and look where it go us.”

The tournament ran from June 15-18.

The 82 teams in the tournament were divided into four team pools for round robin play during the first three days of the competition.

Mountain Vista finished first in pool play and advanced to the June 18 singleelimination tournament played at the Broncos training facility.

“Earning a spot in the single elimination tournament is great and quite an experience for our kids to play here at the Bronco training facility,” Cash said.

“It is motivating for the kids and a great day to have the chance to play 7-on-7 football on a beautiful Saturday.”

Passing is the name of the game in 7-on-7 football. The game matches backs and receivers against linebackers and defensive backs.

The quarterback has four seconds to throw the ball. Yardage is gained by completing a pass and the receiver can add to the yardage by running the ball until he is touched with two hands by a defender.

Rough play is penalized.

In the Broncos 7-on-7 tournament, teams play 10-minute halves with a run-

Quarterback Judd Erickson looks for a Mountain Vista receiver during the Golden Eagles’ game against Pueblo South at the June 18 Broncos 7-on-7 single elimination tournament. A total of 82 teams entered the competition and the Golden Eagles made it to the tournament semifinals. Photo by Tom Munds ning clock for the first eight minutes. The clock in the final two minutes stops for situations like incomplete passes and a player going out of bounds. A touchdown is seven points and an interception is three points.

The Golden Eagles opened play June 18 against Pueblo South and won the game, 35-21. They followed that up by beating fourth-seeded Smoky Hill 34-24 to advance to the tournament semifinals, where they lost to Fairview.

Cash took time between games to look ahead to the coming season. He

said Mountain Vista has a lot of returning veterans on offense and, while there are holes to fill on defense, there are young guys stepping up to bid to fill those holes.

Cash said the makeup of their league has been shuffled. Chaparral and Rock Canyon were on the league schedule and are part of the new alignment. New league opponents this year include Pomona, Cherokee Trail and Hinkley.

One of the strengths for the Golden Eagles in the coming season is the fact Judd Erickson returns at quarterback.

“It feels great to return at quarterback. It is a great feeling,” he said. “The coaches have helped me, as I have done a lot of work during the off season, so I feel I am a lot better quarterback now than I was at this time last year.”

He said it was awesome to come out and compete at the Broncos training facility. Erickson said the tournament is good for him as he sees teams and their defensive coverages he won’t see during the season. He said his focus for the coming season is to help his team make and go deep in the playoffs.

Valor grad nearly claims match-play title Josh Seiple’s rally in Lone Tree falls just short

THE RESULTS

By Jim Benton jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Results for local golfers for the final three rounds in the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championship, which concluded June 14 at Lone Tree Golf Club.

Josh Seiple played his best golf at the end, but it still wasn’t good enough to overcome a slow start.

Seiple, from Castle Pines Golf Club, overcame a 4-up disadvantage after the first 18-holes of the 36-hole final of the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championship at the Lone Tree Golf Club.

However, he was edged, 1-up, by Nathaniel Goddard, of Ptarmigan Golf Club in Fort Collins, on June 24 in the 116th title match of the CGA’s oldest tournament.

“In the morning I just didn’t have my stuff,” said the 20-year-old Seiple, a graduate of Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch. “Nathaniel had his, and I just kind of brought some more energy...

I was close, played well in the afternoon, but it wasn’t good enough.”

Seiple, who had double hip surgery last August and got a medical redshirt at the University of Mississippi for his sophomore season, never led during the finals after carding a 75 during the first 18 holes.

He rallied to make it a close match during the afternoon round, which also included a two-hour rain delay.

“After that little hour break between matches, I birdied the first two holes coming out,” he said. “I birdied the fifth after the rain delay so I just got off to a better

Quarterfinals Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, def. Chris Korte, Lone Tree Golf Club, 7 and 6; Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Connor Klein, Lone Tree Golf Club, 1 up; Staiano, Glenmoor Country Club, Def. Hayden Nicholaides, Family Sports, 2 and 1.

Semifinals Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, def. Nick Nosewicz, Meadow Hills, 2 and 1. Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Jake Staiano, Glenmoor Country Club, 2 and 1.

Josh Seiple, a 20-year-old Valor Christian graduate who plays out of Castle Pines Golf Club, rallied but was edged by Nathaniel Goddard of Ptarmigan Golf and County Club, 1-up, in the 36-hole finals of the Colorado Golf Association Match Play held June 24 at Lone Tree Golf Club. Seiple is coming off double hip surgery last August and got a redshirt medical hardship at the University of Mississippi and will be a sophomore on the golf team this fall. Photo by Jim Benton start. The momentum seemed to change a little bit in my favor.”

Seiple evened the match on the 14th hole.

Goddard, a 22-year-old graduate of Colorado Christian University who played on the Lakewood school’s back-to-back Christian University national championship teams, birdied No. 15, but Seiple once again tied the match with a nice up-

and-down birdie on the 16th hole.

Goddard’s approach shot on No. 17, set up a 6-foot birdie putt, which pushed him into a 1-up lead and then both players parred the 18th.

“He made an awesome putt on 15 and hit an awesome shot into 17 so props to him,” Seiple said. “I just couldn’t get over that hump. He kept the pressure on all day, he putted well and to do that is hard

Finals Nathaniel Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Joshua Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, 1 up.

to beat. I took myself out of it in the first match.

“I didn’t make a bogey on the last nine holes. I played my last 11 holes at 3-under.

I closed well. It was that morning match that took me out of it. This is about the fourth or fifth tournament back since the surgery. The past few tournaments I’ve started to get into contention. I wish I could have closed this one out but I’ve been there the last few tournaments.”

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June 30, 2016

Young hands guide race cars Drivers range from 5 to 17 years old at Junior Drag Races

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com The pop, pop, pop of dozens of single-cylinder engines filled the air June 24 as young drivers prepared to take their turns on the starting line at the Junior Drag Racing event at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison.

Kyleigh Schneider said junior drag racing is about having fun with all her friends and winning races.

“I started racing when I was 9 and now I am almost 14,” the Littleton resident said. “In racing, the rules make the cars very even. So it comes down to the driver’s focus and concentration to get a good reaction time off the starting line.”

She said her goals for this season are to have fun, win a lot of races and do better in the class than she has done in the past.

Kyleigh’s dad Brett Schneider said he and his dad run an auto repair shop and they both did a lot of drag racing, so he decided to pass the love of the sport onto his kids.

“When you have been drag racing for a long time, you don’t want to give it up being at the track with friends. So we got our son and daughter into junior dragsters,” he said. “I think being part of junior drag racing gives them a hobby they can have fun doing. It also teaches the kids about the mechanics of cars.”

He said his son Connor and

Cars line up in the staging lanes as the young drivers await their turn to make a run during the June 24 junior dragster event at Bandimere Speedway. There were about 150 drivers ranging in age from 5 to 17 who took part in the three-day event. Photo by Tom Munds his daughter are in the same racing class.

“They have never raced against each other but there is competition and they both talk a lot of smack about racing,” he said.

There is a full schedule of junior drag races at Bandimere Speedway and the Schneiders were among about 150 boys and girls on June 24-26 for the big event called the junior shootout race.

“This is an annual event for Bandimere Speedway,” said John Miller, track media representative. “This is a three-day event with a lot of special races and competitions.”

Pit areas were lined with equipment trailers pulled by a variety of vehicles, ranging from pickups to motor homes.

The cars driven in junior dragster races are half the size of the dragsters driven by adults.

There also is a huge difference in horsepower as the junior dragsters for younger age groups are powered by Briggs and Stratton lawn mower-style engines. The older group can upgrade their engines to small motor cycle engines.

A base car and engine for younger drivers costs about $5,000 new, but used cars are usually available. The cost goes up as drivers get older and the cost for car and engine can be more than $8,000.

Driver safety equipment is required and the equipment to satisfy the rules can cost $500 or more. Each driver must be a member of the National Hot Rod Association. The fee for a year’s

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Additional costs include the equipment trailer, spare parts, fuel, and race entry fees. Travel expenses would be have to be added in to the total cost of competition if the team goes from track to track.

Miller said protecting the drivers is a must so the rules require drivers to wear full sets of protective equipment including safety racing suits and helmets plus they must have the regular five-point safety harness to belt them into the cockpit.

Races are open to 5- to 17-year-olds divided into five age groups. Rules for each age group limit the size and speed of the vehicles.

For example, 5-year-old drivers are limited to a single pass down the track and can’t go from

a standing start to the finish line one-eighth of a mile away faster than 20 seconds while 13- to 17-year-old drivers can go a lot faster and can be traveling about 80 mph when they cross the finish line.

According to the National Hot Rod Association there are about 3,000 registered junior drag race drivers competing on about 130 tracks around the United States and Canada.

The races at Bandimere are a local competition. However, there are parent-children racing teams that travel to other tracks to compete for points with the goal of being named a representative to one of two Junior Dragster finals, the Western Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Easter Nationals in Bristol, Tennessee.

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The Castle Rock Half Marathon starts off at Fourth and Pearl streets. This marks the fourth year for the race. Photos by Conner Davis

Matt Gropp, a Denver native, throws up two thumbs as he crosses the finish line.

Full effort for half marathon Castle Rock event draws hundreds

By Conner Davis Special to Colorado Community Media Hundreds of runners participated in the fourth annual Castle Rock Half Marathon.

On June 25, more than 150 runners

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“I enjoy (running),” he said. “It’s always good to go out there and stay in shape and it’s good to push yourself, to see how fast and how far you can go. Especially the older you get, it’s good to come out here and compete against runners 15 years younger.”

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June 30, 2016

Bid for marathon bowling record derailed

Todd Wessels was aiming for a Guinness record to help raise money for his son

Todd Wessels prepares to throw a ball June 23 during his attempt to set a new world record for the number of hours and the number of games bowled.

Photo by Tom Skelley

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com An apparently unthinking and selfish action sabotaged Todd Wessels’ effort to break the Guinness world record for a 10pin bowling marathon.

Moe’s Original Bar B Que in Englewood donated the use of the lane and other support to Wessels’ effort, aimed at breaking the existing record of bowling 134 hours and 57 minutes straight — more than five days — and bowling more than 643 games.

Wessels, of Thornton, said he decided to do the bowling marathon as a way to bring attention to the needs of children like his son, who has a potentially life-threatening form of epilepsy, and to raise money to provide his son with a seizure-alert dog. He said training a dog depends on how long it takes, and costs could range from about $5,000 to 10 times that amount.

His bid to set the world record ended when he was less than 15 hours from his goals.

“I was away from the lane on a break when someone who knew what I was trying to do bowled on my lane,” Wessels, 46, said. “I was heartbroken. I haven’t cried since my mother died, but I cried when I found out what happened.”

Wessels bowled a while longer after he knew his effort to break the record would not count — he was required to bowl at least five games an hour. Before the unauthorized bowler ended his effort the night of June 24, Wessels had bowled 703 games, exceeding the world record. But it doesn’t count because the marathon record is for hours and games at the same time.

He said the score didn’t matter and he threw a lot of gutter balls. His game scores ranged from a 206 to a 1.

“I hate the fact this happened, but it definitely was a learning experience,” he said. “I think I will try to break the record

again later this year. I will tape off the area so someone can’t ‘accidentally’ bowl on my lane. I will hire someone as security. And I will put up some banners to let everyone know what I am doing and why I am doing it.”

His fundraising effort was online through GoFundMe.com. His specific project was called “A penny a frame.” The idea was to bowl about 7,500 frames, and he was asking for donations of $75 per person to go toward getting his son, Cameron, a dog.

When the record-breaking effort came to an end, Wessels began contacting those who had donated to the project, giving the

opportunity to withdraw their support. He said most people said to keep the donations. The total collected was about $1,400.

He said he will still accept donations to help get his son the seizure-alert dog. For information on how to make a donation, call 720-670-7881 or go to the GoFundMe page.

Wessels brought his plan to break the world record to Moe’s, where he said the management opened the doors and the lane to him.

“It is awesome what he is doing and to have him do it on our bowling lanes,” said Moe’s general manager, Josh Alston, the afternoon of June 23. “The entire staff has

embraced him and he has become part of the Moe’s family. He is doing this for a good cause. He is a very strong-willed individual battling through the struggles he has faced.

We are doing all we can to help him get to the finish line.”

Wessels praised all that Moe’s has done for his project.

“Everyone here has really stepped up to help me anyway they can,” he said. “They let me stay here around the clock. They lock up the place at midnight and leave me here with one other person so I can continue to bowl. They donate the use of the lanes and even donate the meals they provide for me and my family. I really appreciate what they are doing.”

Guinness World Records requires that at least two video cameras record an attempt at a record. Wessell said he looked at the video and saw the people who stepped over and bowled on his lane.

“I sent an email to Guinness, even though I knew the answer,” he said. “They replied that, even though it was not an authorized act, it was considered illegal substitution so my record attempt was over.”

Wessels said Cameron, 14, has had epilepsy since he was 6.

“He began having more frequent seizures, we had him tested and found he had a rare form of the disease called SCN8A,” he said. “There is no cure but the only way to keep our child alive is to have a seizurealert dog, which lets us know the child will have a seizure in 45 minutes or less. That would be time to administer medication used to prevent a seizure.”

He said he decided on the bowling record attempt because the only sport Cameron could participate in, because of epilepsy, was bowling.

The rules to break the world record were fairly simple. Wessels was allowed a five-minute break each hour, he had to bowl at least five games an hour and had to start the five-game set five minutes after each hour. He said you can stockpile the breaks so there was a longer period to eat, rest or take a bathroom break.

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REQUEST FOR APPLICATION (RFA) NO. 031-16 TRAUMA CARE COORDINATOR, PARENT ADVOCATE, AND EDUCATIONAL NAVIGATOR

Section P2904.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 30-15401.5(2), C.R.S., the Board of County Commissioners has received a recommendation from the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission, and;

3. Administrative and maintenance provisions shall apply. Operational permit requirements shall apply only as follows: a. Amusement buildings per Subsection 105.6.2. b. Open burning per Subsection 105.6.30. c. Explosives per Subsection106.6.14. d. Carnivals and fairs per Subsection 105.6.4. e. LP-gas per Subsection 105.6.27. f. Temporary membrane structures and tents greater than 5,000 sq. ft.

Public Notices Government Legals PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) #029-16 PRE-EMPLOYMENT & DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SCREENING AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE SCREENING & ALCOHOL TESTING

The Human Resources Department of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests proposals from responsible and qualified firms for the provision of services related to Pre-Employment & Department of Transportation (DOT) Screening, Controlled Substance Screening & Alcohol Testing, Educational Training, and to ensure compliance with Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Controlled Substance and Alcohol Regulations, as specified. Douglas County currently employs approximately one-thousand and fifty (1,050) individuals; 10% of those individuals fall into the DOT Controlled Substance and Alcohol Testing pool. The other percentage could be tested under non-DOT regulations. After an official job offer letter, all applicants are required to successfully pass a drug screen as a condition of employment with Douglas County. For a current employee or an applicant, a positive marijuana test result is an employee handbook violation based on the fact that marijuana is illegal under Federal law.

The RFP documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain EPurchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. RFP documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

Four (4) copies of your RFP response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFP No. 029-16, Pre-Employment & DOT Screening” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFP responses will be received until 3:00 p.m., on Friday, July 29, 2016 by the Douglas County Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Proposals will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any proposals so received will be returned unopened.

The Department of Human Services of Douglas County Government hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests application responses from qualified providers for the provision of a Trauma Care Coordinator, Parent Advocate, and Educational Navigator. Awards will be given to individuals or agencies that are able to demonstrate proficiency in the goal areas through family centered programming and can attend to the detailed qualifications.

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The initial agreement, issued as a result of this Request for Application (RFA), will be for a period of approximately ten (10) months, beginning in August 2016 to and including May 31, 2017. All proposed fees shall be firm and fixed for the initial contract period. The County shall have an option to renew this agreement for two (2) additional periods of one (1) year each, with the same terms and conditions. This agreement and/or extension to the original period of a subject agreement shall be contingent upon annual funding being appropriated, budgeted and otherwise made available for such purposes and subject to the County's unanimous satisfaction with the services received during the preceding agreement period.

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

RFA responses will be received until 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2016 by Douglas County Government, Finance Department, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. RFA responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope, plainly marked “RFA No. 03116 Trauma Care Coordinator, Parent Advocate, and Educational Navigator”.

Electronic and/or faxed application responses will not be accepted. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated and any responses so received will be returned unopened.

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

Please direct any questions concerning this RFA to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303-660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.Please direct any questions concerning this RFA to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303-660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

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

Legal Notice No.: 929328 First Publication: June 30, 2016 Last Publication: June 30, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Please direct any questions concerning this RFP to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO

Legal Notice No.: 929325 First Publication: June 30, 2016 Last Publication: June 30, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) #030-16 EMPLOYEE SERVICE AWARDS The Human Resources Department of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests proposals from responsible and qualified firms to provide high-quality Employee Service Award gifts for our employees as they celebrate a five (5) year employment milestone. As a government employer, we are seeking high-quality gifts at a reasonable price that would not be viewed by the public (taxpayers) as extravagant.

The RFP documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain EPurchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. RFP documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

Four (4) copies of your RFP response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFP No. 030-16, Employee Service Awards” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFP responses will be received until 3:00 p.m., on Friday, July 29, 2016 by the Douglas County Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Proposals will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any proposals so received will be returned unopened.

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

Please direct any questions concerning this RFP to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No.: 929326 First Publication: June 30, 2016 Last Publication: June 30, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice REQUEST FOR APPLICATION (RFA) NO. 031-16 TRAUMA CARE COORDINATOR, PARENT ADVOCATE, AND EDUCATIONAL NAVIGATOR The Department of Human Services of Douglas County Government hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests application responses from qualified providers for the provision of a Trauma Care Coordinator, Parent Advocate, and Educational Navigator. Awards will be given to individuals or agencies that are able to demonstrate proficiency in the goal areas through family centered programming and can attend to the detailed qualifications.

The initial agreement, issued as a result of this Request for Application (RFA), will be for a period of approximately ten (10)

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

A public hearing will be held before the Board of County Commissioners to consider the approval of an agricultural lease agreement between Hay Creek Ranch, as lessee, and the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, as lessor, regarding the real property located at 4620 South State Highway 83 on Prairie Canyon Ranch in southern Douglas County east of State Highway 83 south of Castlewood Canyon State Park.

The public hearing will be held on Tuesday, July 12, at 2:30 p.m. in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado. For more information please contact the Douglas County Office of Open Space and Natural Resources at (303) 660-7495, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104.

Legal Notice No.: 929333 First Publication: June 30, 2016 Last Publication: June 30, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE DOUGLAS COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A public hearing will be held before the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, concerning the adoption of the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE 2012 EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE SUBJECT TO THE AMENDMENTS AS SET FORTH IN ATTACHMENT 1 AND APPENDICES B AND C AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS IN CONFLICT THEREWITH WHEREAS, Section 30-15-401.5(1), C.R.S., authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt ordinances to provide for minimum safety standards, and; WHEREAS, Section 30-15-401.5(3), C.R.S., authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt fire code provisions for the unincorporated areas of Douglas County, and; WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 30-15401.5(2), C.R.S., the Board of County Commissioners has appointed a permanent commission, known as the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission, for the purpose of reviewing and making recommendations for the adoption of a fire code, and; WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 30-15401.5(2), C.R.S., the Board of County Commissioners has received a recommendation from the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission, and; WHEREAS, after receiving the recommendations of the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission and duly considering the same, the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County desires to adopt by reference the 2012 International Fire Code (“IFC”) in its entirety, except as modified herein, to protect the safety and welfare of the citizens of Douglas County; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED

BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY as

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code, and;

WHEREAS, after receiving the recommendations of the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission and duly considering the same, the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County desires to adopt by reference the 2012 International Fire Code (“IFC”) in its entirety, except as modified herein, to protect the safety and welfare of the citizens of Douglas County; and

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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED

BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY as follows: A. The Board of County Commissioners hereby approves the 2012 IFC, subject to the Amendments set forth in Attachment 1 and Appendices B and C. B. The following properties shall be exempt from IFC coverage, except as provided in Subsection 102.5, as amended herein: 1. Detached one- or two-family dwellings or townhouses; 2. Factory built housing units certified by the State of Colorado; 3. Factory built housing units constructed to federal standards; 4. Buildings or structures accessory to a dwelling or other allowed private use; or used exclusively for private agricultural purposes; and 5. Residential developments containing or creating three or fewer lots or parcels.

C. The provisions of the International Fire Code, as adopted herein, and from the date on which this ordinance shall take effect, shall be controlling within the limits of the Fire Protection Districts of Castle Rock, North Fork, South Metro Fire Rescue, Franktown, Jackson 105, Larkspur, Littleton, West Douglas, Mountain Communities and West Metro Fire Rescue, along with the Metropolitan Districts of Highlands Ranch, Roxborough Park and Castle Pines and those areas of unincorporated Douglas County not included within a fire protection district. The Fire Code shall be enforced by the chief, commander or designated representative of each fire protection department or district specified in Section 1, or by the Board of County Commissioners in areas not included within a fire protection district.

D. Should any section, clause, sentence, or part of this Ordinance be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not affect, impair or invalidate the ordinance as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid.

E. All ordinances and/or resolutions, including Ordinance No. O-007-002, or parts or ordinances and/or resolutions, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed, except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the effective date of this ordinance.

ATTACHMENT 1 TO ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001 Amendments to the 2012 International Fire Code Section 1. Adoption of the International Fire Code. That certain document, three (3) copies of which are filed in the office of the Douglas County Clerk & Recorder, being marked and designated as the International Fire Code, 2012 edition, including Appendix Chapters B and C as published by the International Code Council and amended by Douglas County, be and is hereby adopted by the Board of County Commissioners as the Douglas County Fire Code, regulating and governing the safeguarding of life and property from fire and explosion hazards arising from the storage, handling and use of hazardous substances, materials and devices, and from conditions hazardous to life or property in the occupancy of buildings and premises as herein provided; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Fire Code are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this ordinance, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Section 2 of this Ordinance.

Section 2. Additions, Insertions, Deletions and Changes. The following sections of the Fire Code are hereby revised as follows: Subsection 101.1 is amended to read as follows: 101.1 Title. These regulations shall be known as the Fire Code of Douglas County, hereinafter referred to as “this code”.

Subsection 102.5 is amended to read as follows: 102.5 Application of this code to residential properties and construction. Where buildings, structures and portions thereof are designed and constructed in accordance with the International Residential Code, the provisions of this code shall apply only as follows: 1. Provisions of this code pertaining to fire apparatus access roads, water supplies and fire flow requirements apply to community fire protection for residential developments in which four (4) or more new lots or parcels are created, but shall not apply to individual structures and properties within those residential developments, except when specifically required and approved by the Board of County Commissioners as a condition of the planned development process. Requirements for fire apparatus access roads for new residential development apply per Subsections 503.1 and 503.2 as amended herein. Water supplies and fire flow requirements for new residential development, where adequate and reliable water supplies exist and in which four (4) or more new lots or parcels are created, apply per Subsection 507.1, 507.3 and 507.5 as amended herein.

2. Construction permits for fire protection systems and associated equipment in the interior or exterior of the structure, not including dwelling unit fire sprinkler systems installed in accordance with IRC Section P2904.

3. Administrative and maintenance provisions shall apply. Operational permit requirements shall apply only as follows: a. Amusement buildings per Subsection 105.6.2. b. Open burning per Subsection 105.6.30. c. Explosives per Subsection106.6.14. d. Carnivals and fairs per Subsection 105.6.4. e. LP-gas per Subsection 105.6.27. f. Temporary membrane structures and tents greater than 5,000 sq. ft.

A new Subsection 102.13 is enacted to read as follows: 102.13 Douglas County Regulations.

Where any of the provisions of this code are in conflict with any Douglas County code, standard or other adopted regulation, the Douglas County provisions shall

A new Subsection 102.13 is enacted to read as follows:

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102.13 Douglas County Regulations.

Where any of the provisions of this code are in conflict with any Douglas County code, standard or other adopted regulation, the Douglas County provisions shall control. The Douglas County Wildfire Mitigation Standards shall govern in lieu of the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code. References within this code to the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code shall not apply.

Subsection 105.7.13 is amended to read as follows: 105.7.13 Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems. A building permit is required to install or modify solar photovoltaic power systems. Maintenance performed in accordance with the IBC as amended is not considered to be a modification and does not require a permit.

Subsection 108.1 is amended to read as follows: 108.1 Board of appeals established. In order to hear and decide appeals of orders, decisions or determinations made by the fire code official relative to the application and interpretation of this code, there shall be created a Regional Fire Code Board of Appeals (“board”) by the entry of various fire districts into an intergovernmental agreement (“IGA”). The board of appeals shall be appointed through the operation of the IGA. The fire code official shall be an ex officio member of said board but shall have no vote on any matter before the board. The board shall adopt rules of procedure for conducting its business, and shall render all decisions and findings in writing to the appellant with a duplicate copy to the fire code official. The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners shall be notified of all appointments made to the board. Said notification shall be in writing and shall be given within 30 days of said appointment(s). Upon 30 days written notice, the County may elect to withdraw from the use of the board at any time and for any reason.

Subsection 109.4 is amended to read as follows: 109.4 Violation penalties. Persons who shall violate a provision of this code or shall fail to comply with any of the requirements thereof or who shall erect, install, alter, repair or perform work in violation of the approved construction documents or directive of the fire code official, or of a permit or certificate used under provisions of this code, shall be subject to fine and/or imprisonment up to the maximum specified in Section 30-15-402, C.R.S. Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been served shall be deemed a separate offense.

Subsection 111.4 is amended to read as follows: 111.4 Failure to comply. Any person who shall continue any work after having been served with a stop work order, except such work as that person is directed to perform to remove a violation or unsafe condition, shall be subject to fine and/or imprisonment up to the maximum specified in section 30-15-402, C.R.S. Section 202 General Definitions Fire Apparatus Access Road- is amended to read as follows: Fire apparatus access road - Any improved surface, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel that provides fire apparatus access, including fire lanes, public or private streets, and parking lot lanes. Fire Apparatus Access Road shall not include a private residential driveway or a private residential shared driveway as defined herein.

Residential Driveway – Add new definition to read as follows: Residential Driveway – A vehicular access for private use that serves one lot or parcel connecting a house, garage, or other allowed use to the public or private road.

Residential Shared Driveway – Add new definition to read as follows: Residential Shared Driveway – A vehicular access for private use that may serve no more than three lots or parcels for the purpose(s) of ingress and egress to buildings structures or other allowed use.

Subsection 503.1 is amended to read as follows: 503.1 Where required. Fire apparatus access roads shall be provided and maintained in accordance with Sections 503.1.1 through 503.1.3 and the Douglas County Roadway Design and Construction Standards ("the Standards”). Should any provision of the fire code conflict with the Standards, the Standards shall control. Where the Standards are silent with respect to fire apparatus access roads, the fire code official and the Douglas County Public Works Engineering Director shall make the final determination as to whether Sections 503.1.1 through 503.1.3 of the fire code shall apply.

Subsection 503.2 is amended to read as follows: 503.2 Specifications. Fire apparatus access roads shall be designed and installed in accordance with the Douglas County Roadway Design and Construction Standards (“the Standards”). Should any provision of the fire code conflict with the Standards, the Standards shall control. Where the Standards are silent with respect to roads, both public and private, the Douglas County Public Works Engineering Director shall make the final determination, based on fire code official input. For fire apparatus access roads, other than roads, both public and private, Sections 503.2.1 through 503.2.8 of the fire code shall apply.

Subsection 503.4.1 is amended to read as follows: 503.4.1 Traffic calming devices. During design and prior to construction of traffic calming devices, fire code official review and comments shall be requested and considered by Douglas County.

Subsection 507.1 Required water supply.

Exceptions are added to read as follows: Exceptions: 1. Individual residential lots, parcels and developments legally in existence prior to the adoption of this code.

2. Developments containing or creating 3 or fewer residential lots or parcels.

3. Buildings or structures accessory to a dwelling or other allowed private use; or used exclusively for private agricultural purposes.

4. Developments subject to the Douglas County Standard for Water Supplies for Rural Fire Fighting.

503.4.1 Traffic calming devices. During design and prior to construction of traffic calming devices, fire code official review and comments shall be requested and considered by Douglas County.

Subsection 507.1 Required water supply.

Exceptions are added to read as follows:

responders within the building based upon the existing coverage levels of the public safety communications systems of the jurisdiction at the exterior of the building, shall be equipped with such coverage according to one of the following:

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1. Whenever an existing wired communication system cannot be repaired or is beExceptions: ing replaced, or where not approved in ac1. Individual residential lots, parcels and cordance with Section 510.1, Exception 1. developments legally in existence prior to 2. Within a timeframe established by the adoption of this code.

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2. Developments containing or creating 3 Where it is determined by the or fewer residential lots or parcels.

To advertise your publicException: notices callor303-566-4100 fire code official the building official that 3. Buildings or structures accessory to a the radio coverage system is not needed. dwelling or other allowed private use; or used exclusively for private agricultural Subsection 1103.7.6 is amended to read purposes. as follows: 4. Developments subject to the Douglas County Standard for Water Supplies for 1103.7.6 Group R-2. A manual and autoRural Fire Fighting. matic fire alarm system that activates the occupant notification system in accordSubsection 507.3 is amended to read ance with Section 907.6 shall be installed as follows: in existing Group R-2 occupancies more than three stories in height or with more 507.3 Fire flow. Fire flow requirements for than 16 dwelling or sleeping units. buildings or portions of buildings and facilities shall be determined in accordance Exceptions: with Appendix B of this code as amended 1. [No Change] or a method approved by the fire code offi2. [No Change] cial and Douglas County. Where an exist3. A fire alarm system is not required in ing water supply for firefighting is not buildings that do not have interior coravailable within two road miles of the ridors serving dwelling units, provided that vehicular entrance of any parcel, the dwelling units either have a means of Douglas County Standard for Water Supegress door opening directly to an exteriplies for Rural Fire Fighting shall apply. or exit access that leads directly to the Residential developments legally in existexits or are served by open-ended corence at the time of the adoption of this ridors designed in accordance with Seccode are not required to provide minimum tion 1026.6, Exception 4, items 4.2 or 4.5. water supplies or upgrade existing water supplies to meet this code. Non-residenSubsection 5601.1.3 Fireworks Exceptial developments and multifamily develoption 4 is amended to read as follows: ments legally in existence at the time of the adoption of this code are not required Exceptions: to provide minimum water supplies or up1. [No Change] grade existing water supplies to meet this 2. [No Change] code, unless there is a change of use or 3. [No Change] occupancy. Fire flow requirements shall 4. The possession, storage, sale, handnot apply to individual residential lots, parling and use of permissible fireworks as cels or developments listed as exceptions defined by Section 12-28-101, C.R.S. in subsection 507.1.

Subsection 5704.2.9.6.1 is amended to Subsection 507.5 is amended to read as read as follows: follows: 5704.2.9.6.1 Locations of above-ground 507.5 Fire hydrant systems. Fire hydrant tanks. Above-ground tanks shall be locsystems shall comply with Sections ated in accordance with this section.

507.5.1 through 507.5.6, and Appendix C of this code as amended, or the Douglas Subsection 5706.2.4.4 Locations where County Standard for Water Supplies for above ground tanks are prohibited, is Rural Fire Fighting where applicable. The hereby deleted in its entirety. following locations shall not be subject to the standards contained in these Sections Subsection 5806.2 Limitations, is and/or Appendix C: hereby deleted in its entirety.

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Government Legals

1. Fire apparatus access roads not having an existing water line, except when a new water line is installed to serve commercial or residential development or to convey water to another location.

2. Where access to sufficient water flow is unavailable as determined by the fire code official and the building official.

Subsection 6104.2 Maximum capacity within established limits, is hereby deleted in its entirety.

Subsection 507.5.1 is amended to read as follows: 507.5.1 Where required. Where a portion of the facility or building hereafter constructed or moved into or within the jurisdiction is more than 400 feet (122 m) from a hydrant on a fire apparatus access road, as measured by an approved route around the exterior of the facility or building, on-site fire hydrants and mains shall be provided where required by the fire code official and the building official.

Exceptions: 1. [No Change] 2. [No Change] Subsection 510.1 Emergency responder radio coverage in new buildings.

Exception 4 is added to read as follows: Exceptions: 1. [No Change] 2. [No Change] 3. [No Change] 4. One and two-family dwellings and townhouses.

Subsection 605.11 is amended to read as follows: 605.11 Solar photovoltaic power systems.

Solar photovoltaic power systems shall be installed in accordance with the International Building Code as amended, the International Residential Code as amended, and NFPA 70.

Subsections 605.11.1 Marking through 605.11.4 Ground mounted photovoltaic arrays, are deleted in their entirety: Subsection 903.2.7 is amended to read as follows: 903.2.7 Group M. An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout buildings containing a Group M occupancy where one of the following conditions exist: 1. [No Change] 2. [No Change] 3. [No Change] 4. A Group M occupancy where the display and/or sales area containing the upholstered furniture or mattresses exceeds 5000 square feet (464 m²).

Subsection 903.2.9 is amended to read as follows: 903.2.9 Group S-1. An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout all buildings containing a Group S-1 occupancy where one of the following conditions exist: 1. [No Change] 2. [No Change] 3. [No Change] 4. [No Change] 5. A Group S-1 fire area used for the storage of upholstered furniture or mattresses exceeds 2,500 square feet (232 m²).

Subsection 1101.1 is amended to read as follows: 1101.1 Scope. Where required by the fire code official and the building official, the provisions of this chapter shall apply to existing buildings constructed prior to this code.

Exceptions: 1. One and two-family dwellings and townhouses.

Subsection 1103.2 is amended to read as follows: 1103.2 Emergency responder radio coverage in existing buildings. Where required by the fire code official and the building official, existing buildings that do not have approved radio coverage for emergency responders within the building based upon the existing coverage levels of the public safety communications systems of the jurisdiction at the exterior of the building, shall be equipped with such coverage according to one of the following: 1. Whenever an existing wired communication system cannot be repaired or is being replaced, or where not approved in accordance with Section 510.1, Exception 1.

2. Within a timeframe established by Douglas County.

Exception: Where it is determined by the fire code official or the building official that the radio coverage system is not needed.

APPENDICES B AND C TO ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001 Only those appendix chapters of the 2012 International Fire Code listed herein are adopted as follows: APPENDIX B, Fire-Flow Requirements for Buildings.

Subsection B103.3 is amended to read as follows:

B103.3 Areas without water supply systems. In rural and suburban areas in which adequate and reliable water supply systems do not exist, the International Fire Code as amended shall apply. When agreed upon by the fire code official and the building official, NFPA 1141, NFPA 1142, ISO Fire Suppression Rating Schedule or other approved method may be utilized to determine fire flow requirements.

APPENDIX C, Fire-Hydrant Locations and Distribution.

Subsection C103.1 is deleted and replaced as follows:

C103.1 Fire hydrants available. Where existing water supplies permit, as determined by the fire code official and building official, the minimum number and distribution of fire hydrants available to a building, complex, or subdivision shall not be less than that listed in Table C105.1.

Where existing water supplies do not permit, nothing in this section shall be construed so as to require the presence of a minimum number and distribution of fire hydrants as set forth in Table C105.1.

For the purpose of a complex or subdivision, fire hydrant number and distribution requirements in Table C105.1 are to be applied to fire apparatus access roads and perimeter public streets from which fire operation could be conducted.

Section 3. Applicability and Enforcement: The provisions of the International Fire Code, as modified in Section 2 herein, and from the date on which this ordinance shall take effect, shall be controlling within the limits of the Fire Protection Districts of Castle Rock, North Fork, South Metro Fire Rescue, Franktown, Jackson 105, Larkspur, Littleton, West Douglas, Mountain Communities and West Metro Fire Rescue, along with the Metropolitan Districts of Highlands Ranch, Roxborough Park and Castle Pines and those areas of unincorporated Douglas County not included within a fire protection district. The Fire Code shall be enforced by the chief, commander or designated representative of each fire protection department or district specified in Section 1, or by the Board of County Commissioners in areas not included within a fire protection district.

Section 4. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances, Resolutions, and Regulations: All ordinances and/or resolutions or parts of ordinances and/or resolutions inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, including Ordinance No. O-007-002, are hereby repealed, except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the effective date of this Ordinance.

INTRODUCED, READ AND ADOPTED ON FIRST READING on June 14, 2016, and ordered published in the Douglas County News-Press.

THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO BY: David A. Weaver, Chair ATTEST: BY: Meghan McCann, Deputy Clerk ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING on July 12, 2016, and ordered published by reference to title only in the Douglas County News-Press.

THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS COLORADO BY: David Weaver, Chair ATTEST: BY: Meghan McCann, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 929331 First Publication: June 30, 2016 Last Publication: June 30, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Subsection 1103.7.6 is amended to read as follows: 1103.7.6 Group R-2. A manual and automatic fire alarm system that activates the

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