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You don’t say — officers go viral with lip-sync challenge Area departments aim to show human side of public guardians

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Police departments across the Denver suburbs have been facing a new challenge — a lip sync challenge.

In between busting criminals, Denver-area cops have been busting moves in the viral social media challenge.

Cpl. Jessica Chaine of the Lone Tree Police Department brought the challenge to Lone Tree after seeing it sweep local police forces across the country. She said she wanted to take on the challenge to help humanize officers but also to send a strong message.

“They’re to show people that we’re just normal people who love our jobs,” Chaine said, “and this is a way to show that in a fun way.”

Chaine’s original video of her and Cpl. Jeff Gould lip-syncing Carrie Underwood’s “The Champion” featuring the rapper Ludacris, in a LTPD squad car, took off online with more than 150,000 views. The video tagged almost every area police department, and some have responded with videos of their own.

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Lone Tree Police Department Cpl. Jessica Chaine and Cpl. Jeff Gould lip sync Carrie Underwood’s “The Champion” as part of a viral video challenge of local police departments. Chaine brought the challenge to the Denver metro area and it has taken off with other departments trying to top each other with lip-sync videos.

COURTESY PHOTO entered the challenge with Miley Cyrus’ party anthem “Party in the USA.” The Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office entered the fray with an entry featuring Toby Keith’s “Should’ve been a cowboy.”

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The Wheat Ridge Police Department added their own sync-and-dance with “Thunder” by Imagine Dragons.

“We really try to illustrate that community partnership on those social media pages,” said WRPD public information officer Sara Spaulding.

Spaulding said the challenge has provided a unique opportunity to expand their reach on social media. She said the department sometimes relies on people to engage on social media to help with certain cases like kidnappings or missing people.

“It’s not only to build relationships on more of a daily basis, but we really rely on the community to have them help us,” she said. “That’s one of the important ways social media can help us.”

Police departments in Greeley and Greenwood Village have also posted their own versions of the lip sync challenge, each trying to outdo the last. But some police departments declined to take part.

In a separate wave of the lip sync challenge, Abeline (Texas) Police Chief Stan Standridge posted on the department’s Facebook page July 2 declining to accept the “countless tags,” to do the lip sync challenge.

“If we say yes to lip-sync’ing, then we say no to more pressing matters,” the Facebook post reads.

Chaine believes the challenge is still a useful method to reach the community. Spaulding agrees.

“We’re just happy to serve our community,” Chaine said. “We want them to know we’re just like them. I think it’s important for them to realize we’re people too.”

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Each class will explore the role of various members of the office in different parts of the criminal justice system. Attendees will explore the functions of specialized units in the district attorney’s office, including the Special Victims Unit, Economic Crimes Unit, Cold Case Unit, Crime Scene Investigations, County Court and Juvenile Justice. Students also will learn the intricacies of a jury trial.

Spots are limited, and preference is given to first-time attendees and those who live in the 18th Judicial District.

Participants must be at least 18 years old, complete an application and pass a criminal background check to be considered. Members of the media and family members of employees are welcome to apply.

The application form can be found at www.da18.org/community-outreach/citizens-academy/ The deadline for applications is Aug. 10.

Applications can be submitted: • Via mail to: Office of the District Attorney, c/o Mayra Navarro, 6450 S. Revere Parkway, Centennial, CO 80111 • Via email to: mnavarro@da18. state.co.us • Via fax to 720-874-8790 Once the academy is full, applicants will be placed on a waiting list.

Attendees will be notified of their acceptance no later than Aug. 22.

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July 26, 2018

Attainable-housing plan approved for RidgeGate Goal is to make area more accessible for a wide range of people, officials say

we’re just fulfilling this vision that was promised by the residents then,” Mayor Jackie Millet said. “A piece of that is making sure there’s a place and a space for a whole range of people in the community.”

The plan is part of the city’s RidgeGate East Sub-Area Plan for the East Village to develop the area along RidgeGate Parkway on the east side of I-25. The sub-area plan includes new parks, an elementary school, housing units, multi-story buildings and a main street running north to south.

East RidgeGate, a walkable distance to the coming RTD light rail extension, could serve as Lone Tree’s downtown center. The Sub-Area Plan outlines the area to be the social hub of Lone Tree once it’s completed.

Jennifer Drybread, senior planner on the city’s planning commission, said the project on the attainable housing would begin after 2019. The

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Lone Tree City Council has approved a plan to bring what is being called “attainable” housing to the RidgeGate community.

The RidgeGate Attainable Housing Plan was approved unanimously July 17 and follows up on the requirement to provide lower-cost housing, including townhomes and apartments, in the area as part of the RidgeGate East Annexation Agreement in 2000.

“The vision for this community really was passed by the public when this land was annexed in 2000, and

development of the entire area could take up to 40 years to complete.

Rent and lease prices of the 350 planned units have not been determined yet, but according to the plan, the units will be available to those with houshold incomes between 40 percent and 60 percent of the area median income for the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Metropolitan Statistical Area. The plan calls for 150 of the units to go to residents 55 and older.

Diane Leavesley, executive director of the Douglas County Housing Partnership, said no official estimates to the cost of these units can be predicted yet because the completion of the units is far in the future.

The AMI Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA, as of 2018, was about $72,000, which could make the housing units in the RidgeGate plan available to household incomes at roughly $30,000

per year on the low end. At the maximum income level, families of two will be eligible at or below $43,200 per year, and families of four will be eligible with an income of up to $53,940 per year.

“These are our school teachers, these are our police officers,” Millet said.

The Sub-Area Plan for the East Village will build around RidgeGate Parkway and includes plans for a city center area, just east of I-25 and south of Lincoln Avenue, and a district with an elementary school, retail spaces and houses, which will be on the southernmost end of the area off RidgeGate Parkway. To view the full plan, visit www.cityoflonetree.com.

“A complete community provides housing for a whole range of income levels,” Millet said, “and I think we’re excited that we’re going to have an opportunity to do that on the east side.”

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July 26, 2018J

School board invites charter school leaders to discuss possible tax measure Decision on bond or mill levy likely will be made in August

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As the decision on whether to put a tax measure on the November ballot nears, the Douglas County School Board hosted a special meeting for charter school leaders to voice their needs. Several community members and teachers said in all their years at the district, they had never seen anything like it.

“Since I started coming to board meetings in 2010, I’ve never seen all of the charter leadership together in one room brought together by the board,” retired teacher Gary Colley said.

About 40 principals, directors, board members and educators from the district’s 18 charter schools sat at tables with either a district staff member or a board of education member at the July 16 workshop, held at the district’s administrative building in Castle Rock.

Also in attendance was the district’s new superintendent, Thomas Tucker.

The goal of the two-hour meeting was for the school board to gather information on what charter schools would use funds for should a bond measure be placed on the November ballot. A bond would generate money to ad-

dress capital needs across the district, such as building repairs and security measures.

Outlined in the district’s Master Capital Plan, capital needs are categorized into four tiers. Tier one needs are repairs that if not addressed could potentially close a school, such as boilers and fire-alarm systems.

According to the district’s Long Range Planning Committee, which studies capacity needs, charter schools have $2.7 million worth of tier one needs and neighborhood schools have $71.5 million.

“Those are essential to the occupancy of the building and a safe learning environment,” Richard Cosgrove, director of planning and construction, said at the workshop.

At a June 6 board meeting, the sevenmember school board approved a resolution to include charter schools in 100 percent of a mill levy override, used for programming and teacher pay. The board has not yet made a decision if an MLO will be placed on the November ballot.

At the July 16 workshop, charter school leaders voiced concerns over the messaging around a tax measure, how to reach taxpayers who don’t have students in the district, the unique needs of each charter school and how much of a bond measure would be distributed to charters.

The conversation was ultimately about the safety and security of the

68,000 students in the school district.

“This is really about the unity of all of our children, regardless of where we have been and what we have endured,” said Kendra Hossfeld, principal at North Star Academy in Parker. “This is definitely about the students and we are hopeful this can be passed if we handle it in a very optimistic way but also a way that we can tell families and parents who may not understand the importance that this is about the safety of our kids.”

School board President David Ray, who moderated the conversation, came up with two paths to address the capital needs of charter schools in Douglas County.

The first would use the district’s process to evaluate capital needs in charter schools. District staff would visit each charter building to determine the top five needs.

In the second path, charter schools would form a representative committee to determine a process for how tax dollars would be distributed for capital needs.

“Requests from charters would go to this group for prioritization,” Ray said.

Board member Wendy Vogel advocates for both paths, she said.

“I think that having staff be able to go and identify the priorities will help us in the determination of the ultimate dollar amounts and then having a group of charters to actually make the determination of how that is distributed, it makes sense to me,” she said.

The school board will continue its conversation about specifics Gary Colley the of a bond retired teacher and MLO. A decision on whether a tax measure will be placed on the ballot this fall is expected to be made at an Aug. 7 school board meeting beginning at 6 p.m. at the district’s administrative building, 620 Wilcox St., Castle Rock.

“Obviously, we have the tough challenge of making the tough decision and we recognize that,” Ray said. “Hopefully, if nothing else, you hear tonight it’s 68,000 kids, that’s what we are committed to.”

“Since I started coming to board meetings in 2010, I’ve never seen all of the charter leadership together in one room brought together by the board.”

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July 26, 2018

Court rules school fundraiser violated First Amendment Two Highlands Ranch schools held a supply drive for a mission trip to Guatemala

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Douglas County School District violated the U.S. Constitution when it supported a fundraiser for a mission trip to Guatemala, according to a district court ruling filed July 17.

“In sum, this panoply of interactions between the District and religion rises to an unconstitutional level,” the ruling by U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson states. “Defendants supported an overtly Christian cause through financial donations, through sending emails and flyers to students’ families, and through hosting the supply drive during school hours over the course of a school week.”

The case dates back to 2014, when Highlands Ranch High School and Cougar Run Elementary held a supply drive for a mission trip to Guatemala.

In addition, a flier and email promoting the effort were sent to students and families at a number of schools in the district.

The students who went to Guatemala were part of the Highlands Ranch High School chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The trip was organized in conjunction with Adventures in Missions, whose website describes its vision, “that God would use us to raise up a generation of radically committed disciples of Jesus Christ.” A Highlands Ranch High English teacher accompanied the students on the trip.

The plaintiff in the case is listed as Jane Zoe, on behalf of her son, who

was a student at Cougar Run in Highlands Ranch at the time. Zoe argued that her son was taunted for not believing in God after he declined to participate in the program. The plaintiff ’s real name was not available.

The American Humanist Association — a group that says it works to ensure the separation of church and state — and Zoe filed a lawsuit against the Douglas County School District on Oct. 22, 2014.

The lawsuit names as defendants the school district, the board of education, former Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen, Cougar Run Elementary Principal John Gutierrez and former HRHS Principal Jerry Goings.

The AHA said the district’s program was in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of and from religion.

Attorneys for the school district argued the fundraiser promoted “an increased awareness of and appreciation for poverty in a Latin American country, and a feeling of pride that (DCSD schools) sought to help poor children in an area of the world they were studying in class,” court documents state.

In her ruling, Jackson stated, “The very concept of a mission trip has religious intimations. The Guatemala mission trip was overtly religious.”

Zoe sought “nominal damages,” according to court documents. According to the Cornell University Legal Information Institute, this is a term used when a judge or jury finds in favor of one party to a lawsuit, often because a law requires them to do so, but concludes that no real harm was done and therefore awards a very small amount of money.

The court awards Zoe reasonable costs and attorney’s fees, according to court documents.

Supplies, more offered to families in need STAFF REPORT

School is just around the corner, and not everyone is ready.

School supplies, clothing and other necessities can create a financial hurdle for already-stressed household budgets. Some families simply don’t have the extra money.

That’s why the Strive to Thrive Resource Fair was created. The free biannual event, hosted by Douglas County’s Community of Care Network, is from 4 to 6 p.m. July 31 at Southeast Christian Church, 9650 Jordan Road in Parker.

In addition to providing school supplies, the fair offers food and nutrition assistance, emergency assistance applications, employment opportunities and more to Douglas County families and residents enduring hard times and gives them the opportunity to con-

nect with more than 20 area organizations on site that have a desire to help.

“Strive to Thrive is a perfect example of the public-private partnerships we assemble that we hope will help return individuals and families to self-sufficiency,” Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas said in a recent news release. “The event is partnering at its best and provides our most vulnerable citizens with the opportunity to connect with multiple service providers in one convenient location.”

For more information, visit Douglas County’s Community of Care Network at www.douglas.co.us/community/partners-and-providers/ community-of-care/ or call Community of Care Network Navigator Rand Clark at 303-660-7460. No appointment or registration is required to attend the fair.

August 2-5, 2018 Buy your tickets today! Every day at the Douglas County Fair and Rodeo is full of family fun! Join your friends and neighbors for a classic fair carnival experience. Visit Discovery Ranch and become a farmer for the day! Join in the stick-horse rodeo or the pie-eating contest. Enjoy the new Vintage Marketplace, live music, classic fair food, as well as – a foodie’s favorite – food trucks. For a schedule of events, or to purchase tickets online, visit FairandRodeoFun.com or call 720-733-6941.

Looking for a local volunteer opportunity serving Libraries or the Cultural Council?

Douglas County is actively seeking volunteers to fill vacancies on its Cultural Council and the Library Board of Trustees. For more information on requirements please visit www.douglas.co.us and search for Cultural Council or Library Board of Trustees. Applications for both vacancies will be accepted through July 31. Those interested may fill out an online application. For additional information, contact the Douglas County Commissioners’ Office at 303-660-7401.

All Colorado Motor Vehicle Offices closed August 1-5 Plan ahead now! A new statewide computer system will require closure of County Motor Vehicle Offices Aug. 1-5. However, self service Motor Vehicle Kiosks will be available for registration renewals during the office closure. For self service Kiosk locations please visit www.douglas.co.us and search for Motor Vehicle Kiosks.

All Colorado Driver License Offices closed August 2-3 All State Driver License Offices in Colorado will be closed August 2-3 for the launch of a new statewide computer system. Please plan ahead! For regular hours and locations visit www.douglas.co.us and search for Driver License.

Neighbors helping Neighbors Interested in finding ways to serve others, Neighbor Network has some recommendations that may be just what you’re looking for – and close to home. To volunteer please fill out an application at www.dcneighbornetwork.org or call 303-814-4300.

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July 26, 2018J

Fair organizers boost entertainment for 100th celebration Douglas County event has run consecutively since 1918

Before 1918, there was more than one “first annual” Douglas County Fair, as shown here in early fair programs.

The event was not held consecutively until 1918.

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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his is a big year for the Douglas County Fair & Rodeo — 2018 is the event’s 100th celebration.

The annual event kicks off on Aug. 2 and runs through Aug. 5 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 500 Fairgrounds Drive in Castle Rock.

The key word is celebration. Organizers are careful not to call it the “100th anniversary” of the fair and rodeo.

County officials — a county spokeswoman, two fair board members and a county archivist — explained the fair began years before 1918, but thanks to multiple factors, such as wars, lack of organization and funding, the fair was not a consecutive, annual event until that year.

One of the earliest known events was in fact a “butter fair” in Castle Rock, advertised in 1874.

Alyssa Carver, an archivist with Douglas County Libraries, said local government was still cementing itself in those early years.

Douglas County was founded in 1861 and drew the boundaries its maintains today in 1874. Before then, the county was a long, easternstretching stripe reaching to the modern-day borders of Kansas, Carver said.

“The school district didn’t even organize until 1958, the way it is now,” she said.

Carver sifted through a box of historic fair programs, also called premiums, at the Castle Rock library on July 18. The collection is spotty before 1918, she said, but fairly comprehensive from that point on.

So, with 100 consecutive celebrations of the fair and rodeo, organizers are trying to make its centennial event the best yet.

Debbie Mills and Pam Spradlin, both fair board members, said they’ve worked hard to incorporate new forms of entertainment this year.

The 2018 vendor fair is now dubbed the “Vintage Marketplace” and will bring in more craft and specialty items than in years past. Mills said

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HIGHLIGHTS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY FAIR & RODEO EVENTS

Dillon James Tyner catches some air on his bull Road Trip during the Xtreme Bulls competition during last year’s Douglas County Fair & Rodeo.

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FAIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES The Douglas County Fair & Rodeo will provide a shuttle service to the fairgrounds’ main entrance, 500 Fairgrounds Road, Castle Rock, throughout the event. The free shuttles will run every 15 minutes from the County Wilcox Building

at 301 Wilcox St. and the Tri County Health building at 410 S. Wilcox St. More locations may be added — visit douglascountyfairandrodeo.com for the most current information. Signs will mark pick-up locations.

people can expect boutiques, artisans and a sterling silver and turquoise jewelry designer from New Mexico she is particularly excited to see coming to town.

They’ve also revamped the carnival and are near doubling the number of rides available for people, from eight to 14.

When people get hungry, Mills and Spradlin are proud to say they’ve thought of that, too. The fair will still offer traditional carnival foods, but organizers are also bringing in food trucks, a modern approach to providing healthier options.

The women said this was a direct result of community feedback calling for lighter meals.

“They still want to eat the big turkey legs, but they want a salad with that, too,” Mills said.

The most exciting change

in 2018 will be to the music concerts, Mills and Spradlin said.

“Our big thing is our new outdoor concerts on the new performance platform,” Spradlin said.

Past concerts were held in the event center, which they estimated could accommodate 2,500 people.

This year, they’re holding concerts in the outdoor arena, where they expect to hold up to 6,000 concertgoers in the arena floor and grandstand.

Douglas County Commissioner Roger Partridge said his favorite part of the fair and rodeo is “the enjoyment I see on people’s faces and their demeanor while they’re there.”

To him, however, the fair and rodeo in an important opportunity to showcase and uphold the county’s roots in agriculture.

The Douglas County Fair & Rodeo officially begins on Aug. 2 and runs through Aug. 5 this year, but the event is packed with activities starting as early as July 27.

Here are some of the main events each day of the fair and rodeo.

Friday, July 27 The Western Heritage Welcome, which features a steer drive through downtown Castle Rock, starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m. The steer drive begins at Rock Park, travels along Perry Street and ends near the Castle Rock Police Department. Additional activities are planned in Festival Park.

Saturday, July 28 • Douglas County Fair & Rodeo opening festivities continue with a parade beginning at 9:30 a.m. in downtown Castle Rock.

• A hometown rodeo will begin with the crowning of Fair & Rodeo Royalty at 5 p.m. in the fairgrounds’ outdoor arena.

Thursday, Aug. 2

• The carnival runs from 5 to 10 p.m.

• The Xtreme BULLS Bull Riding event begins at 7 p.m. in the indoor arena.

This is a ticketed event.

Friday, Aug. 3 • The Vintage Marketplace runs from noon to 8 p.m.

• The carnival runs from 2 to 11:30 p.m.

• The Queen’s Barrel Race begins at 4 p.m. in the outdoor arena.

• The Medved P.R.C.A. Rodeo Patriot Night, a ticketed event, begins at 7 p.m. in the outdoor arena.

• A Two Way Crossing concert begins at 9 p.m. in the outdoor arena. This is also a ticketed event.

Saturday, Aug. 4 • The carnival runs from 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

• The Vintage Marketplace runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

• The Medved P.R.C.A. Rodeo, a ticketed event in the outdoor arena, begins at 6 p.m. and will honor ProRodeo Hall of Fame Class of 2018 inductees.

• A Cody Johnson concert in the outdoor arena begins

With livestock shows running each day, barns open to the public and hundreds of fair exhibits on display, it’s an opportunity for families from the city and country alike to learn about the industry behind food, clothes and so many more facets of life, he said.

at 9:30 p.m. A fireworks show will also begin at 9:30 p.m. atop The Rock, weather permitting.

Sunday, Aug. 5 • A church service will be held in the outdoor arena at 7:30 a.m.

• A free pancake breakfast will take place on the Midway at 8 a.m., followed by the Dutch Oven CookOff at 9 a.m.

• The Vintage Marketplace runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• The carnival runs from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• The Medved P.R.C.A. Rodeo Cowboys for Cops, a ticketed event, begins at 1 p.m. in the outdoor arena.

• A Face Vocal Band concert begins at 3 p.m. in the outdoor arena.

For a comprehensive schedule, including all the livestock shows and fair exhibits, visit douglascountyfairandrodeo.com.

Visit douglascountyfairandrodeo. com/tickets for more information on all ticketed events and fair entry.

Partridge also gave credit to the fair board and foundation, and all volunteers who “put hours into this to make it a great event for the public.”

“That is truly,” Partridge said, “when the agricultural ranching and farming heritage comes to life.”

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July 26, 2018

Lone Tree Arts Center books impressive season Performances launch in September and run through next May

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

R&B, blues, ballet, “Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth,” Barynya (Russian singing and dancing troupe) and more are included in the wide-ranging season’s programs at Lone Tree Arts Center from September 2018 through May 2019. “Arts in the Afternoon” programming seems expanded and the Lone Tree Symphony offers early ticket access to Lone Tree subscribers, who can choose programs now and enjoy early access to the best theatrical series tickets, as well. (Subscriber tickets are discounted 15 percent.)

A sampler from the more than three dozen programs scheduled now (more will probably be added): Vocalist Lannie Counts, who starred in last season’s “Muscle Shoals — I’ll Take You There,” opens the season at 8 p.m. on Sept. 15, with a program of “The

Greatest R&B Songs Ever Written,” accompanied by a six-piece band. And soon thereafter, on Sept. 29, audiences are invited to a “Sing-Along Grease” film showing and 1950s movie night that includes a costume contest, sock hop and more.

The holidays will bring Gail Bliss with “A Classic Country Christmas” on Nov. 28; “The Doo Wop Christmas Project” on Dec. 2; and a revisit of Lone Tree’s production, “Home for the Holidays,” Dec. 19-23, that includes a special guest appearance of that jolly gentleman.

The always popular “National Geographic Live!” programs include four appearances this season with live speakers and the astonishing images National Geo is known for: • “Into the Arctic Kingdom” with Florian Schulz, Sept. 21 at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

• “When Women Ruled the World” with Kara Cooney on Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

• “Ocean Soul” with Brian Skerry on Dec. 27 at 7:30 p.m.

• “My Wild Life” with Bertie Gregory on Jan. 18 at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

The 10-part Arts in the Afternoon programming includes

three from the regular season, plus a variety of musical, instrumental, dance, folk and other performers. Each program is at 1:30 p.m. on a Wednesday, with the exception of the Bertie Gregory National Geographic program, “My Wild Life,” which is on Friday, Jan. 18 at 10 a.m.

A Classic Albums Live band will perform “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” — the entire album, with no gimmicks or costumes, just those favorite numbers, at 8 p.m. on Jan. 19, and Shaun Booth’s “Unauthorized Biography Series” will honor Martin Luther King Jr. and other cultural icons on Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m.

The Mary Louise Lee Orchestra will appear with “Respect: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin” at 8 p.m. on Feb. 2, performing Franklin’s best-known songs and some less-recognized numbers that show her amazing range.

Classical ballet lovers will be interested in the Russian National Ballet’s Feb. 2 performance of what probably is the most famous one: “Swan Lake,” at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 12. “Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth” is an immersive, multi-media performance, with projections of NASA imag-

ery from outer space, inspired by the astronauts. Onstage live music and dance from around the world accompanies these images.

On a different track: “Ranky Tanky” is a band of South Carolina musicians with a fresh brand of Americana, who appear at 8 p.m. April 26. “Snap,” declared the best magic show at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe, is a Korean production with mystery, fantasy and illusion, at 1:30 and 7 p.m. on May 5, and Classic Albums Alive returns with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Chronicle, Vol. 1” at 8 p.m. May 11, as the season nears its end.

Lone Tree Symphony’s concerts on Sept. 28, Dec. 7 and 8, March 1 and May 3 may be included in the season ticket purchases, as noted above.

Pick up a season brochure at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree, or see lonetreeartscenter.org to order — or call the box office at 720509-1000. We are told this week that single tickets are also on sale, should one wish to be sure of a seat for a particular favorite — some do sell out in advance!

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Exploration of Flight, the gleaming new annex of Colorado’s official air and space museum, seeks to get young people fired up about the bright future of aviation in the state.

“We’re facing an incredible

shortage of aerospace and aviation personnel, at the same time the industry is booming here,” said Wings Over the Rockies CEO John Barry.

Exploration of Flight boasts an array of attractions to set young imaginations soaring: flight simulators, virtual reality, spinning gyroscope chairs and a viewing area to watch traffic at one of the nation’s busiest small airports.

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Parijaat Malik, left, and Steve Almer put finishing touches on Bye Aerospace’s Sunflyer 2, an experimental all-electric twoseater airplane.

Kael Tepper, a member of the center’s Wings Academy, polishes the partially-built fuselage of an RV-12 airplane, which he and his classmates are building from a kit. “It’s a riveting experience,” Tepper joked of assembling the plane with its thousands of rivets.

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The Lone Tree City Council approved the name Kimmer Plaza for the new park being constructed in the Entertainment District on the corner of Kimmer Drive and Park Meadows Drive.

The council voted unanimously on the name following a selection process of more than 60 options. Calling it a plaza, the council agreed, rings consistent to what the city envisions the park to be used for. The seven acres of land, just across from the Bowlero bowling alley and entertainment hub, will be a civic park with a shaded

structure that will have bar-height seating overlooking the wetland area to the west. The rest of the park will have benches, picnic tables, screen walls, bike racks and a pull-up bar fitness station.

A three-piece granite sculpture, designed by Frank Swanson of Swanson Stone Studios in Sedalia titled “Intersection,” will be the plaza’s centerpiece.

Councilmember Jay Carpenter said the South Suburban Parks and Recreation District, which has led the charge on the construction of the park, predicts the park to be completed near mid-August, but the end date is still “a moving target.”

The entire project cost about $1.1 million to build. South Suburban contributed almost $900,000 to the project.

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Theater shows can be difficult for children with sensory sensitivities, so the Lone Tree Arts Center offers affordable shows to minimize the harshness of light and sound. Dimming the lights and applauding using the “jazz hands” waving gesture are just a couple of the ways the Arts Center makes the theater a comfortable environment for people with sensory sensitivities.

“We want people to know that it doesn’t matter who you are, you’re welcome here and we have a program for you,” said Leigh Chandler, marketing director for the Lone Tree Arts Center. “For families that have somebody who has autism or other sensory sensitivities, this is an option for them to come and do something and experience live theater, which is something everybody should get to do.”

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Sheriff: We were not ‘in a position to sit around and wait’ Spurlock, Brauchler address questions after reports clear officers in shooting death of man who killed deputy

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Two separate reports recently released confirmed that the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office and the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office believe officers were justified when using lethal force in the Dec. 31 shooting death of a man who killed a deputy.

“The CRT report did not surprise me,” Sheriff Tony Spurlock said July 17, one day after the release of the district attorney’s office investigation, which is conducted by a unit called the Critical Response Team.

“I think they used the appropriate amount of force necessary to arrest and detain the aggressor.”

Matthew Riehl, 37, was killed on New Year’s Eve after a nearly 90-minute standoff with law enforcement early that morning at his Highlands Ranch apartment. Investigators later found more than 180 spent casings inside Riehl’s apartment. The incident began when he opened fire on five officers attempting to place him on a mental health hold, also called an M-1.

Deputy Zackari Parrish, 29, was killed in what authorities say was an ambush attack on officers.

The wounded officers were Deputy Michael Doyle, 28; Deputy Taylor Davis, 30; Deputy Jeffrey Pelle, 32; and Tom O’Donnell, a Castle Rock police officer shot during a SWAT raid on Riehl’s home later that morning.

Spurlock — who joined District Attorney George Brauchler for interviews with the media July 17 — hopes there are more quesSpurlock tions he can answer in the future.

Riehl was a former attorney and veteran who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder.His family attempted to get him treatment at a Veterans Affairs hospital and frequently asked law enforcement to conduct Brauchler welfare checks on Riehl as his mental health deteriorated following a 2009 deployment to Iraq, investigative reports say.

According to a sheriff ’s office homicide report, obtained by Colorado Community Media on July 16, detectives found a court order from 2014 showing Riehl was scheduled for an

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“At a minimum, they had consent to go into that apartment from the roommate.”

George Brauchler District attorney

involuntary commitment hearing in Wyoming, but the hearing was canceled.

A sheriff ’s office detective was unable to obtain court records explaining “what exactly led to the determination that Matthew was not appropriate for this proceeding” during the homicide investigation, the report says.

The report claims a local prosecutor told a Douglas County detective who had traveled to Wyoming that he’d need a subpoena to get the confidential court files, and the matter would end up before a judge.

A court-assigned lawyer on the case also reportedly told the detective he’d billed the state for 2 1/2 hours of work and met Riehl for roughly one hour. VA hospital records showed Riehl was “functioning satisfactorily” when on medication, the lawyer told the detective, according to the report. This was also his personal impression of Riehl.

Spurlock said he still plans to pursue the court documents, which will require “an abundance of administrative work.”

Stopping the threat Had Riehl been involuntarily committed in Colorado, Spurlock said he may not have obtained so many weapons. Each of the 15 weapons law enforcement found in Riehl’s apartment were legally purchased, according to a joint investigation from the sheriff ’s office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Brauchler emphasized the CRT report only examines if the use of lethal force was justifiable in Riehl’s death, but he and Spurlock answered lingering questions about the case.

Both men said deputies had reason to enter the apartment in an attempt to place Riehl on a mental health hold, and that the choice to place him on an M-1 hold was the right one. The shooting began as officers entered Riehl’s apartment while responding to the second 911 call from his residence that morning. Riehl made both emergency calls.

His behavior escalated from the first to second 911 calls made that morning, they said, in which he’d started throwing items from the apartment and making loud noises.

He also had weapons and was known to be hostile toward law enforcement. With those and other factors combined, deputies determined Riehl

was a danger to himself or others.

“At a minimum, they had consent to go into that apartment from the roommate,” Brauchler said.

Deputies spoke with Riehl’s roommate prior to going inside. The roommate is seen telling officers he was the primary lease holder in body camera footage, and later provided them a key to enter the apartment so they could conduct the M-1 hold, according to investigative reports.

“We were not really in a position just to sit around and wait,” Spurlock said.

Brauchler considered the issue from a different perspective — what if officers had done nothing that night, despite the two calls for service, escalating behavior and consent from Riehl’s roommate to go inside?

Had Riehl gone on to hurt himself or others, Brauchler said, “I don’t think the public would tolerate or understand that either.”

Spurlock said based on a Periscope video filmed during the shooting, Riehl “had completely lost contact with the real world” as he continued to fire at Parrish and other officers throughout the morning.

Questioning the system Brauchler and Spurlock also addressed laws they believe could improve the mental health system. For one, Colorado mental health hold laws are a failed system, they said.

Both supported a failed legislative attempt in May to pass a “Red Flag” bill, which would have allowed relatives, household members and law enforcement to ask a judge to order the removal of firearms from anyone posing a “significant risk” to themselves or others, according to the bill’s language.

Spurlock said each time law enforcement encountered Riehl he was coming up or down from an acute mental episode and didn’t meet current criteria for a mental health hold.

The law as it stands today hangs on the word “imminent” and requires people be an immediate threat to themselves or others before being involuntarily detained, Spurlock said.

“The law sets a very high bar,” Brauchler said, adding not all who need help for acute mental health issues meet the high threshold. “I think what it’s proving is the status quo isn’t working.”

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A year after fiscal deal, state may owe refunds Colorado veers from crisis to crisis due to requirements set by voters

BY BRIAN EASON ASSOCIATED PRESS

In a stunning turn from this time a year ago, Colorado’s state coffers are suddenly so flush with cash that lawmakers may be required to send more than $200 million back to taxpayers over the next three years.

For Democrats, it’s vindication for a deal struck in 2017 to exempt a state hospital fee from the state’s revenue cap — a deal that was supposed to clear out so much room under the cap that the state budget would have room to grow for years to come without sending any of it back to taxpayers.

Without the new law, Colorado would have owed taxpayers significantly more. And lawmakers never would have been able to afford the sizable investments in schools, roads and the public pension that turned the 2018 legislative session into a success for leaders in both parties.

But for fiscal conservatives who opposed the maneuver, an unexpected revenue windfall generated by federal tax changes and a rebounding oil and

gas sector makes last year’s spending deal even worse than they had imagined at the time.

All told, the measure allowed lawmakers to spend an extra $560 million without exceeding the state revenue cap, according to new figures from Greg Sobetski, senior economist with the Colorado Legislative Council.

That’s money that otherwise would have been eliminated through cuts to state hospital funding or refunds to state taxpayers. Instead, it was spent on the state’s most pressing financial issues. Rural hospitals avoided cuts, schools received a $150 million annual boost, the pension got $225 million a year and the state’s crumbling roads were given $500 million in one-time money.

“I think it’s really ironic — all the people that voted against (Senate Bill 267) certainly had no problem spending all that money on transportation,” said KC Becker, the House Democratic majority leader, who sponsored the measure.

The flip side is that next year, state budget writers could unexpectedly find themselves right back in the same situation they just escaped.

The latest forecasts from legislative economists project the state to exceed its revenue limit each of the next two years, leaving lawmakers with more financial decisions on the horizon. A competing forecast from

the Democratic governor’s office does not expect refunds next year and only $11 million worth in 2020.

This is the unusual dilemma Colorado lawmakers face. Conflicting constitutional requirements to restrain taxes yet increase spending have left the state seemingly always lurching from one fiscal crisis to the next —even in good economic times.

Under the state Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, Colorado’s revenue can only grow by a formula dictated by inflation and population growth.

A separate constitutional amendment also requires Colorado to spend more each year on schools.

Historically, when rapid economic growth or other factors has pushed the state past that limit, lawmakers have sought to avoid refunds. They instead chose to cut tax rates or fees or find other creative workarounds — such as exempting certain funds from the revenue-limit calculation like they did in 2017 or flat out ignoring school-finance obligations.

Last year’s spending compromise also stipulated that the first refunds would pay for a property tax cut for seniors — a growing tax break now worth $150 million that has been eliminated to balance the budget in the past.

With the state back at the cap so soon, some interest groups are now worried that popular programs will

be targeted in the next round of cuts.

“Pretty much everything has been protected now,” said Kevin Bommer, deputy director of the Colorado Municipal League. “There’s nowhere left to go than to start making cuts.”

Some of the biggest pots of discretionary spending left are the things lawmakers just tried to address — K-12 schools and the public pension.

Bommer is worried that severance taxes on oil and gas, which reimburse local governments for the effects of drilling and mining, will be tapped to pay for refunds instead.

His group backed a bill this year to ask voters to exempt severance taxes from the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights growth limit, but it was rejected by lawmakers in both parties.

To Jon Caldara, president of the fiscally conservative Independence Institute, the yearly battle to avoid refunds is an elaborate subversion of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, which requires voter approval to raise taxes or to keep more money than dictated by the formula.

“For me, the budget is a barrel full of whiskey,” Caldara said. “And every time all the whiskey pours in, all the revenue pours in and it looks like it’s finally going to get filled up and it looks like it’s going to spill over into my cup (as a taxpayer refund), the state opens the spigot at the bottom.

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Headlines like this come offee drinkers QUIET and go. Eggs are bad for live longer.”

DESPERATION you; eggs are good for you.

Thank you, Joe Red meat is bad for you; red DiMaggio. meat is very bad for you.

“People who drink two to “Coffee beans contain three cups of coffee a day minerals and vitamins, live longer than people who such as calcium, magnedon’t” (U.S. News, July 3). sium, phosphorus, and A study shows that I will potassium.” live 12 percent longer than Of course, they do. someone who doesn’t drink “They also contain anticoffee at all. OK. If two oxidants, including chloto three cups gets you 12 Craig Marshall rogenic acid, which helps percent, would four to six lower high blood pressure get you 24 percent? If that’s Smith and aids weight loss.” true, I am going to live forNow you’re talking. ever, and your grandchildren will And: “A daily cup of coffee can be reading my columns. help reduce the risk of type 2 dia“Researchers believe the coffee betes and Alzheimer’s disease.” bean, not the caffeine, has the lonI couldn’t write without coffee. I gevity effect.” Mrs. Olson, where tried once, and mostly what came have you bean all my life? “

out was middle of the road and humorless thought, failed insights and grievous typos.

The waiter asked how I take my coffee. I said, “Seriously, very seriously.”

The study also showed that if it takes more than three words (for example: “cream and sugar”) to order coffee, your pretension increases by 12 percent.

A friend of mine puts butter in his coffee. I put coffee in my coffee.

I have very particular coffee mugs, and I imagine you do too.

They are black, ceramic, with big handles. Nothing is written on them, like “World’s Greatest Dad,” or “I’m sorry for what I said before I had my coffee.”

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Owning a healthy self-image helps make solid connections

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l a N a w a “ ho is your best friend?” e Suzanne, one of our comn munity readers, posed this t question to her 10-year-old grandson. As he thought about it, he listed a about ten kids he would consider to be his best friend, and then he a WINNING said, “Wait a minute, I am b number one. I am my own a WORDS best friend.”

Suzanne summed it up best when she shared this with me as she stated that it took her years to figure this out and that her grandson was light-years ahead of her.

Thank you Suzanne, I appreciate you.

Michael Norton Although friends are an important part of our lives, especially the right kinds of friends and people we surround ourselves with, we must first be true to ourselves and have a healthy self-image of who we are.

We need to believe in ourselves and know what it is that we bring to a friendship or relationship before we go out trying to determine who our best friend is or what others may bring to the friendship or relationship.

There has been so much written about this topic, and there are so many quotes that are relevant to having a healthy selfimage, and I would like to share a little about what I have seen and learned over the years about owning our own healthy self-image.

Dr. Joyce Brothers said, “An individual’s self-concept is the core of his personality.

It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.”

David Mattson says it this way in his book “The Sandler Success Principles,” “You can only perform in your roles in a manner consistent with how you see yourself conceptually.”

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And when it comes to a healthy selfimage and friendship I think Zig Ziglar says it best, “If you go out looking for friends, you’re going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” If we go back to Suzanne’s grandson and his reply that he is his own best friend, he is so well positioned to go out and be a friend to others.

One of the greatest lessons I have learned from the folks mentioned above as well as Dr. Denis Waitley and Earl Nightingale and many others is that we all have riches inside of us. Sometimes we go looking for riches elsewhere or try and find an identity through someone else or something else, when all we really need to do is realize that we all have gifts, talents, resources, virtues, and abilities already within us.

All we must do is tap into those gifts and talents, bring them to the surface and believe in ourselves, our virtues and our abilities.

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The First Amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of...”

So which is it? Government can’t make us follow a specific religion or stop us from following a religion? The issue of separation of church and state was raised by Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 Letter to the Danbury CT Baptist Association. He talked about his “sovereign reverence” for the “wall of separation.”

The irony? Congress has its own chaplain beginning each session with a prayer. Outside and inside of the United States Supreme Court are posted the 10 Commandments!

Yet a federal judge says a group of kids can’t raise money for a mission trip because it infringes on someone else’s rights. No one forced to donate.

Just asked... to donate. In this day and age where we worry about violence in our schools, where kids spend hours hours playing video games, a judge says we can’t allow some kids to do something positive.

To help some kids far less fortunate.

To hopefully make a difference for a better world.

Brian Olson Highlands Ranch There’s conservative bias, too In reading the back and forth on media bias I noticed something interesting. What I noticed was that every time someone complains of media bias it is always liberal media bias. So I wondered, what about the conservative media bias?

Isn’t media bias the same on both sides? The premier conservativethinking outlet, Fox News, is regularly labeled the most inaccurate of all the primary, large news outlets by respected, independent fact-check organizations.

If we think back to the very found-

Over the years I have met with many people and customers and have had people challenge me about this concept, claiming that they don’t have gifts and talents or abilities.

And I can happily say that after spending just a little bit of time with them, some longer than others, most come around and see that they really are special, they have more to offer than they believed, and understand how important it is to see themselves in a positive and healthy light.

So how about you? Do you have a strong and healthy self-image? Not the egotistical and self-centered kind, but a healthy self-image that when brought to the surface can brighten the darkest days and shine a little extra light on the world.

I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com and when we can see ourselves in a better way and own our healthy self-image, it really will be a better than good day.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the president of the Zig Ziglar Corporate Training Solutions Team, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

ing of Fox News, Roger Ailes said their news would be reported with a conservative perspective — that was to be their niche. In other words, he was telling his audience they would be biased! So why are these folks, who are so convinced the media is biased, not reporting the bias on Fox, for example.

I find there is bias, and some outlets do a better job of attempting to balance their reporting than others. The only foolproof way to adjust for bias is to view/read/listen to a variety of sources — and to form one’s own opinion. The worst way is to get 90 percent of your content from one admittedly biased source, which is what I have found most who complain of media bias are doing.

Paul Mauro Castle Pines Pointing out bias is important My thanks to George Sullivan, of Centennial, for his excellent letter to the editor earlier this month.

He stated what I wanted to say, but more elequently than I might have. He pointed out that President Trump is only enforcing laws and decrees put forth by previous administrations.

I was delighted that Greg Neirling of Centennial got his comment on today’s journalism published in the paper’s same edition. Two conservative opinions on one page! When I count the responses in the “officials react” column, usually the Democrats outnumber the Republicans. And when they are equal, some of the Republicans are merely mouthing liberal opinions. We call them RINOs — Republican in name only.

So I can see the bias even in our local Colorado Community Media.

To change that, conservatives need to vote in November. And read your local paper carefully and let them know when you see opinions masquerading as facts.

Mary Ann McCoy Lone Tree

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They hold 8 ounces. I know there are larger mugs, but I never want the drink to cool off, and that’s what happens if I increase to 12 or 16.

I have a confession: There’s a microwave here in my office, just in case my coffee does cool off. I can’t have that.

If someone serves me a cool cup of coffee, it makes me boiling mad. Forget about breakfast: Coffee is the most important meal of the day.

If you don’t like coffee or you can’t drink coffee, I understand.

But if I found out that my wife didn’t drink coffee, it would be grounds for a divorce.

Remember “Percolator Twist,” a one-hit wonder by Billy Joe and the Checkmates in 1962? It was a spin-off of a Maxwell House television commercial jingle.

My coffee maker is top of the line. It has a lot of perks.

After a couple cups of coffee, I hop.

Next year, someone will say the opposite: “Drinking two to three cups of coffee shortens your life by 12 percent.”

My longevity will be right back where it started from.

But for now, I feel good about my favorite beverage.

“Coffee drinking can be part of a healthy diet,” the report says.

Around here, it’s the Soup of the Day. Remember that other old song?

“So let’s have another cup of coffee, and let’s have another cup of coffee.”

I guess you could say I’m well grounded.

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

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children,” Highlands Ranch resident Meghan Maxwell said. “They are great companions and fill my life with laughter and cuddles. They know when I’m upset or had a bad day and they follow me around and give me extra love.”

For children, caring for a pet can teach valuable life traits, including responsibility, kindness and patience, says the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Pets can contribute to a child’s self-esteem and self-confidence, and help develop trusting relationships with other people.

“A child who learns to care for an animal, and treat it kindly and patiently, may get invaluable training in learning to treat people the same way,” the academy says.

Specially trained dogs protect and assist people with disabilities or serious illnesses. They guide individuals with sensory issues, such as blindness or hearing loss. They respond to seizures in people with epilepsy.

here are annual events that have become so popular over the years that it can be difficult to imagine there was a time when they weren’t a key part of the year.

But back in 2001, when the first Colorado Dragon Boat Festival was hosted at Sloan’s Lake, there wasn’t any inkling that it would become the major event it is now.

“We weren’t expecting it to be as successful as it COMING has,” said Sara ATTRACTIONS Moore, executive director of Dragon 5280, the umbrella organization that encompasses the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, the Colorado Dragon Film Festival, and the Emerging Leaders Program. “That Clarke Reader first festival there was about 16,000 in attendance and now we are expecting more than 120,000 attendees.”

This year’s free festival is at Sloan’s Lake, Sheridan Boulevard and West 17th Avenue, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 28, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 29.

The event will feature two days of competitive dragon boat racing between about 37 teams of varying skill levels. In addition to the races, there will be five different stages with a variety of performances going on, a children’s area and performers from Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia and Denver’s sister city.

Gourmands will also want to check out the two food courts — the Taste of Asia court, with more than three dozen vendors representing 13 countries, and a marketplace for visitors to do their own shopping.

One of the main focuses of this year’s festival is sustainability, and as such, organizers are encouraging people to avoid driving to the area.

There is a free shuttle to take attendees to and from the Auraria Campus so they don’t have to find parking around Sloan’s Lake. There is also the light rail that stops at the campus.

The festival is open for everyone, and not only is it a great time, but it’s a chance to learn more about a vital cultural force.

“When we first started the festival, it was because we wanted the general public to see the contributions of Asian Pacific American community,” Moore said.

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Amanda Arnce bonded with her sister’s cat, named Kitten, while she was on bed rest following a back surgery. Now, Kitten belongs to her. “She just turned 15 and she is my soul cat,” Arnce said.

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‘They are yours for LIFE’ Four-legged friends benefit people in multitude of ways

HOW PETS HELP PEOPLE • Pets can be social magnets.

• Pets give owners a sense of belonging and meaning.

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

• Pets teach responsibility and commitment.

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hannon Whitecotton’s six dogs have taught her patience, tolerance, how to love unconditionally. They keep life interesting.

“We have learned that food can and will be eaten if left on a counter or table, that six dogs can and will fit on a king-size bed with two adults, that they will surround a sick child of any age for comfort,” said Whitecotton, a Highlands Ranch resident. “And they are yours for life.”

Rachel Beieler’s life had become a series of repetitive to-do lists, she said, until she met Stella, a mutt with wiry black hair. She bought the timid puppy for $100 at a pet shop. It had been there nine months and would soon have been sent to a pound if no one took it home.

“Her eyes were watering and narrow from the sunlight – she had only been accustomed to the fluorescent bulbs in the pet store for the majority of her life,” said Beieler, of Aurora.

“Every month that Stella and I were together she got a little more confidence, a little less awkward and scared.”

When people commend Beieler for saving her dog’s life, she tells them her dog saved hers.

Whitecotton’s and Beieler’s stories are reflective of the impact an animal can have on a person or family.

About 44 percent of all households

• Pets help lower blood pressure and reduce anxiety.

• Dog owners get more physical activity.

Source: WebMD

Rachel Beieler found her four-legged companion, Stella, on sale at a pet store.

“Every month that Stella and I were together she got a little more confidence, a little less awkward and scared,” Beieler said. “And so did I.” COURTESY PHOTO in the United States have a dog and 35 percent have a cat, according to the American Pet Products Association. And about 78 million dogs and 85.8 million cats are pets across the country.

Pets benefit the physical and mental health of people in a number of ways, several mental health organizations and medical providers say.

They can be catalysts for social interaction and exercise partners.

They can act as alarm clocks, home security systems and vacuum cleaners. They form irreplaceable bonds with their humans. They step in when people step out.

“I care for my cats like they are my

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Watercolorist’s new work shows Castle Rock scene

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astle Rock painter Cindy Welch has been recording bits of her town’s history with skillfully painted watercolors for a number of years. Limited print editions are available on her website, cindywelchdesign. com, as is her latest, SONYA’S which celebrates SAMPLER the Castle Rock Fire Department’s brand new truck, shown ready to roll through firehouse doors. In front of it sits the CRFD’s treasured antique truck. As of our most recent note from Welch, the original painting is also Sonya Ellingboe for sale, although that may no longer be true. Contact her if interested in a bright cheery piece for a bare wall.

First Friday Aug. 3 is First Friday in Littleton and the Depot Art Gallery hosts a reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. for the 35th annual All Colorado Show, juried by Joan Kresek.

Englewood Drama Gershwin’s “Crazy for You” is the choice for the annual Englewood Drama Production at the Fisher Auditorium, Englewood Campus, 3900 S. Logan St. Performances are at 7 p.m. on July 27/28 and 2 p.m. on July 29. Advance tickets: $12 and $14 at the door. Call 303-762-2680 for availability.

Castle Rock artist Cindy Welch introduced a new painting honoring the local fire department.

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(In past years, during afternoons, they were available in the lobby. No answer when we tried.)

Town Hall Arts Center Summer drama students present Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” at 7 p.m. on Aug. 3 and 5 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. in Littleton. The famous drama of passion, betrayal, danger and insanity of that Danish prince ... rated PG. Education director Seth Maisel instills a lasting love of theater in his students. Tickets: $5; 303-794-2787, ext. 5. Town Hall’s fall season: “Green Day’s American Idiot,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Casa Valentina,” “Dames at Sea,” “The World Goes Round,” “Sister Act.” Plus there’s a concert schedule — see TownHallArtsCenter.org.

Maya speaks ...

Maya Bemis DeBus, longtime Littleton Independent publisher Edwin Bemis’ granddaughter, returns to Little-

ton on Aug. 2 to speak about “Makeup and History: Intriguing, Whimsical and Little-Known Connections.” She will appear at 7 p.m. at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Datura St., Littleton. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.) Free, but tickets are needed; they are at the museum, limited to four per person. Also at the muscum, opening July 27: “Over the Top: Selling the First World War to a Nation Divided.”

(Many Americans were against joining the conflict in Europe. A huge propaganda campaign was mounted by the government.) Open during museum hours. Admission free.

Water blossom celebration The Annual Colorado Water Garden Society celebration is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Many south area gardeners are involved and new members are welcome. Monet Pool and other displays — plus expert advice.

Included with admission.

Farce in Golden Ken Ludwig’s funny play, “Lend Me A Tenor,” plays through Aug. 19 at the Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington St., Golden. Susan Connors Nepi of Highlands Ranch is cast as Julia.

Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: $15 to $38, 303-935-3044, minersalley.com.

Lannie Garrett Highlands Ranch Mansion’s great hall is the site for “Jazz at the Mansion: A Tribute to Great Women of Song” with singer Lannie Garrett and her Errand Boys of Rhythm at 6:30 to 8 p.m. on August 29. Doors open at 5:30 so you can tour the Mansion first.

A cash bar and light refreshments will be available. Ages 21 and older.

Tickets: $40 in advance, $45 at the door, if not sold out. (They usually do sell out in advance.) Purchase at any Highlands Ranch recreation center or call 303-791-2500.

First Friday Aug. 3 is the night for Littleton’s First Friday Art Walk, including the reception for the Depot Art Gallery’s 35th Annual All Colorado Show from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Juror Joan Kresek, chair of the art department at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and a nationally known realist painter, will announce awards. The exhibit runs July 31 through Sept. 8 at the gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave. Hours: Tuesdays to Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Entertainment at elevation is Colorado sensation

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

One might hike or fish all day in the beautiful Rockies and still enjoy a colorful show in the evening at one of several theaters in nearby mountain towns.

Last week, we drove up to a family house in Tabernash, in the Grand Valley, then continued north to Grand Lake for an evening at the handsome 250-seat Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, for a performance of “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.”

(This time, we failed to see the town’s resident moose strolling along the main drag, but maybe next time ...)

• Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre has operated in Grand Lake for many years and attracts strong professional actors from New York, Chicago and elsewhere who enjoy a cool mountain summer. They are also performing in repertory: “Annie,” “The Full Monty” and “Pump Boys and Dinettes” through August, with the last-named running through September.

“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” with book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and music and lyrics

by Steven Lutvak, won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical. It really is a clever piece about a man named Monty Navarro (Russell Mernagh) who learns

he is ninth in line for an earldom behind a string of stuffy D’Ysquiths. How to remedy that situation?? A funny and skilled Josh Kellman plays all nine aristocrats in a fast-paced tour de force performance. (Kellman is in his seventh year of summer shows at RMRC and director Michael Querio is also the theater’s executive artistic director, with a number of summers under his belt.) Look at the season’s dates online and order tickets in advance at RockyMountainRep.com, 970-627-3421.

• Also well-established as a place to find professional productions through the summer is the Creede Repertory Company. Set in an old silver mining town, it is on one of Colorado’s spectacular scenic highways (another set of places to pursue), en route to Lake City. Creede’s season incorporates two theater spaces and includes Neil Simon’s classic, “Barefoot in the Park,” as well as “The Wizard of Oz,” “Dolly Parton’s `9 to 5,’” a kids’ show called “Abandoned Way Out West,” and a twist called “Miss Holmes,” by Christopher M. Walsh. Also scheduled is Tony Meneses’ “Guadalupe in the Guestroom.”

• For opera fans, Central City Opera performs in the famous old stone opera house and is an easy day trip from the Denver area. 303-292-6500.

• Farther west, through lovely moun-

tains, is Thingamajig Theatre Company at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, which offers “Legally Blonde,” “West Side Story” “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” 970-731-7469.

• Award-winning Theatre Aspen’s season runs until Aug. 5, but is worth remembering for next summer. 970-3004474.

• Newer and worthy of note: Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre in

Trinidad is a decade old now, offering professional theater year-round on Trinidad’s historic Main Street. scrtheatre@gmail.com, 719-846-4765.

• And finally, remember the Colorado Shakespeare Festival on the CU-Boulder campus. “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “Richard III,” “Edward III,” “Cyrano De Bergerac,” and “You Can’t Take it With You” run in repertory through Aug. 11. Pack or buy a picnic and go!

Coloradoshakes.org, 303-492-8008.

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Supermarkets could upend current liquor landscape Change in law makes future look dicey for small retailers

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Linda Abreu, of Castle Rock, walked to the parking lot on a recent weekday with a full grocery cart — the typical milk, eggs, cereal boxes and frozen dinners — and a couple bottles of wine, because, she said, it was on sale.

“It’s definitely a nice change,” Abreu said, “that now I can buy wine with my cheese.”

At the King Soopers on Promenade Parkway in Castle Rock, shoppers have already embraced the ability to buy full-strength beer, wine and liquor.

In just a few aisles, the store displays

countless types of craft beer. Shoppers casually perused the expansive collection of wine with carts full of bread and cheese. This new convenience, stemming from the largest change in the state’s liquor laws since the end of Prohibition in 1933, has already become routine for some.

This King Soopers is one of a handful across the state offering a full liquor section for the first time ever.

Bill launched changes In 2017, stores like King Soopers, Safeway and Costco were able to open liquor sections under certain restrictions. Senate Bill 197, passed in 2016, allowed for retailers to sell liquor once they obtained two liquor licenses and bought out every liquor store within 1,500 feet.

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At a Safeway in Littleton, full-strength beer and liquor is being sold following SB-197.

The law allows a maximum of five liquor licenses to store chains in Colorado, under certain parameters.

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READER “The festival is a great opportunity for our community to highlight what we bring to the state and country. It is a passport to Asia without leaving Denver.”

For more information on the festival, visit www.cdbf.org.

The aim of the festival is to reward people for making healthy choices with food from local restaurants, beer and wine gardens, mini-workout classes, cooking demonstrations, and more.

Go to www.fitfoodrun.com to register for the race, which includes food along the course, finisher’s medal, tasting stations, gift bag and donation to No Kid Hungry.

Feeling fit with other foodies in Westminster Let’s be honest — most food festivals aren’t exactly healthy. There tends to be a lot of fried foods and more than a few sweets to throw off a diet. But there’s an event in Westminster that aims to offer a healthy alternative.

The Fit Foodie Festival and 5K/10K comes to Westminster City Park, 10455 N. Sheridan Blvd., from 8 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 28.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Nas, Black Star and Pusha T at Red Rocks As a genre, rap is entering the stage where some of its biggest stars are entering what could be considered “classic rock” status.

For so many years the genre was all about the newest figures on the scene, and while that’s still a major factor, some of rap’s most recognizable voices are becoming the elder statesmen.

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For my money, Pusha T has released the best rap album of the year in May with his third solo release, “Daytona,” and Black Star reuniting is something all rap fans should be excited about and makes a perfect addition to this bill.

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They help paralyzed people with tasks and mobility.

Specially trained dogs are also used in clinical settings.

In 1984, Children’s Hospital Colorado implemented its Prescription Pet program, a dog-assisted therapy and visitation program. Owners volunteer to take their trained dogs — which are required to pass a screening and get approval from a veterinarian — to patients’ rooms at several of the hospital’s campuses. The visits range from a few minutes to 15 minutes or longer, the hospital’s website says.

Therapy dogs used in counseling and some types of physical therapy help regulate and calm patients, said Dr. Robin Gabriels, program director of Neuropsychiatric Special Care at Children’s Hospital.

She primarily works with kids with autism and a psychiatric diagnosis.

“Dogs can bridge rapport building with therapist,” Gabriels said. “Dog behaviors can increase a child’s playfulness and positive mood, providing a stimulus for positive interaction and brightening mood.”

A study published by the American Psychological Association in 2011 found that pet owners were just as close to important people in their lives as to their animals.

The researchers found that pets benefited the lives of their humans by serving as “an important source of emotional support.”

When Amanda Arnce had back surgery, leaving her bedridden for weeks, she bonded with her sister’s kitten, named Kitten.

Now, 15 years later, Kitten belongs to Arnce.

Meghan Maxwell bought Frisco, right, from a breeder and got Bailey from a rescue shelter.

“I care for my cats like they are my children,” she said.

COURTESY PHOTO “Kitten loved that I was basically a human heating blanket,” said Arnce, of Highlands Ranch. “She is my soul cat. There will be other cats in my life, but the bond we have is special.”

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Daniels Park improvements unveiled Paved road, more parking bolster facility near Castle Pines

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Officials from Douglas County and the City and County of Denver came together July 20 at Daniels Park to celebrate an improvement project that, at least in concept, began 20 years ago.

The park is owned by the City and County of Denver and located west of Castle Pines in unincorporated Douglas County.

A recently completed $3.6 million project added three miles of buck fencing along a newly paved Daniels Park Road, 1.8 miles of bison fencing, roughly two miles of soft trail and 50 parking spaces throughout the park.

“Denver was proud to partner with Douglas County to make this happen,” said Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock. “Together we’re going to continue to build great things and make this a great area to visit.”

Officials estimated the park would open by end-of-day on July 24.

Daniels Park is home to a bison herd that roams the area and boasts

views of the Front Range, including notable local attractions like the Cherokee Ranch & Castle and to the south, Pikes Peak.

The area is a popular destination for sightseers, hikers and families, said Charles Herman, the Daniels Park caretaker of three years.

“It gets really busy,” he said. “The weekends are a little bit busier and people come out here at sunset.”

Castle Pines Mayor Tera Radloff said Daniels Park Road was used as a cut-through before the project began and her constituents reported speeding as a frequent issue.

Brad Eckert, a project manager with Denver Parks and Recreation, said the old Daniels Park Road was a 30-foot-wide dirt roadway and “straight as an arrow.” In addition to speeding, it wasn’t uncommon for drivers to end up in the ditch when the road was muddy, Eckert said.

Officials hope paving, curves, fencing and a speed limit of 25 mph will slow travelers down and increase safety.

“The intent was to create more of a park-type experience,” he said.

Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas, chair of the threemember board, said the project would not have been possible without staff and previous commissioners who worked to form a 2008 agreement with Denver that resulted in the 2018 park improve-

Roaming throughout Daniels Park is a bison herd, which visitors often stop to photograph.

PHOTOS BY JESSICA GIBBS ments. Conversation about park improvements first started in the late 1990s.

“It’s totally different,” Herman said. “I think it will help with the overall cleanliness of the park. I think people will want to respect it more now.”

As part of the Daniels Park improvement project, roughly 50 parking spaces were added in several lots along the road.

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In a municipality with a population of 10,000 or fewer, liquor-licensed stores must buy out all retail liquor stores within 3,000 feet.

Starting in January 2019, the landscape will change even more. SB-243, passed in spring of this year, referred to as the “beer bill,” will allow malt liquors, like Mike’s Hard Lemonade, and full-strength beers to be sold in grocery stores under a standard beer license. The bill also clarifies that local jurisdictions have authority over what is allowed in their public places and outlaws new liquor stores to be built within 500 feet of a school.

State Sen. Chris Holbert, a Republican from the Parker area, a sponsor of SB-243, said these policies came from a history of phased-in approaches. It began in 2008, when Gov. Bill Ritter signed a bill allowing liquor to be sold on Sundays.

“The grocery stores were left with 3.2 (percent alcohol content) beer, where people only 21 and older could buy it. They could buy it seven days a week, but nobody wanted it,” Holbert said. “So the grocery stores have been fighting for the opportunity to sell full-strength beer, and that change occurred with Senate Bill 197 in 2016.”

The King Soopers in Castle Rock is just one of a few retailers selling liquor already, a list that includes select Target, Costco and Safeway stores. As of 2017, grocery store chains were limited to five fully licensed locations. In 2022

“That’s an immediate, significant they will be allowed eight, 13 in 2027 change to the competitive landscape,” and 20 in 2032. By 2037 there will be no McEvoy said. “Now we have to figure limit to the number of licenses a chain out what might can obtain. be most beneficial It will be someto assist liquor thing for longtime stores in adapting Coloradans to get to this change.” used to. Colorado is With the beer just one of five states bill kicking in — Utah, Kansas, next year, liquor Minnesota and Oklastore owners have homa are the others already begun — still selling just anticipating their 3.2 beer in its stores. next moves. Some Chris Howes, presiwill expand, othdent of the Colorado ers will downsize, Retail Council, said Jeanne McEvoy according to the demand for new . Several laws can be someCEO of the Colorado Licensed McEvoy others still don’t what attributed to Beverage Association know much about the influx of people the new laws in moving to Colorado, the first place. people who are used And as the craft to being able to have beer market will expand to grocery craft beer on their grocery lists already. stores, smaller liquor stores will need “I think customer demand will to learn how to adapt. finally bring what we consider a very McEvoy said the CBLA predicts a 30 normal environment to Colorado,” percent decrease in “bread and butter” Howes said, “but we’ll take this first beer sales from local liquor retailers, step with craft beer because it’s delisale of popular beers like Coors, Budcious and customers want to buy it.” weiser and Corona.

“That’s what keeps the lights on and Competition heightens the bills paid,” McEvoy said. “I think Once more grocers begin selling fulltheir purchasing may change and the strength beer, wine and spirits, small number of craft beers they might be liquor store owners will need to adapt able to offer. You’ve got to have the to new, much larger competitors. money to buy it. Bottles and cans on Jeanne McEvoy, CEO of the Colothe shelves don’t make you any money. rado Licensed Beverage Association, It’s the (beer) walking out the door.” a statewide representative of familyowned liquor stores, said there will be Discouraging journey an estimated 2,000 full-strength beer On a recent trip to California, Carocompetitors in the market come 2019.

“That’s an immediate, significant change to the competitive landscape.”

lyn Joy, owner of Joy Wine and Spirits in Denver, visited local liquor stores to see what she should expect in the coming years. She does this whenever she goes to different markets. This time, her daughter was visiting a few colleges in the Bay Area.

What she found was something she worried Colorado would turn into — or has already begun turning into. The smaller liquor stores were less impressive and more run-down while the chains prospered. Some smaller stores did well, but typically in neighborhoods with a high population density and not much competition surrounding it.

“What has happened in Colorado, in my opinion, is people getting used to shopping at chains,” Joy said. “And chains getting deeper pockets than mom-and-pop stores and it’s hard to ward them off.”

Joy’s fears of what may occur in Colorado echo much of the same sentiment from smaller liquor store owners. Some stores will be forced to close as a result of the new competition, and other stores will survive, be it because of the store’s location, ties to the community, customer service or selection.

Joy acknowledged the consumer still stands to benefit from the change, but said it might not be as convenient as some may believe.

“In the long run,” she said, “sometimes, is it really convenient if you go to a place where you don’t have to wait in line and you get what you really want and you have a parking spot and they’re friendly and you’re supporting the community?”

Holiday

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

10am - 5pm

Sunday Nov. 25

10am - 4pm

Jefferson County Fairgrounds

15200 W. 6th Ave. Golden, CO.

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

Vendors Needed | Interested in selling your handmade crafts??

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

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From courtroom to camouflage Elbert County prosecutor gets ready for second deployment

BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Deputy district attorney Rory Devlin, who currently serves as the 18th Judicial District’s sole prosecutor for Elbert County, is preparing to swap out his suit and tie for camouflage attire, military food and helping the people of Afghanistan establish rules of law. Devlin is a captain in the Colorado Army National Guard, and has been called up for a second deployment, with a departure date of early October.

According to Devlin, who was raised in Aurora and now lives in Lone Tree, there are a lot of similarities between serving the people of Elbert County and the people of Afghanistan.

“I would say that both of my jobs are high pressure,” said Devlin. “You’re working all the time to try and protect the public at the DA’s office, and that’s the same thing we’re trying to do in Afghanistan.”

Part of his job, he said, is to work directly with Afghans to try and build rule of law, so they can protect their own public by creating a legal system that is fair.

“There’s a lot of common ground.

Rory Devlin, a deputy district attorney with the 18th Judicial District, will be deployed to Afghanistan for a second tour of duty with the Colorado Army National Guard, where he serves as a captain.

COURTESY OF 18TH DISTRICT COURT They have a lot of the same problems as here, but they are obviously behind economically,” said Devlin.

“They want to see their kids grow up in a safe environment and improve their families. We’re trying to help them do that through the rule of law.”

Devlin, who has been a practicing

attorney since 2012, enlisted in the National Guard in 2010, and participated in ROTC in law school while attending the University of Denver.

He received an undergraduate degree in theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

While there are similarities in his job descriptions, Devlin said there is

always a risk of physical harm while deployed.

“There’s an inherent danger of the outside groups, individuals turning against the forces,” said Devlin.

“Basically, when you move outside of military bases you’re at risk of IEDs and ambushes. Your biggest asset is the relationship you form with the individuals you’re mentoring.”

The dangers are worth it, according to Devlin.

“My particular area is their military justice. If they want to have a court-martial on one of their soldiers I advise them through that process,” said Devlin. “We teach them to be good stewards of the property and the people they have. No matter what happens when we leave, the fact is we have changed the place fundamentally.”

George Brauchler, district attorney for the 18th District and Republican candidate for attorney general of Colorado, said he knew when he hired Devlin that he would be called up for deployment, and the DA’s office will support him in every way possible during the nine months he’s in Afghanistan.

“Rory was really my first hire,” said Brauchler. “We are very supportive of veterans and active military, and we are going to do everything we can to accommodate service to our country.

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THINGS to DO

MUSIC

Chris Isaak: 7 p.m. Sunday, July 29 at Hudson Gardens and Event Center, 6115 South Santa Fe Drive, Littleton.

Info: 303-797-8565 or www.hudsongardens.org.

“In Living Color” Art Show: on display through July 31 at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Watercolor and oil paintings of nature by local artists Patricia Nash and Judy S. Purcell. All available for purchase.

Pastel Paintings Dazzle at Mile High National Pastel Exhibition: on display through Aug. 27 at Parker Arts, Culture and Events Center.

20000 Pikes Peak Ave. in Parker.

The Mile High National Pastel Exhibition featuring 80 luminous pastel paintings from artists across the country. Visit www.pastelsocietyofcolorado.org for more information.

Birds of Prey: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 2 at Centennial Center Park, 13050 E. Peakview Avenue, in Centennial. Bring your grandkids, neighbors and friends for this amazing presentation and get up close with an eagle, owl, falcon and hawk. Weather permitting, a flight demonstration is also included in this exciting event. Visit www.centennialco.gov/seniors to learn more about the Centennial Active Senior program.

EVENTS

The Great Outdoors: 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2 at Douglas County Libraries in Castle Pines, 360 Village Square Lane. Take camp food from boring

ART

TR Summer Sports Camp: July 10 to July 31, the Recreation Center at Southridge, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road, Highlands Ranch. Special Needs Sports Camp (Ages 8 and up). Learn the skills necessary to play a variety of sports. Also learn the rules of the games, focusing on good sportsmanship, and teamwork. $147 HRCA Member/$169 Non-member.

Call (303) 471-7020 for more information.

Ballet Ariel’s Summer Showcase: Thursday, July 26 at Hampden Hall at the Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Pkwy, 2nd Floor, Englewood.

Join Ballet Ariel for an entertaining performance that is affordable and fun for the whole family. Ballet Ariel is dancing excerpts from their wonderful season of shows including `Sleeping Beauty’ and `Appalachian Spring.’ Adults $10, Students/Seniors $5, Children 12 and under free. Seating is general admission and tickets can be purchased at the door. For more information, call 303-945-4388 or visit our website at HYPERLINK “http://www.balletariel.org” www.balletariel.org.

Movin’ & Groovin’ Family Video Challenge & Orientation: 7 to 8 p.m., Thursday, July 26 at Douglas County Libraries in Parker, 20105 East Mainstreet. We’re looking for G-rated videos that move us to tears or laughter, inspire us with heart, or get us groovin’ to the beat.

The library’s Recording Studio has all the tools needed for creating and editing videos. Attend an orientation to learn about the Recording Studio equipment and how to use the computers to edit videos. All

to delicious with a few simple camp food hacks.

Learn clever ways to prep food and supplies for no-fuss meals and snacks on your camping adventures. Includes hands-on and visual cooking experiences. All ages. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Thrilling Thursdays: 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thursdays, at the Recreation Center at Southridge, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road, Highlands Ranch.

Special Needs Thrilling Thursdays (Ages 16 and up). Join the therapeutic recreation staff on Thursdays and participate in gym activities, fitness activities, art classes, cooking classes, swimming classes and more. $120 HRCA Member/$138 Non-members. Call (303) 471-7020 for more information.

Yoga in the Park Series 2018: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 31 at Belvedere Park, 10291 Belvedere Lane, Lone Tree.

Kids age 10+ are invited and all experience levels are welcome. So whether you’re an expert yogi or a first timer, we’d love for you to join us. No registration is necessary.

All you need to bring is your body, an open mind, and a yoga mat.

Natural Grocers 63rd Anniversary Celebration: 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Thursday, August 16 at Parker Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, 11402 South Parker Road, Parker.

Come celebrate the 63rd Anniversary, including free ice creamwww. naturalgrocers.com for more information.

this week’s TOP FIVE Centennial Dog Days: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at Centennial Center Park, 13050 E. Peakview Avenue, in Centennial. Special canine demonstrations, doggie pools, discounted animal licensing and live music from The Fever. Discounted animal licensing is also available at this event! By attending this event, residents may receive a 3-year animal license for the price of a 1-year license.

For more information, visit /centennialco. gov.

ages. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Used Book Sale: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday, July 27, at Douglas County Libraries in Castle Pines, 360 Village Square Lane, Castle Pines.

Purchase used books, audiobooks and DVDs for as low as 50 cents, plus other great deals! All sales benefit Douglas County Libraries Foundation. All ages. No registration required; more info at 303-7917323 or DCL.org.

Rock the Runway Model Search: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at Outlets at Castle Rock, 5050 Factory Shops Boulevard, Castle Rock. Colorado’s #1 Outlet Center will welcome hundreds of young hopefuls for the 2018 `ROCK the Runway’ Model Search. The competition is open to all aspiring models, ages 5-23. Each of the winners will be given the opportunity to appear in future advertisements and fashion shows for Outlets at Castle Rock, Outlets at Silverthorne and Outlets at Loveland. Visit Eventbrite. com for more information.

Learn About: Broadway’s Golden Age to Hamilton: 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, July 28 at Douglas County Libraries in Lone Tree, 10055 Library Way, Lone Tree. If you love Broadway classics, don’t miss this OLLI presentation, which is a sample of OLLI’s “Musicals from the Golden Age to Hamilton” class. Adults ages 50-plus. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

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Downtown Walking Tours: 10:30 a.m. the fourth Saturday of the month from June to September. The 45-minute tour begins at The Courtyard on Perry Street, between Third and Fourth streets, and will conclude at the Castle Rock Museum, 420 Elbert St. Contact 303-8143164 or museum@castlerockhistoricalsociety. org.

Free Community Event in Centennial: 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, July 28 at Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies, 7201 S Potomac St., Centennial. FREE Community program to be conducted in Centennial, CO

by H.H.Swami Mukundananda.

Swamiji has been travelling all across the globe conducting different events and Workshops for Holistic well being. He has been visiting Centennial for the last 6 to 7 years and his programs have been attended by 250 to 300 people.

Visit www.jkyog.org/events/7Divine-Laws-Centennial-CO-2018/ for more information.

Castle Rock Chess Club: 6 to 8:30 p.m Monday, July 30, at Douglas County Libraries in Castle Rock, Philip S. Miller, 100 S. Wilcox St. Practice your chess game and improve your skills at this evening of friendly competition. All ages and abilities welcome. No registration required; more information is available at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Potluck Ballroom & Latin Dance Party: 8 p.m to 10 p.m Friday, Aug. 3 at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Come ballroom, Latin, salsa, swing and tango dance to your favorite DJ tunes. Call 720-276-0562 or email info@adventuresindance.com.

Food, Gut Health and ADHD: 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 4 at Parker

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, 11402 S Parker Road, Parker. Join Mary Tate to learn how to make this the best school year yet for your child. Visit www.naturalgrocers.com for more information.

The Parker Players Present: Improv Duel: 8 to 9:30 p.m, Saturday, Aug. 11 at The Studio at Mainstreet, 19600 Mainstreet, Parker. Two teams of improvisers battle to determine who is funniest while performing improv comedy games in the style of “Whose Line is it Anyway?” Tickets are $10 in advance through Eventbrite or $15 cash at the door day of show (if tickets are still available). Most shows sell out in advance. Visit www.parkerplayers.com.

Auditions for Young Voices of Colorado: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, August 16 at 99 Inverness Drive East, Suite 150, Englewood.

Young Voices of Colorado, a premier children’s choir, is holding auditions for children in 2nd-10th grades for the 2018-2019 season. Auditions are free, visit www.youngvoices.org for more information.

Country Western Dance Party: 8 to 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. DJ country and western themed ballroom, Latin, salsa, swing and tango dance. Call 720276-0562 or email info@adventuresindance.com .Puppy Power 5K: 9-11 a.m. Aug. 25, 3952 Butterfield Drive, Castle Rock.

Info:puppypower5k.com.

EDUCATION

Simplify Your Life — Lifetree Café: 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug.2 at Lifetree Café, at St. John’s on the corner of Exposition & Franklin on the east side of Wash Park. Please park and enter on the Gilpin side of the church. he program, titled “Simplify Your Life: How a Hollywood Millionaire Walked Away From It All,” features a filmed interview with Tom Shadyac, a feature film director best known for Ace Ventura, The Nutty Professor, Patch Adams and Bruce Almighty.T wo-Week writing class:10-11 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 4 and Aug. 18 at the Hub, 8827 Lone Tree Parkway, Lone Tree. Thinking about writing a story?

Multi-published author will give you ideas and suggestions to help you started. A personal workbook included in fee. Contact sueviders@ comcast.net or darciel@sspr.org.

Free Hands-Only CPR class: 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15 South Denver Heart Center, Littleton. Free Hands-Only CPR Class- In this class, you will learn how to perform Hands-Only CPR. Visit our website or call to register. www. southdenver.com, 303-744-1065.

Caregiving: How Can We Be More Proactive?: 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 9 the Centennial Community Room located at 7272 S. Eagle Street, Centennial.

This informative discussion led by nationally recognized caregiving expert and Caregiving for the GENIUS author Jane Barton will discuss the journey everyone takes as a caregiver and/or care receiver.

Learn how to care for yourself and others “by design, not be default.”

Visit www.centennialco.gov/seniors to learn more about the Centennial Active Senior program.

Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. To place a calendar item, go to eventlink.coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Editor’s note: Send new listings or changes to hharden@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

Deadline is noon Wednesday a week before publication.

Nonprofit Wildlife Group: Works to protect native wildlife in Greenwood Village.

Need: Volunteers help protect wildlife.

Requirements: Must work two hours per week, schedule flexible.

Contact: info@wildearthguardians.org Outreach Uganda: Empowers impoverished people in Uganda, especially women and children, to overcome poverty through income generation, education, training and other holistic endeavors.

Need: Volunteers weekly to provide office support with fair trade craft show preparation, mailings and miscellaneous office work. Office hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday to Friday. Office located at 9457 S. University Blvd., Suite 410, Highlands Ranch.

Contact: Jennifer Dent, 303-683-8450 or office@outreachuganda.org.

Paladin Rescue Alliance: Christian nongovernment organization dedicated to rescuing human trafficking victims and building alliances to combat trafficking locally, nationally and internationally.

Need: Volunteers to help organize supplies; donations of supplies. All donations are tax-deductible. Needed items include cleansers, skin cream, ointment, disinfectants, dressings, bandages, rolls, sponges, pads, dressing tape, gloves, alcohol pads, asprin, Tylenol.

Age Requirement: All ages can participate.

Contact: www.paladinrescue.org; Paladin Rescue Alliance, P.O. Box 79, Littleton, CO 80160; 888-327-3063.

Parker Senior Center: Provides services to local seniors.

Need: Volunteer drivers to take seniors

CAMOUFLAGE FROM PAGE 21

“We’ll take care of Rory the best we can, and will send him way more care packages than he’ll ever want to receive.”

Brauchler, who is a colonel in the Colorado Army National Guard, has been in the military since 1992, and said he deliberately seeks candidates for jobs who are in the reserve, guard or former active-duty military.

“When I got elected into this office there were no active guardsmen.

When I took over I knew I was going to try and recruit a bunch of reserve and guard and former active-duty JAG people, becaue I know what they bring to the table,” said Brauchler.

“About 10 percent, if not more, of our crew are active reservists.”

Devlin is the second attorney to be deployed in the department. Currently Capt. Monique Washington is

to the center for a hot meal, to appointments, to the grocery store, and more.

Contact: Louise West at 303-841-5370.

PeopleFirst Hospice: Denver hospice.

Need: Volunteers to provide companionship to hospice patients and their families.

Contact: Rachel Wang at 303-546-7921 Project CURE: Delivers medical supplies and equipment to developing countries around the world.

Need: Groups of 7-15 people to help sort medical supplies; those with medical/ clinical backgrounds to become Sort Team Leaders; truck drivers to help pick up donations (no CDL required).

Age Requirements: Ages 15 and older (if a large group of ages 15 and younger is interested, we can try to accommodate different projects).

Location: 10377 E. Geddes Ave., Centennial Contact: Kelyn Anker, 303-792-0729 or 720-341-3152; kelynanker@projectcure.org; www.projectcure.org.

Red Cross: Supports the elderly, international causes and social services.

Need: Volunteers to provide support Contact: 303-607-4768 or 303-266-7855

SMARTS! South Metro Arts Center Need: Help with public relations, marketing to public officials, fundraising, and special projects Contact: 303-790-8264 or gdnguy@ comcast.net Spellbinder Storytellers, Douglas County Chapter: Connects the generations through storytelling.

Need: Adults to tell stories to children in schools Age Requirement: Must be 50 and older Contact: Denise Rucks, 303-921-8462 or drrucks@me.com. For other chapters, go to http://spellbinders.org/ South Metro Medical Equipment Loan Closet: Loans durable medical supplies to those 18 and older in the South Metro area.

Need: Volunteers to help answer phones 2-3 times a month for a day. Calls are taken on your cell phone and you make the appointment at the convenience of you and the client to accept donations or hand out equipment Monday through Friday.

Requirement: Must be 18 or older; periodic training provided as needed.

Contact: Donna Ralston, 720-443-2013.

South Platte Park Need: Help with programs ranging from hikes, overnights, gold panning, sunset canoeing or HawkQuest events Contact: 303-730-1022 Sunset Hospice: Provides end-of-life support.

Need: Volunteer training is from 6-10 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesdays; they also meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every first and third Saturday Contact: Jami Martin at 303-693-2105 SEE VOLUNTEERS, P27

Seniors’ Resource Center: Nonprofit onestop shop of community-based services and care designed to keep seniors independent and at home for as long as possible.

Need: Drivers to help transport seniors to doctor’s appointments, the grocery store, the hair salon and more. You choose the areas, days and times that work for you.

Seniors live in Adams, Arapahoe, Denver and Jefferson counties. Mileage reimbursement and excess auto insurance provided.

Drivers may use their own car or one provided by the center.

Requirements: Must be able to pass a background check (paid for by the center)

serving in Iraq.

Brauchler said the department will take care of things the best they can in Devlin’s absence, as well as make up the difference between active pay and what Devlin earns currently.

“We never put them in a position to make less while serving,” said Brauchler. “Rory’s a great attorney, and the risk he’s taking is real. He’s going over there to do a job that puts him in harm’s way. I want to honor and respect that.”

The DA’s office regularly sends care packages to Washington and will soon add Devlin to that list.

Brauchler said soldiers working in his always like to receive letters from community members back home, and anyone wishing to write them should direct letters to the office at 6450 S. Revere Parkway, Centennial, CO 80111.

“Rory’s been a tremendous asset to the office and the community. I want him back as soon and safely as possible,” said Brauchler.

CORRECTION

The story about the “Pink Progression” exhibit at the Center for Visual Art in Denver that ran in the July 12 and 13

and have a good driving record.

Contact: Pat Pierson, 303-332-3840 or ppierson@srcaging.org. Go to www.srcaging.org

papers misspelled the names of Trine Bumiller and Katie Caron and incorrectly added to the name of Julia Rymer.

In Loving Memory Place an Obituary for Your Loved One. Private 303-566-4100 Obituaries@ColoradoCommunityMedia.com

Funeral Homes Visit: www.memoriams.com

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‘Kaleidoscope’ juried exhibit opens at college

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The annual community exhibit, “Kaleidoscope,” is open through Aug. 3 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College/Littleton, offering a varied look at works by artists in the community — bringing together many, sometimes combined, media, interests and techniques — the open entry format invites works both traditional and a bit edgy.

The juror was ACC Art Department Chair Angela Faris Belt, who combines fine art photography with her administrative skills. Her eye for fine detail is apparent in her choices of ribbon winners.

Linda Schmale won first place for a screen print called simply “Tulip.”

It has the pristine look of a carefully drawn black ink rendition — which is how it started out in this world, one suspects. The artist has several related artworks near it on the wall and I liked the decision to hang works submitted by a given artist together. It’s a nice way to take in the range of work by a particular person, or refinements on a given approach or vision.

Second place was awarded to multi-talented Littleton artist Michelle Lamb, who has an exhibit of her assemblage work, “Altered Alchemy,” coming up in Boulder soon at Bricolage Gallery. Her winning piece, “Capricorn” is sculpture created from epoxy-resin clay. The

IF YOU GO The Littleton campus of Arapahoe Community College is at 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive. The “Kaleidoscope” exhibit is in the Colorado Gallery of the Arts in the Annex building at the northeast end. Admission is free. charming goat figure with a fish tail exudes confidence and an air of being in charge. (Lamb is the artist who painted the mural at the downtown Littleton light rail station, commissioned by Littleton’s Fine Art Board before the train started running.)

It was a pleasant surprise to see the name of Michelle Lamb’s daughter, Emily Lamb, on the thirdplace winner, “Kindred,” a pair of beautifully crafted, classical-looking porcelain heads, connected at the crown by a colored glass piece. (Emily graduated with a fine arts degree a little over a year ago, where she focused on glass as her material of choice and she has been working and traveling, perfecting her skills.)

Fun to see a young community artist touch base again. She also has a smaller work, “Infinity,” depicting two ethereal classic figures — again connected with a bit of glass.

Honorable mentions were awarded to Barbara Veatch and Bobbi Shupe, both longtime local figures in the art world.

This exhibit is a pleasing combination of very approachable works of art, with paintings, prints, photographs, sculptural works and color and texture both subdued and noisy.

There will be a closing reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 3, and the show is open Mondays to Fridays from noon to 5 p.m. until then.

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Funny car winner John Force talks with his daughter Courtney, right, and injured Marine Kirstie Ennis following his victory in the funny car finals July 22 at the Dodge NHRA Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway. J PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON

Renewed Force takes the crown NHRA icon claims 149th career funny car title at Bandimere

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

John Force erased his own doubts and those of other National Hot Rod Association enthusiasts who figured he might not win another race.

Force, the 69-year-old NHRA icon and owner of John Force Racing, won his 149th funny car title and collected his 249th career crown when he defeated Ron Capps in the July 22 funny car finals of the Dodge NHRA MileHigh Nationals at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison.

It was the first victory since March 19, 2017 for the NHRA’s all-time wins leader, but his eighth triumph at Bandimere as he became the track’s all-time victory leader.

Force was in two accidents and had three motor explosions early this season and even failed to qualify for an April race in Houston.

However, he looked like the John Force of old at Bandimere as he defeated Matt Hagan, Cruz Pedregon and Courtney Force, his 30-year-old daughter and top-qualifier, to reach the finals.

The 16-time NHRA champion was quick at the start of the race against Capps and had a winning elapsed time of 3.831 at 316.45 mph to collect another Wally trophy.

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John Force won his eighth funny car title on July 22 at Bandimere Speedway and became the all-time victory leader at the Mile-High Nationals at the Morrison track.

Courtney Force, right, introduces injured Marine Kirstie Ennis during a press briefing after the funny car finals.

oss Macdonald is playing golf this summer like I wished I could play.

He is confident and has learned not to carry around a bad shot, missed putt or a bogey for the rest OVERTIME of a round.

Macdonald, after being 1-over-par on the front nine, shot a remarkable 7-under par 29 on the back side of the Bridges Golf and Country Club in Montrose on Jim Benton July 15 to win the Colorado Golf Association’s Western Chapter Championship for the second straight year.

He finished the final round with a 65 for a two-day total of 6-underpar 136 and a 9-stroke victory in the tournament.

When I used to play golf more than once every few years, I had a modest goal. I figured an average of five shots each hole and 45 for nine holes on the front side brought around the possibility of coming in with a 90 with few good shots on the back nine.

Macdonald, the Castle Rock golfer who tied for second as a redshirt University of Colorado sophomore last May at the Pac 12 championships with a 12-under-par 272, had an amazing finish with two eagles, three birdies and four pars as he used accurate 7-iron approach shots and only 11 putts on the final nine holes.

He has now won four CGA events and I can’t help wondering what the former Valor Christian golfer was thinking as he stayed patient and flirted with going under 30 strokes for the final nine holes.

“I got off to a slow start in the final round and I was 1-over through nine holes,” recalled Macdonald. “I wasn’t feeling great. I wasn’t swinging as well as I could. I just happened to really get it going which was cool because that doesn’t happen very often.

“I knew I was 6-under (on the back nine going into the 18 hole) and had never shot in the 20s in my life and at that point I was thinking about 29.

I hit a good drive and made a birdie.”

And what about in hindsight?

“Obviously I thought about what if I was three or four under on the front but then I don’t know if I would have heated up like that.”

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Macdonald will end the summer playing in the Colorado Open and the CGA State Amateur and hopes to continue playing consistent golf.

“Where I’ve gotten a lot better in the last year is getting over those bad holes and those bad shots and not letting it affect me,” he said. “I’m feeling good about my game and I have to keep on working at it. I was getting too mechanical and once I started freeing up and playing golf and not worrying about where the ball is going or could go, I had better results.”

Three shots shy Janet Moore of Centennial and Valley County Club teaching pro Sherry Andonian-Smith of Parker turned in consistent scores during the first two rounds of the inaugural U.S. Women’s Senior Open July 12-13 at the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton. Illinois.

Moore and Andonian-Smith each fashioned rounds of 80 and 81 for a 161 two-day aggregate but failed to finish below the cut line which was at 158 strokes.

power on the mountain.

Tommy Johnson was a runner-up in four different classes in previous years before this season’s Mile High Nationals.

“A lot of people come here hating this race because of the altitude and how hard it is to tune the cars,” said Johnson. “I come here loving this race because things seem to go well. A lot of it is attitude and I look forward to it every year.”

Funny car driver Jack Beckman first raced at Bandimere in 1984 when he was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base and has three wins at track that is nicknamed Thunder Mountain.

“There’s only one track carved into a mountain,” he said. “The car never sounds the same, it doesn’t idle the same and it doesn’t accelerate the same. Things are just different and you better have taken the time to prepare yourself.

“I always tell people as a driver, there is no other facility you would rather see in your windshield than Denver because it is so dramatic, but as a crew chief there is no facility you would rather see in your rearview mirror than Denver because nothing you try anywhere else works in Denver.”

Looking ahead Mile-high drag racing Mile Split ranked the nation’s top For years, make that all my life, I boys cross country teams for the fall have listened to how Denver’s elevaseason based on the top returning tion affects baseballs, golf balls, tenrunners from 2017. nis balls, a person’s breathing and Mountain Vista was ranked 48th you name it.

So the National Hot Rod Association with an average time of 16:18.00 with runner Ethan Rouse, Jack drivers competing in the Dodge MileO’Sullivan, Brody Dempsey, Seth High Nationals, which were held July Rouse and Aaron Hart. Durango’s 20-22 at Bandimere Speedway, also had boys were 28th. comments about racing a mile high at PUBLIC NOTICE Jim Benton is a sports writer for the Morrison track.

Colorado Community Media. He has Bandimere racing is unique and a NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT been covering sports in the Denver challenge because of the elevation, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO area since 1968. He can be reached at and members of each team’s crew struggled with the one-time adjust-NOTICE ISjbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.

HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to 38-26-107, as amended, that on com orC.R.S., at 303-566-4083. ments to create the needed horse- Section August 26, 2018, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Apex Companies, LLC for the Grading, Erosion and Sediment Control On-Call Contract for Post BMP Maintenance Projects in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Apex Companies, LLC for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said August 26, 2018, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Engineer Thomas Repp, P.E., Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104.

FORCE FROM PAGE 26

“You all know my story with all the crashes and everything that happened,” said Force. “I was probably my lowest. I was fighting to get back and I never let on to anybody, but I looked like a mess.”

Track owner John Bandimere helped Force when he was down.

“John called me and said, `we got to talk’ and sent me some stuff to read and he took me down this road, and I said I don’t know if I will get back and win a race. He said you can and when get to Denver, you’ll be fixed, He didn’t say I Leah Pritchett was the first top qualifier would win just that I’d be fixed and go to win in the finals at Bandimere since out and show me who John Force is.

2009 when she captured the top fuel “And I found myself. I had fire in me finals at the Dodge Mile-High Nationals because I got tired of hearing myself July 22. snivel. I knew I needed to find myself JIM BENTON and I did.”

“This was a testament in taking it to Force had inspiration from Kirstie the next level and I say that on behalf of Ennis, a Marine aerial gunner who was the team,” she said. “I have an attitude injured in an Afghanistan helicopter of gratitude as high as this mountain becrash in 2012. She eventually had her cause they chipped away at it and didn’t left leg amputated. Ennis, in town for let themselves get down early this year Building Homes for Heroes, was introduced to John Force by Courtney Force when we were in a slump. They didn’t let and Ennis was with the Force team durme get down on myself either.” ing the three days of racing.

Greg Anderson’s quick start provided “Look at this beautiful woman that him with a narrow win over Summit fights every day and I’m whining about Racing teammate Jason Line in the me so I need to shut up,” said John pro stock final. It was his 91st pro stock Force. “Coming in here, I asked her if career win, his third at Bandimere and she needed help getting up the stairs. he improved his record against Line to She said, number one John, I can out21-17. run you and number two, I’ll carry you “I sure hope this starts a winning PUBLIC NOTICE up the stairs.” streak,” said Anderson. “We’ve had NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS In other finals, Leah Pritchett becameSETTLEMENT some great cars this season but just COUNTY OF DOUGLAS the first top qualifier to win at BandiSTATE OF COLORADO made mistakes on Sunday. We just mere since 2009 when she won her sechaven’t been giving our best effort on NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section that on ond top fuel finals of the38-26-107, seasonC.R.S., withasaamended, Sundays.” the 27th day of AUGUST 2018, final settlement .0002-second victory over Doug Kalitta.

Hector Arana Jr. won for the first time will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and for on account contract2015 and collected his 12th career Pritchett set the track record top of asince between Douglas County and CROSS LINE speed at 327.19 mphCONSTRUCTION in her Mopar pro stock motorcycle victory by beating for Dodge the INVESTIGATIONS REMODEL PROJECT at the DOUGLAS 1320 during qualifying.

She notched Jerry Savoie, who red-lighted. Arana COUNTY JUSTICE CENTER, (PO#38261), in Douglas County;Totten, and that any person,also co-partelimination wins over Terry turned on the red light but .002 nership, association or corporation that has an Scott Palmer and Clay seconds later, and his 7.170 pass earned unpaidMillican claim againstand said CROSS LINE CONSTRUCTION for or on account for the win. furgave credit to her team. the nishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenPUBLIC NOTICE

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on August 26, 2018, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Apex Companies, LLC for the Grading, Erosion and Sediment Control On-Call Contract for Post BMP Maintenance Projects in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Apex Companies, LLC for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said August 26, 2018, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Engineer Thomas Repp, P.E., Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104.

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The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Janet Herman, P.E., Director of Public Works Engineering.

Legal Notice No.: 933627 First Publication: July 26, 2018 Last Publication: August 2, 2018 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the 27th day of AUGUST 2018, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and CROSS LINE CONSTRUCTION for the INVESTIGATIONS REMODEL PROJECT at the DOUGLAS COUNTY JUSTICE CENTER, (PO#38261), in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the 27th day of AUGUST 2018, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and CROSS LINE CONSTRUCTION for the INVESTIGATIONS REMODEL PROJECT at the DOUGLAS COUNTY JUSTICE CENTER, (PO#38261), in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said CROSS LINE CONSTRUCTION for or on account for the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 27th day of AUGUST 2018, to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Douglas County Government, Board of County Commissioners, c/o Facilities, Fleet & Emergency Support Services, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104.

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Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant's claim. The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Carolyn S. Riggs, CPPB, Purchasing Supervisor, Douglas County Government.

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August 26, 2018, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of and on account of a contract between Douglas the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Janet HerCounty and Castle Rock Construction Company man, P.E., Director of Public Works Engineerof Colorado, LLC for the Crowfoot Valley ing.

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