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Homelessness: How can metro Denver grapple with problem?

CU Denver and a think tank offer ways to help

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

Young trick-or-treaters collect candy.

PHOTO BY ERIN MCGOVERN

Arvada celebrates Halloween, Dia de los Muertos Trick or Treat Street and Arvada Library celebrations bring spookiness to Olde Town

BY RYAN DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Costumed Arvadans came to Olde Town in droves on Oct. 29, as the annual Trick or Treat Street Halloween celebration returned to the historic district. Trick or treaters stopped in at local busi-

nesses to collect candy and competed in a costume contest, while the Arvada Library held a Dia de los Muertos celebration featuring Aztec dancers and a candlelight procession. “(Trick or Treat Street) is one of our favorite events that we do every year,” said Joe Hengstler, Executive Director of the Olde Town Arvada Business Improvement District. “It’s just fantastic to see all of the families come down, all the kids come down with costumes, and give back to the community from the business SEE HALLOWEEN, P10

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An Aztec dancer.

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Homelessness is pervasive and costly, and has worsened and grown more complex in metro Denver, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There’s no single solution to resolving the crisis affecting more than 6,000 people in the sevencounty metro region, according to researchers who spent months interviewing formerly homeless people and the leaders of organizations that serve them.

Expensive housing, a shortage of paid human services staff and mistrust in the system are among the factors making the homelessness problem even more intractable, researchers said.

A major recommendation by the researchers studying homelessness in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties is adding more affordable housing options.

The report cited Denver’s Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative, which has provided housing and case management services to about 300 people experiencing chronic homelessness, who were frequently involved with police, jails, courts and other emergency services.

When those people were offered housing and wrap-around services, they remained housed and interacted less frequently with costly emergency services, according to an analysis published on the city’s website.

The report includes several other ideas that researchers at the Common Sense Institute and University of Colorado Denver identified as successful in other communities and held promise for use locally.

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Indoor air quality pilot program results for Jeffco Schools Study continues but data suggests healthier school environments are at hand

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In a recent Jeffco School Board study session, board members heard a presentation on the results of an indoor air quality pilot program.

Toward the end of the presentation, Kimber Preece, a District Sustainability Engineer, said the Facilities Department recommended Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) system implementations across the district as well as increased outdoor ventilation and filter efficiency.

Preece handled most of the presentation for the district. But before she got underway, Susan Harmon, Board of Education President, gave a bit of background information on the pilot program.

“Since the second quarter of 2020, the Facilities and Maintenance Department has made a significant effort to improve the indoor air quality of our facilities,” she said.

“These improvements align with industry and health care recommendations. We have also looked at options that would result in air quality improvements beyond the pandemic.”

Pilot Program A pilot program was implemented in which UVGI were installed in all six air handling units at Governors Ranch Elementary over the ’20-’21 holiday break. The district then started taking air quality measurements at Governors Ranch as well as Ute Meadows and Stony Creek Elementary Schools.

According to Preece, those sites were chosen because they have the same floor plans and the same type of HVAC equipment.

They then used special equipment called AGAR plates to collect bacterial samples. Those plates were then sent to a lab for analysis to see if the bacteria create colony forming units (CFUs).

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took 3 measurements at each site — three interior samples and one exterior sample.

The study concluded that the district’s design and installation procedures had been done correctly, because when compared, the levels of CFUs were higher in interior samples taken from Stony Creek and Ute Meadows than samples taken at Governors Ranch.

The district also wanted to know if the systems would be a good value and be usable in a postCOVID future, for lowering levels of influenza and rhinovirus. So, it compared the cost and effectiveness of the UVGI technology to decentralized HEPA units in classrooms.

The science Preece said humans emit around 85 watts (of heat) while sitting.

She then showed a video example of smoke displacement to give board members an understanding of the way air moves through a room.

In the video, smoke enters a room through a typical duct vent near the floor. As the smoke (or air) moves through the room it gravitates toward the heat generated by human bodies. The smoke (air) then moves up the person’s body toward the ceiling in a thermal plume. Preece said when viruses are present, there are viral plumes within the thermal plumes.

As the plume rises to the level where one breathes, the video communicates in a clear way, how the placement, design and implementation of air filtration systems are important.

Preece said both ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Cooling Engineers) and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) have given guidance on how to place in-room disinfection units and fans in order to prevent the creation of drafts across occupants, which can create unhealthy breathing conditions.

In other words, both ASHRAE and the EPA stress the importance of creating systems where air does not flow from one person onto another, to reduce the spread of droplets that may contain infectious viruses.

“As you can imagine, in a very full classroom it’s hard to put something in a room and not create a draft across the many occupants that are in that room,” she said. “I

hope you also noticed in the video, social distancing and mask wearing are important because those thermal plumes can help get those pathogens away if we trap our projections with our masks.”

Preece said HVAC systems the District already has in place in schools, work with 5-12 changes (air exchanges) per hour, which is magnitudes higher than any other system they could place inside classrooms. Another benefit of the current HVAC systems is that they don’t create drafts.

What’s next The District is currently installing the system at Everitt Middle School to see results from a larger school. They have started collecting untreated air quality data as a baseline for the Everett study.

When it comes to costs, Preece said district-wide implementation of UVGI has a higher initial price tag, but the HEPA filter operational cost is so great that within a year, UVGI becomes the financially responsible choice. Maintenance costs of UVGI are also lower. UVGI also filters the air quicker and they’re quieter and longer-lasting than HEPA units, she said.

Preece said better indoor air quality increases performance and attendance, reduces the load on support staff during a pandemic and also extends the possibility of in-person learning.

The cost of installing a UVGI system in an elementary school is $33,000. Bell said he believes federal ESSER funds (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) can be used to pay for UVGI system implementation (but there was no final determination of that during the study session).

Bell said the estimated cost of a district-wide implementation was $8.5 million.

Board President, Susan Harmon said the research feels like the right work in terms of creating healthy environments for students to thrive — as well as being the right thing for staff, teachers and food service workers.

“I don’t think we’re a guinea pig.

I think we’re a leader,” she said.

“And this is the right work to be leading our district instead of waiting.”

Harmon said she is looking forward to hearing more about the Everitt study as it progresses, during upcoming board meetings.

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Arvada In-N-Out Burger plan gets major modification Virtual neighborhood meeting scheduled for Nov. 10 STAFF REPORT

In-N-Out Burger has taken the first steps towards opening a location at the Arvada Marketplace shopping center. The popular westcoast burger chain, which expanded into Colo. In Dec. 2020, has filed an application for major modification with the City of Arvada and scheduled a neighborhood meeting for Nov. 10, at 5:30 p.m., on Zoom.

The request for major modification concerns of a portion of the Arvada Marketplace parking lot,

located at the intersection of 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard.

The request asks for the demolition of 1.25 acres of the parking area in the northwest corner of the shopping center.

In-N-Out’s proposal calls for the development 3,879 square foot restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating, as well as a drive though.

The restaurant would occupy a single-story building, which is included in the major modification request as a two-story building is required due to limitations on building heights within the Arvada Marketplace covenants.

The neighborhood meeting is the first step in the development process, as the proposal would need to be approved by both planning commission and city council to come to

The exterior of the In-N-Out Burger location in Lakewood.

fruition. Dates for planning commission and city council hearings have not been set as of this time.

Project descriptions estimate

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that construction will take approximately six months. Galloway is listed as the developer on the application.

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As you probably know by now, “net zero energy” means that your home generates more energy than it consumes. This is made possible through “net metering,” which means that your electric meter runs backward when your solar panels generate more electricity than you’re using (i.e., on a sunny day), then runs forward at night, resulting in zero (or less) net consumption of electric power.

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While you can generate your own electricity, you cannot generate your own natural gas, so terminating natural gas service and converting to an all-electric home is key to achieving net zero energy. This involves some major system changes if you are currently heating your home and your water using natural gas, cooking with gas (including with a gas grill) and have a gas fireplace.

There are electric alternatives to all of these uses of natural gas, and you may appreciate the fact that eliminating natural gas also eliminates the possibility of a gas explosion and of carbon monoxide poisoning (unless you have a gas powered car).

Heating your home with electricity used to mean installing baseboard electric heating units in each room, but that is so 20th century. Nowadays electric space heating is done far more efficiently (and evenly) using heat pumps.

Gas forced air furnaces and gas water heaters are considered to have a life expectancy of 15 years, and when yours fail, think of that as an opportunity to adopt heat pump technology for both functions.

And a heat pump eliminates the need for a separate A/C unit, since it heats and cools.

Gas furnaces and water heaters generate heat by burning gas. A heat pump does not generate heat — it moves heat, similar to what A/C does. It cools your home by moving the heat out of your house. If you put your hand over the external compressor unit while it’s cooling your home, you will feel heat that was moved from inside your

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At right is a picture of a simple one-unit 12,000-BTU, 29.3-SEER ductless mini-split system from Fujitsu which you can buy online for $1,961. (The small vertical unit is the thermostat.) That’s a small unit, suitable for one room or a garage — a great application. For our office, we bought a Mitsubishi system in which a single compressor drives three separate wall units, each with its own thermostat.

A heat pump water heater (which Rita and I installed at our home) has the compressor built into the unit, above the tank.

You can feel cool air emitting from it when it is heating water. I suggest putting it in a wine cellar where it’ll keep the room cool without a having a separate A/C unit.

For cooking, you’ll be amazed and delighted by the induction cooktops that are widely available. You have to use metal pots and pans. I saw them used on a cruise ship, and the chefs loved them. (Modern cruise ships have eliminated natural gas because of the fire hazard.)

Your all-electric home will, of course, use more electricity, but Xcel Energy now allows you to install enough solar panels to generate double your electrical usage in the previous 12 months. (They used to allow only 120%.) That’s more than enough to cover your new electric space heating, water heating and cooking needs, with capacity left over to charge an EV, too.

An important first step in pursuing net zero energy for your home is to reduce your need for energy, and the easiest and cheapest way to do that is to improve your home’s insulation. I once owned a 1940s bungalow in north Golden. I had cellulose insulation blown into the exterior walls (not just the attic) by Dennis Brachfield of About Saving Heat, and I was astonished at how much more comfortable the house became. Even if your exterior walls have batt insulation in them (as my bungalow did), there is still space in the walls to blow in cellulose.

I learned something interesting from that experience. You know how walls can radiate heat, such as a brick wall in the

sunlight. Well, walls can also radiate coldness, or suck heat. The air temperature in my bungalow before and after blowing in insulation was 70 degrees, but I felt warmer when the walls were no longer cold.

You can go beyond improving the insulation of your exterior walls and attic.

There are numerous places that allow cold into your home, especially around your windows. Whether or not you install triplepane Alpen windows, as I did at our office, caulking around the window frames and elsewhere can reduce the energy needed to heat your home. A blower door test done

by Dennis or another contractor will identify those air leaks in your home. Insulating your attic with blown-in cellulose and your crawlspace with plastic sheeting will also reduce your home’s energy needs whether from gas heating or your new heat pump.

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Other ways of reducing your energy needs include “daylighting” your home (or office). We have “sun tunnels” in our home and office to bring daylight into interior spaces. In fact, on a sunny day we don’t need to turn on any lights in our office. It’s great— and saves energy. You’ve probably heard of the brand Solatube. We had Design Skylights of Evergreen install Velux sun tunnels at both home and work.

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Wheat Ridge hotel licensing ordinance approved by council Hotels that don’t comply could face license revocation

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Wheat Ridge hotels and motels will face new licensing requirements after City Council unanimously passed Council Bill 18-2021 enacting new standards for establishments offering short and extended stay lodging.

Police Chief Chris Murtha started the discussion with an in-depth look at the number of calls for service (CFS) his department makes in a given year. Murtha said since he was hired, Wheat Ridge PD has taken a focused look at hotel safety and security, acting on Council’s concerns.

“This has been an ongoing issue for many years. It predates my employment here in the city,” Murtha said. “This is not new to members who have been on the police department for a while.”

Murtha said calls for service to hotels are disproportionate to calls to other businesses. He said, right now, calls to hotels amount to about 10% of total police service calls. An average of 53 minutes is spent per citizen-initiated call. Murtha said the volume of calls and the amount of time and manpower they take has

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created an unsustainable situation for his department.

“Hotels with high calls for service evolve into nodes of illegal activity including drug dealing, prostitution and other illicit behaviors,”

Murtha said. “Adopting stronger local requirements to limit illegal activities in hotels is an essential tool to combat economic blight in the city.”

Murtha said those quotes aren’t

just an opinion, but are based on a Department of Justice study on budget hotels and criminal activity that surrounds them, done years ago.

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“When I was first hired, my very first call for service — I went out at midnight —was at a hotel for a shooting,” he said. “We have inciFROM PAGE 4 dents of human trafficking, drug dealing and other nefarious activBreaking down the numbers, ity at many of our hotels in Wheat Murtha said three of the nine hotels Ridge.” and motels in the city account for Murtha said the goal of the ormore than 6% of the overall 10% of dinance would be reducing crime hotel service calls. The three worst and increasing overall safety in the offenders, year after year, Murtha city’s hotels and motels. said, have been Motel 6, American The ordinance Motel and Best contains proviInterstate. Afsions that will fordable Inn affect both longand Super 8 term (more than rounded out the 30 days) and top 5 hotels and short-term (less motels requirthan 30 days) ing the most occupancy. service calls.

The ordinance For the first half creates new of 2021, AmeriHotel Licenscan Motel, Motel ing Require6 and Super 8 ments including have required requiring hotels the most calls and motels to for service. To achieve and put that into perChris Murtha, maintain a low spective, police have responded Wheat Ridge Police chief police call for service (CFS) to the American rate within Motel more than 12 months of 500 times since obtaining their license. They will the beginning of 2021. Some of those also have to participate in the City’s calls are police initiated. certified crime free hotel/motel proAccording to Murtha, unwanted gram. Further, hotels and motels in party on premises, suspicious the city will have to meet all correcvehicles, disturbances (domestic tive actions in response to a hotel/ violence, fight, verbal altercation) motel inspection program report. and follow-ups account for the lions Hotels and motels will also have share of calls. He said the nature of to comply with the City’s existing these calls does not mean serious landscape inspection program and crimes aren’t being committed in adopted international building and the hotels as well.

‘Hotels with high calls for service evolve into nodes of illegal activity including drug dealing, prostitution and other illicit behaviors.’

property codes.

Finally, these establishments will be required to establish and maintain an approved security plan.

On top of these requirements, hotels and motels that offer extended stay lodging will need to ensure minimum standards for lodging used as housing.

To be in compliance, extended stay rooms must be a minimum of 300 sq. ft, have a living room that is a minimum 120 sq. ft. and a defined bedroom space. The rooms will also have to be equipped with kitchen and cooking facilities.

Extended stay rooms will be allowed to house a maximum of two persons per dedicated bedroom and provide proper storage for personal possessions. Housekeeping services must also be available for extended stay guests.

For common areas of hotels/ motels with extended stay options, 24-hour front desk staffing will be required. Universal wireless internet and laundry facilities must be available, and storage of personal possessions (like a bicycle in the hallway) will be prohibited.

Extended stay lodging licensing will also require the establishment to offer a minimum number of other amenities like fitness centers, pools, meeting areas or on-site restaurants.

The annual fee for a hotel license will be $300.

Ryan Sugden, an attorney representing the American Motel, tried to make the case that the underlying causes of many of the calls are societal issues that are beyond the capacity of hotel and motel own-

ers to cure. He also said hotel staff worrying about how many times they’re calling the police will create a riskier situation for everyone involved.

Sugden said the extended stay requirements were particularly prohibitive because extended stay guests created less calls for service than nightly guests.

Don White, the owner of the American Motel, also spoke. He said his staff has been fighting these problems for the more than 30 years his family has owned it. White made an impassioned plea for help from the City and police.

“You all can bury your heads in the sand, but this exists. This is a problem of drugs, homelessness, crime — it’s here,” White said.

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Junior homecoming royalty makes Arvada West history

BY MAKENZIE SPROLES FOR WESTWINDS

Editor’s Note: This story was written for, and first appeared in Westwinds, the student newspaper for Arvada West High School.

Homecoming has made history at Arvada West this year; two females have won homecoming royalty.

Juniors Brianna Curtis and Jade Newkirk have placed a new view on royalty and the purpose of being who you are.

Curtis and Newkirk have been dating for six months and were encouraged by their peers to run for royalty. This was the first time that A-West has offered a voting form that does not mention gender, opting to only have “Choice 1” and “Choice 2” on the ballot. This inspired Curtis and Newkirk to be the first same-sex couple to run for homecoming court at A-West. As time passed, forms were passed out and advertisements were created, junior voters around A-West casted their votes. The winners were then announced. As many assumed, the two juniors won.

Curtis states, “Being royalty showed me that gender norms aren’t so important to Arvada West anymore.”

Curtis believes that there has been a huge growth in the student population and people becoming their true selves.

Both Curtis and Newkirk commented that the experience showed

Juniors Brianna Curtis and Jade Newkirk smile for the camera after being named to the homecoming court, making school history as PHOTO BY MAKENZIE SPROLES the first same-sex couple to be voted in.

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With all this said, A-West has many ways for students to express who they are, such as the Gay/ Straight Alliance and Equality Club (soon to come). It is aiming to create a safe space for students as well as a community for people to accept and express themselves.

There are always ways to get involved at A-West.

There have been many exciting things last month alone. One was National Coming Out Day. On Oct. 11 many celebrated the day for LGBTQ+.

Newkirk encourages everyone to, “Be true to yourself,” telling not only the school but those who listen, no matter what hardships life comes to face, always be there for yourself and who you are.

With history made at Arvada West, more is expected to come, as the future is forever changing.

NO HOMECOMING QUEEN The move to decouple homecoming court voting from gender also resulted in two senior Homecoming Kings (Noah Younger and Jonathan Bashford) being crowned, though they aren’t a couple.

In a survey of 77 students, parents and community members from A-West conducted by Westwind, there was a clash of opinions on how well they felt homecoming was handled.

There was 46.8% of respondents who agreed that holding an inclusive vote was the right way to go about the situation. On the other hand, 36.4% of respondents said they disagreed with the school’s decision, leaving 16.9% remaining neutral on the topic.

To read more about the new voting system and more student journalism, check out the Westwind website: awestnews.com/.

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The ghosts of the Arvada Cemetery weren’t the only ones coming back to life on Halloween this year.

Tom Faughnan, a 90-year-old Arvada resident, rose from a coffin and danced around in the company of slightly bewildered friends and family members at the Arvada American Legion Post on Oct. 31.

Faughnan — and his 14-year-old dog, Teddy — were guests of honor at ‘Tom and Teddy’s Funeral Rehearsal,’ a mildly morbid celebration of life for the pair of not-yetdeceased companions put together by a few family members with a flair for the dramatic.

The idea began some 25 years ago, when a former co-worker of Faughnan’s called him up with a hairbrained suggestion.

“A friend of mine, Joe Murray — he retired down in Florida — he calls me up and says `Tom, you know what you should do? You should get a picture of yourself and go to the funeral parlor where you’re going to have your funeral and put a sign up that says, ‘Coming Attraction,’” said Faughnan. “That’s where I got the idea. And for 25 years now, I’ve had that in my head.

“I was only going to make the card. (Granddaughter) Faith (Richmond) helped me with the card, she did a really good job on it, it’s exactly what I was trying to have done,” Faughnan continued.

The idea didn’t stop there. Richmond and her friends took the concept and ran with it, planning an

elaborate mock-funeral party that broke out into karaoke and dancing following the unusual processional.

“I’ve got a couple of people who are down to do something weird and silly and liked the idea,” said Richmond. “My grandpa has always been a prankster and loves to get people’s goat and say and do hilarious things in his daily life — big elaborate pranks on friends and family.

She called her grandfather’s party “his day in the sun.”

Much of Faughnan’s extended family — his eight kids, 22 grandchildren, 5 greatgrandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews — attended the party to take part in the procession and dancing that followed, which included ‘Roll Out the Barrel,’ ‘We Are Family,’ ‘New York, New York,’ and other favorites paying homage to the family’s Irish heritage.

The party was held at the American Legion Post, one of Faughnan’s — a Korean War veteran — favorite hangouts.

Faughnan’s daughter Faith Sleevi said that the reception among family members has been mixed, though many of their clan share Tom’s dark sense of humor.

“Amongst the siblings, we all have an off-the-wall sense of humor.

Some of the nieces and nephews had some issues,” said Sleevi. “My dad it thrilled, and we all got a kick out of it.”

Aside from the festivities and elaborate pranks, Faughnan is hoping to impart some wisdom amongst the attendees.

“Who’s afraid of dying? We’re all going to die. I’m 90 years old. And Jesus, don’t you think it’s time — I SEE FAUGHNAN, P9

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The cherry on top, according to Sleevi, is getting to pull the prank with Faughnan’s similarly graybearded pup, Teddy.

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Olde Town Arvada gift cards were awarded as prizes for the winners of four categories in the costume contest, judged by City Councilmembers John Marriott, Lauren Simpson and Arvada Visitor Center Executive Director Jean Gordon.

The spookiest costume was `heads on a platter,’ the cutest costume was `baby prince,’ the most creative costume was `tall jack,’ and the best group costume was `football family.’

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Electric vehicle charging station opens in Lloyd King Center EVgo brings six fast chargers to Arvada STAFF REPORT

Electric vehicle drivers in Arvada have a new charging station to help curb range anxiety. EVgo, a nationwide provider of fast chargers for electric vehicles, opened six charging stations in the Lloyd King Center parking lot, located at 6350 Sheridan Boulevard, on Oct. 26.

Four of the chargers are capable of charging up to 180 miles in 15 minutes, while the other two can charge up to 90 miles in the same timeframe. With the opening of the Arvada chargers, EVgo now has 86 chargers in Colo., and over 800 chargers across 34 states nationally.

Colorado Lieutenant Governor Diane Primavera, State House District

The new EVgo electric vehicle chargers at the Lloyd King Center.

32 Representative Adrienne Benavidez, Executive Director of the Colorado Energy Office Will Toor and Arvada Mayor Marc Williams were on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

“People in House District 32 are

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primarily low and mid-income, and I think that’s what we’ve been missing with electric vehicles,” said Benavidez, “how do you make it accessible to low-and mid-income people?”

Primavera touted the Colo.’s prog-

ress in moving towards the state’s plan to have about a million electric vehicles on the road by 2030.

“I drive by here every day on my way to Broomfield. The Polis-Primavera administration has settling term goals to mitigate pollution and made tremendous progress in the last two years towards having one million electric vehicles on the road by 2030,” said Primavera. “Electric vehicles aren’t just a luxury, but a smart choice.”

Williams said the city supported the statewide effort to get more EV’s on the road.

“These new EV fast chargers will help further advance Colorado’s electrification and climate goals and expand valuable access to public charging for residents and travelers alike,” said Williams. “The city of Arvada is committed to moving away from the combustion engine.

It’s the right thing to do.”

Charter school investigating death of baby goat Students removed from class in response to incidents, according to reports STAFF REPORT

A group of students at Mountain

Phoenix Community School in Wheat Ridge have been removed from class during the investigation into the death of a baby goat, according to a report from Fox 31.

Mountain Phoenix’s legal council released a statement confirming that the goat was found deceased on the morning of Oct. 14.

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ment Public Information Officer Sara Spaulding said police are not involved in the investigation and that the principal of the charter elementary school was handling the investigation.

“The principal is looking into why the baby goat was there, who the baby goat belongs to and what the circumstances were of the goat’s death,” said Spaulding. “We are not involved at this point until it has been determined that police would need to be involved. If there was a crime committed, we would, but we are waiting to hear from the principal to see if that’s the case.”

A statement Mountain Phoenix put out to parents earlier this month said that the goats had been removed from campus: “The goats have left the building (campus)!... You may have heard that we lost one of our precious goats last week. It breaks all of our hearts to report this news and the cause of death is unknown. What we do know is that the goats were tended well by many and their absence is felt throughout our whole tribe. We are exploring options for beinging more animals to the campus as it provides a very well-rounded experience for the com-

munity,” reads the statement.

A parent at Mountain Phoenix who wished to remain anonymous said that other parents were unhappy with the school’s communication in the wake of the incident.

“Parents are more upset that they’re finding out from the media instead of from the school,” said the parent.

The parent added that Mountain Phoenix has goats that live on campus, replacing the chickens that previously were kept at the school.

“Mountain Phoenix has had animals for a couple years. Nothing ever happened to the chickens and classes were in charge of taking care of them,” said the parent. “During breaks it was hard to find people to take the care of the chickens, so they got goats.

“The goats are at the school, there’s a pen and everything; it’s the old chicken coop. Someone was able to take care of the goats on weekends and breaks. I think it’s a faculty member,” the parent continued.

Spaulding added that WRPD was contacted because it has school resource officers who work in Jefferson County School District.

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An altogether too-common tale

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y Friday morning started with a text from a former legislator who now lives in Tennessee that I hadn’t heard from in almost three years.

He’d received an email from me asking for a favor GUEST that he thought was likely a result COLUMNIST of someone hacking my email account.

Over the next few minutes, my phone was blowing up with other people, some of whom I hadn’t had any interaction with Greg Romberg for several years, telling me not only of the initial email, but a follow-up one asking if they had received the first one.

For those unfortunate enough to respond to either of them, there

was a third email asking them to send a gift card.

As I started exploring what had happened, I found that the hacker had created a new email account that, but for the replacement of one small cap letter with a capital letter, was exactly the same as mine and had highjacked my emails. After changing my password, I was able to stop any future emails from going to the fraudulent account but was told by my internet service provider that any emails that had been sent to me while the fraudulent account was active could not be retrieved.

Then the fun began! Once we (the service provider and I) were able to stop the initial bleeding, I still could not send or receive emails. About two hours into my five-hour marathon on the phone with six different service provider employees, I was able

to start getting my emails again.

Once they started to arrive, they included things that had been sent beginning with the time that we’d stopped the forward to the fraudulent address.

But I was unable to respond on that email account to any of the people who had gotten the original email and were asking either what favor I needed or if it was a scam.

The first email I’d gotten when I started to receive emails was one from the service provider saying that (presumably because of the emails sent to all of the email addresses that were in my email folders by the hacker) I’d sent too many emails that day. I was on the phone with a representative of the company when that email was received and after reading it to her, got no reaction.

Many hours and five representatives later, I asked if I couldn’t

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Immunity of a different sort According to the National Museum of American Diplomacy...an embassy is the headquarters for U.S. Government representatives in a foreign country. Embassies have a special status. While the host country is responsible for the security of U.S. diplomats, the embassy itself belongs to the country it represents. Representatives of the host country cannot even enter an embassy without permission — even to put out a fire!

Let’s compare the embassy to a church, a private church. The church is God’s embassy in society. Just as embassies are protected spaces on foreign soil, God’s church should be protected from the woke culture prevalent in America today. As a church and its teachings are protected, so too should be the private schools associated with a church.

The unelected head of the local health department should no more be allowed to issue mandates for mask wearing at a private school, than a foreign government be allowed to issue edicts for U.S. embassy staff members to wear burkas inside their embassy! The health department’s dominion should be public settings, not private.

No one in Arvada is forced to send their children to private schools. Any parent who wants, can pull their child out of the

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private school and send them to a public school ... and a low performing public school at that, based on Jeffco’s test scores reported in a recent Arvada Press.

Let the parents choose whether to mask their own children.

Government should not be able to coerce compliance for masking, or other largely ineffective health measures.

Mark W. Salley, Arvada Enough is enough Kudos to Cynthia Dionigi-Huffman and her letter on Aug. 26, concerning the multiple housing projects in Arvada. The Mayor and City Council members have shown extremely poor governance or concern for our community by bringing all of these new developments into our city.

I thought the projects needed to align with community values!

Our community is not being taken care of now, our trails and paths are overgrown with weeds, sidewalks are heaving, tennis courts need mending, trash everywhere, 80th Ave. sounds like a freeway, we now have airplane traffic over our neighborhood, traffic is horrendous throughout our city and you want to bring in hundreds of more people and cars? What is the reasoning behind this, who is benefiting?

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send emails because the service provider had suspended my account and was told yes. Despite the many hours and many attempts to make it possible for me to send emails, none of the service providers’ employees ever thought to check if they had suspended my account. It began to work again the next day.

My horrible, no good, very bad day was a reminder of how vulnerable we all are as more and more of our lives take place virtually. And as bad as it was, it could have been much worse. No financial records were stolen. To the best of my knowledge, no one bought gift cards for the hacker.

And it was largely resolved in just one day.

Greg Romberg is president of Romberg and Associates. He lives in Evergreen with his wife, Laurie.

Personal growth precedes, boosts professional growth

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ast week I had the privilege to participate in a professional development program for salespeople delivered by my good friend and mentor Bryan Flanagan. Although I have seen Bryan and many WINNING other corporate trainers deliver WORDS quality programs for more than 20 years, I still pick up something new, or a lesson that needed to be reinforced.

I listened to this one sentence, and I was immediately Michael Norton transported back to hearing Zig Ziglar talk about how important it is to develop the person, not just the skill set.

Here is what was said: “Personal growth always precedes professional growth.” Having spent most of my professional career in the personal and professional development industry, I know this to be an accurate statement.

Working with companies of all sizes, one of the questions I receive is around guidance for a sales training program or leader-

ship development program that can help companies accelerate growth. And before I answer, I ask a question in return, “What have you done so far to build the people in your organization?” Almost everyone will answer with a list of courses or companies that they have worked with to address or focus on a specific skill set such as sales training, time management, communication skills, customer service training, presentation skills, etc.

When this happens, I pause and reframe the question. I acknowledge that those skills absolutely help develop capabilities, and then I ask them to think about some of the other character traits that can impact their people personally and professionally while still helping the company to grow.

Some understand my question as they recognize that when we work on building our people, the people will in turn help us build our business.

Equally, if not more important than the skills mentioned above, are the softer skills training such as confidence, developing a

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Colo. needs the right plan to expand early education

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his summer, Gov. Jared Polis signed a historic bill to support universal Pre-K education in Colorado. The legislation’s passage represented a major milestone in a decades-long GUEST quest to expand COLUMN educational opportunities for young t learners.

But the hard work is not done. The way we move the plan forward, and how we decide to use the funds for universal Pre-K, will have huge consequences for Colorado families and their children.

Our Pre-K program can set a positive example for other states, but Cathrine Floyd only if we make the and Deborah J. right choices now in our planning.

Leong COVID-19 widened severe opportunity and achievement gaps for children from low-income families, children of color, multilingual learners, and other underserved populations.

Currently, only 40% of eligible children are able to access preschool through the Colorado Preschool Program.

Funding for universal Pre-K will help, but only if all students have access to high-quality choices.

Money alone will not be enough.

The state’s new Department of Early Childhood must start with a strong blueprint to design a highquality program. Our youngest kids have unique potential and unique needs that can guide these plans.

Supporting every child’s potential starts with improving teacher training and paying early educators what they’re really worth. Colorado educators who work with children ages 0-4 make an average of $26,875 a year — far below the state’s percapita income of about $41,000.

Clear definitions of quality and a streamlined bureaucracy also will go a long way toward helping Colorado families find the best learning options for their kids.

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ent state agencies — Colorado Preschool Program dollars, through the Department of Education, and the Child Care Assistance Program, through the Department of Human Services.

Many parents don’t have the resources to identify high-quality programs in such a complex system. High-quality choices should be readily available to every family.

Measures of quality should be grounded in the science of child development. High-quality programs should include consideration of equity, exploration, and other principles of ideal learning environments — both for the parents seeking the right program for their kids, and for the children in the classroom.

The best early learning programs use these principles to personalize learning and meet every child where they are. They champion play as central to a child’s growth and learning, and value childhood as a unique time when kids learn through close relationships with their teachers and peers. They’re committed to engaging and empowering families as active participants in their kids’ learning.

Not all early childhood programs are the same. Many people assume that worksheets and flashcards teaching discrete math and reading skills are the best tools to advance a child’s academic success.

But that’s not how young children learn best.

How we teach matters as much as what we teach, and the how has to honor what we know about children’s growth and learning. For example, play-based models have been shown to foster whole-child development and support literacy and math skills. The principles underlying these programs should be woven into the state’s earlylearning plans.

Educators need robust training to create learning environments that set up 3- and 4-year-olds for success both in Kindergarten and in life. If we don’t give educators the resources they need, too many children will be left behind — even in a world with universal access.

Colorado is a diverse state, and our youngest learners have diverse needs. The good news is we already have a variety of models that support children, families and educa-

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tors in their unique communities.

Programs like Tools of the Mind support teachers through professional development that includes individualized video coaching, small-group monthly facilitated professional learning communities, regular workshops and a range of digital resources including child-assessment tools.

Educators can receive undergraduate or graduate credit for their professional development through Tools. Schools and districts pay for the training, building a talented workforce while relieving individual educators of the cost.

Also, other programs such as EL Education, HighScope, Montessori and Reggio Emilia support children’s growth and learning through engaging experiences with objects, peers, educators, and the community. These ideal learning experiences build the academic abilities and social-emotional skills of well-rounded learners.

Colorado’s emerging universal Pre-K program could be a model for other states who want to set students up for lifelong success.

But that will be true only if we

build a system for all children and families. It may sound complicated, but these comprehensive, inclusive, and high-quality early childhood programs can help us build a Pre-K system that serves every young learner.

Cathrine Floyd, Ph.D., of Centennial, is grant partnerships manager at Trust for Learning, a national philanthropic partnership that seeks to equitably expand ideal learning environments for children from birth through age 8.

Deborah J. Leong, Ph.D., of Golden, is president and cofounder of Tools of the Mind and professor emerita of Psychology at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she taught educational and developmental psychology for 36 years.

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IT FLY Isaac Smith, of Highlands Ranch, draws his bow while target-shooting at Quick Draw Archery’s indoor range on Oct. 15.

PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

Conifer-area resident Dave Cenedella, right, looks to buy a new compound bow at Bear Creek Archery near Englewood on Oct. 15.

Cenedella has been practicing archery for about six years and made a range in his yard.

Archers find their own aims, outlets on indoor ranges

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i rchery is more than how Katniss Everdeen won the d t Hunger Games. t It’s whatever the archer wants it to be — a friendly competition; a therapeutic outlet for one’s i c frustration; a challenging, physical exercise; a mental game; a way a i to hunt; a way to make friends; a discipline; a skill; a sport; and much b e more. e Littleton-area resident Adrian Evangelista said shooting every day d at Bear Creek Archery, in unincorporated Arapahoe County near c Englewood, is a way to get out of the l house. a “(Archery) teaches you how to b manage your frustration … and learn from your mistakes,” he said. b a “ … Life could be boring without c sports.”

As the weather turns colder and o the days get shorter, many archers d have moved indoors for target-shooting and tournament season, which s v runs until March. t Archery in general has become more mainstream in recent years, and its popularity has grown during a the pandemic because it’s a “COVID V friendly” activity, Bear Creek Ar- p chery owner Dave Marsh said. s Kevin Lewis, who owns Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, t H said the sport usually sees an uptick in interest after the Summer d a Olympics. But, Hollywood is also responsible for archery’s increasing popularity, especially among girls. s After 2012’s “The Hunger Games” a movie came out, Lewis said every- s body wanted to be like Katniss. He s s also wondered whether Disney’s upcoming “Hawkeye” TV show will w p SEE ARCHERY, P17 a b

A holiday JAAMM that celebrates all arts COMING ATTRACTIONS

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o often festival experiences are centered around a particular kind of creation - film, music, books, etc. The JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center’s 14th annual Neustadt Jewish Arts, Authors, Movies and Music (JAAMM) Festival blends all of them in an event that spans almost two-and-a-half months.

“The event was originally conceived as more of a literary festival, and from there other things started to grow,” said Rich Cowden, general manager of the culture center. “We started asking how there could be more arts and culture involved and that’s how it expanded to where we are now.”

The festival, which began on Oct. 6 and runs through Tuesday, Dec. 21, features more than 20 events in all kinds of areas - film screenings, author talks, local theater performances, comedy performances and more. Typically, there are more live music elements, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has been scaled back for

this year’s festival.

The JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center’s, 350 S. Dahlia St., COVID-19 policy is that attendees 12 years old and older must be fully vaccinated and all attendees, regardless of age, will also be required to wear a mask at all times.

As such, there will be three options for participating in the JAAMM events: inperson, virtual and hybrid.

“This is a great opportunity to engage in a really participatory way over a relatively short period of time,” Cowden said.

“We’re not just interested in showing people these things and asking them to go home. There’s a level of involvement we want to achieve so people feel like they’re part of the experience.”

Some upcoming highlights from the festival include: Tuesday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m. - Judy Batalion.

Hybrid Event.

The Fred Marcus Memorial Holocaust Lecture will showcase Batalion and her book, “The Light of Days: The Untold

Story of Women Resistance Fighters in d Hitler’s Ghettos.” e Tuesday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m. - Colum Mcs Cann. Hybrid event.

National Book Award-winning and best-l selling author McCann will discuss his monumental novel “Let the Great World w Spin,” his latest work, “Apeirogon,” and b a more about life as an author.

Tuesday, Dec. 7, 7 p.m. - Rabbi Sandra M i Lawson. Hybrid event.

Rabbi Lawson will speak on the topic h “Black, Jewish & Queer: Navigating Juda-s ism with Multiple Identities and Building c Bridges.”

“This festival is really about building community and conversation, building A t a place to have constructive, creative and challenging conversations,” Cowden h said. “A lot of people might be reluctant b to come to an event because they don’t s know if they’ll like it. But if you come into a space which is accessible, friendly,e a c SEE READER, P18

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likewise generate interest in the sport.

Evangelista, who started archery in 2013, recommended people give it a shot at least once, saying, “If you like it, you like it.”

Setting their sights on indoor competitions This time of year, Lewis said indoor ranges see a mix of people doing it for fun, children learning the sport, and archers practicing for tournaments.

For a serious archer, he said, indoor and outdoor archery are two completely different games. There are more options outdoors, including hunting and 3D target courses; but indoor has its own world of events and specialists too, Lewis explained.

Conifer-area resident Dave Cenedella said he and his wife plan to compete in the Thursday night league at Bear Creek Archery.

Cenedella, who’s been practicing archery for six years, said he enjoys bow-hunting and shooting in his backyard range. Like rifle-shooting, archery requires self-reliance, he continued, but it doesn’t impact one’s hearing like rifle-shooting does.

“It’s super-challenging,” Cenedella said of archery. “There are so many variables, and you have to do everything the same way every time.”

Right now, Colorado’s best archers are preparing for this February’s Vegas Shoot, the annual indoor “Super Bowl of archery” in Las Vegas.

Castle Rock’s Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery, said the tournament world is a lot of fun.

He’s competed in indoor and outdoor competitions, winning several across Colorado.

Treloar also enjoys the ritualistic side of archery. The state has a huge archery community, with lots of shops and organizations, so there’s something going on every night, he said.

Fellow staff shooter Rick Typher, who lives in Highlands Ranch, appreciates how archery is therapeutic and a mental game, stating, “It’s a battle against yourself.”

Un-bow-lievable fun Whether archers only recently started shooting or have been practicing it for years, local indoor ranges have something for everyone, including private lessons and classes for all experience levels.

Many rent out recurve bows, which are generally easier to draw but harder to hold, local professional archer Steve Marsh explained.

Meanwhile, compound bows are individualized and end up being harder to draw but easier to hold, he said.

“You can’t expect to master (archery) overnight,” he said.

Marsh, who works at Bear Creek Archery and shoots for the Matthews Archery team, described how he started archery at age 8 but didn’t become proficient until he was 20.

Littleton’s Ben Hartford and his son Nathan, 14, started archery earlier this fall. Ben used to do it at camp, and revisited it when his cousin gifted him a bow. Since then,

Littleton’s Nathan Hartford, 14, takes aim while target-shooting at Quick Draw Archery’s indoor range on Oct. 15. Nathan and his PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN dad, Ben Hartford, started practicing archery a few months ago.

Castle Rock’s Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, draws his bow while targetshooting at Quick Draw’s indoor range on Oct. 15. Treloar started practicing archery about three years ago and has competed in tournaments across the country.

he and Nathan have been practicing how to sight their targets.

“It’s a skill,” Hartford continued.

“The more you do it, the better you get.”

Isaac Smith, a college student from Highlands Ranch, started five or six years ago and described it a fun hobby that he revisits whenever he can. He enjoys both indoor and outdoor archery, and likes setting up makeshift ranges whenever he goes camping.

“It can be relaxing if you don’t stress about it,” he said.

Madison Myles, who lives in the Parker area and started archery when she was 10, also has an outdoor range at home and tries to shoot at least once a week.

“I like the joy of it — the adrenaline rush,” she said. “It’s fun. Just try it out.”

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positive attitude, building winning relationships at home and at work, goal setting and achievement, and learning to work and live with hope.

When we can instill or work to strengthen these qualities, our people will be in a much better frame of mind to receive the other skills-based training that can further their career while contributing to their team and the organization.

Having been in the people building business for most of my life, I can share with you that unfortunately many organizations miss this opportunity. This is a shame because there is so much available data that supports the fact that when we work on the personal growth aspects of our people, the professional growth always follows.

Companies who overlook investing in personal development opportunities often find themselves paying substantially higher replacement costs.

Sometimes we fall into the trap of believing that all the people we hire or who are already a part of our team don’t need any help in their personal growth. This is flawed thinking because each of us will go through life’s challenges, and we may not always be prepared for the impact or

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not intimidating, not elitist and not off-putting, then you can take that leap of faith and maybe walk away changed in some way.”

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toll those challenges can take on our lives. Even some of our people whom we see as strong and capable may be going through a hardship that can cross over into their professional work. We all bring our home life to work and our work life home, both the good and the bad.

Self-confidence helps us to develop a positive outlook and attitude. A positive attitude contributes to building winning relationships. Confident and positive people who work well with others become goals oriented and results focused. And when we can help develop all these character traits in our people, hope abounds. And as John Maxwell says, “If there is hope in the future, there is power in the present.”

Personal growth precedes and accelerates professional growth. If you have questions about how to go about this for you and your team, I would love to hear from you at mnorton@tramazing.com. And when we can live and work with confidence, a positive attitude, establish winning relationships, realize our goals, and become filled with hope, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager, and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

Thornton commemorates Dia de Los Muertos Every year Thornton’s Dia de Los Meurtos celebration gets bigger and more fun, and for its fifth year the city is pulling out all the stops.

The fifth annual event will be from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6 at McAllister Park Center, 750 W. 96th Ave. in Thornton.

The free family-friendly event features food trucks, live enter-

tainment, an art market, Katrina costume contest and more.

From 6 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 13 the city is also hosting a free Mexican Film Festival at the Thornton Active Adult Center, 11181 Colorado Blvd. The festival will screen “The Book of Life” and “Macario.”

Information for both events can be found at www.artsthornton. com.

Welcome to Jurassic Quest Listen, if you aren’t completely fascinated by dinosaurs, I really don’t know what to tell you.

I mean, have you seen dinosaur bones? You can see more than bones at Jurassic Quest, a touring exhibit that brings more than 100 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs to audiences all over the country.

The event will be stopping by the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St. in Denver, from Friday, Nov. 12 through Sunday, Nov. 14.

The show includes the opportunity to see baby dinosaurs, an interactive raptor show, dinosaur rides, giant fossil dig, inflatables,

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This certainly isn’t in the best interest of Arvada. Tensions are rising from the overcrowding everywhere you go, grocery stores, restaurants, schools, gas stations.

Apparently we have our Community Leaders to thank for it.

Arvada used to be a treasure, a farm feel, friendly community where people used to wave and say hello. Our leaders are turning it into a Metropolis Nightmare, hope you all are proud of yourselves. Where is the involvement of the voices of Arvada citizens? Why are these decisions not voted on? Stand up Arvada! Quit being so complacent, let’s put our foot down and say enough! Remember this when you vote for our government officials!

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Clarke’s Concert of the Week — SZA at the Fillmore Auditorium It’s been four years since R&B sorceress SZA released her majorlabel debut, “Ctrl,” and the album has held firm as one of the best records of any genre from the 2010s. Aside from a few singles and features, it’s mostly been quiet from her during that time.

What I’m trying to say is, we need more SZA, and we need it now.

Hopefully, the fact that she’s hitting the road is a good sign of new music on the horizon. SZA is embarking on a relatively short west coast tour and Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., is fortunate enough to be one of the stops she’ll be making. She’ll perform at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9.

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

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doing impactful work in meeting the different needs of people experiencing homelessness,” said Kristin Strohm, CEO and president of the Common Sense Institute, a research organization dedicated to protecting and promoting Colorado’s economy, which partnered with CU Denver to produce the report.

“Our goal with this phase was to document what’s working, where there are opportunities, where there might be gaps and ultimately learn from them to solve this crisis,” Strohm said.

The Common Sense Institute and CU Denver released a nearly 70-page report Oct. 25, the second to emerge from their research.

The first report, released in August, analyzed the economic impact of homelessness in metro Denver.

Researchers estimated that almost $447 million a year is spent on shelters, supportive services, health care and other public assistance for people experiencing homelessness in metro Denver.

The researchers are also urging community leaders to find additional ways to support providers, who are short-staffed, yet offer critical support to people who are homeless or at risk for homelessness.

Amplifying awareness of providers and their work can help achieve that goal, and encouraging formerly homeless people to become entrepreneurs, who offer peer services in the system, can also help address the

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crisis, study leaders said.

Mistrust in the system can steer some people away from accessing the services they need, so finding new ways to build trust in the system is also crucial, researchers said.

Clarifying eligibility requirements can help achieve that goal.

The process to receive services often involves many forms and complex structures that make it difficult for homeless people to navigate, extending the amount of time before people in need can get help. More self-navigation tools could reduce the time spent during the process, researchers said.

The report said it’s critical to improve access to online or electronic information for homeless people who don’t have reliable phone and computer devices.

Homeless people can often miss vital connections to information related to their health, employment, housing, transportation and financial needs because they lack consistent access to the internet, electricity, phones or computers. As a result, providers often struggle to

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“The issue of homelessness in our communities is an incredibly complex and challenging one, and requires a clear understanding of the ways to both prevent people from experiencing homelessness in the future, and providing faster ways to recover from homelessness now,” said Dan Griner, director of design, innovation and strategy for the CU Denver Inworks Innovation Initiative, a collaborative of leaders working to solve humanity’s most pressing problems, according to the organization’s website.

Metro Denver’s population has grown by 21% over the past decade, and grew by 1.6% in 2019, alone.

Denver’s growth rate is higher than that of the state, which saw a 15% increase in population growth from 2010 to 2019, according to the report.

The number of people experiencing homelessness in Denver grew by 25% from January 2017 to January 2020. While the number of homeless people likely grew in the last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unknown by how much.

Metro area leaders typically count the number of homeless people on a single night each year. But the annual point-in-time survey, or PIT count, did not occur this year because of the pandemic.

The state has a housing deficit of more than 175,000 homes since 2019, the report said, and while Colorado is “a fairly progressive state” at implementing new initiatives, the housing shortage in Colorado means it’s ranked the fourth worst in the nation behind Washington, D.C., Oregon and California.

One affordable housing real estate developer interviewed in the report said zoning challenges and community pushback have prevented them from moving forward any new projects in Colorado in seven years.

Similarly, a Denver Department of

Housing Stability leader said it costs more than $300,000 to develop a new single unit for affordable housing in the metro Denver area. With rising rental costs and a housing shortage, many voucher programs are unable to close the gap between current prices and what people can afford, according to the report.

The report said a major precursor for homelessness is vulnerability — the possibility of being attacked or emotionally or physically harmed.

Vulnerable people experiencing mental illness, family instability, substance use disorders, repeat experiences of incarceration or domestic violence, for example, are at higher risk for losing their housing and may need immediate shelter services.

Many people who are currently or formerly homeless are considered vulnerable, and the perception of vulnerability is often considered a risk factor by many landlords or rental agencies, who can be reluctant to lease to them because of that factor, according to the report.

One service provider included in the report framed the issue of homelessness as “a loss of community.”

“When homelessness is a result of loss of community, then finding ways to welcome individuals into a new community is necessary,” the person said.

Although CU Denver and the Common Sense Institute have completed their research for this homelessness project, at least for now, leaders from both organizations said they hope to continue working toward solutions.

“The providers in this space and many of the people who are working in this every day — this is common knowledge for them, as to how these things are working,” Griner said.

“But the general public and the community — we all have a part in helping to alleviate this problem and understanding it to a greater degree,” he said. “We’re hoping with education, more people are able to make informed decisions around policy, and around how they interact with this issue.”

To read the full report, go online to commonsenseinstituteco.org.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

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Jefferson County mailing TABOR refund checks STAFF REPORT

Jefferson County taxpayers will soon receive a TABOR refund check in the mail, as required by the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights Amendment (TABOR).

The TABOR Amendment requires governments in Colorado to refund excess revenue collected above the TABOR limit for a given fiscal year or seek voter approval to retain the excess revenue. In 2020, Jefferson County received approximately $1.5 million in property tax revenue above the TABOR property tax limit, as a result, the county is required to

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give that money back to the taxpayers in 2021.

There are a variety of methods that can be used to refund the excess property tax revenue to taxpayers. Examples include mailing refund checks or applying a credit to the following year’s property tax bill. According to a press release put out by the county, mailing refund checks “was the most direct and transparent way for each taxpayer to receive their fair share of the refund.”

All property taxpayers will receive an equitable share of the $1.5 million refund. The average refund is about $7; however, 87% of property taxpayers will receive less than $7

because the top five highest property taxpayers – all large commercial properties – drive up the average.

The size of some refund checks will be less than $1 according to the county.

Still “the Board of County Commissioners, County Manager and staff believed it is important to be as equitable as possible in distributing the refund, according to the release.

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A day after opening statements in the murder trial of Alex Ewing, Judge Tamara Russell granted a mistrial in the case after Ewings’ attorney requested an evaluation of his mental competency.

The reason for the competency assessment request is contained in a sealed motion and has not been disclosed.

Ewing, 61, is accused in the 1984 Lakewood murder of Patricia Ewing Smith, 50.

Smith’s murder occurred just six days before the January 1984 killings of Bruce, Debra and Melissa Bennett in Aurora.

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Voters rejected 1A at the ballot box, which helped set the stage for Jeffco making $16.1 million in general fund cuts in 2020, and an additional $8.7 for 2021.

County staff state that more cuts will likely be necessary beginning in 2023.

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including 7-year-old Melissa, were thought to be killed with a hammer.

Both Smith and Debra Bennett had been sexually assaulted by their assailant. Smith was found beaten to death (also with a hammer) in her home on West Bayaud.

Both cases remained unsolved for years until a DNA match led cold-case investigators to Ewing, who was serving time in an Arizona prison for attempted murder and burglary.

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BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ARVADA— Columbine junior Rocky Shields ripped away a possible undefeated Class 5A Jeffco League run for Pomona on Oct. 28.

The No. 9-ranked Rebels led the Panthers 13-6 early in the fourth quarter. It looked like Pomona senior running back Chase Muller was going to score on an 11-yard touchdown run to potentially tie things up.

“It was one of those things where they were running away from my side,”said Shields, a two-way lineman.“You can’t give up on a play.

It’s about effort and pursuit. That’s what I did. I was at the right play at the right time to make the play.”

Shields ripped at the ball as Muller was about the get into the end zone.

The ball came loose and Columbine senior Grayson Headrick recovered the ball on the Rebels’2-yard line.

Columbine (7-3, 3-2 in league) took over with 8:49 left in the fourth quarter. The Rebels went on a 15play, 98-yard drive that was capped off with a 1-yard touchdown plunge by sophomore James Cillessen with less that 2 minutes to play to seal a 20-6 victory for the Rebels.

“That is Rebel Ball at its finest,”Shield said of Columbine 98yard touchdown drive to make it a 2-touchdown game.“That is what we work on and preach.”

Pomona (6-4, 4-1) actually already wrapped up the conference title last week. Four straight league victories over Lakewood, Ralston Valley, Arvada West and Mullen combined

Pomona senior Chase Muller (9) fights for extra yards during the first half Oct. 28 at the North Area Athletic Complex. The Panthers had their 4-game winning streak come to an end with a 20-6 loss.

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with a little help when rival Ralston Valley defeated Columbine last week allowed the Panthers to clinch the league title before Thursday’s lateafternoon tilt at North Area Athletic Complex.

“Those two turnovers were killers,”Pomona coach Nathan

Johnson said after the Panthers’4game win streak came to an end.“I respect the heck out of (Columbine’s) offense. When you make mistakes like that and are negative in the turnover margin it’s tough.”

The only two scores in the second halfwasa Columbine field goal by se-

nior Wes Jones and the touchdown run by Cillessen. Both scores came after Pomona turnovers.

Columbine opened the game with a bang. On the first play from scrimmage sophomore Josh Snyder had SEE FOOTBALL, P30

Ralston Valley boys soccer battles in playoff opener loss

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

WESTMINSTER — Legacy’s prolific goal scorer — Cooper Stephens — admitted he was a little frustrated Oct. 27 at North Stadium.

The junior had chance-afterchance to put the ball in the back of the net in the opening 40 minutes of the Class 5A 1st round playoff game. The No. 7-seeded Lightning dominated possession and scoring opportunities, but No. 26 Ralston Valley kept the game scoreless going into halftime.

“It was rough,” Stephens said.

“I went out this earlier this week and worked on my shots. I wanted to score a bunch today. One was enough and it won us the game.”

Stephens put his 21st goal of the season into the back of the net in the 52nd minute. It was all Legacy needed as it took a 1-0 victory to advance to the round of 16 Tuesday, Nov. 2, where they will host rival and No. 10 Broomfield.

“I had been making the same run during the game,” Stephens said of his header off the corner kick by sophomore Lucas Monstera. “I got my head on it once and it hit the

cross bar.”

Stephens put the eventual gamewinning header out the reach of Ralston Valley back-up goalie Donovan Meador. The Mustangs’ starting goalie — sophomore Parker Scott — was brilliant in the first half. However, Scott took a knee to the head in the opening minute of the second half when Legacy senior Scott Croff collided with Scott while going after a loose ball in the goalie box.

“He (Scott) had a great first half and played really well,” Ralston Valley coach Jamie Scarcliff said of the sophomore goalie. “I’m proud of Donovan, also a sophomore, for coming in a big game. Both of them stepped up. They gave us the chance to stay in it.”

Ralston Valley (8-7-1) hadn’t got many shots on goal until late in the second half. The Mustangs’ best scoring chance came in the 60th minute when junior Pablo Molla Tejero fired a shot the hit the cross bar.

“I think those last 8 minutes of the game we started firing it on,” Scarcliff said. “I wish that would SEE SOCCER, P30

Ralston Valley sophomore Ryan Mann (15) battles with Legacy junior Cooper Stephens (7) in the first half of the Class 5A state playoff game Oct. 27 at North Stadium.

Stephens scored the lone goal in a 1-0 victory for the Lightning.

PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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STUTZMAN FINISHES IN THE TOP 10

Pomona junior Emma Stutzman pushes toward the finish line during the Class 5A girls race at the state cross country championships Oct. 30 at Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs. Stutzman collapsed from the heat and possible dehydration after finishing ninth. It is the third straight top-10 finish for Stutzman at the state cross PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS country championships.

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a 53-yard touchdown run sprinting past the Rebels’sideline.

“I was just thinking run, run, run,”Snyder said.“It was awesome to hit them right off the bat.”

The Rebels were shorthanded with senior running back/linebacker Seth Cromwell sidelined with an injury.

“We weren’t sure what the outcome would be,”Snyder said about playing without the Rebels’leading rusher.“We just worked our best and the outcome with 20-6.”

It was a huge bounce-back win for the Rebels, who had lost three of the past five games before winning the regular-season finale.

“We were pretty down. Last week kind of scared us a little bit.

We didn’t know who were really are,”Columbine coach Andy Lowry said.“We practiced harder. We practiced with more focus. They guys played their butts off tonight against a really physical football team.”

Pomona’s lone score of the game came on a 1-yard touchdown run by Muller with 4:49 left in the second quarter to cut Columbine’sleadto 10-6. The loss forced the Panthers to play in the opening round of the 5A state tournament this week.

“Five weeksagoa lot of people thought we were down and out. I think when our team realizes their backs are against thewallthey get pretty feisty and a controlled desperate,”Johnson said.“I can’t

Columbine sophomore Josh Snyder celebrates a 53-yard touchdown run on the opening play from scrimmage Oct. 28 at the North Area Athletic Complex in PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS Arvada.

wait to see the bracket come out.”

Columbine and Pomona saw their road in the 24-team 5A state tournament bracket when it was released Sunday, Oct. 31. The top 8-seeded teams receive a first-round bye and both Jeffco teams were just outside the top-8.

Columbine is seeded No. 9 and will host No. 24 Far Northeast Warriors on either Thursday or Friday at Jeffco Stadium. The Warriors were actually the 5A state champions during the Spring 2021 season.

Pomona is the No. 10 seed and will host No. 23 Castle View on the NAAC. Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

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Ralston Valley sophomore goalie Parker Scott races after a loose ball during the first half Oct. 27 at North Stadium. Scott made several saves in the first half in the firstround playoff game against Legacy, but the goalie had to leave the game after taking PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS a knee to the head early in the second half.

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have started a little earlier, but again, I’m proud of the kids that they didn’t give up and they kept it tight.”

Legacy (13-2-1) weren’t able to tack on an insurance goal as Meador was solid in net for the Mustangs.

“They were a lot better than I think all of us expected them to be.

I applaud them for that,” Stephens said of Ralston Valley. “They had a great season.”

Stephens and the Lightning turn their attention to rival Broomfield that came from behind to defeat No. 23 Columbine 2-1 in another first-round game Wednesday night.

Legacy defeated the Eagles 2-1 earlier this season.

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“They program has never made it past the quarterfinals,” Stephens said. “That is where we are striving to get.”

Ralston Valley started the season 1-5 before having a nice run to the postseason. The Mustangs entered the playoff with a 4-game winning streak with all victories coming via a shutout win.

“They worked really hard throughout the season,” Scarcliff said of her squad. “I think with us being so young this season it took us awhile to find our timing together. It took us time to build and connect with. It helped us play stronger at the end of the season.”

Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

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Donkeys get a kick out of pack burro racing Participants tell about the sport original to Colorado

MORE INFO For more information on area pack burro races go to www.ccburroracing. com/

BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With a reputation of being stubborn, pack burro racers will tell you that donkeys are much more than hard (headed) asses.

The sport of pack burro racing originated in Colorado as a remnant of the mining age when workers needed an animal to carry their wares.

Clear Creek County’s Bill Lee got his start in pack burro racing in a similar fashion. As a storyteller who accumulated too many props, Lee started bringing along a donkey to carry his things. Before he knew it, he started running them.

Many racers, including Lee, think the donkeys enjoy having a job to perform.

“They get used to doing different -things,” he said. “I just think they are really a lot happier interacting with humans and having a job, so to speak.”

Lee rents his donkeys for others to use in racing so he can offset their cost. He says keeping any type of animal is not necessarily cheap.

Michelle Hancock has been a runner her whole life. When she discovered pack burro racing, she was hooked: adopting several donkeys and moving to Evergreen.

She points out that in some ways, donkeys uphold their stubborn stereotype.

“Sometimes the donkey will run really fast; sometimes it won’t run at all.”

As a teacher, Hancock gets to

MISTRIAL FROM PAGE 22

evidence found at the scene of the Bennett and Smith murders. He was finally charged with the gruesome Colorado crimes in August 2018.

Michelle Hancock of Evergreen pets one of her donkeys.

Two curious donkeys get up close to check out the camera.

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dedicate a lot of her summer to pack burro racing.

“It’s like the highlight of my summer. It’s what I look forward to,” she said.

Pack burro races can range from 5 to 29 miles, and often take place on trails in the mountains and in other states. The season generally runs from May until early fall.

Linda and Lyn Drain run a Facebook page called Burro Buddies, and they offer burro training, boarding and rentals. Linda says they got into the rental side of things because of the size of their herd.

“We have our own burros that

we race, but because we have such a large herd we let people borrow them,” she explained.

Linda and her husband have been avid racers since they joined the sport in 2017. They have only missed one race (and they missed it for a different race), and Lyn recently won first place in a race in Arizona.

Linda regards her donkeys as more than animals doing a job. She calls them her teammates and her family.

Many owners work with their donkeys outside of racing, including them in weddings, nursing home visits, costume dress up and more.

In August, 2021, Ewing was convicted of the Bennett murders by an Arapahoe County jury. Last month, he was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences by the presiding judge.

During opening statements in the Smith case, Chief Deputy District Attorney Katharine Decker told jurors about numerous similarities

in the Smith and Bennett murders.

The killer had entered both homes through open garage doors. Both sets of victims were bludgeoned to death and semen had been found in similar locations at both crime scenes.

Defense attorney, Katherine Powers Spengler, said the facts in the case were not that simple, and that

A donkey looks along the fence line against the rural background.

When the love of animals coincides with the fun of sport, it seems to produce a group of dedicated people, Hancock said.

“The community of pack burro racing is really incredible,” Hancock said, and the passion behind these athletes’ words speaks to that. evidence connecting Ewing to the crime had been mishandled and contaminated in the decades since the crime occurred.

The newspaper reached out to Colorado’s First Judicial District for information about Ewings’ assessment and next steps, but at press time have not received a response.

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