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VOLUME 17 | ISSUE 47

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains: Lessons ‘You couldn’t create a more terrifying scenario’ learned from

Marshall Fire

Fire chiefs and experts hold summit on fire forecasting BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Fire chiefs from Boulder, Louisville and other affected areas met with officials May 4 for a National Weather Service Fire Forecasting discussion. U.S. Representatives Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Joe Neguse (CO-02), representatives from the National Weather Service, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and members of the House Science Committee were part of the discussion. On Dec. 30, 2021, the Marshall fire started just before 10:30 a.m. as a grass fire in Boulder County. In the following 24 hours, it became the most destructive fire in the state’s history, in terms of structures lost. Damages from the fire are estimated to exceed half a billion dollars. An exact cause of the fire has so far not been determined.

Media. “That’s our terrible forecast after the Supreme Court does what we expect it to do.” A day after the court’s decision was leaked, a PPRM health center assistant who wished to remain anonymous said their health center is preparing for an increase in patients. The provider saw 92,000 patients in the last year, according to PPRM’s 2021 annual report. “We’re really prepping for a massive amount of out-of-staters now,” the HCA said. “(We’ve) already had a massive increase since September with Texas, and now, we’re preparing for almost all our neighboring states to join Texas.” The Supreme Court released a statement May 3 verifying the validity of the leaked decision,

‘Everyone’s learned from this’ Louisville Fire Chief John Willson said he had a couple of meetings and was out and about that morning. He noticed it was windy, and knew there was a grass fire around eight miles away, but figured U.S. 36 wouldprovide protection — and it was in grass after all — tall grass of course, dry grass, yes — but just grass. It had been the wrong way to think about it, he said. “It turned very quickly. It hit Superior around 12:30. It hit Louisville around 12:45. I think the resources were thin. I think the predictions were good — it’s just that we didn’t get them — I didn’t get them in time,” he said. It was just one of the things that made it difficult for incident commanders and firefighters on the ground to even try to fight

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The outside of a PPRM health center in Colorado.

Region’s leading abortion provider gearing up for influx of patients following Roe v. Wade leak BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Vicki Cowart saw this coming. The chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has been working to get her organization ready for what she calls “our terrible forecast” — the leaked Supreme Court decision indicating that Roe v Wade will be overturned. PPRM, the region’s largest abortion provider, with locations in Colorado, New Mexico and Ne-

vada, finds itself at the center of a nationwide fight for reproductive rights. As neighboring states “go dark” on abortions, Colorado has become a place of refuge for those seeking an abortion, signing into law protections for the reproductive health care that safeguards a person’s right to an abortion. For PPRM, that means a huge influx in out-of-state patients. Health centers have already experienced an uptick in patients since the Texas abortion ban that was signed into law in September 2021, and now must prepare for that situation to extend to other bordering states. “Twenty-six million patients are going to live in a state that does not have abortion,” Cowart said in a September 2021 interview with Colorado Community

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which is still subject to change. PPRM’s patient navigators have been working to help patients coordinate travel and lodging, sometimes helping with the cost associated with those hurdles, Cowart said. “We’re talking as though ‘Oh, it’s just easy, you just fly over to new Mexico or drive to Colorado,’” Cowart said. “If you’re an affluent person, if you have your United Miles, if you know how to get on the website and get yourself a plane ticket, this is horrible, but it’s not going to stop you from flying to Denver or flying to LA or flying to New York and having an abortion. “It’s particularly bad for people who are already struggling with an upside-down economy… You couldn’t create a more terrifying scenario for a young woman, for a poor person, for someone with kids that need to be cared for,” Cowart continued. This leaves many abortion seekers in a predicament squarely at the intersection of race, class and gender inequality, according to Cowart. Patients must now travel hundreds — sometimes thousands of miles — to get health care, an inconvenient task for those who are affluent, and a nearly impossible one for those who aren’t, according to Cowart. Because of this, the Supreme Court’s decision will disproportionally effect BIPOC abortion seekers and those who have limited incomes, Cowart said. Donations to PPRM and Planned Parenthood have helped mitigate the cost associated with both traveling and getting an abortion, according to Cowart. The anonymous HCA said navigators have been gearing up to help more patients. “We’re prepping mostly — just making sure our patient navigation team is up to speed on how many more patients they’re gonna have to book flights and hotels for,” the HCA said.

One way PPRM is preparing to deal with the expected influx of patients is a heightened focus on telehealth. Seeing patients virtually allows for more flexibility with scheduling and logistics and helps reduce the strain on PPRM’s staff. Cowart said ramping up telehealth has been one of PPRM’s focuses as it’s been preparing for the Supreme Court’s decision and added that any patient who opts for telehealth will still be able to speak with a provider about their abortion. “We’ve been seeing this coming; we’ve been getting ready for it,” Cowart said. “The most important thing that we’ve been doing is moving as many of our services to telehealth as possible, and that includes medication abortion. “So we have a service where an individual can call in and speak to a doctor over the phone or over a website connection and go through the proper explanations and procedures and the doctor can then send, prescribe and send the medication abortion to the patient overnight to their home or their designated location,” Cowart continued. Nevertheless, abortions coordinated over telehealth have their limitations. Abortion medications cannot be sent outof-state — a patient still needs to cross the Colorado or New Mexico border to get access to the medication. Additionally, the abortion cannot be carried out in a state where abortion is illegal, so patients must take the medication in a legal state. Cowart said patients can choose if they would like to be seen in person or virtually, and that some patients’ medical history necessitates that their abortion be administered in person. She added that nonabortion patients may also be seen via telehealth for visits concerning STI testing, birth control, gender-affirming care and other services PPRM provides. While PPRM is working to accommodate the looming influx

‘It’s particularly bad for people who are already struggling with an upside-down economy… You couldn’t create a more terrifying scenario for a young woman, for a poor person, for someone with kids that need to be cared for.’ Vicki Cowart, chief executive officer of Planned

of patients, its healthcare providers are feeling the strain of working in a challenging field during the COVID pandemic and simultaneously managing a higher patient volume. Ashley Lipasek, a traveling health center assistant with PPRM who works at all of PPRM’s locations, said that although she and her coworkers have experienced heightened stress, the ability to preserve a patient’s right to abortion makes it worth it. “I think increasing the patient number has definitely taken a toll on the health-care workers,” Lipasek said. “But at the same time, I think anyone who joined Planned Parenthood does it not for the money — we don’t make a lot of money, it’s a nonprofit, but because we stand by the mission and we know it matters. “Even if our patient numbers are going up from seeing 30 patients a day to 45, it is a really big increase, and it does create a really exhausting toll on

us, but, you know, every time I work with a patient, even if it’s the end of the day and I’m exhausted and I’ve seen 10 extra patients that day, to me it will always be worth it,” Lipasek said. Lipasek said being able to provide abortion services at a reduced cost adds to the gratification of her work. “Providing the services is really what matters. If we’re able to provide the services at little-to-no cost it makes the job worth it to me…There’s something to be said about the feeling of gratification when I can say ‘don’t worry about the cost of today’s procedure. It’s usually $560, but we’ll just cover the cost, it’s fine,’” Lipasek said. Cowart said PPRM has been building collaborative networks nationwide that will provide an infrastructure for abortion seekers in “dark” states to coordinate their care. “We’ve been building networks and collaborating across states, collaborating amongst all the providers — the independents, the Planned Parenthoods, everybody... The National Abortion Federation has a hotline, we’ve hired patient navigators,” Cowart said. “These patient navigators know where all the funders are, and they know where the bus stations are and so we’re trying to get the word out there via web, via stories like yours, that if nothing else, call the Abortion Federation Hotline, and we can figure out where you are and help you figure out where to get to — and most importantly, help fund it.”

RESOURCES National Abortion Federation Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has locations across Colorado, including health centers in Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins, Greeley, Littleton and other municipalities. Visit www.plannedparenthood.org/ health-center/co for a full list of its in-state locations.

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Nonprofit gives $1.5M cash to formerly incarcerated Coloradans A first-of-its-kind cash assistance program gives people a second chance BY MARGARET FLEMING THE COLORADO SUN

Heather Fitzsimmons was working on getting her life back together and staying clean while on probation in Aurora when she noticed what seemed to be an extra deposit in the account where she gets paid. Fitzsimmons called to alert her employers at the Center for Employment Opportunities in Denver,

part of a national organization providing immediate employment for formerly incarcerated people. They explained the nonprofit’s new pilot program — a first-of-its-kind cash assistance initiative giving $24 million to more than 10,000 former inmates across the country. “It helped me get in a better mental spot to where I feel like it’s actually possible to stay off the street and to maintain a job,” Fitzsimmons said. “It gave me the boost that I needed to get out.” Fitzsimmons used the cash to pay part of a deposit on an apartment and get a car to drive to her job. Before that, she was homeless for six years and without a car for eight years. Now she works to help

other people who are homeless and addicted to drugs or alcohol. The cash assistance program delivered $1.5 million to 623 former inmates in and around Denver. More than 10,000 people in 28 cities received up to $2,750 nationwide. All funding from the program has already been distributed with the goal of helping formerly incarcerated people transition back to their communities. The national stimulus program is privately funded by philanthropic interests including the Justice and Mobility Fund, Agnes Gund Foundation, Art For Justice Fund, George Kaiser Family Foundation and Robin Hood. The Center for Employment

Opportunities partners with the Second Chance Center reentry service in Aurora, where 246 people received cash through the stimulus funding, according to Khalil Halim, the executive director. The assistance will help ease socioeconomic pressures that contribute to crime, he said. “With a program like this, it gives people some of that stability where they’re not stressed and they’re not anxious and they’re able to stabilize themselves,” Halim said. “And they’re not looking at committing crimes to stabilize themselves.” “With a program like this, it SEE CASH, P22

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Report From State Division of Insurance Details Extent of Underinsurance in Marshall Fire

Since the devastating Marshall Fire last December in Boulder County, many homeowners may have contacted their insurers to see whether they might be underinsured, meaning that their homeowner’s policy does not cover the full cost of repair or replacement of their home should a similar disaster strike. You may be interested to read the following April 26 release from the Colorado Division of Insurance containing initial estimates of the extent to which the homes destroyed in that fire were underinsured. Here are the relevant paragraphs from that DOI release, omitting the charts referenced, which you can see on the division’s website:

Of the 951 total loss claims analyzed, 76 homes had guaranteed replacement coverage, meaning that the insurance policy on these homes provides coverage for replacement of the home with similar quality, square footage, finishes, etc. without a cap — meaning underinsurance is not a problem for these homes. These 76 homes represent 8% of the homes in the analysis. Determining the extent of the underinsurance issue is largely dependent on the anticipated rebuilding costs. The Division analyzed underinsurance using various rebuilding costs — $250, $300 and $350 per square foot. Of the 951 policies, here is the breakdown for how many are underinsured. [Chart omitted—see DOI’s website.] Note that these policies that are underinsured include both policies that have extended benefits coverage, meaning coverage that provides some additional coverage if rebuilding costs exceed policy limits

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(83% of policies), and policies without such extended coverage (9% of policies). At a rebuild cost of $250 per square foot, a total of 344 (36%) policies are underinsured. At $300 per square foot, 523 (55%) policies are underinsured. At $350 per square foot, 639 (67%) are underinsured. The DOI also calculated the average amount of underinsurance per policy, using the same rebuilding costs of $250, $300 and $350 per square foot. At $250 per square foot, for the 344 policies, the average amount of underinsurance per policy is estimated at $98,967. At $300 per square foot, for the 523 policies, the average amount of underinsurance per policy is estimated at $164,855. At $350 per square foot, for the 639 policies, the average amount of underinsurance per policy is estimated at $242,670. Next Division of Insurance Town Hall

The DOI will hold a town hall the week of May 16th to discuss this data and any other next steps that have been identified for assistance. As soon as a date and time are decided, information about the town hall will be posted on the Division’s Marshall Fire Response website, and information will be sent to the Division’s Marshall Fire email list. I checked the Division of Insurance’s website, and it did not yet have information on when that town hall will take place. You can check it yourself in coming days at http://doi.colorado.gov. I was disappointed that the report didn’t clarify why it was providing estimates based on those three different price-per-square-foot rebuilding costs, without mentioning why an insurer would use one or the other and why different insurers might use different cost figures for homes that were, for the most part, tract homes built to the same quality by the same builder or builders. I suggest you consult your own insurance agent to see whether your policy contains “guaranteed replacement coverage” or if it could be added.

DMAR Launches App for Both Realtors and Homeowners

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The Denver Metro Association of Realtors (DMAR) just released a new app called the DMAR Home Kit. Download it free from the App Store or on Google Play.. We downloaded it, and you’ll find it useful, especially for finding vendors in multiple trades, plus discounts from some of them. Since Golden Real Estate’s own service provider app vendor went out of business, I find this a good substitute. You can search for vendors by key word. For example, I entered “fireplace,” “sewer” and “mortgage” and found vendors that I would recommend myself. What each vendor has in common is that they are dues-paying affiliate members of the Realtor association, which is a good measure of business ethics and responsi-

bility. They won’t disappoint you because they want to maintain a good reputation among Realtor members. There were no vendors under “heat pump” or “electrician,” but maybe the existence of this app will encourage one or more of them to become affiliate members of DMAR. I recommend it! The app also provides access to the association’s award-winning statistical reports, updated through the previous full month — currently April 2022. You can search those statistics by individual city or county, with separate statistics for single-family homes and for condos/ townhomes. Keep in mind, however, that if you’re searching by city, it’s for all homes with that postal address, not limited to homes in the incorporated city.

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Whitfield, Loveridge and Martin win seats on Arvada Fire Board, early returns show James Whitfield and Bob Loveridge re-elected, Leah Martin fills Andrea Romero’s seat BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

James Whitfield and Bob Loveridge were re-elected to the Arvada Fire Protection District’s Board of Directors and Leah Martin was elected to her first term on the board, according

to early returns from the May 3 election. Whitfield and Loveridge were re-elected to three-year terms, while Martin — also elected to a three-year term — fills the seat of outgoing board member Andrea Romero, who did not seek re-election. Early returns have Martin leading the way with 1,130 votes, followed by Whitfield with 1,147 votes and Loveridge with 924 votes. Bob Dyer also ran and received 815 votes, but was outpaced by his opponents in the race for the three available seats. Ted Terranova and Mark Mc-

AFPD Board Candidate Jim AFPD Board Candidate Whitfield. Leah Martin.

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serves as the board’s president. The results are unofficial as of 9:30 a.m. on May 4.

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Tomsula, Burns and McNeal win Apex Parks and Rec Board seats, according to early returns Trio set to join Vicki Pyne and Rich Garrimone on Apex Board; swearing in set for May 19 BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Apex Parks and Recreation District held a Board of Direc-

tor’s election on May 3, with early returns forecasting wins for Liz Tomsula, Jo Burns and Abby McNeal. The trio is set to join President

Vicki Pyne and Director Rich Garrimone, whose terms are set to expire in 2023 on the Apex Board. Tomsula paced the candidates with 436 votes, followed by Burns with 396 votes and McNeal with 396 votes. Ken Harrell received 355 votes and Eric McWhorter received 238 votes. Tomsula won re-election to the

board while Burns and McNeal replace Stephanie Allen — who did not seek re-election — and Harrell, who did not receive enough of the vote to win re-election. The official election results will be announced on May 17. The newly elected board members will be sworn in at the board meeting scheduled for May 19.

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Jeffco Public Schools tackles declining enrollment More than half of elementary schools underenrolled BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jeffco’s Public Schools are losing students. The district has space for 96,000 students in traditional schools and enrollment is currently at 69,000 in those schools, according to Board President Stephanie Schooley. Although there’s no singular reason for the decline, census data shows a decrease of nearly 30,000 school aged children in the district between the years 2000 and 2020 — even though the county’s general population increased by nearly 56,000 residents in the same period. The population of Jeffco children under the age of 5 has decreased, with 2020 recording the lowest number of births in 15 years. So, in an ongoing attempt to deal with the reality of shrinking enrollment, board members heard a status update during their May 5 meeting on something they call Regional Opportunities for Thriving Schools. It’s an

“18-month initiative designed to respond to the Board’s request for a comprehensive plan to ensure thriving schools with enrollment to support extraordinary student experiences across the district.” In short, it’s a plan that will almost certainly include school closures and consolidations. Staff intends to submit a written report to the Board on 49 elementary schools with a student population under 250 or building utilization of under 60% by May 31, giving the Board time to make closure decisions in the fall. That report will look at things like operating costs, adequacy of facility for program implementation, building capacity, projected enrollment, desirability of site, etc. The report will be reviewed during the Board’s June work session and in late October or early November, the Board will take action on the Superintendent’s recommendations. Chief of Strategy and Communications Lisa Relou led the Regional Opportunities presentation. She said Colorado is not alone in declining public school numbers, pointing to a recent Chalkbeat article citing population shifts and the growth of charter schools as culprits behind school closures in cities from Oakland to

Philadelphia and several points in-between. So, what’s the plan? Relou told the board the District’s recommendation for Phase I of the program “Thriving Experiences for Elementary Students” was to focus on a November 2022 consolidation plan that will confront future emergency spring closure decisions for small elementary schools. She said the plan will also move the district toward a future where all elementary schools are thriving with foundational components and lay the groundwork for Phase II which will focus on bringing regional cohesion to grades PK-12, with a vision toward the future. Enrollment data from the 202122 school year showed that Jeffco Schools are currently serving 25,600 students in 85 traditional elementary schools, but have the capacity to serve 39,900 students. Relou said the 49 under-enrolled elementary schools have nearly 11,000 empty seats combined. To make matters more difficult, those under-enrolled elementary schools can be found in six different articulation areas in the district. Jeffco Superintendent Tracy Dorland explained that the 250 student threshold is important

because with class sizes of 20-25 students, it takes 250-300 students to ensure each school would have two classes per grade level. Currently, there are six elementary schools in the district that have enrollment of under 200 students. EnrollJeffco data suggests those schools will have less than 200 students for the upcoming 2022-23 school year as well. Articulation areas with the most excess capacity include Alameda, Arvada and Standley Lake, with Wheat Ridge, Columbine and Evergreen rounding out the top six. Some of the goals of the plan are to move students away from split grade levels, one teacher per grade level and part-time Art, Music and Physical Education (AMP) teachers. The District also wants to deal with issues like part-time or no support from a Digital Teacher Librarian, parttime Social Emotional Learning (SEL) staff and staff serving in multiple roles. Dorland said staff in many schools are currently overworked, under-resourced and exhausted. But the District not efficiently deploying resources is causing staff in those schools to take on way too many responsibilities, leading to an untenable situation.

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Community invited to view blood moon with Denver Astronomical Society STAFFREPORT

The Denver Astronomical Society is inviting the community to two events in May that take place on the south lawn of the University of Denver’s Historic Chamberlin Observatory, 2930 E. Warren Ave. The first event takes place on May 7. This is one of the society’s monthly open houses, which take place each month, weather dependent. Open houses are scheduled to take place on the Saturday that falls closest to the first-quarter moon. Attendees should plan on arriving at about dusk, so for the May 7 open

house, that would be about 7:30-8 p.m. Open houses are free and open to the public, and no RSVP is required. Members set up their telescopes and allow people to look through them and ask questions. Those who have a telescope of their own are welcome to bring it, and members can assist with setting it up or help tutor on how to use it, if need be. The Denver Astronomical Society’s open houses are opportunity to increase the knowledge and fun of astronomy, said Ron Hranac, a long-time member of the Denver Astronomical Society who serves as the organization’s media contact.

The second event takes place on May 15. This is a special open house to invite people to view the total lunar eclipse — often called a blood moon — that is happening that night. Denver Astronomical Society members will be setting up telescopes and binoculars for the public’s use, but people are also welcome to bring their own if they have them. It is recommended to arrive at about 8-8:30 p.m. to see the beginning of the partial eclipse. People can stay as late as they would like, but should plan on staying until about 11 p.m. or so, which is about when the full eclipse will be

ending. Hranac provided the May 15 eclipse times in mountain time: • Partial eclipse begins at 8:27 p.m. • Total eclipse begins at 9:29 p.m. • Maximum eclipse at 10:11 p.m. • Total eclipse ends at 10:53 p.m. • Partial eclipse ends at 11:55 p.m. Like the open houses, the May 15 event is free and open to the public, and a reservation is not required. To learn more about the Denver Astronomical Society, visit denverastro.org. The website has a calendar that people can reference to learn about future open houses.

State balks on K-12 school funding Colorado lawmakers say maybe next year BY ERICA MELTZER CHALKBEAT

Colorado lawmakers this year came closer to fully funding the state’s schools than at any time since the Great Recession. But rattled by rising inflation and the threat of a ballot measure that would slash anticipated growth in property tax revenue legislators stopped short of constitution-

ally mandated K-12 spending. Democrats say they’re proud of the $36.4 billion budget signed by Gov. Jared Polis recently. The budget dedicates more than $5 billion in state money to base K-12 spending, a 7.5% increase over this year. Average per-student funding will go up 6% to $9,560. Lawmakers are also putting $80 million more into special education, getting closer to funding a formula established back in 2006. But despite a reserve in the state education fund that tops $800 million, lawmakers still held back $321 million through a recurring mechanism

known as the budget stabilization factor. Democrats, who control both chambers, said there’s too much uncertainty on the horizon. Higher state spending is only sustainable, they said, if local property taxes rise enough to take over some of the burden in future years. A few months ago that seemed almost guaranteed, thanks to rising property values and recent tax policy changes. But a combination of dramatic inflation and potential property tax limits would sharply increase the state’s school funding obligations,

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which lawmakers could struggle to meet in 2023. The only thing worse than not giving schools enough money, Democratic lawmakers believe, would be giving them more money one year only to roll it back the following year. “That is not predictable,” said state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, an Arvada Democrat and Joint Budget Committee member. “That does not help our districts.” This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Colorado. More at chalkbeat.org.

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Federal government to hold back water in drought-stricken Lake Powell BY MICHAEL ELIZABETH SAKAS COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced on May 3 emergency plans to protect Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border by holding back water releases to downstream states. The reservoir has plummeted to its lowest level on record amid more than 20 years of record-breaking drought in the Colorado River Basin. This is the first time the agency has moved to delay a release of water from Lake Powell that normally goes to Arizona, California and Nevada. Instead, the federal agency plans to keep more than 480,000 acre-feet of water in the reservoir to prop up supplies to protect hydropower production. Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, is fed by a Colorado River storage system that supplies water and hydroelectric power to millions of people across the West. Climate change is contributing to a steep and rapid decline in the available supply of water. Water levels in the lake have dropped close to “dead pool,” the lowest point at which Glen Canyon Dam can generate hydropower. The Bureau of Reclamation is invoking its authority to change how the dam and the reservoir will operate

As drought conditions worsen, the federal government is taking unprecedented steps SHUTTERSTOCK to save Lake Powell.

this year to help ensure the dam’s turbines keep spinning. In a separate action announced last month, upper-basin states worked with the Bureau of Reclamation on a plan to send another 500,000 acre-feet to Lake Powell from Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Utah-Wyoming border under their drought response agreement for the year. A similar action was taken last year when water from Flaming Gorge and Blue Mesa

Reservoir in Colorado was sent to Powell because of drought and dropping reservoir levels. There are no plans to release additional water from Blue Mesa to Lake Powell this year. The combined nearly 1 million acre-feet added to Lake Powell will help protect the reservoir and its infrastructure over the next 12-months. Tanya Trujillo, Interior Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, said the action gives the

agency more time to figure out how to operate Glen Canyon Dam at lower water levels. Trujillo said the move to hold water in Lake Powell was an “extraordinary action.” “We have never taken this step before in the Colorado River Basin, but the conditions we see today and the potential risks we see on the horizon demand that we take prompt action,” she said at a May 2 press conference. Trujillo said the 30 Native American tribes in the basin were consulted, as were the states and partners in Mexico that also rely on the Colorado River. Trujillo said the agency received “consensus support” for these actions to protect Powell. The federal government’s move to store more water in Lake Powell is a temporary solution. Trujillo said Colorado River water users need to “immediately engage” in developing additional conservation measures, including water recycling, innovative water storage ideas and repairing aging, inefficient pipes and other water infrastructure. “We all have to find ways to maximize efficiency and use less water,” she said. This story is from Colorado Public Radio, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support CPR News, visit cpr.org.

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Juneteenth is officially a state holiday in Colorado BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

It is official: Juneteenth is a state holiday in Colorado. Governor Jared Polis signed a bill Monday, May 2, that makes Juneteenth Colorado’s eleventh state holiday. The bill signing took place at Cleo Parker Robinson dance studio in Denver. Members of the Black Democratic Legislative Caucus of Colorado joined Polis at the bill signing, as did Juneteenth Music Festival organizer Norman Harris III and Colorado WINS president Skip Miller. “This day means so much to me,” Harris said. Norman Harris III, organizer of Denver’s Juneteenth Music Festival. Miller also spoke at the bill signing event, as did the bill’s three primary sponsors: Democrats Sen. Janet Buckner (Aurora), Sen. James Coleman (Denver) and Rep. Leslie Herod

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Colorado Rep. Leslie Herod, a Denver Democrat, speaks at the Juneteenth bill signing Monday, May 2 at the Cleo Parker Robinson COURTESY OF. ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS Dance studio.

(Denver). “Colorado, and Denver, has one of the largest Juneteenth [celebrations] in the nation, and it’s time that it’s recognized,” Herod told Rocky Mountain PBS in the moments leading up to the bill’s passage Monday. “I’m really excited to say that the workers of Colorado WINS fought for this in their first ever ... collective bargaining agreement with the governor, and here we are today. This means that places all across the country will know the power of Juneteenth, right here in Denver.” Colorado WINS is the union representing thousands of

state workers. The Colorado House passed the bill Monday, April 11. The legislation had broad bipartisan support; the vote in the House was 61-2. The only “no” votes were Republicans Rod Pelton (District 65) and Rod Bockenfeld (District 56). The Colorado Senate approved the bill Monday, March 21 with a 32-1 vote. Republican Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg (District 1) was the sole vote against the bill. Herod told Rocky Mountain PBS that the bipartisan support of the bill “just acknowledges how far we’ve come.” Democratic State Sen. James Coleman speaks at Cleo Parker

Robinson Dance studio, Monday, May 2. Members of the Black Democratic Legislative Caucus of Colorado first touted the bill Wednesday, March 2, on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol with Polis. “This is a critical part of our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and movement to increase equality in state agencies,” said Colorado WINS president Skip Miller, who spoke at the March 2 event event. “Making Juneteenth a state holiday means Colorado not SEE JUNETEENTH, P9

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only recognizes that Black people are free, but that all people are free,” Sen. Coleman said at the Capitol. Juneteenth — a portmanteau of the words June and nineteenth, the date on which the holiday takes place — is a celebration that started with the freed slaves of Galveston, Texas more than 150 years ago. Though the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in the South in 1863, the proclamation was not enforced in many places in the South, including Texas, until after the Civil War ended in 1865. Until then, many enslaved people were unaware of what happened in the Civil War or the fact that they should have been freed. On June 19, 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston. Granger brought with him General Order No. 3 which read, in part, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” The following year, the nowfree people of Texas began celebrating Juneteenth. For a long time, the holiday was predominantly recognized in Texas, but

‘This is a critical part of our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and movement to increase equality in state agencies.’ Skip Miller, Colorado WINS president

eventually spread across the nation as Black Texans moved outside the state. In June of 2021, following a nationwide racial justice movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd a year prior, President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation making Juneteenth a national holiday, the first new holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983. Earlier in 2021, Denver started officially recognizing Juneteenth after City Council unanimously approved a proposal to make the Saturday closest to June 19 a commemorative holiday. “Denver has a proud, longstanding tradition of celebrating Juneteenth in the community,” District 8 Councilman Christopher Herndon said after the resolution passed last year. “This is an opportunity to shine a light on Black history and officially recognize and

celebrate our freedom, heritage, and achievement.” Juneteenth is now the eleventh Colorado state holiday, joining:

• New Year’s Day • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day • President’s Day • Memorial Day • Independence Day • Labor Day • Frances Xavier Cabrini Day • Veterans Day • Thanksgiving • Christmas This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.

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n the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity — Albert Einstein The last two years have represented, to be kind, great difficulties. From the obvious health challenges COVID-19 causes to the minor disruptions to our everyday routines, nothing has seemed normal. And even now that we’re generally trying to be normal, we’re not. But, from those difficulties, there have been some opportunities realized, both trivial and significant. Following up last week’s theme of “does it work,” here are some more observations. The trivial: in the summer of 2020, one of the few activities everybody could continue to take part in ended up being golf. But many golf courses, in deference to social distancing, had to alter the way they did business, spreading out the intervals of tee times so groups wouldn’t congregate at the tee. Most golf courses have gone back to the old way; but there is one course in Arvada that has left its tee intervals at 12 minutes (one group tees off at 9:00, the next at 9:12, 9:24, etc…), and the difference is remarkable! Short tee intervals mean really long rounds and

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off 131 employees due to reduced funding, due to reduced enrollment; JeffCO Schools had to go $36.6 million into debt spending this year to cover the reduced enrollment funding; Google “school enrollment declines” and you get 62 million hits from everywhere around the country. Why is this happening? Some is demographics — people are having fewer kids. But schools know this, and build it in to their planning. What they didn’t plan on was all the kids who went elsewhere for school during COVID (to get in-person schooling or to capitalize on the benefits of online learning) staying elsewhere. And, as much as I love and respect my colleagues and friends who work in the schools, the public relations people (politics, COVID messaging, etc…) leave something to be desired. Also not so much working around the schools in JeffCO…. Have you ever noticed how poorly designed the traffic flow is around most JeffCO schools? The local high school has 2,000 students and a couple hundred staff all arrive in a 30-minute window (mostly within 10) to a facility that has three entrances, all within a couple hundred yards of each

no rhythm to the game; long intervals vastly enhance the golf experience. Like I said, it’s trivial—but it represents people who learned from the difficulties. The significant: Back in the “before times,” remember the annual push to Michael Alcorn get the flu vaccine? That vaccine was always hit or miss, because each years’ vaccine inevitably missed several strains of the seasonal flu. That’s why, some years, as many as 80,000 Americans would die from flu. Well, in the winter of 2020, different pharmaceutical companies were working on a “universal flu vaccine;” they were diverted into solving COVID-19, but the two efforts have become intertwined, and soon, it seems likely, not only will we have COVID-19 vaccines, but the flu vaccine itself will be “supersized” in its effectiveness. Not so much working: schools. Just this week, Denver Public Schools announced it was laying

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other on one minor suburban artery. Still worse is another nearby school that has similar numbers … and just one entrance. I know sometimes you just gotta deal with the tract of land that you have, but…that’s not how they do things in Cherry Creek. Just sayin’ That, of course, has nothing to do with COVID-19. It’s just a thing with me. I’ll end with this thought: Joe Sakic, the general manager of the Colorado Avalanche, did not make a big, splashy move at the trade deadline this year to finish the push for the Stanley Cup. Instead, he made small, subtle moves that plugged small holes on the depth chart. And every one of them has paid dividends in the first two games of the playoffs. Doesn’t work: flashy checkers; Does work: chess. Michael Alcorn is a former teacher and current writer who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. His new novel, “Valkyrie’s Kiss,” a finalist in the ScreenCraft Book Competition, is available now at mjalcorn@ comcast.net. His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado Community Media.

Democrats, GOP joining to bring early cancer detection to older Americans

reaking down needless financial barriers to early-stage detection of cancer is a critical front in the war on cancer — and essential to the success of President Biden’s “Moonshot” to end cancer as we know it. The good news is that Democrats and Republicans in Congress are working together to give people with Medicare access to blood-based cancer-screening technologies that have the potential to dramatically increase early-stage diagnosis for a wide range of cancers. In a time when it seems like there is zero bipartisan agreement in Washington, it’s real news that there is a groundswell at the Capitol — led by our own Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet — behind legislation to allow Multi Cancer Early Detection (MCED) tests to be covered by Medicare once approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration and shown to have clinical benefit. This is a big deal, particularly

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you why. We know that the later a cancer is diagnosed, the harder it is to treat. For example, only 6% of those diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer survive five years after their diagnosis. MCED holds great promise to help detect cancers earlier, and they are conducted through a simple blood draw that can detect dozens of cancers — including rare cancers. The case for MCED technology received a big boost when the president included it in the relaunch of the cancer Moonshot, stressing that the concept of a broad screening for multiple cancers in the same test was once thought to be a distant dream. Now it’s on a near horizon. As a colon cancer survivor, I know the devastating effects of

a late-stage diagnosis, not only on good health outcomes but also on cost. If my cancer had been caught earlier, my prognosis probably would have been far different and my treatment far less costly. It’s a basic fact that earlier detection means fewer lives lost to cancer — and better quality of life for those who are diagnosed and undergoing treatment. Another fact is that for seniors here in Colorado and across the country, who are often on fixed incomes, additional out-of-pocket medical expenses for tests and treatments not covered by Medicare can be a non-starter. And yet, older Americans are our most at risk population for developing cancer, with 60 percent of people who have cancer being 65 or older. Thus, there can be an even greater benefit for seniors from expanded early detection testing. That’s why we need Congress to pass Sen. Bennet’s bipartisan legislation. The federal Multi Cancer

Early Detection Screening Coverage Act, which Sen. Bennet introduced with Republican Sen. Mike Crapo, has garnered broad support across Congress and the cancer advocacy community. The legislation opens the door for Medicare to cover the tests quickly after receiving approval from the FDA and being shown to have clinical benefit. Imagine the millions of older Americans who could live longer, have less costly and challenging treatments, and have a better quality of life because their cancer was caught early. Through one bill, Congress can show that there still are issues where leaders can reach across the political aisle and unite behind a landmark step forward for the health of those in every corner of our country. Martha Cox, of Morrison, is a colorectal cancer survivor and a volunteer for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network

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here are plenty of beautiful and important environmental sites that people are aware of - think locations like the Everglades in Florida. But then there are places that might be even more important and aren’t anywhere as well known, like the Canadian wetlands. “Wings Over Water,” the new IMAX film at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd. in Denver, gives audiences a bird’s eye view of this crucial ecosystem through the story of three bird species - the Sandhill Crane, the Yellow Warbler and the Mallard Duck. Narrated by Michael Keaton, the film runs through July 31. We spoke to Denver-based producer Chris Dorsey about the film, what he hopes people take from the film and more. Interview was edited for clarity and brevity. Tell me about how this film came together? Once upon a time, I ran media marketing for Ducks Unlimited, who lead the way in the conservation of the Canadian wetlands. Leading scientists were brought together to focus on the work being done on the ecosystem, which is the richest bird nursery on the planet, but nobody knows anything about it. Scientists and others have been working there for decades, but doing so in a vacuum, so we decided something needed to be done to raise awareness and protection. What is the film about? It was designed to tell the story of the ecosystem through three central characters, all of whom converge during the nesting season in the wetlands and then migrate to different places around the continent. This helps highlight that these birds’ migratory corridors are equally important and need protection. People love the visuals and epic nature of the IMAX format, which transports attendees so thoroughly to Canada that it’s like they’re stamping their passports. By the end, you’re really vested in this place because you know it and want to support and protect it. What does it mean for you to have the film screening at the DMNS? The museum is one of the top natural history museums in the

US and the world. What the team has done there is pretty extraordinary, not just because it’s a stunning facility, but because of the life it has outside the walls of the institution. What do you hope people who Clarke Reader see the film come away with? After one screening I had a guy come to me who said he was so fired up to do something about the wetlands because of the story. I’ve been to all sorts of these things and never come away with responses like this. I hope people lend their wealth, work and wisdom to organizations like Ducks Unlimited and the Audubon Society to get involved in their projects and public policy. I hope this magical place is going to be known, appreciated and understood for the first time in North American and global history. That’s the first key step in saving paradise. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.dmns. org and https://wingsoverwaterfilm. com/. Go on a Lakewood-centric scavenger hunt Lakewood’s Historic Preservation Commission is hosting a selfguided scavenger hunt that can be completed virtually or in-person during Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month. The hunt will take participants to places like O’Kane and Washington Heights parks. The guide can be picked up at the Washington Heights Arts Center, 6375 W. First Ave., during business hours or downloaded from the city’s website. Completed forms can be dropped off at the center during these times as well with prizes for winners. Visit Lakewood.org/PreservationMonth for more details.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Get your shopping done at City Park One of the great summer traditions is to do your food shopping at a farmers market, and one of Denver’s biggest, City Park Farmers Market, is back on May 14 with nearly 100 local food-focused producers and much more. Located at City Park Esplanade, 2551 E. Colfax Ave., the second season

has an expanded vendor line-up and, according to provided information, “a system to support small farmers and several new ways to connect community members with those growing, making and preparing food in Colorado.” The market runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday through Oct. 29. Learn more at www.CityParkFarmersMarket.com. Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Billy Strings at Red Rocks and Mission Ballroom Bluegrass musicians rarely get the respect they deserve for their virtuosic musicianship, but every now and then, someone breaks through. Michigan’s Billy Strings is that person now and it’s easy to see why - his skills on the guitar,

banjo and mandolin are next level and he has the perfect voice for his genre. In support of 2021’s excellent album, “Renewal,” Strings will be stopping by Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in Morrison, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 12 and Friday, May 13, and the Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St. in Denver, at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 14. Get tickets for Red Rocks at www. ticketmaster.com and Mission Ballroom at www.missionballroom. com/event/424963-mission-ballroomdenver-tickets. Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.

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Marcia Lee (Rogers) Purrington February 24, 1927 - April 6, 2022

Marcia Lee Purrington, age 95, passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Marcia was born in St. Lawrence, South Dakota on February 24, 1927. She raised her children, Tracy and Lisa in Arvada, Colorado with her husband Russell. She loved her family and the outdoors, especially the sunshine! Marcia was known to all for her sense of humor, and loving attitude.

Vince Bashford, Amy Ziegler, Kristen Roche and Great grandchildren Martina and Oliver Bashford. Besides her children and grandchildren Marcia is survived by her brothers, Tom Rogers, and Rob Rogers, many nieces, nephews and friends.

A memorial service will be held at Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery, 777 West 29th Ave., Wheatridge, CO 80033 , on June 23, 2022 at 1:30 pm. A lunch will be served after. Burial She is survived by her children, Tracy Purrington and Lisa Bashford, Grandchildren services will be private for immediate family. DAVENPORT

Mary Joan Davenport

October 9, 1945 - April 26, 2022

Mary was born to Elizabeth Johanna Horning and Leonard Richard Parker in Grangeville, Idaho. While she moved a bit as a child, Casper Wyoming was her home until she moved to Colorado. She graduated from Natrona County High School (’63) and received an Associate of Arts Degree from Casper College (’65). Mary began her career with the Social Security Administration in 1975 in Casper and retired from the Administration’s Denver Regional Office in 2014 with 39 years of service. Mary is survived by her daughters, Debra Leigh Rose (Jack) of Denver, Donna Michelle Markward (Glenn) of East Hampton, CT, and Dena Christine Nash of Denver, her FISCHER

brother William Parker (Cathy) of Casper, WY, as well as her eight (8) grandchildren and her four (4) greatgrandchildren. Mary enjoyed quilting, ceramics, and scrapbooking when she was not slowed down by dialysis. A Catholic Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, May 19th at 7:00 pm at the Olinger Chapel Hill Mortuary, 6091 S Colorado Boulevard in Centennial. A dessert reception will follow. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the Max Fund No-Kill Animal Shelter and Adoption Center, 720 West 10th Avenue, Denver, CO 80204, or The American Kidney Fund, kidneyfund.org.

Karen (Kistler) Fischer

August 29, 1940 - March 22, 2022

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Karen Fischer, 81, passed away on March 22nd, 2022. A warm and loving mother and wife, who lived in Arvada, Colorado for the last 50 years. Born in Waterville, Kansas in 1940 to Pearl Edna Heidenreich and Luke Kistler, she was raised in Wood Lake, Nebraska with her brother, Keith. She moved to Denver around 1968 to pursue a master’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado in education. Shortly after arriving in Colorado, she married Dennis Hilyard, also from Nebraska. Her son, Darrin, was born in 1973 and younger brother, Kevin, in 1977. Karen worked in elementary schools in the Jefferson County

School District until her retirement. After the death of Denny in 1990, she remarried in 1994 to Robert L. Fischer with whom she shared many happy experiences. In retirement she spent a great deal of time traveling and painting beautiful watercolors and birdhouses. Karen also treasured her grandchildren and spent as much time as possible with them. She was always a dedicated mother to her sons and lovingly supported them in all ways until her recent departure. She is survived by Darrin and Kevin along with Darrin’s wife, Gretchen, and children, Vivian and Madeline.

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Colorado Ballet had completed a record run for “The Nutcracker,” with a new $1.5 million production. The Colorado Symphony was also on pace to set record earing a mask may be good attendance and its fifth straight year with protection from COVID-19, a healthy operating reserve. but it makes it really tough to The Opera was finishing “Pagliacci,” sing the rousing “La Chanson with more than $367,000 in ticket sales for Bohème.”Yet that was precisely the three performances, and “The Lion King,” challenge soprano Kate Aldrich faced with strong advance sales, was coming at a rehearsal of Opera Colorado’s upto the Denver Center for the Performing coming production of “Carmen.” Arts in May. Aldrich, from time to time, tugged Then on March 13 everything came to a at her mask for extra air as she sang dead stop. The music, the dance, the plays of tambourines, frenzied guitars and were all victims of the pandemic. red-striped dresses floating in the wind. “Twenty-nineteen was a blockbuster “You can’t get behind in your breathyear, one of the highest years of attening,” she explained. “I have sung this so dance ever,” said Meredith Badler, depumany times I know how many breaths I ty director of the Colorado Business need.” Community for the Arts, a nonprofit Such is opera in the time of pandemic. promoting the arts. Come the stage rehearsals and the per“Denver had been on this incredformances, which start May 7 at the Ellie ible growth trajectory; 2020 set Caulkins Opera House, the masks come everyone back,” she said. “The off. pandemic set back every one of The masks, however, were back on for our key indicators.” Attendance everyone, including the audience, at for the year was down nearly Boettcher Concert Hall when singer50% to 8 million for cultural songwriter Ben Folds performed with the and arts organizations in the Colorado Symphony on April 23. “It was greater metro area, and more a specific request from the artist,” said than 3,700 jobs in the arts Nick Dobreff, the symphony’s commuwere lost, according to the nications and creative director. “We CBCA. had to comply because he wouldn’t “Performing arts operaperform without it.” tions are operating on reSuch is the symphony in the time ally thin margins so if you of pandemic. can’t get enough people Still, after the darkest days — into a performance, you and dark they were, for all the aren’t making your theaters were shuttered — Dencosts,” Badler said. ver’s major performing arts The previous body companies have, in fits and blow to the Denver starts, been on a comeback performing arts was season. It is proving to be a the 2008 recession. long climb back. BY MARK JAFFE THE COLORADO SUN

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“Bouncing back from the recession took 10 years. Hopefully it wouldn’t take another decade to get back,” Badler said. Learning how to improvise When rehearsals vanished and theaters were closed, the different arts companies began to improvise. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts usually has 40 to 50 shows running through its eight theaters in a season. At the same time, it was in the middle of a $41 million renovation project. The center used the pause to its advantage to complete the project. “The silver lining of our experience was that we were renovating theaters,” said Janice Sinden, DCPA’s president and CEO. The Colorado Ballet started doing its daily ballet class for its dancers over Zoom and dancers began making “Virtual Ballet” videos dancing in the parking garage at the performing arts center or along the Platte River, as bicyclists whizzed by. The company also teamed up with Rocky Mountain PBS to air performances of “The Nutcracker” and “Alice,” a ballet based on the Lewis Carroll character. The Colorado Symphony never stopped playing. “Our mantra was play on,” Dobrff said. Within days of the shutdown, the symphony produced an online performance of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, each orchestra member playing his or her part at home. Symphony musicians kept posting videos under the rubric #PlayOn, including the horn section’s soulful rendition of “All By Myself.” A handful of small, masked and socially distanced ensembles popped up at places like Civic Center park and the Colorado State Capitol. In July 2020, the symphony became the first group to play at Red Rocks since the start of the pandemic, with a series of 18 concerts by 20 musicians before audiences of 175 spread out across the huge amphitheater. “It was eerie,” Dobreff said. “You just never see Red Rocks like that.” Looking at the numbers While audiences largely disappeared, one thing that did not vanish was philanthropic and government backing for the arts. In fact, private donations to arts and cultural groups in 2020 rose 5.5% to $225 million compared to 2019, according to the CBCA. “We are a nonprofit organi-

Colorado Ballet principal dancers Jennifer Grace and Mario Labrador rehearse a pas de deux as they prepare for George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations. PHOTO BY KATHRYN SCOTT

zation. We are used to raising money to meet our goals,” Dobreff said. “It isn’t something a restaurant or a store can do. … Donations became very important during that time and our support helped in a massive way to help us keep playing on.” Pre-pandemic donations to performing arts organizations ranged on average from one-fifth to more than two-thirds of total revenue, based on their 990 federal tax forms. DCPA had a 30,000-person subscriber base and the organization sought to have subscribers contribute their tickets. This helped boost donations to $4.5 million. Tickets could also be held as credits for future performances. Still, the center lost about 5,000 subscribers during the pandemic. Subscribers also donated tickets for opera performances the company could not perform. “We saw a tremendous amount of support in contributions,” Carpenter said. The opera was expecting about a 30% drop-off in contributions

and while donations of $500 or less did decrease, pledges from major donors swelled. “So, it all balanced out,” Carpenter said. Opera Colorado logged an 8% increase in contributions in fiscal year 2021 to $3.9 million, compared to a year earlier, while ticket sales were a tenth — just $1,400 — of what they were before the pandemic. More than half of the symphony’s $13.3 million 2020 budget was covered by contributions. “I was concerned whether dollars would shift from the private sector, but they kept it up,” said Deborah Jordy, executive director of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District. The SCFD channels designated sales tax revenue to 320 arts and cultural organizations in Denver and six surrounding counties. “Philanthropy stayed strong particularly in the performing arts where there was no earned income, no ticket sales,” Jordy said. The SCFD also increased its grants rising to $75.3 million in

2021 from $66 million in 2019, as sales tax revenue grew in the region. “It really demonstrates generally consistent year-over-year support for cultural institutions and that is what they needed during the pandemic,” Jordy said. There was one unexpected source of aid — the federal government’s COVID relief funds. Like other employers with fewer than 500 workers, performing arts organizations were able to access the Paycheck Protection Program and the employee retention tax credit, and then there was the $16.2 billion shuttered venue operator grant program. “All those things were a bonus,” the Opera’s Carpenter said. “We never expected to be on the receiving end of that kind of federal government support.” The opera received $518,000 in federal help over 2020 and 2021. The ballet — carrying a full company of dancers — received a total of nearly $6.4 million in federal backing over two years. The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, which suffered a crippling string of performance cancellations as members in its productions came down with COVID-19, saw donations reach a record $1 million. “From small donors to corporations, everyone stepped up,” said Phillip Sneed, the center’s CEO and president. The center also received $5.2 million in federal aid over two years, helping to offset $3.6 million in losses. “At first we thought it was more than we needed,” Sneed said. But the aid became vital as losses mounted — the most recent, $130,000 in ticket returns from the cancellation of the last seven performances of the musical “Kinky Boots.” Over the two years DCPA garnered about $16 million in federal aid, according to Sinden. DCPA depends heavily on ticket sales — contributions made up just 20% of its pre-pandemic budget of $75 million. “It was really, really tough to come back. We lost $100 million in 18 months,” she said. The comeback Still, as the summer of 2021 came to a close, everyone was preparing for that comeback. One decision all these performing arts groups made was that patrons would have to wear masks and have proof of vaccination or negative COVID tests to attend performances. “We wanted to be in lockstep because we knew it was going to be hard,” Dobreff said. “We did what was collectively best.” SEE DANCE, P23

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such a fire. But the way things unfolded, it might not have made much of a difference because it all happened so fast. “In a normal structure fire we have 20 firefighters that are attacking this fire. That day, I had 500 homes on fire. I don’t have enough firefighters in the Denver Metro Area to try to protect — or to try to stop this,” Willson said. So, it was the wind finally dying down around 6:30 or 7 p.m. that allowed his firefighters to really attack the blaze. Willson said he’d never dreamt of high winds blowing up to 70 miles per hour (with gusts, of up to 100 mph) for eight straight hours engulfing tall, dry grass in any training exercise.And that in his decades fighting fires he’d never experienced a situation like Dec. 30, 2021. Everyone from scientists, to firefighters and the general public learned from the experience, he said. “I think we’re all learning and we’re lucky that only two people perished that day,” Willson said. Perlmutter stressed the need to deal with climate change in addressing the threat of wildfires in the west. “This roundtable is part of an ongoing conversation our state and country has to have about our changing climate and what

Area emergency personnel who fought the Marshall Fire called the scene apocalyptic with flames 40 feet high and embers flying COURTESY PHOTO everywhere in 100 mph winds.

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Athletes shine at Jeffco League track and field championships BY BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LAKEWOOD — As the 2021-2022 school year comes to a close, saying multi-sport spring athletes who are seniors are busy is a major understatement. Ralston Valley senior Casia Provencal — who will run track and field at Yale University next school year — is a prime example. The speedster on the track and key contributor on the Mustangs’ girls soccer team is edging near her high school career finish-line. “My goal with soccer and track is just take care of my body,” Provencal said heading down the home stretch. “I’ve got to make sure I stay on top of my health.” Provencal was one of the many stars during the Class 5A and 4A Jeffco League championships May 6 and 7 at Jeffco Stadium. The future Yale student-athlete edged Chatfield senior Amelia Hubbell in the 5A girls 100-meter hurdles final May 7. “There was a 4.3 head wind, so the time wasn’t great,” Provencal said after winning the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.01 seconds. “I did want to win. So I’m happy with the win.” Hubbell — Montana State University signer— had set a new record during the 100 hurdles prelims May 6 with a time of 14.43 seconds. The Chatfield track star won the 300 hurdles later in the day edging out a trio of Ralston Valley hurdlers —

Chatfield won the Class 5A Jeffco League boys team title at the conference championPHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS ships May 7 at Jeffco Stadium.

Reece Mercer, Giada Giarratano and Teya Varela. Ralston Valley did end up winning the 5A Jeffco League girls team title with 219 points. Valor Christian finish second with 163 points. Pomona junior Emma Stutzman set the league records in both the 5A girls 1,600 and 3,200 a year ago. She defended both of her title again. “I wanted to win it and get under 5 minutes because I haven’t done that yet this season,” Stutzman said of her goal in the 1,600 on May 7. “I’m pretty happy with it. It hasn’t been hot like this yet. I think it went pretty good.” Stutzman won the 3,200 the day before with a time of 11:05.18. It was more than 16 seconds faster than

second-place Taylor Rorick of Valor. The Pomona junior is coming off a rough state cross country race from back in October 2021. Stutzman was a favorite to finish in the top-3, but ended up ninth. She struggled to the finish-line and was in the medical tent even during the award ceremony. “I had never raced a state meet in the morning like that,” Stutzman said of the 5A girls state cross country meeting being the first race of the day in Colorado Springs back on Oct. 30. “I got up and was a little rushed. I didn’t drink my Gatorade and Pedialyte. I didn’t have enough electrolytes and sodium to keep my body going.” Stutzman vowed not to make the

same mistake again and has been even more vigilant when it comes to her pre-race routine. “It motivated me to keep my body healthy,” Stutzman said. “I’m more strict with what I intake.” Golden senior Bryce Reeburgh, who will run at Virginia Tech next year, also had a rough state cross country race. Reeburgh placed 13th last Fall, but looked great at the track and field league championships last week. Reeburgh swept the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 4A boys races to help the Demons to the 4A boys team title. “I woke up feeling pretty bad this morning,” Reeburgh admitted. “I ran a pretty good 2-mile last night. Super consistent. I was just trying to stay tuned up for next week and the week after with state.” The Demons leaned on their distance runner to beat out Standley Lake by 20 points to win the 4A boys team title. “We haven’t had a (boys track) league championship title since 1998,” Reeburgh said. “Trying to score as many points as possible. I think we swept up pretty well in the mile there.” Golden junior Henry Stubenrauch finished second in the 800 and 1,600. Green Mountain was able to edge Golden for the 4A girls team title. The Rams had 157 points to the Demons’ 148.666. Chatfield boys won the 5A boys team title with 159.333 points. Ralston Valley finished second with 141 points.

Evergreen and Ralston Valley heading into girls soccer playoffs BY BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ARVADA — There was one guarantee May 5 at the North Area Athletic Complex: Evergreen’s girls soccer team would be bringing the Class 4A Jeffco League plaque home for the third time in four years. The Cougars — No. 1 in the CHSAANow.com 4A rankings for the seventh straight week — swept through their conference schedule outscoring opponents 42-2 while going 9-0 in league play. It is Evergreen’s third conference title over the past four years. “I think that is what every high school athlete in general wants to do,” Evergreen senior Elizabeth Rapp said of the Cougars claiming another league title. “It’s a dream come true really. We didn’t get to play our sophomore year because of COVID, but we got our three. I’m very proud of this team. Evergreen (13-1-1, 9-0 in 4A Jeffco) had one final tune-up before the 32team 4A state tournament begins next week with a non-league game against Ralston Valley (8-4-3, 3-3-1 in 5A Jeffco). The Mustangs were coming off a big 2-1 come-from-behind victory against No. 2 Broomfield on Tuesday. “We love this game against Ralston Valley,” Evergreen coach Peter Jeans

said. “They are a very sporting team. They play hard as well. They play at a high level and that is the kind of atmosphere we want to have in a game as we approach the playoffs.” After 80 minutes of regulation-time and a pair of 10-minute overtime periods neither team could find the back of the net with the game ending in a 0-0 scoreless draw. “It was one of our hardest games of the season and we came out with a well-fought draw,” Evergreen senior Elizabeth Rapp said. “It’s definitely a game I’m glad we were able to play right before playoffs.” Evergreen has been on the doorstep to winning the program’s first girls soccer state championship since winning the 4A title back in 1997, but hasn’t been able to hoist the ultimate prize. The Cougars lost to Holy Family 2-1 in the title game last season and fell to Cheyenne Mountain 2-1 in the 4A title game in 2019. “We need to stay even stronger,” Elizabeth said about winning that elusive state title. “We’ve lost it twice those other two years that we won the 4A Jeffco League. This year we are going to put our heads down and try to finish it out.” The Cougars having been playing SEE SOCCER, P17

Evergreen senior Elizabeth Rapp, left, battles with Ralston Valley freshman Holly Engelking (6) during the finale regular-season game May 5 for the Cougars and Mustangs before the postseason. The game ended in a scoreless overtime draw. PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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well with only a loss to 5A Jeffco’s Columbine back in early April as their lone defeat this season. Evergreen is currently on a 6-game shutout streak behind sophomore goalie Aubrey Huerta. Evergreen grabbed the No. 2 seed for the 4A state tournament. The Cougars were scheduled to host No. 31 Pueblo County at 6 p.m. May 11 at Evergreen High School. “It’s just about making key plays at key times,” Jeans said of success in the postseason. “You need to make sure the ball doesn’t go into the back of your net and one special play can put it into the back of your opponent’s net.” Evergreen was shorthanded last Thursday with one-third of the Rapp triplets out. Catherine Rapp, the Cougars’ leading scorer, was out with a non-COVID related illness. She should be ready to go when the playoff being with first-round games May 11. While Catherine wasn’t on the pitch against Ralston Valley, her jersey did make an appearance. “There are three of us so sometimes our laundry gets a little bit mixed up,” Elizabeth said with a laugh about wear-

ing Catherine’s No. 15 jersey instead of Elizabeth’s normal No. 7. “I must have not looked at the number and grabbed her’s.” Ralston Valley is headed to the 5A state tournament. The Mustangs took the No. 13 seed and was scheduled to host Rocky Mountain on Tuesday, May 10, after press deadline, at the NAAC. The Mustangs have had a rollercoaster season. They started the season 5-0-1 and on a 6-game shutout streak. However, Ralston Valley went on an 0-31 stretch before winning its 5A Jeffco League finale against Dakota Ridge this week and then upsetting Broomfield. “It’s up, down and all around. That is all I’ll say,” Ralston Valley coach Kamee Morwood said after the tie. “I think our girls are tired having played six games in the last 10 days against some really good teams.” Ralston Valley was No. 13 in the RPI standings after the tie against Evergreen. “We can get hot,” Morwood said. “After this we’ll see who we face first round. They have proven they can do it. It’s up to them believing it and doing it.”

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gives people some of that stability where they’re not stressed and they’re not anxious and they’re able to stabilize themselves,” said Khalil Halim, executive director at Second Chance. “And they’re not looking at committing crimes to stabilize themselves.” (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America) People who received cash through the program have used the extra funds to pay for program fees at halfway houses, clothing, food, shelter and transportation. Some of Halim’s clients used the stimulus to start their own businesses. Colorado lawmakers made efforts to support formerly incarcerated people this fall, starting a new reentry initiative to encourage hiring those recently released. The network will formally launch this summer with events to increase the number of fair chance employers, support them with training and connect them with employees. The program is meant to complement broader policy changes in the justice system, said Pam Lachman, the organization’s senior director. “But just from what we’ve seen from the interim evaluation and from the stories we’ve heard, it had a huge kind

“With a program like this, it gives people some of that stability where they’re not stressed and they’re not anxious and they’re able to stabilize themselves,” said Khalil Halim, executive director at Second Chance. “And they’re not looking at committing PHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN VIA REPORT FOR AMERICA crimes to stabilize themselves.”

of stabilizing impact on people.” Lachman said organization leaders noticed the financial crisis for their employees as the pandemic hit, because participants in the program are paid daily. Being unable to work as

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The symphony began Sept. 17 with pianist Emmanuel Ax playing Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at Boettcher. The ballet took the stage in October with “Giselle” — with special precautions backstage at the Ellie Caulkins to sequester hardbreathing dancers. The opera, which was dormant during the 18-month lacuna, had managed to keep all its contracts for its production of “Tosca,” a casualty of the 2020 shutdown, and was able to stage Giacomo Puccini’s tale of love and betrayal at the Ellie Caulkins in November. When the shutdown came, DPCA just left the set for the Improvised Shakespeare Company on the stage of its Garner Galleria Theater and shut the doors. “Eighteen months later we dusted everything off, cleaned the theater and we were back,” Sinden said. The question was: Would audiences be back as well? “Our comeback is a little slower, ticket sales have been a little softer,”

Sinden said. “There are single ticket buyers making decisions closer to the event date, because they are not sure what the situation will be.” The opera had one of highest subscription rates in the county, Carpenter said, with almost half of the performances covered by subscribers. “We’ve seen a drop-off from that,” he said. “Some patrons are not quite ready to come back. We are selling a lot more single tickets.” “We budgeted based on 50% of the house being sold. We weren’t sure if we’d have to limit capacity for social distancing,” Carpenter said. But for “Tosca” and the following production, “The Shining,” the house was more than 70% full. The ballet on average saw its performances drawing three-quarters of a regular season, save for the Christmas run of “The Nutcracker” where attendance was off just 5%. “What was really important was getting our dancers back on stage and back to their careers … and we’ve been able to put on a full season,” said Gil Boggs, the ballet’s artistic director. The ballet, like the opera, also saw more single and last-minute ticket

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF HEARING UPON APPLICATION FOR A NEW HOTEL AND RESTAURANT LIQUOR LICENSE OF FREEDOM STREET LLC D/B/A: FREEDOM STREET SOCIAL 15177 CANDELAS PARKWAY ARVADA, CO 80007 Notice is hereby given that an application has been presented to the City of Arvada Local Liquor Licensing authority for a Hotel & Restaurant liquor license from Freedom Street LLC, d/b/a Freedom Street Social, located at 15177 Candelas Parkway, Arvada, CO, whose controlling officer is Nick Costanzo, Owner, 15177 Candelas Parkway, Arvada, CO, United States The license would allow sales of malt, vinous and spirituous liquor by the drink for consumption on the premises at 15177 Candelas Parkway, Arvada, CO 80007. Said application will be heard and considered by the City of Arvada Liquor Licensing Authority at a meeting to be held in the Arvada Municipal Complex Council Chambers, 8101 Ralston Road at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 26, 2022. The application was submitted on April 8, 2022. For further information call Sarah Walters, Deputy City Clerk, at 720-898-7544.

Dated this 12th day of May, 2022 /s/ Sarah Walters Deputy City Clerk CITY OF ARVADA, COLORADO Legal Notice No. 413945 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice NOTICE OF ANNEXATION PETITION ACCEPTANCE The following resolution can be viewed in its entirety in electronic form by going to www.arvada. org/legalnotices and clicking on Current Legal Notices. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office. Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions. R22-026 A Resolution Accepting an Annexation Petition Concerning 7850 Alkire Street, Finding Said Petition Substantially Compliant with C.R.S. 31-12-107(1), and Setting a Public Hearing for June 6, 2022, 6:15 P.M. for City Council to Determine Whether the Area Meets the Requirements of C.R.S. 31-12-104 and 105, and Is Considered Eligible for Annexation. Legal Notice No. 413792 First Publication: April 21, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Metro Districts Budget Hearings Public Notice

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the HASKINS STATION METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 11:30 A.M. for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the 2022 amended budget (the “Amended Budget”). This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88435515437?pwd=c DJkTTlRemNZL1JLbDh0WEU4SytNZz09 Meeting ID: 884 3551 5437 Passcode: 533745 Call-In Number: 1-720-707-2699 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Amended Budget has been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget is on file in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection. Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget by the Board. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: HASKINS STATION METROPOLITAN DISTRICT /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON

Attorneys at Law Legal Notice No. 413928 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript and the Arvada Press

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that disbursements in final settlement will be issued by the Finance Director at 10:00 a.m., May 24, 2022 to Insituform Technologies, LLC for work related to Project No. 21-SR-02 - 2021 CIPP Trenchless Sewer Main Replacement and performed under that contract dated September 14, 2021 for the City of Arvada. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that furnished labor, material, drayage, sustenance, provisions or other supplies used or consumed by said contractor or his sub-contractors in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done by said Insituform Technologies, LLC and its claim has not been paid, may at any time on or prior to the hour of the date above stated, file with the Finance Director of the City of Arvada at City Hall, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim. Dated this May 4, 2022 CITY OF ARVADA /s/Kristen Rush, City Clerk

First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that disbursements in final settlement will be issued by the Finance Director at 10:00 a.m., May 24, 2022 to Asphalt Specialties Co. for work related to Project No. 2021 Street Resurfacing Program and performed under that contract dated March 10, 2021 for the City of Arvada. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that furnished labor, material, drayage, sustenance, provisions or other supplies used or consumed by said contractor or his sub-contractors in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done by said Asphalt Specialties Co. and its claim has not been paid, may at any time on or prior to the hour of the date above stated, file with the Finance Director of the City of Arvada at City Hall, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim. Dated this April 28, 2022 CITY OF ARVADA /s/Kristen Rush, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 413944 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

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