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Arvada’s Second Saturday features live music and local artisans

Same part of Clear Creek sees 2 fatalities in 4 days Tubing prohibited on creek west of Grant Terry Bridge

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

unglazed planters. We decided to create pieces that doubled as art, like stone sculptures that can be used for plants.”

Fresses said that she and her mom primarily sell at farmer’s markets or wholesale to bigger businesses with storefronts. Their planters can be found in various shops from Denver to the Colorado Springs area.

A few other businesses highlighted at the street festival included

After a second fatality on the same section of Clear Creek in four days, officials are stressing that tubing is prohibited west of Golden.

Jeffco Open Space has posted signage at Clear Creek Canyon Park trailheads, along the trail, and at water access points emphasizing that tubing is prohibited west of the Grant Terry Bridge.

The bridge, which is just west of the Gateway Trailhead, has a creek access point just underneath it. Tubing is allowed from that spot and anywhere east of it, into Golden.

All creek users should wear shoes, a helmet and life jacket, fire department and Jeffco Open Space officials stated at a July 6 press conference. They also emphasized that creek users should follow all posted signage and monitor the city’s warning flag system.

“The canyon is beautiful ... (but) it can lull you into a false sense of security,” Jeffco Open Space’s Mary Ann Bonnell said. “ ... No part of the river is guaranteed safe.”

The first fatality on July 2 was on Clear Creek just west of U.S. 6’s Tunnel 1. Sometime in the afternoon, as four people were riding in

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Jasmin Fresses welcomes interest patrons to her House Americana booth at Arvada’ Second Saturday event July 9.

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On an afternoon under the hot sun, Olde Town’s second Saturday displayed some of the best local businesses and artists.

One block of Grandview Avenue was closed off from cars for tents of local vendors, sponsors and artists to promote their products and services. A parking lot between 12 Volt Tavern and Community Banks of Colorado was used for the concert

stage for local musicians performing at the July 9 event.

Jasmin Fresses, co-owner of House Americana, where they create unglazed cement planters, said that she has been a vendor at Olde Town Arvada’s Second Saturday a few times now.

“We started back in August of 2020. My mom, she was an RN and I did operations for small businesses and we wanted to start a business,” Fresses said. “We wanted to see planters and we noticed the lack of

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an inflatable boat, it capsized.

Three self-extracted, but the fourth rafter was found unconscious, face-down in the water, Jeffco Sheriff’s spokesperson Jacki Kelley said on July 5. An off-duty paramedic extracted the woman and started CPR. She was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Then, on July 6, the Sheriff’s Office announced that a man had died following a tubing accident between Tunnel 1 and U.S. 6.

Around 12:30 p.m. July 5, four people tubing along the creek were ejected from their flotation devices.

Two were able to self-extract. The third was rescued by firefighters after clinging to a rock in the middle of the creek, and the fourth was found unconscious and transported to the hospital, where he later died.

Kelley and Golden Fire Department officials said water levels in that section of Clear Creek are much lower than they were two or three weeks ago, which likely caused the accidents.

“As the water is lower in that canyon, the hazards in that water become closer to the surface,” Kelley said. “It’s much more dangerous because there’s less water.”

Unlike rafting or kayaking, those tubing have a harder time controlling their crafts and thus are more likely to get knocked into things, officials said.

Bonnell said Jeffco Open Space’s

A pair of rafters attempt to get to shore underneath the Grant Terry Bridge on July PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN 6.

rangers and volunteers will continue patrolling the area to ensure creek users’ safety and enforce the closure.

One problem is the sheer volume of creek users, many of whom are tourists and are renting equipment from local shops. However, Bonnell said anyone renting should be receiving safety talks on where tubing’s allowed and where it’s prohibited near Golden.

With so much use over the Fourth of July weekend, Bonnell added, “We’re asking people to take some personal responsibility, and listen to the safety talks.”

For those who live locally, Bonnell and others asked that they obey the posted signage and closures, and don’t set a bad example for visitors.

A couple goes tubing on Clear Creek on July 6 near the Grant Terry Bridge. After two water-recreation fatalities in four days, Jeffco Open Space and its partners are restricting tubing in Clear Creek west of the Grant Terry Bridge.

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Bosley’s Goods, an animal-lover’s shop which offers stickers, jewelry, custom ornaments and pillows.

A booth for Electric Cherry Shop & Studios offered a variety of eclectic vinyl records, jewelry and vintage clothing.

Kaite McDuffee, a licensed esthetician was out on Saturday representing The Olde Town Arvada Wellness Collective, a health spa that offers services from a collaborative group of providers. Some of the services offered by the collective include acupuncture, massage, reiki and skin care.

McDuffee said that they had opened in April and it has been a great partnership so far.

Second Saturday-goers were able to enjoy various activities,

Attendees walk down Grandview Avenue in Olde Town Arvada, enjoying local eats, drinks and businesses July 9 for the Second PHOTO BY SARA MARTIN Saturday street celebration.

including a volunteer opportunity to help paint a mural on the side of the 12 Volt Tavern building.

Many people enjoyed the community engagement which had something for all ages to enjoy.

The final second Saturday is scheduled for Aug. 13 with music starting at 5 p.m.

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Are You Wondering if Your Home Is Underinsured? A Reader Shares Some Research My column on May 12 addressed the problem of underinsurance faced by homeowners who lost their homes in the Marhall Fire last December. It reported that, according to the Colorado Division of Insurance, only 8% of the homes destroyed in that fire had guaranteed replacement coverage in their insurance policies.

One of my readers took it upon himself to research the subject in the context of his own home close to the foothills. The rest of this week’s column is his writing, which he asked me to put under my byline. When he says “I,” he’s referring to himself, not me.

It turns out I haven't been able to get good answers to questions. Nonetheless, here's an account of my dive beneath the surface to understand what I might expect of my house insurance in the event of a total loss due to fire, particularly wildfire: The reporting on homeowners insurance coverage after the Marshall Fire — which frequently referenced the Colorado Springs Waldo Canyon fire — highlighted the extent to which homeowners are underinsured for total loss of property. This spurred me to revisit our homeowner insurance replacement-cost coverage. I had already raised this concern with my insurance agent last summer, and he assured me the coverage was more than enough based on the insurance underwriter's cost-per-square-foot “replacement-cost estimator.” Besides, he said, the policy has an endorsement that would cover the actual cost of replacement regardless of stipulated coverage.

Even with such assurance, we were not reassured; so, several weeks ago, I reviewed my policy again. Based on the average current construction cost per square foot for the Marshall Fire cited by the state Division of Insurance, along

with my own estimate of the average construction cost of three new custom homes in my neighborhood, I determined that our policy's coverage was only half what we would expect the cost to be to rebuild our house in 2022. Further, on closer reading, I realized the policy endorsement covering total replacement cost would not apply if the house were not rebuilt within two years of the loss!

So, I got back in touch with my insurance agent to explain that rebuilding our house in two years or less would likely be impossible, especially if the house were among many to burn down in a wildfire, and, given this limitation of the endorsement, the policy’s stipulated dwelling coverage, based on the company's estimator, was only half of the what replacement cost was likely to be; so, we would need to increase the coverage by 100%.

Once I received the quote for increase in coverage, I informed him that in the event our house was to be a total loss, we would probably not be willing to rebuild, thus would want to walk away (putting the lot up for sale after clearing the debris). However, as I could find no provision for a cash-out for the amount of our coverage, I asked if we could expect the company to agree to a cash-out in lieu of replacement. His answer was “probably”! Given that uncertainty, I asked if any policy is available that would explicitly provide for cashing out. He found one company with that option for an annual premium approximately 20% higher.

The other wrinkle to this insurance rabbit hole is if the insurance company were to agree to a cash-out in lieu of rebuilding, the actual cash-out would not be the amount of coverage stipulated in the policy, but rather that amount minus the depreciation in value of the house at

the time it burned down — the depreciation calculated by the insurance company’s claims department. So far, I have been unable to obtain any useful information on depreciation from insurance companies, the Division of Insurance, or the legislature, and nothing on Google that I could see.

[While depreciation may be a reasonable factor when replacing an old roof destroyed by hail, it doesn’t seem appropriate to me when it comes to replacing a totally destroyed home, given that homes appreciate, not depreciate. —JS] I am left to wonder why the insurer is not transparent about whether and under what circumstances the homeowner would be able to cash-out rather than rebuild. (While recently passed legislation regulating insurance company payouts when homes are damaged from a wildfire does require providing a cashout option and requiring it equals replacement cost — if the stipulated coverage is sufficient — the law applies only to dwellings burnt in a wildfire that the Governor has officially declared a “wildfire disaster.”)

I would wager most homeowners would be surprised to realize their insurance may not give them the option of cashing out rather than rebuilding their house after a total loss, and likewise, homeowners would be surprised to realize that if they were to be availed of a cash-out, the actual pay-out would be the amount of stipulated dwelling coverage minus whatever the insurer calculates the depreciation to be, without the company having to disclose its methodology.

“Surprised” is the key word, because homeowners are wont to assume their insurance will pay the full amount of their stipulated coverage in the case of a total loss regardless of whether they were to rebuild or not. Reasoning that if the company is obligated to pay that amount when rebuilding and not deduct from that amount any depreciation, then what difference should it make to the

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insurance company whether they pay that amount as a cash-out in lieu of rebuilding?

For most homeowners, their house is their most valuable asset, whose value at any point in time is based on market price, which can be validated by appraisal. I would expect my insurance company would pay me the full amount for which I'm covered regardless of whether or not I choose to rebuild. (I wouldn't necessarily expect to be paid more than the cost of rebuilding if it turned out my coverage was greater than replacementcost.)

Further, I would not expect to have any amount for depreciation to be deducted when either being cashed-out or rebuilding. But what we homeowners expect does not usually align with what the insurance company would do. The most homeowners can do is to know what their insurer can actually be expected to do, and that requires they do a thorough review of their policy.

Nonetheless, based on what I’ve learned thus far, there are a couple of modest reforms that would improve the situation for homeowners: 1) The state Division of Insurance should publish replacement cost estimates annually, which would provide the homeowner with a basis for determining the amount of necessary coverage. 2) At a minimum, policies should be transparent about whether a cash-out option is available and under what circumstances, including an unambiguous explanation of the depreciation method and formulas to be used in calculating actual cash value. It seems only fair that homeowners shouldn't have to guess what they are buying when they purchase home insurance.

As things stand at present, after a critical review of their policy, many homeowners are likely to come away feeling to some extent that they may have bought a pig-in-a-poke, or at least one that fails to meet their expectations.

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Jeffco Public Health sounds alarm over contagious bird flu strain Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza found in several counties, inlcuding Jeffco

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

An advisory on the Jefferson County Public Health website lays out a stark warning for backyard hobbyists who keep poultry flocks (chickens, geese, ducks, quail, etc.) and traditional farmers who keep birds.

The advisory details how Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is monitoring the state for reports of wild and domestic birds that have been infected with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza , also known as H5N1 flu.

The virus has been found in wild and domestic bird populations in at least 15 counties in Colorado as of June 2022, including Jefferson County.

As a precaution, residents and farmers are urged to be alert to unusual illnesses or deaths in wild and domestic birds According to CDPHE, The H5N1 strain of avian influenza is highly contagious in birds and can cause serious illness or death in birds that acquire the infection.

It is rare, but not impossible, for humans to become sick with this

illness — those most at risk are people who have regular contact with domestic and wild birds. Risk to the general public is low, and foodborne risk from poultry products is negligible as long as proper food safety cooking and handling precautions are observed.

To prevent illness, residents are urged to avoid contact with sick or dead birds and avoid touching surfaces that are contaminated with feces from domestic or wild birds. The use of appropriate personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves and goggles can reduce risk of becoming ill after handling sick or dead birds, or cleaning contaminated surfaces.

Always wash your hands with soap and water after handling birds or cleaning their environments.

What flock owners should do Owners should take the following steps to prepare: INCREASE BIOSECURITY: It is extremely important for poultry owners to increase biosecurity measures to protect their birds from HPAI. The USDA Defend the Flock website has helpful resources for keeping poultry healthy in any operation. Commercial poultry producers can use this toolkit to assess their biosecurity practices and preparedness.

MONITOR FLOCKS: Monitor your flock for clinical signs

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is monitoring the state for reports of wild and domestic birds that have been infected with Highly Pathogenic SHUTTERSTOCK Avian Influenza, also known as H5N1 flu.

of HPAI, including monitoring production parameters (feed and water consumption, egg production) and increased morbidity and mortality. Any changes in production parameters that could indicate HPAI should be reported.

REPORT DISEASE: It is important for veterinarians and producers to report any suspicious disease events in poultry flocks to the State Veterinarian’s office at 303-869-9130. If it is after hours, the voicemail message will indicate which veterinarian is on call.

If you have sick birds or birds

that have died from unknown causes, help is available at the Colorado Avian Health Call Line at CSU by calling 970-297-4008.

Domestic and commercial flock owners are urged to visit the CDPHE webpage on avian influenza for information on the virus, to view where confirmed ill bird populations have been identified and to find resources for poultry owners in Colorado. In addition, poultry flock owners should monitor all persons who are in contact with the birds for signs of illness and report it to Jefferson County Public Health at 303-232-6301.

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What’s the buzz at Clear Creek Canyon Park?

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Summer is in full swing at Clear Creek Canyon Park.

The blooming wildflowers have attracted a buzz of visitors, namely bees and hummingbirds. Other birds like finches and robins can be seen and heard fluttering around the park’s trails and bridges.

Human visitors should keep their ears open, eyes peeled and cameras handy to catch these small creatures carrying out their summertime activities.

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Food truck park is full of possibilities Run Westy Run brings together community, food and beer

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Blake Sanchez met Jeffrey Range at a mutual friend’s wedding four years ago. Now, they’ve opened Westminster’s latest food truck park.

Run Westy Run, equipped with tables, music, six spaces for rotating food trucks and two shipping containers selling beer and pizza, opened in June right across the street from Westminster Station.

It’s the brainchild of Sanchez and Range after wanting to take on a project and seeing the available space.

Sanchez, who works full-time in the hospitality industry, said the idea came from other food truck parks in Portland, Oregon, Texas and around Denver. The two called up the city and signed a five-year lease with the goal of activating the area – not just the vacant land, but the community around it, too.

“The Maiker Housing community, there’s tons of other neighborhoods, that was the main thing that attracted us besides the RTD station,” Sanchez said. “There’s a lot of opportunity to do a lot of collaborating with the neighborhood

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To do so, they plan on hosting community events. On July 17, they will have their first vendor pop-up market with 12 different vendors selling their stuff, including jewelry, soaps and art.

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And it doesn’t have to be only food trucks. To get the community involved, the three are open to all and any ideas. In the works is a comedy night, a weekly slam poetry night, a car show, a versus night, women in pizza and two dog events in August

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The dog nights will have dogspecific vendors and nonprofits that will make adopting pets available at the park.

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In addition, if vendors want to pitch an idea to them about an event, they are all ears.

“We just want to work with cool people,” Sanchez said.

The venue shares a name with a punk band from Minnesota, but Sanchez said it builds off of the idea that it’s mostly on the run.

Right now, the foot traffic at the station is still low due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but their team is hopeful it will begin to pick up again.

Sanchez said the park isn’t for late-night parties, but a relaxing vibe during the weeknight evening between 5-8 p.m. and a family spot during the afternoons and evenings on the weekends.

The bar is selling beer and wine from Infinite Monkey Theorem, New Terrain and eventually Lady Justice. In the future, they hope to add distilleries.

Due to their late start to the season, getting food trucks has been tricky, but not impossible. Food trucks usually start booking their summer in January, February and March but the Park just opened in June. For next year, they will start planning during the off-season, but there are ideas up in the air about being open year-round.

“We’re thinking about doing a huge tent to cover this area with heating options,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez noted the struggle and emotional grind of opening a new business. They are looking long term and realize the park will have peaks and valleys, and while fostering community is a main goal, so is breaking even.

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“We want to work with the community, we want to do fun stuff, we want to prop up other businesses, but obviously we have to make money,” he said.

Westminster city staff is excited about the new location.

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The U.S. national mammal: Introducing the red dog

BY CHRISTIE GREENE

Arguably cuter than an Irish setter, unmistakably larger than a Vizsla, and with shorter ears than a bloodhound, this species of red dog is found in a 2,000-acre fenced habitat surrounded by intimidatingly large, fiercely protective mothers.

While closer to a shade of orange, these so-called “red dog” bison calves are thriving in Genesee Park’s buffalo herd overlook, enchanting visitors and motorists with their undeniable cuteness and charm. The calves, weighing 30-70 pounds at birth, usually appear in late March through May as miniature, albeit orange, versions of their parents.

Size does matter! Eventually, the 70-pound calf grows to be 2,000 pounds of full-grown bison. As the largest mammal species in the country, the bison was designated as the United States National Mammal in 2016. These animals may literally weigh a ton, but they can still run up to 35 mph on their short legs. Be sure to respect that tall fence at the park (stay three feet back, the sign states), especially if you see a bison raising her tail straight up, meaning she is feeling threatened.

And no, not a buffalo! These animals are 100% “Bison bison bison!” (genus: Bison, species: bison, subspecies: bison). Bison

“Red dog” bison calves are thriving in Genesee Park’s buffalo herd overlook.

are enjoying a resurgence in the United States after being hunted to near oblivion by hunters and settlers in the span of only 20 years during the 19th century.

Down to a sparse 23 animals in the United States, the bison took refuge in Yellowstone National Park.

Only two years after its creation in 1912, Genesee Park acquired bison and elk from the herds at Yellowstone Park, and Denver Mountain Parks took on a new

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role in helping maintain these two species, then nearing extinction.

Additional bison were released in Daniels Park near Sedalia.

Bison numbers have eventually grown to over half a million, mostly as domestic livestock.

Other genetically pure and truly wild bison are found in Utah’s Henry Mountains, South Dakota’s Wind Cave National Park and Yellowstone National Park.

In 2015, 10 animals, dubbed the Laramie Foothills Bison Herd, were released in Ft. Collins’ Soapstone Prairie Natural Area.

Raised in captivity but bred from the original Yellowstone bison, they are considered the first pure bison to occupy Colorado in 150 years.

The buffalo herd overlook animals no longer face the auctioneer, but a number of young bison are now sent to other captive herds, bringing with them pure bison genes that make the animals more valuable alive than when tucked into a hamburger bun.

Denver Mountain Parks and other stakeholders recently expanded

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and improved bison viewing at Genesee Park, adding viewing bridges and a bike path that winds along the northern section of the habitat from the Genesee exit to Evergreen. In just a few months, the young bison will begin to grow humps and horns, their fur will darken and they’ll be red dogs no more.

The time to see red dogs in this orange/red phase is now, so get over to Genesee and Chief Hosa exits pronto!

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VOICES Nothing lasts forever

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he journey doesn’t end here.

Death is just another path, one that we all must take.—Gandalf We lost our cat last week.

Kai was a sweet little girl… OK, I’m kind of lying. Kai was very sweet — when she was an only kitty and you gave her exactly as much attention as she wanted exactly when she wanted it; and she really wasn’t such a little girl — I’m sure if we’d consulted with our vet, she would have wanted us to help Kai lose about 10 pounds.

But she was a very cute cat. She was a tortoiseshell, with amber-colored eyes which often blended with her fur color and seemed to disappear. She loved to stretch, but not how cats usually stretch. She would watch us when we were exercising, until we’d get down on the ground at the end of the workout for a stretch or a little yoga cooldown; then, she would be right in our face, insisting on ten minutes of affection. Ending with a bite.

We really have no idea how old she was. We’d had her for 12 years, and

she was full-grown when we got her.

Which is part of the problem: she could have been as much as 18 years old, and we would have, in some way, been prepared for her deterioration. But for us, the end was quick and surprising.

But this column Michael Alcorn isn’t really about Kai. I mean, it is, but only in the context of other things.

Kai isn’t the first pet we’d lost; in fact, if you count gerbils and hamsters and the rabbit (I kind of don’t, but…), we’ve probably said goodbye to 12 different animals. And each one of them has evoked a different response in death, because each one fit a different place in our hearts in life.

Each one hurt. And we’ve survived every one of them.

That’s why I think kids have to have pets. First, good ones (aka, dogs) give unconditional love, and what child doesn’t need to have that

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in their lives? I mean, sure, moms are great, but moms also are responsible for discipline and consequences and terrible things like that. Dogs don’t care—you got a bad grade?

Fluffy still wants to play with you.

Cats, also, don’t care if you got a bad grade. Feed me. And here’s a hairball.

Secondly, taking care of pets is the closest thing a child can get to understanding what it’s like to be a parent.

To be responsible for the well-being and happiness of another gives kids a glimpse — a glimpse of what it is to be a parent.

But mostly, I think pets, unwittingly, teach one of the most important lessons any kid can learn: that all of this, the silly, the smelly, the fun, the frustrating… is all transitory. Nothing lasts forever.

I can’t help but wonder if investing too much emotion in the here and now is part of the problem for all these teenage shooters. If the only disappointment you’ve ever felt is when your TikTok doesn’t get enough “likes,” then you might just not have the skills and mental

makeup to handle reality well. And then when—in spite of decades of interventions and assemblies—your classmates are mean to you, well...

But, if you’ve loved something, lost it, and noticed after a while that the world goes on, then I wonder if you just let some of the angst of high school slough off of you a little easier. I think, in some ways, it’s harder on adults, because we have not only our own pain to deal with, but the responsibility of helping our children process it.

But process it, they do. And they come out on the other side stronger, maybe sadder, but wiser.

And then you see it… white shores, and beyond, a far, green country under a swift sunrise.

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.

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braham Lincoln finished his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, with perhaps its most famous line, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Almost 160 years later there are still many ways for Americans to help ensure that promise can continue.

Government of, by and for the people means that people must participate to provide governmental service to oversee many of the things that government does with, for and to us. One of the best ways to participate at all levels of governments is through service on boards and commissions.

Over the years, I have been honored to serve on a variety of boards and commissions at the municipal,

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The process to apply to serve on boards and commissions in Jefferson County is now open. Appointments will be made to a variety of different boards that involve many different county activities including development and land use, county financial issues, human services, com-

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For boards and commissions to effectively serve Jefferson County and its taxpayers, it is imperative that the people who serve on them reflect the broad array of people who live in our County. These various boards should have members who reflect the diversity of the county in many areas including geography, gender, race, sexual orientation and age.

We all bring our personal experiences and beliefs to the things in which we participate. Boards and commissions composed of people with varying experiences and beliefs help to ensure that as policies and decisions are made and implemented on behalf of the county and its constituents that the many voices of our

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Information about vacancies on Jefferson County Boards and Commissions, how to apply and application forms can be found on the County’s website at https://www. jeffco.us/2123/Vacancies. People who live in Jefferson County are eligible to serve on these important bodies.

To ensure that our government of the people, by the people and for the people does not perish, we all must do our part. Please consider applying to serve on a Jefferson County board or commission.

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Tap into the power of cinematic storytelling at Anythink

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etting started on creative endeavors young is a fantastic way to ensure young people discover their passions early. And while that most often covers things like music or painting, Anythink Huron Street library and SeriesFest is providing free opportunities to get teenagers interesting in filmmaking this summer.

“Storytelling is what sets us as humans apart,” said Luke Sorge, generalist guide at the library.

“Being able to discuss and analyze this with young people is a very powerful thing.”

SeriesFest’s Mobile Cinema Lab will be at the Huron Street location, 9417 Huron St. in Thornton, from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, July 19 and 26 and Thursdays, July 14, 21 and 28. The series is only open to teens, who are encouraged to attend as many sessions as they’d like.

“Each class builds on the last, but if students can only make it to a couple, that’s great,” Sorge said. “They can learn everything about the process by attending all the classes, or do it a la cart style and learn specific parts of the process.”

SeriesFest a non-profit organization dedicated to championing artists at the forefront of episodic storytelling, will help participants go through the entire filmmaking process, from writing to producing and editing their own short films and TV pilots.

Instructors will use the latest film equipment and technology to help bring the stories to life.

“Starting filmmaking can be daunting because of everything you need, but SeriesFest is taking care of all that,” Sorge explained.

“Attendees will spend time looking at movies, breaking down non-verbal storytelling and more.

This is stuff we all know — it’s basic, human storytelling. We’ll teach them how to turn that around and employ it for their own work.”

In addition to the valuable creative skills learned, final films and pilots will be presented at a

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Seeing their work up on the big screen would be an undeniable thrill, but Sorge hopes that any participant will learn valuable lessons about self-expression.

“Storytelling is such a powerful exercise, so if they just come away knowing how to express themselves, that’s great,” he said.

“Even if you can only make it to one day, it’s going to be worth your while.”

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Eat, drink and be merry for affordable housing Killer music, delicious food and supporting a good cause at the same time? It’s no wonder the annual Blues and BBQ Festival for Better Housing has been around for a quarter century.

The 25th event will be at Citizens Park, 5560 W. 24th Ave. in Edgewater, from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 16. During the day they’ll be all manner of tribute bands performing, with legendary artists like INXS, The Allman Brothers and Bruce Springsteen all being represented.

Add mouthwatering eats and you have the perfect combination.

All proceeds will benefit affordable housing projects and Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, so get your tickets at www.bluesnbbq.com.

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isn’t made better by taking place under a summer sky, but movie screenings have to be one of the best. In that spirit, Northglenn’s Summer Movie Series is bringing some family favorites to the Festival Lawn - the grassy area between the Northglenn Recreation Center, 1 E. Memorial Parkway, and the Veterans Memorial.

Movies begin at dusk.

On Wednesday, July 20, the series features one of Disney’s biggest hits in recent memory — “Encanto.” If you haven’t heard of it, frankly I don’t know how you pulled that off. It’s a beautiful film and there’s a reason it’s such a hit.

More information about the free event can be found at https:// northglennarts.org/specialevents/.

of the great alt-rock albums of the century — the perfect blend of folk and electronic, wistful and anthemic and heartbroken and hopeful. Songs like “Babylon” and “This Year’s Love” still hit impossibly hard and never fail to send me down a beautiful path of memory.

Back in 2020 Gray was preparing to tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the record, but… well, you know. He’s finally returning to Red Rocks, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in Morrison, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 21. There’s no opener for this one — instead, he’s performing a greatest hits set and then “White Ladder” in full.

This is going to be a supremely special show, so get your tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — David Gray at Red Rocks For me, David Gray’s 2000 album, “White Ladder,” is still one

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Volunteers and researchers study one species’ response to a warming climate. The results might surprise you.

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n a nice July day, you might find Jennifer Zedalis up in the Alpine, with her 16-year-old daughter Sophie. Zedalis is lucky because she has a teenager who likes to wake up early — a necessity when you’re hiking above tree line in the Colorado summers prone to thunder and lightning.

But the two aren’t storm searching or taking photographs or even out for a hike. Instead, they’re volunteers on a mission, looking for pika on behalf of a community science initiative studying the small mammal species.

Zedalis and her daughter are volunteers with the Colorado Pika Project, an initiative founded in 2010 in response to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declining to list the American pika as an endangered species. The project is just one entity helping to research this tiny, temperaturesensitive Alpine mammal and trying to understand the species’ outlook in a rapidly changing climate.

For creature lovers, pikas may hold value on the basis of their “unrelentingly cute” looks alone. But on a more consequential note, researchers say pikas act as an indicator species and hold clues to the health of our alpine ecosystems and even the water resources we depend on.

The bad news? Pika are disappearing from parts of the western U.S. landscape. Temperature changes due to climate change likely play a major role but perhaps not in the way you might think.

Volunteering in the Alpine For those unfamiliar, American pikas are small, territorial, herbivorous mammals that most often live in the high Alpine on the rocky, mountainous steppes above tree line. The species finds its range throughout many western U.S. states as well as parts of Brit-

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ish Columbia and Alberta.

These tiny creatures are most closely related to rabbits and hares and are covered head to toe in the same rich, insulating fur. Unlike their cousins, they have small, rounded ears and weigh in around just 4.5 to 7.1 ounces — somewhere between one-quarter and less than half of a pound. If you’ve ever hiked to high elevation and heard a high-pitched squeak, it’s likely you encroached into the territory of one of these feisty mammals, ready to sound the alarm of an intruder.

Back when the Colorado Pika Project first began, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed there was insufficient evidence regarding how climate change would affect the species. So the Denver Zoo and the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Wild teamed up to start the project, which now sends some 150 volunteers out in the field each year to collect data about these miniscule mammals.

With the help of volunteers like the Zedalis duo, the Colorado Pika Project conducts surveys at nearly 100 locations each summer, primarily in Rocky Mountain National Park and the White River National Forest. A typical survey takes around an hour, during which volunteers use both auditory and visual clues to figure out whether pikas are inhabiting an area.

Zedalis, who has been volunteering with the project since 2019, recalls a particularly memorable surveying experience back in the summer of 2020. Outside of Eagle, she and her daughter hiked to two survey locations on

twin peaks referred to as New York High and New York Low, names referencing the elevation.

“It’s absolutely beautiful up there — Alpine scenery with fantastic views,” Zedalis said.

On New York High, the pair didn’t see much. But on New York Low, Zedalis estimates they saw 15 pikas.

Even when pikas aren’t spotted, surveyors can use clues to understand if pikas used to inhabit the area. And there’s one clue in particular that really sticks around: scat.

In extreme cases, “there is scat that has been found that’s over 100 years old,” said Alex Wells, co-director of the Colorado Pika Project. “But generally volunteers might find scat that is a decade or two old.”

Volunteers with the project tend to take part for one of two reasons.

“The entire group really does like hiking, and some people just enjoy being able to hike with a purpose,” Wells said. “Other folks are really explicitly concerned about climate change,” and working with us “is kind of a way to feel like you’re doing something.”

Why are the pikas disappearing?

Depending on the survey location, the Colorado Pika Project now holds between three to 10 years worth of data on pikas but project leaders aren’t yet ready to draw conclusions about the results of their findings. However, veteran scientific researchers outside of the project can lend insight into how pikas are faring in today’s climate. One such researcher is Dr. Chris Ray, a population biologist with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Ray has been researching pikas for over 30 years. One of her primary goals is to better understand the pika’s response to a changing climate. To do so, Ray spends several weeks each summer in the Alpine, trapping pikas, administering anesthesia and taking measurements before releasing the individuals back into their territories. She and her students used to capture around 48 pikas each summer, SEE FREEZING, P13

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Volunteers gather in the Alpine for a training for the Colorado Pika Project.

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but in recent years have averaged closer to 24 to 36. She has seen the pikas disappearing firsthand.

To theorize why, it’s important to have some base knowledge about the species. Foremost, pikas require a cool habitat. Because of their thick fur, they prefer to live in microclimates that maintain a temperature near freezing for most of the year.

They lack any kind of typical cooling mechanism, like panting or heat radiation through the ears, and can die if exposed to heat for even a couple of hours.

Those who know a little about pikas might be inclined to guess that as the climate warms, the temperatures are rising too high, killing off populations at lower elevations and shrinking their viable habitat to only the very tops of mountains. But Ray’s research indicates the truth is a little more complicated.

In fact, pikas don’t always live at high elevation. The American pika also can be found in the lava fields of New Mexico and at sea level in the Columbia River Gorge. Outside of Colorado, pikas also live in the mountains of the Great Basin, southern Utah and northeastern California. What all pika habitats have in common, however, is access to subsurface microclimates.

That is, pikas can live well below the surface, underneath piles

of broken rock or in subsurface lava tubes.

What’s significant about these habitats is they help pikas maintain viable temperataures year-round. Even in the summer, Ray says its likely pikas can get deep enough below the surface to reach temperatures near freezing. The rock piles act as a kind of chimney, letting hot air rise out the top and pooling cool air in the depths below. In colder climates, these same talus piles keep pikas warm in the winter. Where snow blankets the talus, it insulates the pikas from winter air temperatures that can fall far below freezing, and keeps the talus at a steady temperature near zero degrees.

But as with much of the environment, climate change may be throwing pika habitat for a loop.

In the Great Basin, California and Utah, snowpack is steadily declining, and some pikas may be losing their insulating snow blanket. Without sufficient snow, pikas can die of the cold.

So in these regions, Ray said it’s likely the cold winter temperatures explain pika disappearances a little better than the warm summer temperatures.

“The irony is that pikas may be freezing to death due to global warming,” she said.

However, in regions like Colorado, where the annual snowpack is remaining more stable — or in landscapes without cold winters — summer temperatures could explain more of the story. Here, Ray has witnessed a decline in juvenile recruitment,

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which means fewer juveniles are born each year, or fewer are surviving to adulthood. One theory is that as young pikas leave their mothers to find their own territory, they could be perishing in the heat as they are forced to travel through a hotter and hotter landscape.

Once pikas disappear from a region, it’s tough for them to come back. As non-migratory animals that may live their entire lives in the same 12-meter radius, they can’t simply cross a valley and repopulate a once inhabited mountain range.

“We’ve seen the loss of whole populations” in the Great Basin, Ray said. “Once they’re empty, we haven’t seen them be recolonized.”

Beyond the pika — why it matters Most ecologists would likely argue that studying pikas is important in its own right — that the balance of an entire ecosystem can be thrown off with the disappearance of just a single species. But even beyond this, pikas have important implications for the wider climate and society.

First and foremost, Ray and Wells advocate that pikas can act as an indicator species for the health of our western water resources. After all, we rely on the same winter snowpack as pikas for drinking, living, and recreating. In late summer, the same permafrost that lies under stacks of talus melts and replenishes our reservoirs.

With the current trajectory of

the planet’s warming, it’s not so hard to imagine a world where this isn’t the case.

“Once we have no permafrost left, we won’t have any of that anymore,” Ray said. “It’s a catastrophe for us.”

In a similar vein, Wells calls pikas “a canary in the coal mines,” warning of present and future ecological damage, foreboding the effects that could have on our lifestyles, recreation and economy.

But he speculates that for some, pikas hold a more emotional significance too. Himself a Colorado native, Wells grew up hearing the squeak of the pikas in the mountains.

“For a lot of folks, pikas are really tied to the image of Colorado,” he said. “I think if pikas disappeared, that’s a little part of Colorado’s soul that is lost.”

With the environmental, economic and emotional significance of this species’ survival in mind, Wells turns toward next steps for the Colorado Pika Project. They hope to start working with the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service to turn the data they’re collecting into management action.

While he acknowledges that research is valuable, Wells now seems to be seeking a more tangible impact — one that is action oriented.

With a sense of duty and gravity, he said, “We’re really trying to figure out how to take action to help protect pikas, instead of just being the ones who get to watch them die.”

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Heat waves make unhoused people especially vulnerable Here’s how to help

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Coloradans will experience some intense heat in July, with highs in the Denver area likely hitting the triple digits. Temperatures are expected to approach record highs for this time of year, and local meteorologists say people should “prepare for one of the hottest (and longest) stretches [of heat] in recent Front Range memory.”

While intense heat poses a risk to anyone who is unprepared, such weather is especially dangerous and life threatening to individuals in vulnerable situations, like those struggling with homelessness.

“Hot temperatures lead to dehydration, and dehydration exacerbates everything,” said Benjamin Dunning.

Dunning is the historian and one of the original co-founders for Denver Homeless Out Loud, an advocacy group for people experiencing homelessness.

“The effects [of excessive heat] typically exacerbate things that would normally be minor in a person’s life that they manage, healthwise, and would turn them into points of crisis,” Dunning said.

As PBS NewsHour recently reported, heat-related deaths in the United States hit an all-time high in 2021, and this year is ex-

Seen from across the South Platte River, a man dismantles a canopy during a sweep of a homeless camp.

pected to be worse in terms of high temperatures. Scientists recently confirmed that climate change is causing more extreme heat waves, like last year’s brutal heat wave in the Northwest that is believed to have killed hundreds of people.

In the United States, heat contributes to roughly 1,500 deaths per year, and the Associated Press reports that advocates believe about half of those individuals are unhoused. The problem is only getting worse, with exposure to extreme heat tripling over the last three decades. Just last month, a cyclist died in Grand Junction af-

ter running out of water on a day where temperatures reached 102 degrees Fahrenheit.

Dunning said in the Denver area, local governments and individuals can take basic steps to help protect people experiencing homelessness during heat waves.

“How we can respond as a community — number one is water,” Dunning said. “The next thing is people’s access to shade, covered places. If it’s blazing hot outside, be okay with someone sitting in an air conditioned coffee shop for a few hours to beat the heat.”

Denverite recently reported that nearly half of the city’s water fountains are not working.

Dunning said the City and County of Denver could set up cooling stations that provide water, shade and a place to rest. In the winter, Denver opens warming stations during especially cold weather.

But during extreme heat, the city encourages unhoused people to use rec centers and libraries during business hours to cool off.

Dunning added one of the ways in which the city “abuses our homeless” is through sweeps — when city officials remove unsanctioned encampments — which Dunning said are more harmful during high-temperature days.

“The sweeps happen in the early morning hours, which are the best sleeping hours because it’s still cool [outside] for people to rest,” Dunning explained. “And by displacing them during that time of day … you wind up affecting people’s sleep cycles, which much like dehydration affects all other kinds of things.”

The City and County Denver provides the following tips for dealing with extreme heat:

• Stay inside in air-conditioned buildings as much as possible. Air conditioning is the number one way to protect yourself against heat-related illness. If your home is not air-conditioned, visit one of Denver’s cooling stations • Drink more water than usual and don’t wait until you’re thirsty to drink • Fans will not prevent heat-related illness in extreme heat, instead take cool showers or baths to cool down • Don’t use the stove or oven to cook—it will make you and your house hotter • Don’t drink alcohol or beverages that contain caffeine • Limit your outdoor activity, especially during the middle of the day when the sun is hottest Below, you can find resources on ways to help.

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988: A new phone number for people to call during a mental health crisis

BY DANA KNOWLES ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

For 54 years, 911 has been the number for Americans to call for all emergencies. Starting July 16, people across the country, including Colorado, will be encouraged to call a different three-digit number for mental health emergencies — 988.

“What we’ve learned and seen over the years is that having the training and support to be able to respond to calls for emotional stress and mental health or substance abuse, you need someone with that training,” said Kelly Bowman, the director of Colorado’s new crisis response line 988.

The idea is to get people to call or text 988 instead of the police when they are experiencing emotional distress.

“What’s really great is that the suicide hotline [1-844-493-8255] has always been a suicide prevention resource. 988 is intended to be a crisis support for any source of crisis that comes in, and it’s really embracing self-defined crisis,” Bowman added.

She says self-defined crisis can be anything and everything from waking up and feeling mildly depressed or anxious to having suicidal thoughts.

“Sometimes it’s hard to take that step and say you know what?

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your time. Other than the organizations listed above, you can also seek out mutual aid groups in your area. Mutual aid is communitydriven support for those who need

can make all the difference in the world and 988 is really about increasing that access and making it easy to remember,” Bowman said.

Last year the state of Colorado passed legislation that would allow for a surcharge of 18 cents on cell phone bills to pay for 988, which will be overseen by the Colorado Department of Human Services. At any point during the day, there are 25-40 team members trained in everything from crisis intervention, suicide assessment and response; to substance use and crisis, grief, trauma and more.

“There’s not a one size fits all solution for someone going through struggle and so that’s what’s great about how our counselors are trained,” Bowman explained.

Children’s Hospital Colorado saw an alarming increase of emergency room visits for a mental health crisis over the past two years. Photo courtesy of Children’s Hospital Colorado.

This change comes at a time when Colorado along with much of the country is facing a mental health crisis. Just among our youth, Children’s Hospital Colorado pediatric system reported last fall that emergency visits for a mental health crisis were up 73% over the same time period two years prior. Studies have also shown that Colorado has the highest rate of adult mental illness in the nation and one of the lowest

rates of access to care. A collaborative investigation among Colorado news organizations showed some of the state’s 17 communitybased mental health providers have failed to provide treatment to the toughest and most expensive behavioral health cases while avoiding competition. To address this mental health crisis, this year Colorado lawmakers passed a bill to reform the delivery network for mental health care in the state.

[Related: Bill for new behavioral health agency seeks sweeping safety-net reforms] Still legislative changes can take time to implement and this enactment of 988 has been years in the making. After the time and energy spent of activism, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, establishing 988 was signed into law in October 2020.

Despite this incredible step forward, the system has room for improvement. For example, when someone calls 988 they’ll be connected to a counselor in the state where their phone’s area code is from; meaning that if you live in Denver but have a 310-area code attached to your phone, your call to 988 would go to California.

Bowman hopes the Federal Communications Commission will step in and fix that.

“While we work on whether or not we’ll get support from the FCC for geolocation to route calls to an in-state call center, we’re

going to work to build trust in our communities and be clear about the message behind 988, which is that no one is left behind and no one feels like they can’t call,” she said.

Bowman also said regardless, people should still call 988 when it’s up and running later this month.

“It’s important now more than ever. We’ve seen increased rates of suicides and deaths of despair with overdoses. We know our kids are struggling and so to be able to offer a resource and say, ‘It’s okay to not be okay’ and ‘I see you and I see you struggling and there’s someone here to talk to. You’re not alone.’ We don’t heal in isolation, and I think we can all come to an agreement that that’s a hard lesson we’ve learned over the last few years.”

it, with the goal to uplift and help one another in the face of systems that are not meeting the needs of the people.

• Mutual Aid Monday (Denver) - mutualaidmonday.wixsite.com/ mutual-aid-monday • Foothills Mutual Aid Collective (Fort Collins/Northern Colorado) https://twitter.com/aidfoothills

Resources for those experiencing homelessness If you or someone you know is experiencing homelessness, here is a collection of resource lists with details on where you can get assistance.

• Denver Voice - Resource List - https://www.denvervoice.org/ resource-list • Colorado Coalition for the Home-

less - Get Help - coloradocoalition.org/ gethelp • Denver Rescue Mission - Get Help denverrescuemission.org/get-help/ 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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BY MAYA DAWSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

“I can’t believe I just did it,” Special Olympian Jamie Milligan thought after finishing her triathlon. She completed a 440-yard swim, 10.8-mile bike ride and a 5K run back-to-back in June at the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando, Florida.

Milligan’s journey to the games required daily training, coaching and a whole lot of grit, but her national success started locally.

Milligan, 27 is a member of the INSPIRE program, which is run through the Evergreen Parks and Recreation District. The program provides social and recreational opportunities for people with disabilities ages five and up, and helped Milligan get to the Special Olympics.

“We just like to keep everyone busy and active and having peers,” EPRD Special Populations coordinator Maren Schreiber said. “That’s what it’s all about for us: having a friend.”

Milligan has made some of her closest friends in the program, participating not only in the Special Olympics opportunities but also in some of INSPIRE’s many other offerings.

INSPIRE offers different sports teams, from bowling to track and field. It also provides adaptive equipment and works with other organizations, so members can participate in activities like horseback riding, skiing and rock climbing.

“I think sometimes when families have a young child with a disability, they are afraid to give them wings — and then they come to our program,” Schreiber said. “My staff is great about getting them to do things that people think they would never be able to do.”

At INSPIRE summer camps, the program mixes recreational opportunities with outings to movies or museums. Schreiber believes that the program’s flexibility is one thing that makes it unique. If a participant wants to attend a specific event, the program coordinators will do their best to make it happen.

When Schreiber started the INSPIRE program 25 years ago, she had no idea how popular it

Colton Watts (front) kayaks with EPRD staff Jamie Corbin.

EPRD Staff member Patrick Quinlan helps INSPIRE participants Mac Teaff (center) and PHOTOS BY MAYA DAWSON Grace Arnold (right) to fish at a program outing.

INSPIRE members Kristina Halstead, Mac Teaff, and Grace Arnold participate in adaptive paddle boarding led by Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center staff.

would be.

“My boss at the time was like, ‘Sure, you can try it out, but I’m not sure there’ll be enough people,’” Schreiber said.

The program’s first day camp had five participants, but today there are 107 members and as many as 25 people attending camps daily. Schreiber has seen firsthand how her program is benefitting participants.

“I have a young man who is on the autism spectrum, and he first came [to INSPIRE] when he was five. He’s studying now for the bar exam to be a lawyer.

He amazed everyone,” Schreiber said.

INSPIRE is helping members be active, have new experiences and build a community. They transport their participants to events and employ many staff members so all participants have their needs met, but this can be expensive. The community has stepped up to help the program financially.

“We wouldn’t be able to do it without them, and the amount of support they give INSPIRE is just a true gift to so many people with disabilities,” Schreiber said.

The program’s next fundraiser is the Andy Smith Sr. Golf Tournament on July 18. INSPIRE is still looking for donations, sponsors and door prizes.

For more information on donating or participating in INSPIRE programs, Maren Schreiber can be reached at mschreiber@eprd. co.

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Colorado’s national parks saw record revenue in 2021

BY TONY GORMAN COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

National parks in Colorado had a record year in revenue last year.

In a report released by the National Park Service, 7.8 million visitors spent an estimated $560 million while visiting national parks in Colorado in 2021.

Those numbers broke the previous mark of $515 million set in 2019. The expenditures from the revenue funded 7,570 jobs in the state, according to the report.

Visitors spent the most of their money on lodging, restaurants, and gas. Lodging brought in $188 million which accounted for 33.5 percent of revenue earned. Restaurants took in $109 million, and $58.7 million

was spent on gas.

Rocky Mountain National Park brought in the most visitors and revenue among national parks lands Colorado in 2021 with 4.4 million visitors spending $323 million. That supported 4,420 jobs.

Mesa Verde National Park on the Western Slope brought in the second highest revenue at $62 million. And in Southern Colorado, Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve brought in the most revenue in the region with $41.3 million from 603,000 visitors.

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