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Arvada In-N-Out moves closer to opening California burger in administrative review after city council OK’s major modification proposals

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Arvadans are potentially just months away from enjoying their burgers Animal Style, as city council recently approved five ma-

jor modification proposals needed for In-N-Out Burger’s proposal to open a location at 52nd Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard.

The planned location at 7370 W. 52nd Ave — in the Arvada Marketplace shopping center which

currently houses a Michaels, Sam’s Club and other retail stores — would be In-N-Out’s first in Arvada. The intersection of 52nd and Wadsworth is one of the busiest in the state, according to Arvada Planning Commission Chair Michael Griffith.

The fast food chain’s proposal is for a facility that includes indoor and outdoor seating, as well as a drive thru. The proposal includes

53 parking spots.

Concerns about traffic and accessibility were raised at the July 18 council meeting, with a representative for In-N-Out stating that the chain will bring in a team of experienced employees to help train staff on directing traffic. Councilmember Lisa Smith voted no on some of the major SEE IN-N-OUT, P6

First responders celebrated on National Night Out Colorado shuts down “illegal” mining operation

BY BY MICHAEL BOOTH AND JASON BLEVINS COLORADO SUN

A family poses in front of former APD Officer Ed McCarthy’s old Volkswagen Beetle during National Night Out.

16th Annual celebration of APD and AFPD personnel includes festivities at Arvada Center, Historical Society

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Local first responders were celebrated across Arvada on Aug. 2 as part of National Night Out,

an annual campaign that seeks to promote neighborhood camaraderie and partnerships between first responders and the community.

2022 marks Arvada’s 16th year hosting National Night Out events, which typically invite first responders, city team members and elected officials to community gatherings.

About 14 gatherings were held in Arvada for National Night Out, including events at the Arvada Historical Society and the Arvada Center.

To the delight of children in

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attendance, longtime former Arvada Police Officer Ed McCarthy’s painted Volkswagen Beetle — which is still in use as an educational tool — made the rounds.

Arvada Police Department Public Information Officer Dave Snelling said he was thrilled to see people engaging with their neighbors and first responders throughout the night.

“It was wonderful to see community members out speaking with SEE NIGHT OUT, P6

Colorado officials have shut down what they call an illegal mining and milling operation south of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and above Jefferson County communities, saying uncontained chemicals like cyanide for gold processing are a hazard to the public and environment.

Rocky Flats Environmental Solutions, which says it is not a mining operation but a testing and cleanup site for other mine operators, is shut down under a state cease-and-desist order until the mining reclamation board takes up the case later this month, Department of Natural Resources spokesman Chris Arend said.

The Mined Land Reclamation Board and its inspectors are working with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment water quality experts and other agencies to protect local community watersheds, Arend said.

In a 22-page inspection noting multiple alleged violations, state inspectors list tanks with thousands of gallons of cyanide solution sitting above a concrete berm that could not enclose potential spills. The owners of the facility use a proprietary chemical method for leaching precious metals from ore and used electronics. One owner told The Sun his methods “turn this waste into SEE MINING, P2

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something that is useful.”

Regulators blasted the facility for a lack of emergency plans to prevent or halt a leak of dangerous chemicals. The facility is near homes and businesses off Coal Creek Canyon Road.

“A loss of solution from the tanks has the potential to flow off-site,” the inspectors said. “The facility is located immediately to the north and upgradient of Barbara Gulch, an ephemeral drainage that flows eastwards into Leyden Lake. Leyden Lake is a City of Arvada stormwater detention facility that is located between Colorado 72 and West 82nd Avenue. Leyden Lake flows into Leyden Creek, which is a tributary of Ralston Creek.”

Arvada officials said the operations do not present any threat to their drinking water sources.

Owners of the operation are adamant that they do not need state mining operations permits for their work.

“These guys came in hostile, they threatened us, and I’ve never had an agency act that way,” David Emslie, one of the listed owners of Rocky Flats Environmental Solutions, said in an interview. Emslie said the EPA and other agencies “love” the company for offering new methods of mining cleanup, and that state mining inspectors appear to have “a vendetta” against their operation.

Mining waste can be processed and “everything put to good and

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Houses and the Denver skyline are pictured beyond the Rocky Flats Environmental PHOTO BY ANDY COLWELL / SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN Solutions facility in Arvada on Aug. 2, 2022.

beneficial use,” Emslie said.

“Much of these metals have to come from somewhere and if we can de-Superfund Superfund sites and remove an environmental problem while at the same time creating jobs and creating local materials that don’t have to be shipped halfway across the world that can be used locally for the creation of everything from computers to solar panels to electric cars, it is a good idea to turn this waste into something that is useful,” Emslie said.

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tured in an I-News Network article published in the Boulder Daily Camera that showed him using a potent acid solution to re-refine gold in the garage of a rented home in Fort Collins. The method he used is called “aqua regia” and regulators were surprised to hear he was deploying the toxic process in Colorado. The process is more common in e-waste dumps in China and Nigeria.

A few days after the story was published, the Poudre Fire Authority ordered Emslie to stop metal refining in the home on College Avenue.

In March 2011, the city published a notice in the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper that Emslie’s metal refining was operating without an industrial discharge permit and was not compliant with city code. The published legal notice of “industrial pretreatment noncompliance” noted that a January 2010 review by the city found that wastewater discharged from Emslie’s facility “did not cause … harm to the sanitary sewer, wastewater treatment plant or environment.”

In 2019, Emslie ran afoul of state regulators with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, who argued he should do a better job of disposing of gloves and filters used at his metal refining facility on Summit View Drive in Fort Collins.

The CDPHE’s November 2020 list

of approved handlers of hazardous materials lists Emslie’s Prospector’s Gold & Gems as a “very small generator” of hazardous waste at that same facility in Fort Collins.

Prospector’s Gold & Gems has posted dozens of online videos of him processing and milling ore and using his proprietary method to leach gold from used electronic parts.

The inspectors with the Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety noted 20 tons of ore on the Rocky Flats site from the Cross and Caribou Mine above Nederland, which itself was hit with a cease-and-desist order in November 2021 by the Department of Public Health and Environment after leaking heavy metals into creeks nearby. Water quality officials with the department ordered the mine owners to build a new containment and cleanup system, and threatened to impose fines of up to $54,833 per day for each of multiple violations for the toxic metals and for failing to report test results.

The mining reclamation board eventually imposed a $17,000 fine on owners of the Cross and Caribou mines for water quality violations, but suspended all but $5,000 of the penalty as long as Grand Island Resources continues “good faith” efforts to install containment and cleanup equipment.

The owners of the Nederland mine, Grand Island Resources, said they had sent small amounts of materials to the Jefferson County facility for testing. State inspectors wrote that representatives from the mine said they had shipped 20 tons of ore to the facility in August and September last year. Grand Island Resources President Daniel Takami said his mine sent “low grade ore described as ‘stockpiled ore’ on page two of the inspection report” to the mill site in August last year for “extractive metallurgical testing, a type of laboratory analysis that is exempted from MLRB regulations.”

“The testing we asked Highway 72 mill site to perform for us has not been paid for or completed, while we await final approval from CDPHE,” Takami said, in an email.

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

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City of Arvada implementing ‘traffic calming’ measures Traffic circles and speed cushions part of plan to mitigate auto fatalities in Arvada

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A number of Arvadans have been puzzled by the traffic circles and speed cushions that have popped up around Olde Town in recent weeks.

The infrastructure additions are part of a pilot program that aims to decrease roadway fatalities, according to Arvada Manager of Mobil-

ity and Planning Innovation John Firouzi.

The city team is studying traffic compliance along Grandview Avenue and 57th Avenue as part of the traffic calming plan, which aims to reduce speeding — and thereby fatal auto accidents — in high-traffic areas.

The first of these installations is a traffic circle at Brooks Drive and 59th Place which was set up last year. Studies conducted by the city showed 84% compliance with the traffic circle, which saw drivers turning more slowly and pausing for pedestrians to cross the intersection.

Recently, another traffic circle was implemented at 57th and Grand-

view — an intersection Firouzi said was chosen due to its proximity to schools and commercial areas.

Speed cushions on Grandview also have been implemented.

Two more traffic circles are planned to be implemented within the coming weeks; one at 57th and Ammons Street and one at 57th and Balsam. Carr Street and 57th Ave will both see speed cushions implemented in the coming weeks as well.

Firouzi said that the traffic circles and speed cushions were tested

by Arvada Police and Fire Department vehicles to ensure that large trucks and low-clearance cruisers can safely navigate around them.

He added that the largest Arvada Fire truck was used for the tests —

which found that the truck could pass around the traffic circle — and is roughly the same size as a semitruck.

The current implementations — traffic circles and speed cushions — are part of a semi-permanent method to gauge compliance, called “lighter, quicker, cheaper,” which references the impermanence of the structures. The city will monitor the efficacy of these implementations with cameras over the next year.

Firouzi said that if the additions are found to be useful in enforcing safe driving, permanent installations will be built during road resurfacing. More information about the city’s traffic calming project can be found at arvada.org.

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Looking for a Good Deal? Opendoor Is Slashing Prices to Clear Its Inventory I wrote about Opendoor last week.

They’re one of the “iBuyer” companies that buys off-MLS listings and flips them for a profit. Or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work, but too many homes haven’t sold, and they drop their listing prices twice each month until they sell. For too many of their listings, that means they will be getting far less than what they paid for them.

As I write this on Sunday evening, there are 446 unsold Opendoor listings on Denver’s MLS, and the median days on the MLS is 58!

It’s apparent that they bought many of these listings during those heady days before the market softened and now they can’t sell them for a profit or even at the price they paid for them.

I studied the 45 Opendoor listings currently active in Jefferson County. The median days on the MLS for those listings is 75! That’s exactly three times the median days on the MLS for all active listings in Jefferson County. All but two of those listings have been active for at least 12 days, and all 43 of them have had their prices cut to try to clear the company’s inventory. They’re going to lose money on most if not all of them.

Here are some examples: They purchased 11022 Trailrider Pass, Littleton, for $631,400 on Dec. 2nd and listed it on Feb. 17th for $820,000. Nine price reductions later, it’s now listed at $643,000 and has yet to go under contract.

At the current price, they will pay their usual 2.5% buyer agent commission, netting them about $5,000 less than they paid for it. Presumably they also had some repairs, repainting and other expenses during the two months between buying and listing.

Opendoor’s oldest listing, 2090 Braun Drive, Golden, was purchased last September for $638,300, and is currently listed for $621,000 after one failed contract and three subsequent price reductions.

4740 S. Tabor Street, Morrison, was purchased for $500,500 in December, listed for $612,000 two months later, and after nine price reductions and no contracts, it’s listed at $527,000. Depending on how much money they spent dressing up that listing during those two months, they might break even.

The box as right lists some of the Jeffco listings on which Opendoor will lose a lot of money.

Of the 177 Opendoor listings (in all counties) which closed in the last 90 days, only 18 sold at or above their original listing price. More than half sold for at least 5% below their original price. In the same 90-day period a year ago, 55% of Open-

door’s listings sold at or above their original listing price.

And the company’s volume of closings has dropped precipitously. In the 90-day period prior to the most recent 90 days, Opendoor closed twice as many of their listings—355.

One could argue that the iBuyer model is still valid and that the company just suffered from the abruptness of the change in the real estate market.

Meanwhile, it is also reported that although the market has slowed, prices are still increasing, so perhaps there are some bargains to be had in Opendoor’s “stale” listings.

Although Opendoor is difficult for brokers and buyers to work with, my broker associates and I would be happy to show you any of their listings and see if we can get you a good deal!

Long before there were production EVs like the Nissan Leaf or the Tesla Model S, automotive hobbyists all over the country were playing around with converting gas-powered cars and trucks to electric vehicles, initially with lead acid batteries but more recently with lithium ion batteries obtained from a wrecked EV or a battery manufacturer.

This Saturday several of those converted classics will be on display at La Vida Volta! — an EV expo sponsored in part by Xcel Energy and CDOT. The free, family-friendly event runs from 10 to 3 in the lower North lot at Red Rocks.

The day before there will be a first-ofits-kind “Educational Conference for Performance EV Conversions” at the nearby Origin Hotel Red Rocks. That event is sold out, but you’re welcome to attend the car show on Saturday.

The conference and the Saturday car show are produced by a venture with the clever name of Ohm on the Range. (If you’re not familiar with the word ohm, which rhymes with home, it is a measure of electrical resistance.)

Speakers at that conference include men and women who have converted the following cars from gas-powered drive trains to electric drive trains: a 1999 Jeep Wrangler, a 1980 Subaru Brat, a 1958 Apache, a 1982 Scrambler, a 1965 Mustang, a 1972 Plymouth Satellite, and a 1996 Toyota Land Cruiser. Those and many other EV conversions will be on display at Saturday’s event.

Converting a gas-powered car to an EV is often done by taking the drive

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Lakewood Tri-Level Has Two Master Suites This home at 1863 S. Robb Street is in Lochwood Hills, west of Kipling and north of Jewell.

What sets it apart from other homes are the two master suites and the 0.46-acre lot with a fenced vegetable garden, both wild and cultivated flowers, bushes and trees, including multiple kinds of bearing fruit trees. The home’s hilltop location gives it mountain views from most windows. The sellers, who have owned this home for 41 years, added a 750-sq.-ft. primary suite addition on the main level in 2006 with vaulted ceiling, ensuite bathroom and walk-in closet, barely visible to the right of the tree. The original master suite remains on the upper level above the garage. There’s an RV parking space (with electrical outlet) through a gate to the left of the garage. Although in the middle of south Lakewood, this home is in unincorporated Jeffco, saving you on sales tax for big purchases such as a car. You can take a narrated video tour at www.LakewoodHome.info, then call your agent or Jim Smith, 303-5251851, to see it, or come to the open house on Saturday, Aug. 13, from 11a.m to 1 p.m. $695,000

Unsold Jeffco listings priced as much as $50,000 below what Opendoor paid for them:

train from a wrecked Tesla, Nissan Leaf or other EV. Alternatively, DIY hobbyists can purchase new electric components from aftermarket companies with names like Electric GT, reVolt Systems and Netgain Motors. Saturday’s expo will also feature some of the newest OEM offerings from Lucid, Rivian, Polestar, Ford, Kia, Nissan and Chevrolet.

We’ve had one or two EV conversions show up for the EV Roundups which we sponsor each April and October. This event should be fun!

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Jeffco Republican Lynn Emrick selected by GOP to fill HD27 vacancy Emrick replaces Carlino on ballot; will oppose incumbent Titone

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After Arvada small business owner Christina Carlino withdrew from the House District 27 race on July 20, a Republican vacancy committee selected Lynn Emrick to run against incumbent Democrat Brianna Titone in the upcoming general election.

The five-member vacancy committee chose Emrick after interviewing her and two other finalists at the Arvada Police station in Westwoods. The meeting was closed to the public and members of the committee were not named.

Emrick is a parent and a cofounder of Acts Academy — a private Christian school in Wheat Ridge — who lives in unincorporated Jefferson County near

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Arvada city limits. Emrick has not sought elected office before.

In an email interview with the Arvada Press, Emrick said she is not pleased with the direction Colorado is heading and, if elected, would prioritize address-

ing affordability in HD27, promoting public safety and increasing parental educational choice and transparency within schools.

“I am a parent who feels the pain of unbalanced policies,” Emrick said in the email. “Soft on crime policies have led Colorado to be the #1 state with the most car theft and bank robberies… As a mom and community member, this is not OK! “I want to bring back balance and bring together unity from both sides to accomplish a greater goal for our children and ALL community members,” Emrick continued. “I am the strongest candidate because I am fighting for common sense in all areas to regain quality of life in Colorado.”

Emrick also pledged to “keep politics out” of the classroom and mentioned “sexualized content” and “gender identity vocabulary” as programs being taught without parental permission.

“Hidden club activities attendance without parent knowledge, teaching any sexualized content

outside approved curriculum, teaching young children gender identity vocabulary, assignments or technology that contains controversial content that has not been approved without the parent’s knowledgment (sic) is out of line within our classrooms,” Emrick said.

“All Colorado children deserve to have reading, writing and math at the forefront of their education, we must educate our children at a competitive level to the rest of the world, as these children are our next generation,” Emrick continued. “Not only as a Coloradan, but as an American it is unacceptable to accept anything less AND our focus must be on teaching our children the basics not political agendas!”

Emrick will be running against Titone, who is seeking a third term after her initial election in 2018 and reelection in 2020. Carlino said she dropped out of the race “due to unforeseen family issues.”

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Jackalope Arts Festival brings local art lovers to Olde Town

Festival attendees walk down Wadsworth to check out the vendor booths.

Vendor booths at the Jackalope Arts Festival in Olde Town.

While not painted in conjunction with Jackalope, the Olde Town mural on the side of PHOTOS BY RYLEE DUNN 12 Volt Tavern has been recently updated.

About 4,000 people attended the free festival in Arvada Aug. 5 and 6

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

People from all over the metro area visited Olde Town Arvada to check out the wares of 130 vendors for the second year of the Jackalope Arts Festival Aug. 5 and 6.

About 4,000 attendees came to the festival, which does not charge for admission. Jackalope was first held in Olde Town in 2021.

“We really enjoy that we finally found a home in the Denver area that seems to embrace our mission and our concept, and it feels great to be in a community that’s so supportive of everything we do,” Jackalope Co-Founder Sara Diederich said.

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each other and getting to know their neighbors as National Night Out was designed for,” Snelling said. “Coming out and gathering and getting to know

August 11, 2022 each other in the hopes that they can communicate and prevent crime in the future. People know better where they live what’s suspicious and what’s not.”

Snelling added that police officers who live in Arvada but work in other jurisdictions were in attendance as well and

praised the occasion as an opportunity to connect with a first responder in a casual setting.

“We’ve had police officers that live in our city that work in others that come out to the event, because it’s the opportunity to speak with a police officer before it’s an emergency or a crisis,” Snelling said.

A group in front of the Arvada Historical Society’s McIlvoy House headquarters on National Night Out.

Since 2014, the Arvada Police Department has practiced what it calls “Community Based Policing,” which breaks up Arvada into four sectors, each with its own commander. The goal of Community-Based Policing is to foster relationships between APD and community members, according to the department.

APD officers pose with folks at a National Night Out gathering in PHOTOS COURTESY ARVADA POLICE west Arvada.

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modification proposals, citing traffic concerns. Smith was the lone dissenting vote.

After the approval of the major modification proposals, In-N-Out’s application moves to an administrative review, which will be handled by the city team. After the application is approved, In-N-Out can begin construction on the site.

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Report Jeffco road maintenance issues right from your cell phone New app makes it easier than ever to solve your pothole problems STAFF REPORT

Jefferson County has launched an app to make reporting road issues a breeze.

YourJeffco is a web portal and that app enables citizens, and really anyone else driving through, to report issues with roads and bridges maintained by Jefferson County.

The app, which can be downloaded for Apple and Android devices is a one-stop portal to locate important information about the county. YourJeffco also includes links to the Jefferson County website for improvement projects, news, jobs, department directory, and more.

Reporting a pothole, flooded road, downed tree, graffiti or scores of other issues is now as simple as pulling out a smartphone.

According to the county, YourJeffco integrates directly with the county’s citizen request management software, QAlert.

This integration allows users to submit comments and photos when notifying Jefferson County staff about an issue. Through YourJeffco, those submissions are then routed to appropriate departments or individuals for handling and resolution. Once your request is submitted, you can receive updates (via text, email or phone) while requests are addressed and resolved.

What it is YourJeffco is a citizen engagement platform that allows citizens of unincorporated Jefferson County to submit road maintenance requests or questions via a Smartphone app, the Jefferson County website, and the website citizen portal.

The YourJeffco App is available for download to Apple and Android devices.

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This software will be helpful in multiple ways. YourJeffco works hand-in-hand with the county’s asset management system to automate citizen request tasks so they are assigned directly to the crew that is responsible for the maintenance. In doing so, it eliminates a process that includes a customer service representative taking and entering the request and a supervisor from creating a task in the asset management system. This allowssupervisors to be out with the crews more often and is increasingly relevant as the county experiences significant manpower shortages.

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Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act passed Perlmutter adds amendments to bill

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act was passed July 29 by the House of Representatives.

The act is a package of 49 bills that will provide investments to improve fire-adapted ecosystems, protect communities against catastrophic wildfires and enhance drought resiliency..

The bill also will expand science programs, modernize data and technology and ensure a whole-ofgovernment approach to wildfire and drought issues as well as helping to improve the understanding of wildfires, their behavior, and their long-lasting effects.

U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) applauded passage of the act, which included four amendments he authored.

A statement released by Perlmutter’s office said climate change has increased wildfire risk nationally presenting a year-round threat to the United States as well as made drought more severe and persistent, with parts of the western U.S. experiencing their driest conditions in over 1,200 years. Together, the effects of wildfire and drought cost the U.S. roughly $20 billion in 2021 alone.

The Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act will provide investments to improve fire-adapted ecosystems, protect communities against catastrophic wildfires and FILE PHOTO enhance drought resiliency.

“Close to half of Colorado’s population lives in or near places prone to wildfires. We need to get serious about our approach to wildfires to protect people’s lives, (their) homes and our natural resources,” Perlmutter said. “It’s long past time Congress took the issue of climate change and wildfires seriously, and this package is a big step forward in ensuring we can better prepare for and respond to these worsening threats.”

The four amendments secured by Perlmutter: • Expand research and develop-

ment opportunities to better protect buildings from wildfire hazards as well as promote energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, and encourage greater collaboration between FEMA and other agencies on hazard resilience research to protect buildings from wildfires.

• Ensure the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) collaborates with other agencies, like NASA, on its work in fire weather forecasting and alerts.

• Expand the Department of Energy’s activities under the Wildland Fire Risk Reduction Program to

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VOICES Good soil, good seed, and proper care are not always enough

ard times make hard men; hard men make good times; good times make soft men; soft men make hard times.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

I have a friend whose daughter is about to get married. But they’re having a difficult time filling out the wedding party. Apparently, one of the “new things” for the next generation is that members of the wedding party are responsible for an awful lot of the bride’s expenses. And, when you’re talking about people who, by and large, are recently out of school, you’re asking an awful lot, it seems.

Add this on top of the way Prom and Homecoming have become ridiculous… Back in my day, it was considered a big deal that Mom and Dad would let you drive the “good car” to Prom; these days, you’re out of place when you don’t pull up in a limousine.

To be sure, this isn’t the kids’ fault:

they’re doing what they’re being allowed to do. We’ve just gotten to the point where parents don’t keep the kids’ “want lists” between the rails, and the kids haven’t learned the difference between “want” and “need.” Someday, that difference is going to slap them in Michael Alcorn the face.

Now, get off my lawn… ***** I feel the need to briefly revisit the idea of gardening. At the risk of torturing the metaphor…

‘Cuz we all know I never do that…

Gardens are not always perfectly cooperative. I have a little flower garden area that I created two years ago and only one of the plants from that

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original batch is still alive. Last year, 10 of the replacement 12 I planted survived; this year, a couple of the 12 have already died. I did almost the exact same thing with every one of those little flowers, but some thrive, some merely survive, and some die. In the meantime, this wisteria I planted looked dead for two years, and then, out of the blue, is now thriving.

In other words, good soil, good seed, and proper care are not always enough. When two children grow up in the same environment, there’s no guarantee that they will take the same path through life. Two organizations follow the same approximate blueprint, but there’s no guarantee that they will be equally productive.

Likewise, sometimes all the right actions produce zero results for some time — even negative results — but then produce a startling end product.

Nothing involving growing things

should be expected to behave like an algorithm.

But their odds are next to zero if nobody bothers to plant the right seeds. ***** P.S. If you want an entertaining experience, go to “The Butchery,” in north Arvada (Colorado Community Media Best of Arvada), on the weekend, and ask the bartender, Vernon (CCM BoA), to whip you up an Old Fashioned. If you’re not a whiskey drinker, you’ll have to get someone else to drink it for you, I suppose. But the presentation is great fun!

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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o, you have walked, biked, bused, scootered or driven over to the Denver Botanic Gardens on York Street and are ready to explore all the beauty that is within the 24-acre property. Before you make a beeline for the entrance, stop, and take some time to explore just beyond our walls. What many visitors might not know is the gardens that surround our main property are curated with as much care as the ones inside and are some of our most sophisticated and transformative gardens.

An added perk is these gardens are accessible 24/7.

If you begin along the Josephine Street streetscape, you can explore a naturalistic grassland area. This garden gives you an innovative idea of what is to come in the world of residential landscaping in the coming years. As our rainfall decreases, but our desire to have beautiful yards and visits from pollinators is still

just as important, having a water-wise garden is something you might want to consider. Stroll along Josephine Street throughout the year and observe the transformation that happens from spring through winter.

As the idea of adding meadows to your yards takes hold, you can be inspired by this sophisticated design.

Taking a stroll around the gardens that surround our newest building, the Freyer-Newman Center, you will find everything from shade gardens to annuals to medicinal ones. You can enjoy a tasty beverage and read a book in the courtyard, or stop by the medicinal courtyard (just outside our classrooms) to see what you might want to grow as you learn more about the benefits of herbs. Heading west, look across the street at the Colorado Garden Show Promenade Garden on

the parking structure hill. Here you will see more low-water plants that would be perfect for any yard. This garden performs well into the winter months with architectural interest of hesperaloe parviflora, Salvia azurea, and schizachyrium scoparium. All the grasses, similar to the Josephine streetscape, put on an amazing show as well, and are great as a foundation for any home garden.

If annuals and perennials are your passion, continue a slow stroll up York Street and enjoy the beautiful blooms. Not to be outdone by the flashy campsis radicans, the annual and perennial blooms put on a real show from April through October.

Maybe you missed the bulb blooms of spring, but by August, the perennials and annuals have exploded in color.

To me, August is the height of gardening season in Denver, and it is one of the best times to have a look at what Denver Botanic Gardens has to offer.

read a balanced, fact-based article for a change. I learned a great deal and came to understand that there is much that is not known and understood by the public about this topic. Our biggest disadvantage

as a society is our difficulty of finding sufficient truth and fact so we can adequately put into perspective the voices we are hearing from both sides of the political spectrum. Mr. Williams’ article is

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The gardens just beyond the Denver Botanic Gardens’ walls are curated with the same amount of care as the ones inside the property.

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No ticket required to see the gardens outside our gates, anytime of day access to all, just beyond our walls.

Enjoy the journey.

Holly G. Haynes is the plant mapping coordinator for the Denver Botanic Gardens

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or the last 35 years I’ve been covering what we call the “salmon wars” in the Pacific Northwest, writing so many stories about salmon heading toward extinction that I’ve lost count.

The decline occurred year by year while we spent $18 billion on what’s politely called “mitigation.”

That meant building fish passages around dams without fish ladders or snatching fish from warming rivers and trucking them around dams before they died. Nothing has ever worked.

The truth is that some dams must be removed if salmon are to have a prayer of leaving the ocean and swimming up rivers to spawn.

Now, finally, there is a sign of hope for the fish even as Snake River salmon in the states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington remain close to extinction.

There’s hope because the Biden administration has been in settlement talks with legal plaintiffs the state of Oregon, the Nez Perce tribe, and sporting, fishing and environmental groups. They have sued the federal government five times over its failed attempts to save salmon under the Endangered Species Act, and each time the government has lost.

Meanwhile, spring chinook, sockeye and steelhead trended toward extinction in the Snake River watershed, which includes their best remaining habitat in the lower 48 states.

In 1997, my newspaper, the Idaho Statesman, wrote a series of editorials calling for breaching the four lower Snake dams in Washington to restore salmon abundance. The editorials urged paying for the impacts on dam removal on power supply, grain transportation and irrigation as a more effective and cheaper fix than continuing failed policies. The federal government chose to spend $18 billion on those failed policies.

But now, the Biden administration and others recognize that restoring our rivers is an issue of tribal justice as well as the only real solution.

For far too long, say biologists Rick Williams of Idaho and Jim Lichatowich of Oregon, we have treated salmon as an industrial commodity.

Our reliance on hatcheries while we continue to fragment and destroy habitat has been at the root of the

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fish’s struggles.

But if we remove the chief obstacles that block the fish from their cool, high elevationhabitat, the biologists say, these wild, adaptable fish will recover themselves.

“Because of our long reliance on substitute nature, Rocky Barker we’ve almost lost faith in salmon to reproduce itself in quality habitat,” Williams said.

It has taken decades, but much of the public has come to understand the folly of our industrial fixes for salmon. In the May Republican primary, U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson won reelection by a landslide after introducing a plan to breach the four dams to save salmon and make impacted communities whole. His losing opponent opposed breaching the dams.

More significant, Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who has long resisted any salmon recovery plan that included removing the four dams, joined with Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee in endorsing a study of how to replace the services provided by the dams.

The study showed that breaching the four dams was the most promising approach to salmon recovery, though it would require spending from $10.3 billion to $27.2 billion to replace the electricity from the dams’ hydropower, plus grain shipping and irrigation.

Murray is the most powerful Northwestern senator in Congress.

But she will need the rest of the Democratic delegation to join her if she is going to turn the tide.

Most of all, Washington Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell and Oregon Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio will need to join Murray, Simpson, Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer, and outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, if legislation is going to pass this year.

The resilience of the wild Snake salmon and the quality of the highelevation spawning habitat has led biologists to predict the fish will reverse the 40-year extinction trend if the four dams are removed. This might just be the year that rivers and salmon are set free, ending the

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Immersive art has found its place in Denver, bringing audiences through the screen and onto the stage

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eethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” is immersive, drawing the listener into a carefully crafted soundscape of strung-out emotions and mountains crashing. Salvador Dali’s “Melting Clocks” is immersive, transporting the viewer to a surreal world of heat and time amuck. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is immersive, throwing the reader into an age of bootlegging, jazz and prosperity before the Great Depression.

Any great work of art is immersive — what differentiates these classics from today’s definition of immersive art is a matter of purpose and choice. An audience chooses how they interact with the art, the art giving them the agency to act on that and what that art, this medium, can impress onto the audience because of it.

“We wanted to give [the audience]

agency, but also to create a contextualized experience so they aren’t just sitting in the dark half of a theater, but are part of the event, because they are moving their eyeballs and ear canals in the world,” said Patrick Mueller, Denver-native, and artistic director at Control Group Productions, a production company based out of Lakewood.

The company’s most recent project, “The End,” came to a close in Denver last month after bringing its audiences far from a darkened theater, forcing them to smell the refineries in Commerce City and walk around fallen bricks in an abandoned hideout, all on a Mad Maxesque bus touting other survivors in a post-apocalyptic climate change warning story.

The goal, according to Mueller, was to give “an experience of what it feels like at the precipice of a de-civilizing moment, something

falling apart in a serious way.” But to impress that weight on the audience, he said the immersion was “crucial.”

Audience becomes involved “It feels like people are looking at it in the face at this point, but they still aren’t figuring out how to change behavior,” he said. Really, he elaborated, the show allows people to be involved, to see themselves inside this crisis in a way that screen or theater cannot do, a way that forces people to look it in the face and “not having it be this virtuosity that is celebrated by distancing and elevating it onto the stage.”

But Mueller sees the style doing even more than that single project’s goal: “We can offer what people are most hungry for, if they actually think about it — a rich experience that they’re part of, a social interaction for people that may spend their

whole day working from home — being out in the world and experiencing it really differently.”

And for Zach Martens, co-founder of OddKnock, that is practically the goal of the production company’s work.

“Coming through the pandemic, everyone has been isolated and gotten very used to it, and gotten used to spending a lot of time in front of Netflix,” he said. “People are being trained to sit still and isolated, and those are the two things that I think will destroy humanity the fastest.”

OddKnock’s latest project (which also closed in Denver last month) was “From on High,” an absurd satire that brought the audience into an ‘80s office full of co-workers with an almost religious fervor for profits, and an obsessive work ethic.

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ART the co-workers become more and more unhinged.

But people are free to explore the office and interact with their “coworkers” and fellow audience members alike. As people are dragged left and right for different tasks, audience members have those close interactions with strangers and are pushed to involve themselves.

To Martens, it’s a “massive win for us, because then you go home and realize you really felt something. For that brief moment a complete stranger touched me, patted my hand and made me do something, and that just doesn’t happen anymore,” he said.

He added that people disengage with the world around them until they decide otherwise.

“And I think we’re saying, ‘Engage, engage, engage,’” he said.

The show itself gives people choices, he explained. To not be a cog in a machine like it may feel like in everyday life, even if the show is a stringent office setting.

“But by putting them in that position we’re saying, ‘Do you like this?

Do you feel this? This is what you do every single day of your life,’” Martens said. “We’re just saying, ‘Look, this is the world we’re living in, do you agree? Do you want this? If you don’t, make a choice about it.’”

These choices, this interaction, this is what the immersive art does, according to Martens. “That’s why we do what we do: You can’t smell or touch or taste anything that’s happening on a Netflix show.”

Body movement a major element In both shows, interpretive dance was a vessel of emotion, a push to the plot, and another way of pushing the audience through the screen and into the show. It makes the audience realize “all the things that our bodies can do in action, because we’re right there, we can see the hair follicles, and the sweat beads, and maybe even smell the person,” according to Mueller.

“I think as an immersive audience member, it reminds me of my own body’s capacities,” he continued, an ideal shared by Martens.

More than just reminding the audience of their body’s capabilities, though, there’s also the mind’s capabilities.

“We want to create spaces that allow people to see their creative potential and how much they are a creative being,” said Chadney Everett, senior creative director of Convergence Street at Denver’s Meow Wolf and lead designer of House of Eternal Return at Meow Wolf Santa Fe. “...not only being a creative being, but also how necessary they are to the environments they create.”

At Meow Wolf, artists create environments, Everett said. Worlds that “really allow you to feel like you’ve been transported to another place, and therefore free you to express yourself in a different way in that space.”

The immersion allows a “mar-

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A retro computer setup in Denver-based OddKnock productions’ “From on High.”

The logo of the fictional company “BANR” in Denver-based OddKnock productions’ “From on High.”

riage” of the audience and what they created, creating something new and better, he explained. Like a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it, the art — the environments — don’t “exist until the audience comes and interacts with it, and brings it to life with their unique perspective,” he said.

The start of Denver’s immersive art scene is before Meow Wolf, OddKnock and Control Group Productions came to town, according to Mueller.

“There was a really particular point in time that immersive had a big moment of entering public consciousness in Denver, and there were a lot of factors involved in that, but specifically, Charlie Miller’s Off-Center production of ‘Sweet and Lucky,’” he said.

“Sweet and Lucky,” in which Mueller was a cast member, premiered in 2016 by Third Rail Projects and was commissioned by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Off-Center program. Created by Zach Morris, “Sweet and Lucky” was an immersive theatrical piece described by Westword at the time as “designed to take you out of your everyday reality and deposit you in a shifting, dreamlike world where memories come and go and you occasionally find yourself doubting your own senses.”

“It’s had a big effect on the fact that Denver is now a fairly major hub for immersive art and performance,” Mueller continued.

This exiting of reality had been a running thread through these immersive pieces since.

“But I think a lot of the impulse that is driving the local scene is the fact that Coloradans are highly active people,” Mueller said. “They spend a lot of time outdoors, have a very socially focused recreational lifetime around breweries and distilleries and food and nightlife.”

With no deep tradition of live theater, according to Mueller, immersive is a way of bridging the gap between “that feeling of it’s for grandma, or snooty New Yorkers.” It brings the audience shoulder to shoulder with the performers, who rely on the audience’s reaction to propel a scene.

Meanwhile, a gallery may be the perfect setting for paintings, Everett explained.

“The white walls ask me to focus on that piece — taking away all other information around it is exactly right for that thing.”

Everett also is a writer, musician and painter, who says of those art forms: “They do all work, but in different ways. They each serve their own function.”

Really, immersive art should be used because it’s the best tool for the job, according to Mueller.

Even within immersive art, there is a difference in approaches and goals. But the main difference that Mueller sees between the types of projects is their purpose.

“I definitely find a different value in work that talks about the human condition in a way that addresses social ills and social justice,” he explained. “I’m interested in art that makes people do and be better in their world.”

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CinemaQ aims to unite, enlighten

here’s never been an entirely safe time to live life as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, but some historical moments are more difficult than others.

But no matter what the national mood is, its always important to celebrate the lives and loves of the community members.

That’s just what Denver Film’s annual CinemaQ Film Festival has been doing for the last 14 years and that commitment remains as strong as ever in its first in-person event since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“Though we were able to present some really great films virtually, there’s nothing like sharing the screen space with other people, experiencing the story at the same time and talking about it afterward.”

Clarke Reader The 14th annual CinemaQ Film Festival runs at the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., from Thursday, Aug. 11 through Sunday, Aug. 14. Both passes and individual tickets are available.

One of the most exciting about this year’s event is that for the first time, the festival will be presenting the inaugural CinemaQ — LaBahn Ikon Film Award to actor, writer and producer Colman Domingo (“Zola,” “Euphoria” and “Fear the Walking Dead”). The award is named after presenting sponsor William LaBahn.

“We’ve always been caught in a little box being a `small’ festival, but it doesn’t have to be that way,” Garcia explained. “We want to celebrate future icons in the queer community.”

Domingo will be on hand for the screening of “New Moon,” the animated short film which he wrote, produced and stars in. The screening will be held at 7:15 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, and will include a reception, career clips package tribute to Domingo and an in-depth conversation between the actor and arts writer Lisa Kennedy.

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The festival proper features 14 films, which run the gamut from comedies and dramas to documentaries and restored films. The event kicks off with “The Sixth Reel,” including a post-screening Q&A session with cowriters and directors Charles Busch and Carl Andress.

Other highlights include the documentary “Jeannette,” which tells the story of Pulse Nightclub shooting survivor Jeannette Feliciano, and “Loving Highsmith,” which examines the life of American novelist Patricia Highsmith and the challenges she faced leading a double life in the public eye.

“I hope the festival serves as a reminder that we all have more in common than differences,” Garcia said.

“For me, the roots of CinemaQ are the three v’s’ — queer vision, queer voices and queer visibility. When you put all three together, you get stories that are as much for the recognition and identification of the community as they are opportunities for exploration for the non-queer audience.”

Get the full schedule and tickets at www.denverfilm.org.

Spend an evening at the park with the LSO The Lakewood Symphony Orchestra is celebrating the wonders of summer with its second annual “Pops in the Park,” concert, which will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, at Belmar Heritage Park, 801 S. Yarrow St. in Lakewood.

Much like last year’s successful event, the concert will feature a variety of pop, movie, classical and patri-

otic music. Em’s Ice Cream truck will be onsite for the purchase of delicious ice cream treats, and the combination of a perfect outdoor setting, delicious food and top-notch music makes this the quintessential summer activity.

Secure tickets for this great show by calling 303-987-7845 or visit www. lakewoodsymphony.org.

Japanese restaurant in RiNo Metro-area residents looking for the latest in delicious dining won’t want to miss the Japanese sandwich popup Sandoitchi, which will be setting up shop at RiNo’s Zeppelin Station, 3501 Wazee St., through Aug. 27.

Founded in 2020 by chef Stevie Nguyen, previously with Momofuku Ko, Morimoto and Uchi, Sandoitchi has opened a string of pop-ups over the past year in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Orleans, according to provided information. During its run, diners can sample the Egg Salad, Hot Truffle Chicken Katsu and Fruit + Cream Sando, among many others.

Pre-orders can be placed at www. sandoitchi.menu, so don’t miss this chance.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — The Decemberists at Mission Ballroom The Decemberists are one of the more interesting success stories in indie rock. You don’t often expect a successful group to be one that creates epic ballads on historical events and deep dives into ancient folklore.

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Jackson Zinn grew up golfing, working and coaching at Hyland Hills Golf Course, always looking for young players to mentor and finding ways to help out. Zinn was tragically killed in a car crash last March, but his parents, Greg and Jen, have worked to ensure his legacy will live on.

The 1st Annual Jackson Zinn Memorial Golf Tournament was held Aug. 7 at Hyland Hills and raised over $40,000 for a scholarship fund the Zinns have set up to benefit aspiring golfers and student-athletes.

Jackson Zinn was a prolific golfer, rising through the ranks and eventually leading the Ralston Valley High School Mustangs to a state championship and earning a scholarship to the University of the Southwest. But Greg said Jackson was always keeping an eye out for those less fortunate than himself. “(Jackson) grew up at Hyland Hills,” Greg said. “We have a tight relationship with the people over there.

Friends and family members stand for a group photo at the tournament.

PHOTO BY KASSIE ELMORE; COURTESY OF BEEN FRAMED PHOTOGRAPHY

We used to drop him off when he was just a kid. It was a great place for him to go. We’d drop him off with $20 — ‘Here’s your lunch money, we’ll pick you up after work’ — and he’d spend the day golfing and practicing and helping out with the youth program.

“He would come home after the youth program and be like, ‘You know there’s this kid that can’t afford it, can we help him out?’” Greg continued. “He kind of just had a heart for kids who maybe couldn’t play, couldn’t afford it.”

Jen said that she and Greg thought of the idea for a scholarship fund because they wanted to do something to honor Jackson’s legacy.

“I think Greg and I immediately, mutually decided we wanted to do something positive with Jackson’s passing,” Jen said. “He was just a tremendous kid. Golf really was a vehicle that helped shape his character and humbled him and brought out the best in him. We just wanted to do something with that.”

The scholarship will be handed out

by a committee that will vet applications from student athletes who are hoping to continue their pursuits either in college or on the professional golf circuit, Jen said. Applications are open to anyone, but Jen said she and Greg would like to support kids in the Ralston Valley community, if possible.

“Golf is not cheap,” Jen said. “And Jackson did get a scholarship to play college golf, but it didn’t cover everything. And so, we want to try and reach the kids that dedicated their life to sports and maybe not academics and they can’t compete with a 4.5 (GPA) but yet they did all their sports.

We’re going to have a scholarship committee that selects (recipients).

“A lot of it is on merit and character, their interview and application process, but we want to be able to cushion the expense of golf because we believe so much in the sport and to us, it’s so much more than a sport,” Jen said. “So, we want to be able to help students be able to get to college or be able to play the game in youth sports and then there’s some kids that are trying to get to the PGA that we’re trying to support.”

The 1st Annual Jackson Zinn Memorial Golf Tournament sold out, according to Greg and Jen. Next year’s event is already in the works and will be hosted at Hyland Hills. Donation to the Jackson Zinn Memorial Fund can be made at jacksonzinnmemorial.com.

Broncos sign former Pomona High School star running back Max Borghi Borghi, vital in Panther’s 2017 state title run, brought in to replace injured Crockett

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The Denver Broncos signed an Arvada prep sports legend on Aug. 3, as former Pomona High School running back Max Borghi was brought in after completing a slate of tryouts with the team.

Borghi — who spent four years at Washington State after graduating from Pomona in 2017 — went undrafted earlier this year and had previously attended a minicamp tryout with the Broncos in

June and another tryout on Aug. 3. Borghi was signed by the Indianapolis Colts earlier this summer but was released five days after signing.

An instrumental piece of Pomona’s 2017 5A State Championship team, Borghi ran for over 3,500 yards and 50 touchdowns during his career as a Panther.

The Broncos found themselves down a running back after Damarea Crockett suffered a seasonending ACL injury on Aug. 2.

Nevertheless, Borghi likely has an uphill climb to make the 53-man roster, as five other running backs are currently on the Broncos offseason roster.

The Broncos have found success with locally-raised running backs before, as South High School graduate Phillip Lindsay — now with the Colts — made the Pro Bowl in 2018.

Former Pomona High School running back Max Borghi has been signed with the DenFILE PHOTO ver Broncos.

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Members of the running club hosted by Westbound & Down and the CCMRD, including PHOTO BY ANDREW FRAIELI Tristen Schmidt and Meghan Potter from right.

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Free beer is strong enough of a carrot to run a 5k in Idaho Springs.

A running club hosted by Westbound & Down partnering with the CCMRD supplies a free beer and appetizer after a 5,000 meter run around town every Thursday.

“I hate running. Seriously, if it wasn’t for the beer from Westbound I probably wouldn’t be here,” said Tristen Schmidt, who’s been running with the club for two months.

He also only recently moved to Idaho Springs from Westridge.

“I was looking for a way to get closer to the community (and) meet people, and this has been a great

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way to do that,” he said.

The group meets at 6:30 p.m. behind Westbound & Down, and have been since the end of May this year, according to Director of Programs and Communication at CCMRD Samantha Dhyne. She said there used to be a previous running club

by Westbound & Down, but it had ended. Dhyne went to the brewery this year to try and revive it.

With about ten to 15 runners showing up every week, some from as far as St. Mary’s Glacier, Dhyne considers it a success.

“I mean it’s a great carrot,” said Meghan Potter, who also only recently moved to Idaho Springs.

She’s been running for two years though, competing in the recent World Championship Pack Burro Race.

Beer is certainly a motivator, continued Schmidt, “and it’s nice to find that sense of sociability and community that isn’t necessarily through my job.”

“Arise from the Bunkers” tours, the group will be stopping at Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St. in Denver, at 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 12. They’ll be joined by Jake Xerxes Fussell, making this a night of alternative folk you won’t soon forget.

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Evergreen Town Race Runners raced 5ks and 10ks on Aug. 7 down Upper Bear Creek Road

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The Evergreen Town Race was a dash downhill on the morning of Aug. 7, with racers screaming in

5K racers take off from the starting line and begin their downhill run.

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The Alpine Rescue Team thanks Kelly Brown, whom it rescued in September, for coordinating the race.

Racer Eryn Callihan wins the 5k for the women, with a time of 17:39.

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The race saw a great turnout, with participation from babies, dogs and runners of all ages.

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After running, the racers enjoyed snacks and beer from vendors, live music and emcee entertainment from the Alpine Rescue Team.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals City and County 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.

R22-052, A Resolution Accepting an Annexation Petition, Concerning 12016 West 82nd Avenue, Finding Said Petition Substantially Compliant With C.R.S. 31-12-107(1), and Setting a Public Hearing for September 12, 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.

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Metropolitan Districts Public Notice CALL FOR NOMINATIONS §§ 1-13.5-501; 1-13.5-303, C.R.S. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the eligible electors of the Scenic Heights Metropolitan District, City of Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado (the “District”).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on November 8, 2022, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve until May 2023 and three (3) directors will be elected to serve until May 2025. Eligible electors of the District interested

in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form from the Designated Election Official (“DEO”), located at 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than the close of business on November 1, 2022. You may contact the DEO’s office at (303) 858-1800.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Friday, September 2, 2022. If the DEO determines a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is not sufficient, the form may be amended prior to 5:00 p.m. on September 2, 2022. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing of an insufficient form after this date and time. An Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the office of the DEO by the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Monday, September 6, 2022.

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