Around 160 cars ranging from a 1969 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to a 1933 Ford were on display on Aug. 7 at Stenger Sports Complex for a good cause — the annual Arvada Firefighters Car Fest. This year’s car fest brought in an estimated $6,000 for Friends of Arvada Fire, a nonprofit that supports the Arvada Fire Protection District.
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Vice President of the Arvada Fire Board of Directors Bob Loveridge said he was happy with how the event went and has been progressing over the years.
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An Arvada man was taken into custody July 26 on charges that he stalked, harassed and attempted to influence Arvada Municipal Court Judge Kathryn Kurtz over an eight-month period. Clayton Scott Smith, 30, was charged with four felonies and three misdemeanors: Retaliation Against a Judge, Attempt to Influence a Public Servant, Stalking, Harassment, two counts of Carrying a Concealed Weapon and Obstructing a Peace Officer. A status hearing was held Aug. 2 and a preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 23, with First Judicial District Court Judge Mark Marrow Randall presiding. Court records state that Kurtz was assigned a case that Smith was involved in, and Smith threatened Kurtz through violence or bribery in an effort to influence Kurtz’s decision. According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Smith’s last arrest was in 2016, when he was charged with failing to appear in court for a smoking violation.Smith was charged with harassing and stalking Kurtz and a number of people with whom Kurtz is associated. He was charged with Obstructing a Peace Officer during his July 26 arrest. The responding officer was Arvada Police Officer Sterling Boom. Arvada Police Department Public Information Officer Dave Snelling credited Smith’s alleged ongoing harassment of Kurtz to changing Jefferson County Jail policies on holding inmates in the wake of COVID-19.“Duetothe last couple of years of inability to jail people, some think they can act with complete impunity,” Snelling said. Snelling added that Kurtz and the rest of the municipal court staff are “secure.” “We’ve taken a lot of measures to secure the municipal court and the court staff, including full-time contracted security,” Snelling said. Kurtz could not be reached for comment.
Dennis Giullan won the People’s Choice award for his purple 1933 Ford Street Rod while Sheridan Graham won the Classic category for his black 1950 Pontiac Chieftain.
A family gathering at the Arvada Firefighters Car Fest. PHOTOS COURTESY OF ARVADA FIRE One of the classic cars at the Arvada Firefighters Car Fest.
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On city streets where no painted lines separate the moving lane from parked cars, Autopilot often brakes for a parked car, mistaking it for a stopped car. Among many other issues, a selfdriving car will never cross a yellow line to safely pass a bicycle on a narrow lane.
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Here are some ways I’ve been able to quantify what we are all seeing, namely the slowing of our local real estate market. Looking, for starters, at the median days that a listing is active before going under contract, the currently active (i.e., unsold) listings in Jeffco have a median days on MLS (DOM) of 23 days. However, the currently pending listings in Jeffco has a median DOM of 13, and the listings that closed in the last 30 days have a median DOM of 7 The listings that closed in the prior 30 days had a median DOM of just 5, which is what it has been, more or less, through the past couple years. So the market is definitely slowing, and slowing rather abruptly. The number of active listings — sometimes referred to as “inventory” — has surged as homes sit on the market longer. As I write this on Sunday evening there are 1,196 active Jeffco listings on REcolorado, the Denver MLS. That’s down from the peak of 1,549 at the end of July, but you have to go back to October 2019 to find a higher number of active listings than that number in Jefferson County, as shown in the chart in the third column above. In prior years, you’d see the number of active listings increase by 50%, more or less, from January to July, but look at this year’s more than triple surge from January to July in that chart. The chart of pending listings is also instructive. Notice that in most months during 2021 and 2022, the number pending listings was almost always higher than the number of active listings, but that changed in June and July, when the numbers dropped dramatically. You’d expect, in a normal market, with a lot more listings to choose from, that more listings would go under contract, but the reverse was true. As the number of listings surged in June and July, the number of listings going under contract went down substantially. That, too, reflects an abrupt slowing of Jeffco’s real estate market. As an aside, notice the effect of the pandemic on the April 2020 number of pending listings. April was the first full month of the pandemic, and the number of listings going under contract plummeted at a time of year when they would normally surge. Notice, however, the quick recovery in the following months. It has been surmised that Covid soon caused a surge in sales as people began to work at home and saw 1) the need for more home office space and 2) the opportunity to move further from their place of work since they were no longer commuting.Whatpuzzles many market observers, including this writer, is the limited extent to which the median sold price of homes has fallen as the market has slowed. Here in Jeffco, the median sold price broke $600,000 in February and peaked at $650,000 in June, but it only fell to $625,000 in July and that’s where it’s at for the first half of August. Also, the ratio of sold price to listing price has settled back to 100% from it previous high of 108%. Jim Broker/Owner,Smith303-525-1851Jim@GoldenRealEstate.com
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When will Elon Musk and others stop talking about “full self-driving,” meaning no driver in the driver’s seat? I write from the perspective of having used Tesla’s Autopilot features myself for several years. It will never happen because the public won’t accept the following: Speed bumps, potholes, critters you don’t want to hit, or simply rough pavement will never be recognized and avoided. The car is guided by the painted lines. Full self-driving, like Autopilot, utilizes GPS data about speed limits, which is often out-of-date and doesn’t reflect temporary reductions such as construction and school zones. (On I-70’s central project, for example, there are still places where my Tesla wants to slow down to 45, 35, or even 25 mph in places.)
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The Arvada Fire Protection District was quick to respond to a brush fire within 100 feet of homes off Highway 72 near Leyden on Aug. 10, containing the blaze and avoiding a potential catastrophe within an hour of the fire being reported. The fire was reported shortly after 2 p.m. Once crews arrived on the scene, they confirmed that the fire was burning in multiple locations, creating five different spot fires in total. Due to the unpredictable nature of brush fires, different fire departments — including Fairmount, Mountain View, Coal Creek and West Metro — provided mutual aid and brush trucks to put out the blaze, according to AFPD Digital Marketing and Communications Specialist BradyArvadaJohnson.Police responded to the fire as well, conducting door-todoor evacuations for the nearby Leyden Rock houses. The evacuations were lifted within an hour. Investigators were on the scene throughout Aug. 10 to determine cause. The investigation is still pending.Johnson said that the fire provided an important lesson about the importance of fire mitigation.“Since the fire was within 100 feet of homes, it’s just a good example of the need for fire mitigation for people who live in the WUI — Wildland Urban Interface,” Johnson said. “Homes that live next to open space and grasses — essentially fuels that could burn during wildfires — the threat of wildfires is always real; homeowners have to take steps to mitigate fire risks around their properties.”
Arvada Rotary Club’s aim is to support community endeavors such as Hope House. Arvada Rotary President Jim Gracey presented Steven with a check of $5,000 from the Arvada Rotary Club Foundation to help Hope House to continue to help teen moms in need.
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After a months-long search, Arvada has found its next city manager — and she’s been here all along. Lorie Gillis, Arvada’s deputy city manager since 2014, will take over from outgoing City Manager Marc Deven on Sept. 26, about a month after Deven retires on Oct. 7. Gillis was one of two fi nalists for the position, the other being Casper, Wyoming City Manager James “Carter” Napier. Gillis was chosen for the role at a city council executive session on Aug. 8, where she received unanimous support from council, according to Arvada Mayor Marc Williams. The selection was announced on Aug.Gillis9. is the fi rst female city manager in Arvada’s history. Prior joining the city team, she worked for the Jefferson County Public School District as the district’s chief fi nancial offi cer from 2004 to 2014 and the executive director of budget management and development from 2002 to 2004. Prior to her tenure at JeffCo Public Schools, Gillis worked in fi nance and administration for the City of Golden. She completed her Bachelor’s degreee and subsequent Master’s at Colorado State University and was awarded a certifi cate from Harvard University after that. “I am honored to have the opportunity to be appointed Arvada City Manager,” Gillis said. “I look forward to leading the incredible City team, engaging with residents and serving the Arvada community.”Williamssaid he felt that Deven — who announced his retirement on Feb. 15 after 11 years with the city — had adequately primed Gillis to take on the role. “I think Mark Deven did a great job of positioning Lori to be able to take on this challenge,” Williams said. “He’s put her up to some of the most diffi cult tasks for the city in terms of transit hub, single hauler trash service, Arvada Center transition to nonfi t and she really excelled at each of them, she really passed with fl yingWilliamscolors.”added that he felt that Lori would be able to acclimate to the role more quickly than an outsider would have. “From my perspective, she’s able to hit the ground running much more quickly,” Williams said. “She doesn’t have the learning curve that an outside candidate would have. Sometimes you get fresh eyes with an outside candidate, we didn’t think we needed those fresh eyes at this time.”
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BY MARK JAFFE COLORADO comes to causing by researchers at the National Renewable Energy LaboraGolden found that on avermore than half of the energy residential air conditioning around the globe deals with the moisture hanging in the air on a hot day.And the projections are that it will become an even bigger challenge as a result of climate change leading to more hot days with warmer air capable of holding more moisture. The AC is already working hard. In July, a massive heat dome led to heat warnings for more than 100 million people from Portland, Oregon, which saw an unprecedented seven consecutive days above 95 degrees, to Oklahoma City, where it hit 110 Denverdegrees.recorded its second warmest July on record with 16 days at 96 degrees or better, including three days at 100 degrees. On Aug. 3, another heat dome put more than 100 million people under heat warnings and advisories — from Minneapolis to North Texas. That’s a lot of air conditioning. The humidity factor does vary from region to region. “Removal of the latent load of moisture will become a bigger issue, though not here in Colorado,” said Iain Campbell, a senior fellow at RMI, an energy think tank. “We live in a desert. If you are in Florida or the tropics, you are out of luck.” There has been a clear downward trend in humidity since 1980 in the Upper Colorado and Rio Grande basins, including all of western Colorado and the San Luis Valley, Russ Schumacher, the Colorado state climatologist, said in an email. “On the Front Range and Eastern Plains, it’s not as clear whether there are meaningful trends,” Schumacher said. “Overall, considering that Colorado is far from an ocean, we won’t see the increases in humidity that are expected (and in some places already happening) in coastal areas as the climate continues to warm.”
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It was humidity, ironically, not heat that began the march to the window air conditioner, when a 25-year-old engineer named Willis Haviland Carrier experimented in 1902 with humidity controls for a Brooklyn printing plant bedeviled by swelling pages and blurry prints inBysummer.1933,Carrier had founded the Carrier Air Conditioning Company of America making a unit with technology that became the model for the industry. It wasn’t until the 1950s that residential air conditioning started to grow in the U.S. Still, in 1952 only 2% of homes had AC and it re mained exotic enough to play a role in the 1955 movie “The Seven Year Itch.”“You have air conditioning! How does it work?” a hot Marilyn Mon roe (the story takes place in the sum mer) breathily asked her lecherous downstairs neighbor as she stands in front of the unit lifting her blouse to bare her midriff. “The way I feel about air condi tioning,” the neighbor, played by Tom Ewell, explains, “no matter how much it costs, if there is no bread in the house, if you have to sell the kid’s bonds, in the summer time in New York City you’ve got to have air conditioning.”
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The rest of the emissions come from refrigerants leaking from units and the releases associated with the manufacture and transport of those units.The NREL modeling projects that greenhouse gas emissions for temperature and humidity loads will grow five times larger by 2050 as there are more and more air condi tioners — particularly in the hottest and most humid places, such as India, Indonesia, China and South eastRMIAsia.estimates that providing electricity to the 4.5 billion air con ditioners running in 2050, will take 2,000 gigawatts of new electric gen erating capacity — equal to nearly 2,700 of Colorado’s largest power plant, Comanche 3. “This is why we need new and better technology,” RMI’s Campbell said.The federal government sets and periodically increases the minimum energy performance standards for air conditioners, but these do not drive“Theinnovation.minimum energy perfor mance standards now are equal to the best available technology 40 or 50 years ago,” Campbell said. There are versions of the current AC technology that are two times more efficient than what is being sold at the local big box store, but they are more expensive. One problem is the emphasis on the unit’s upfront price tag rather than its lifetime cost, Campbell said. “Does it help consumers to give them a really cheap piece of equip ment that is expensive to run?” he asked. “We’d have to call this a marketBetterfailure.”ACtechnology a better solution than a new electric grid If all the air conditioners in Texas were today’s most efficient units it would have cut the July spike in demand in half and likely avoided any emergency measures or threats of“Thisblackout.would also be a much cheaper solution than increasing grid capacity in order to serve an ever-growing base of inefficient air conditioners,” Campbell said. Another problem is the fact that the industry is heavily concentrated with fewer than 500 manufacturers worldwide, creating a high bar to entry, according to RMI. In an effort to jump-start tech nological innovation, RMI and the Indian government offered a Global Cooling Prize with $3 million in prizeTwomoney.oftheworld’s top air condi tioning manufacturers — Japan’s Daikin Global and China’s Gree Electric — won with prototypes that improved upon existing technology by adding a second cooling or evapo rative coil to deal with humidity, Campbell said. The second coil and a more finely tuned motor made these prototypes seven times more efficient remov ing humidity and four times more energy efficient, Campbell said. Still, they were in essence oldschool Carrier technology. Mean while around the country, in na tional labs, universities and startup companies, researchers are working on the next generation of air condi tioners.Using electrostatic charges, mem branes and desiccants, which soak up moisture, researchers are trying to develop ways of getting humidity out of the air before cooling — some have received federal funding. “We aren’t picking a winner. The DOE has funded a lot of technolo gies with the aim of delivering com fort that is affordable,”Bouza said. At NREL, Kozubal has been working on twinning cooling with desiccants, which come as solids andUsingliquids.alithium chloride solution — 10 times saltier than the sea with a strong affinity to absorb water— an NREL team, led by Kozubal, and a start-up company 7AC developed a dehumidifying technology that was ultimately acquired by Emerson,
A still from the 1955 movie “The Seven Year Itch” By 2020, more than 88% of the households in the U.S. had air con ditioning and in the next 30 years it will be the fastest-growing energy use in buildings, according to the U.S. Energy Information Adminis tration.Almost all air conditioners deal with humidity by cooling to the dew point, when the moisture in the air drops out as water. This is cooler than need be for comfort and when the water is rung out of the air it releases additional heat with which the air conditioner must cope. To do the extra work an AC system needs an extra 20% to 30% of capac ity, said Eric Kozubal, an NREL researcher developing new cooling technologies and a co-author of the study on AC energy use.
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Current air conditioning technol ogy is reasonably effective at remov ing moisture — albeit with some extra energy — up to 60% relative humidity. After that, it’s all heavy lifting.“Inthe future there will be places where it will be too hot and too humid to be outdoors,” said Jason Wood, a senior research engineer at NREL, and co-author of the study on air conditioning and humidity. Still even without humidity, in bone-dry Texas the demand for cool ing electricity was so high during the July heat wave that the state’s electric grid operator initiated emergency measures to avoid roll ingTexas’blackouts.experience is one reason Colorado Public Utilities Commis sion Chairman Eric Blank asked Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electricity provider, to do some “worst-case scenario” planning for a heatThewave.realquestion is: Why, when it is clear that humidity has been a problem hardly anyone has done anything about it, as almost all air conditioners today are using 100-year-old vapor compression technology?Today’sAC is based on turn of the 20th century tech To be sure, vast improvements have been made in that technology and today’s units are to the first air conditioners what the BMW 4.4-liter Turbocharged V8 is to the Model-T Ford’s engine. Still, both the BMW and the Model T have internal combustion engines. Now electric vehicles are poised to send the gasoline-powered car the way of the horse-drawn buggy, and LED lights are banishing Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulbs. Meanwhile, ever-improving solar panels are decking rooftops and Tesla Powerwalls are being installed to store electricity at home, but the air conditioner is chugging along on the technology invented in Brook lyn, N.Y., at the turn of the 20th century.“Thepace of evolution of the AC industry is alarmingly slow even considering the best available technology,” a report by the RMI concluded.Thismay not be the state of af fairs for much longer as research ers, including those at NREL, and companies are searching for new AC technologies that in a two-step process remove moisture and then cool the air. “They are in a very early stage of development,” said Antonio Bouza, a technology manager at the U.S. Department of Energy. “Just as the internal combustion engine is being displaced by EVs, that’s what we want to do with these technologies.”
The NREL analysis divided the globe into 60-mile-by-60-mile boxes and within each box added popula tion, a measure of economic activ ity, air conditioning ownership and weather.Airconditioning accounts for 4% of the world’s annual greenhouse gasTheemissionsstudyalso took into account how much the electric grid depend ed upon fossil fuels, since the goal was to estimate through computer modeling greenhouse gas emissions from air conditioning. The researchers calculated that almost 4% of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions — 1,950 million tons — come from air condi tioning. The bulk of that, 1,190 mil lion tons, were linked to standard air conditioning work cooling and dehumidifying, with the latter ac counting for 52% of the emissions.
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W ouldn’t it be nice if this was the end of Tina Peters trying to undermine confidence in elections? After breaking election laws as Mesa County Clerk, making false statements about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, running for Secretary of State and losing the GOP primary by more than 88,000 votes and violating two court orders related to bond conditions, she requested (and paid over a quarter million dollars) for a recount that had no chance of herimprovingposition.Andthrough it all, she worked to allybeensysteminvoterundermineconfidenceanelectoralthathascontinu-provento conduct fair and transparent elections in Colorado. This most recent stunt is particularly egregious as she had to know the recount would not change anything and that would lead to nothing but more unsubstantiated claims that we shouldn’t have confidence in elections. The recount left the margin between former Jeffco Clerk Pam Anderson, the Republican nominee, and Peters of 88,579 votes.
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• Letters should be exclusively submitted to Colorado Community Media and should not be submit ted to other outlets or previously posted on websites or social media. Submitted letters become the property of CCM and should not be republished elsewhere. The only difference discovered by the recount was 37 uncount ed votes from Elbert County in which both Anderson and Peters received an equal num ber of Whilevotes.theelection conspiracy crowd likes to suggest that ma chine counting of ballots has resulted in elections that are easily manipulated and subject to mistakes, the facts prove otherwise.AsAmerican elections have transitioned to tabulating votes mechanically, both the academ ic research and the work of election officials of all politi cal philosophies have proven that current processes of tallying votes with machines is as close to flawless as can be reasonably expected. Along those lines, when recounts are conducted, it is very rare that results change by more than very few votes. Comparing recent recounts with recounts from the era of when votes were counted by hand shows there was a much greater like lihood of significant changes when votes were counted by hand. It’s been proven that it is much more likely that er rors occur when people do the counts and can be distracted or make mistakes as they became tired completing their tasks. Against this backdrop, it may be time for the legislature to look at laws concerning recounts. Under current law, there is an automatic recount if the margin of victory is less than or equal to 0.5% of the margin between the top two candidates. In those cases, the cost of the recount is covered by taxpayers. If the margin is larger than 0.5%, a losing can didate may request a recount, but must pay for it. As recent recounts have proven that there is little chance a recount will change the initial results, the combination of the small likelihood of success and the cost to pay for a recount result ed in fewer candidate funded recounts.Peters’recount effort had no chance to change the results of her primary loss and did noth ing but continue a circus act that had no purpose but to try to undermine voter confidence. Automatic recounts for very close elections make sense, but the legislature should consider limiting candidate funded recounts to a margin of victory of 3 or 5%.
Edith Reid, is survived by one son, DeWayne Owens (Deborah), Grandchildren: Lori Rowland, Bob Feuerbacher, Nikki Fulton (Rob) Je rey Owens (Katrina) Trina Floyd (John) Vanessa (Shawn); great grandchildren: Kimiko, Amtheyst Floyd, Swade, Savanah Greenemeier; Nicolas, MaKenna Owens. Her surviving nieces and nephews are Helen June Reed, Norma Jean Nash, Jess Dean Reed, and Howard Wayne Reed. She is preceded in death by two daughters: Darlene York, Debbie Trujillo, a nephew, Grover Grimes. She loved her family (and her cowboy boots) and made friends wherever she went. She will be truly missed. Edith Bernita (Owens) Reid August 6, 1930 - August 9, 2022 Sat 7:30, 9:00, 11:30am, 5:30pm following week’s newspaper.
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They’re going back to school, too — but this time, they’ll be on the other side of the desk. First-year teachers and their colleagues across the Denver metro area are kicking off the 2022-23 school year this month. For the past two and a half years, teachers have been on the front lines as classrooms went virtual and returned with masks. They have fought for more recognition and better pay. Some first-year teachers have experienced some of these challenges as substitutes or student teachers, but it hasn’t deterred them from pursuing the profession.“You hear all these negative things that people on the outside say about teaching, but being on the inside … seeing all the students grow and making those connections is worth it,” said Laura Hirn of Jefferson County’s Fairmount Elementary. While the “hows” differ for each first-year teacher, the “whys” are virtually the same: “I want to be the teacher I never had,” said Jennah Lacy of Prairie View High School in Adams County. Hirn felt similarly, remarking how “everyone remembers a teacher who made a positive impact” on their lives. She said she wanted to be that teacher for others.Peter Ferrante, of Overland Trail Middle School in Adams County, described how he pursued other careers before becoming a teacher. In these other jobs, he always “really enjoyed helping others find what they’re passionate about.” So, Ferrante became a teacher to do exactly that, but full-time.Likewise, Chelsea Vandurme of Carlson Elementary School in Idaho Springs worked in the mortgage industry, as a coach, and —most recently — as a stayat-home mom. She also served as a substitute for the nearby elementary schools before getting her certificate to teach preschool this May. “I love working with kids,” she said. “I love … being a part of the community and being the foundation of the school.” Learning the basics Being a coach is all about building on a student’s preexisting skillset, but being a preschool teacher is all about instilling the very basics, VandurmeAlongexplained.withcolors, shapes, BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Peter Ferrante joins Brighton’s Overland Trail Middle School as an eighth-grade language and literature teacher. Ferrante was a teacher resident at Overland Trail last spring, and decided to return because of the faculty’s teamwork-first culture and the student community.
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While Ferrante recognized that not every student will love reading and writing like he does, he wanted to emphasize analytical skills and learning how to inform oneself and argue a position.
Chelsea Vandurme is a first-year preschool teacher at Carlson Elementary in Idaho Springs. Vandurme served as a substitute teacher and coach at Carlson Elementary and around Clear Creek County, which she said proved good experience for getting to know the students, the school and the community.
The Aurora resident decided to return to Overland Trail because of the camaraderie among the staff and the great student population, saying, “It made me sure I wanted to stay here.”Asfor why he opted for middle school, Ferrante said it’s a time when teachers can bolster students’ confidence and skills before they go to high“Middleschool.school is a special time,” he said. “There’s so much positive change you can have.”Coincidentally, Lacy felt the same way about high school. She felt like the age group was a fun one to teach, saying she wanted to prepare them for life after high school. Lacy teaches integrated mathematics at Prairie View High School, which is near Commerce City. Like Ferrante, she understood not every student will enjoy math. But, she wanted to instill problemsolving skills and a passion for learning, so her students always remember the lessons behind the math. Lacy, who’s from Parker but now lives in Denver’s Central Park neighborhood, went through the CU Teach program through the University of Colorado-Boulder. She majored in math with a minor inWhileeducation.traveling in Florida, she did a Zoom interview with Prairie View. Even through the computer screen, Lacy felt welcomed and that the school was “a great community to be a part of,” she described. As a first-year teacher, Lacy recognized there will be challenges to navigate this year and beyond. But, in those times, she planned to reflect on why she’s there. “We’re preparing the next generation … (and) it takes a certain kind of person to do that,” she said. “It takes a lot of hard work and patience. But it’s important to have that passion to want to be here. Because the kids can feel that.”
Laura Hirn, a music teacher at Je erson County’s Fairmount Elementary, hopes to instill her students with a love of singing and music. Hirn will be teaching 450-500 students total, with class rotating through her music room every three weeks.
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Films that are participating this year include “Imperfect,” which centers on Denver’s Phamaly Theatre Company’s production of the classic musical “Chicago,” and “Only I Can Hear,” a documentary about children of deaf adults in the Midwest. Like at any film festival, many of the screenings will host screenings with people involved in the filmmaking process.“Ihope everybody who attends sees the festival as an opportunity to build community,” Gragg said.
“The goal is to provide a space where films by, about and for people with disabilities can be shown,” explained Jenna Gragg, festival coordinator at the JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center. “Beyond that, we want to provide a space for people who want to be advocates for the disabled community.”
Have a rugby weekend at Infinity Park Rugby is not a sport many people get to see played well, but those interested in the sport will have a great opportunity at the 10th Annual RugbyTown Sevens Tournament, running from Friday, Aug. 19 through Sunday, Aug. 21. The event will be held at Infinity Park, 950 S. Birch St. in Glendale. In addition to watching 20 rugby teams play, attendees can play at the free arcade, sample some delicious food trucks and more. According to provided information, participating teams will come from Germany, South Africa, Israel, United Kingdom, Barbados and five US military branches. All will be playing 15-minute games with two seven-minute halves, with the goal of winning $10,000.Getall the pertinents at https:// rugbytown7s.com/. Summer Scream returns to Lakeside I’d be hard pressed to think of a better venue in the entire state of Colorado to spend a summer evening than Lakeside Amusement Park
Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Kendrick Lamar at Ball Arena Kendrick Lamar is one of those artists we just don’t get enough of. It took five years between his PulitzerPrize winning album, “DAMN.” and his long-awaited return back in May with “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers,” and that’s simply too long. But now that he’s back, he’s provided a work deep and rich enough to spend months parsing through. After such a long absence, Lamar is taking his stellar catalogue on the road with The Big Steppers Tour, which is stopping at Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Circle in Denver, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23. He’ll be joined by Baby Keem and Tanna Leone. I saw Lamar on his last tour and man alive, does he deliver. Get tickets at www.ticketmaster. com. Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.
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Some of the features specifically implemented for the festival include open captions and audio descriptions for the films, ASL interpretation for all in-person spoken content (with auto-captioning available for livestreamed content) and a sliding scale for ticket prices.
. Which makes Denver Film’s decision to host the Summer Scream fundraiser at the park absolutely genius. And now, after a two-year hiatus, Summer Scream is back on at Lakeside, 4601 Sheridan Blvd. in Denver, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25. The event will feature open bars, unlimited rides, live music by DJ Bella Scratch and an immersive experience through the history of Lakeside.Moreinformation and tickets can be found at tive.org/schedule.https://denverfilm.even-
When considering accessibility, the first things that might come to mind center on physical accessibility — but as the second annual ReelAbilities Film Festival Denver proves, it can also include creative and communal accessibility.
And besaid.welcome,”canasueswithingfortable.attendeestohaveorganizersworkedhardensurethatallarecom-“We’reawelcom-placeforpeoplemobilityis-andwanttobeplacewhereanycomeandfeelGragg“Nobodywilljudgedforwho they are — they’re just encouraged to come and watch a film.”
The second annual Colorado-based ReelAbilities Film Festival offers two options for potential audiences: in-person in Denver and Boulder, from Wednesday, Aug. 24 through Sunday, Aug. 28, and virtually, from Aug. 24 through Wednesday, Aug. 31. The in-person screenings will be at the JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St. in Denver and the Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave. inOpeningBoulder.night at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center will be held at 6 p.m. on the 24th at 6 p.m. with a free reception and community resource fair before the screening of the film, “TheTheSpecials.”festivalincludes nine films showing in-person and 13 films that can be accessed virtually, along with supplemental programming and question-and-answer sessions, according to provided information.
“There are some truly wonderful films that will provide the chance for people with disabilities to share their stories and those who don’t have disabilities to open their eyes to this world. We’re really excited to see the festival grow and hope community members help us grow it.” For more information and tickets, visit jccdenver.org/reelabilities.
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Evergreen’s Tyler Long goes low in Je co League tournament opener
Evergreen sophomore Tyler Long, middle, watches his drive during his 4-under-par, 67 during the opening Je co League tournament Aug. 10 at Applewood Golf Course. Long is the defending Class 4A Je co individual medalist champion and hopes to help the Cougars defend as 4A Je co team champions this fall.
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
In football, as in life, nothing is guaranteed except the work. That’s what Colorado School of Mines head football coach Brandon Moore expressed when reflecting on last year’s successes going into the 2022 season. On Aug. 7, the Orediggers kicked off practices for the football preseason. Moore, who’s been a CSM defensive coach since 2016, is taking the reins as head coach this season. In 2021, CSM went 12-2 for the season, won the conference title and advanced to the NCAA semifinals. With 18 starters returning for 2022, the Orediggers have been listed as a top-10 team in nationwide preseason polls. On Aug. 15, they were ranked No. 1 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference preseason coaches’ poll. While all those feats are respectable, Moore also emphasized how “past successes mean nothing in theRatherfuture.”than getting too far ahead and focusing on repeating a playoff appearance, Moore said the Orediggers should concentrate on the next game. “That’s where we’re always going to stay focused, on the current opponent,” he said after practice on Aug. 11. “We’ve got to be where our feet are and stay in the moment.”Right now, the next game also is the first: Sept. 1 at Grand Valley State, a fellow top-10 team. After the season opener, the Orediggers won’t have long to catch their breath, as their first home game on Sept. 10 is against fellow top-10 team Angelo State. Senior linebacker Nolan Reeve, who was recently highlighted by College Football America Yearbook, also emphasized taking the schedule one week at a time and “not taking those in-between games for granted.” He continued: “We all know one of the big games is the national championship, but the most important game to us right now is Week 1.”
Senior tight end Thomas Jensen, left, runs past senior free safety Logan Rayburn during the Colorado School of Mines football practice Aug. 11. PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN
The Orediggers’ o ense practices field goals during the Colorado School of Mines football practice.
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GOLDEN — A sophomore slump doesn’t appear to be in the cards for Evergreen’s Tyler Long. The defending Class 4A Jeffco League individual medalist champion as a freshman from last season started the conference tournament season right where he left off last year. Long, a sophomore, shot a 4-under-par at Applewood Golf Course on Aug. 10. The round of 67 was the lowest round in the 5A and 4A Jeffco League tournament opener. Long had six birdies and just a pair of bogeys on his round. He had a string of four birdies in five holes on the frontnine. Senior teammate Duncan McIntosh finished two strokes behind Long with a solid 69. The Cougars got off to a good start on trying to defend their 4A team league title shooting a team score of 284. Green Mountain finished second with a 321.On the 5A Jeffco side, Ralston Valley sophomore Dimarco Benallo edged a pair of Valor juniors to take the individual title. Benallo had a 2-under-par, 69 to take a one-stroke win over Valor’s Maxwell Eide and Ethan Rainey who both shot 70. Arvada West sophomore David Thomson finished in a three-way tie with Eide and Rainey with his 1-under-par round. Columbine junior Matai Naqica — competed in the national finals of the Drive, Chip & Putt the week before the Masters at Augusta National last spring — finished fifth with a 71 at Applewood. Naqica finished third in the 5A Jeffco individual medalist standings last season in helping the Rebels take the 5A league title.Valor edged Ralston Valley by five strokes for the team title at Applewood. It should be a tight race for the league title in 5A with Valor, Ralston Valley, Arvada West and Columbine only separated by 12 strokes in the opening league tournament. Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow. com.
‘A player-led team’ Reeve, who had a team-best 75 total tackles last year and led the conference in sacks and forced fumbles, is one of 33 seniors returning to the program. While most are fifth-year or Oredigger football kicks o first week of practice
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Colorado School of Mines returns 33 seniors, hopes to build on last year’s semifinal run season,season.won the conference title Junior wide receiver Sean Roberts catches a pass during the Colorado School of Mines football practice Aug. 11. FOOTBALL, P17
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After a few days of practice, Moore said he was impressed by the offensive and defensive lines’ physicality. He felt like they’re the first components coaches look at when assessing a team — whether the offensive line is protecting the quarterback effec tively, and whether the defensive line is attacking weaknesses in theOverall,offense.though, he emphasized to the Orediggers at practice Aug. 11 that every position needs to keep improving. The play ers should target not only their weaknesses but their strengths as well, Moore commented. For the CSM football program in general its strength has always been its players, Moore said. He believed the program is unique throughout the world because of the type of player it recruits. Orediggers are always students first, and graduation is their priority, he said. So, be cause of that, the players have remained the program’s greatest strength.“It’strue now, just like it al ways will be,” he continued. “ … As long as (the players) are first … and we invest in their success wholeheartedly, I think we’ll con tinue to be successful.”
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Rents continue to rise along Front Range
Westminster was once seen as an affordable-ish landing spot for young people who could no longer pay Denver and Boulder rents. Those days may be over. Now, the Denver suburb, which has seen a mural festival, a re vitalized downtown, an Alamo Drafthouse, a new Tattered Cover, and plenty of wacky events pro gramming (ballerina dodgeball, anybody?), has the highest onebedroom rents in the metro area. The price: $1,860, according to data pulled from active listings on the online rental site Zumper. Coming in second place: Broom field at $1,850. Both of those cities are near Boulder County and the site of the late 2021 Marshall fires, which destroyed more than 1,100 homes and commercial properties and left many families renting as construc tionCentenniallagged. and Denver tied for third priciest median rent at $1,760. If you’re looking for a deal, Gree ley is still significantly lower than Denver at $1,070 and Fort Collins comes in at $1,200. (But yikes, that’s still expensive. Throw in commutes to the Mile High City, and renters will be suffering.) But when it comes to twobedroom rents, Denver’s still the priciest city, with a median rent of $2,340, followed by Broomfield, at $2,240, and Westminster, at $2,170. Plenty of other suburbs that have long been considered affordable have seen massive hikes in median rent.Take Englewood-area zip codes, where median one-bedroom rent now runs $1,290, according to Zumper’s data. That’s a 33% jump from this time last year. Nearby, the Littleton area has seen a 24.5% rise to $1,370. Longmont, near the Marshall Fire site, saw a 23.3% increase, year over Statewide,year.median one-bedroom rent is $1,450. Data from the online Apartment List, which uses a different meth odology than Zumper that leads to a different set of numbers, shows similar trends in rent-price growth in the Nationalregion.median rent has grown 12% over the past year, according to data from the online rental site Apartment List.
With inflation higher than it has been in the past 40 years, higher mortgage rates and still sky-high housing prices for buyers, many people are ditching their hopes of home ownership and continuing to rent. That creates more compe tition for already too few rental units.Ona national level, the Denver area rental market has the 71st fastest rising prices in the coun try’s 100 largest cities, from this time last year. Cold comfort: The trend of rising prices is hardly a local phenom enon, and nationwide, landlords are also charging more than many renters can afford. This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affili ated with CPR News. Used by per mission. For more, and to support Denverite, visit denverite.com. Westminster, Broomfield areas have highest costs for one-bedroom units
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The following resolution can be viewed in its en tirety 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.
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The following ordinances were adopted by the City Council of the City of Arvada on second reading following the public hearing on August 15, 2022: Ordinance 4811 An Ordinance City of Arvada Notice No. 414514 Last Publication: Jeffco Colorado’s administrators to be open and honest with families about cases and clusters. New guidance released Aug. 10 largely treats COVID like other communicable diseases, continuing a policy the state established in February at the end of the fi rst omicron wave. At the same time, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is continuing to make free rapid antigen tests widely available to schools and child care centers, both for weekly testing programs and for students to use at home. Colorado saw high levels of COVID-19 all summer, with a sustained plateau in hospitalizations that began to decline this month. Bailey Fosdick, a member of the state’s COVID modeling team at the Colorado School of Public Health, said the lack of mitigation measures like masking may contribute to some spread in classrooms, but the combination of vaccination and recent infection should put a brake on transmission.“Evenwith school starting, all of our models suggest cases and hospitalizations will continue to decline through at least the end of September,” Fosdick said. “And that’s due to the high levels of infections we saw in the spring and summer. We estimate that we still have quite a bit of immunity in the population, particularly immunity from severe disease.” State Epidemiologist Rachel Herlihy said the new guidance aims to minimize disruptions for students and families while remaining alert for signs of clusters or higher transmission that might indicate a need for stepped-up precautions. Colorado is in a very different position than it was two years ago, she said, and that warrants a new approach. Chalkbeat is a nonprofi t news site covering educational change in public schools.Read more at chalkbeat.org.
NOTICENOTICECityLegalsandCountyPublicNoticeOFPUBLICHEARINGISHEREBYGIVENTHAT at the meeting of the Arvada City Council to be held on MONDAY, September 12, 2022, at 6:15 p.m. at the Munici pal Building, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada CO, City Council will hold a public hearing on the following proposed ordinances and thereafter will consider them for final passage and adoption. For the full text version in electronic form go to www.arvada.
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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 Hear ing 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. Legal Notice No. 414427 First Publication: August 4, 2022 Last Publication: August 25, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript and the Arvada Press PUBLIC NOTICE
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The state has relaxed COVID guidelines for Colorado schools heading into the 2022-23 academic year.
CB22-064, An Ordinance Authorizing the Ac quisition of Certain Property Along Alkire Street, Generally from West 78th Avenue to West 80th Avenue for the Construction of Approximately 1,300 Linear Feet of 8 Foot Wide Sidepath and/ or Related Improvements as Part of the Alkire Sidepath Tap Grant Project, Project No. 20-ST-26. CB22-065, An Ordinance Annexing Certain Land into the City of Arvada for Union Estates Property, a 2.11- Acre Parcel of Land Approximately Located at 12016 West 82nd Avenue.
for Howard Ranch, a 13.11-acre Parcel of Land from City of Arvada RA- Residential Agricultural District to City of Arvada R6- Residential 6 District and Amending the Official Zoning Maps of the City of Arvada, Colorado, generally located at 14760 W 64th Ave. Legal
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CB22-066, An Ordinance Rezoning Certain Land Within the City of Arvada, Union Estates Property, from Jefferson County A-2 (Agricultural 2) to City of Arvada RN-7.5 (Residential Neighborhood 7.5) and Amending the Official Zoning Maps of the City of Arvada, Colorado, Generally Located at 12016 W 82nd Avenue. Legal Notice No. 414513 First Publication: August 18, 2022 Last Publication: August 18, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice NOTICE OF ANNEXATION PETITION ACCEPTANCE
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