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O cer Vako killed while responding to disturbance on 51st Ave; suspect in custody

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The Arvada Harvest Festival had been on hiatus since 2019 after the event was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and in 2021 due to a permit issue. The festival, organized by the Arvada Junior Chamber Foundation, dates back to 1925.

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A new parade route and foreboding clouds didn’t disrupt the 97th Annual Arvada Harvest Festival, which returned Sept. 9 to 11 after a two-year absence.

The festivities kicked off with a petting zoo and live music headlined by Hazel Miller and the Collective on Sept. 9, followed by the Grand parade and Garden Harvest Fair the following day. A car show and community potluck were some of the events that concluded the festival on Sept. 11.

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Vakoff and another APD ofﬁcer arrived at the 6700 block of West 51st Avenue in response to reports of a large family disturbance involving two minors. They found a “chaotic” scene with multiple people in the street, said Arvada Police Chief Link Strate during a morning

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An Arvada police ofﬁcer was killed while responding to a disturbance on the 6700 block of West 51st Avenue around 1:41 a.m. on Sept. 11. Dillon Michael Vakoff, 27, was identiﬁed as the victim of a shooting that took place in the early hours.

Arvada Police Department Public Information O cer Dave Snelling addresses the media while backed by APD o cers and Arvada’s City Council.

Michael Vako killed in line of duty

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Moved from Olde Town, the new parade route along 58th Avenue was met with a warm reception among festivalgoers, who lined the sidewalks hours in advance in anticipation of the parade, which featured performances from local high school marching bands and cheerleading troupes along with floats and other entries.

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Jam sessions and live music performances ﬁlled the historic district throughout the weekend, while exhibits and lessons took place at the Hilton Garden Inn.

Canadian Luthier Linda Manza poses with the blue guitar she built twenty years prior for a collection that was exhibited at the Smithsonian and displayed in Arvada over the weekend.

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“I think everyone’s goal is to get great guitars in the hands of players and be advocates for the archtop guitar itself,” Henriksen continued. Between the players and the luthiers and the exhibitors, our main focus is to get people playing better instruments.”

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Highlighting the festival’s exhibits was the Blue Guitar collection of 22 blue archtops commissioned 20 years ago and once displayed at the Smithsonian. Some of the luthiers who built guitars for the exhibit were reunited with their instruments at the festival, including Canadian Luthier Linda Manza.

Je erson County 4-H rides through on horseback. It wouldn’t be a Harvest Festival without a tractor!

The weekend focused on archtop guitars, which are unique in construction and are sometimes described as a hybrid of an electric and an acoustic guitar. Archtops are under a higher tension than other types of guitars, which makes building them difﬁcult, even for experienced luthiers.

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The Arvada West High School Marching Band performs at the Arvada Harvest Festival. PHOTOS BY RYLEE DUNN

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The Rocky Mountain Archtop Festival returned to Olde Town Arvada from Sept. 9 to 11, bringing nearly 1,000 archtop luthiers, players and

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enthusiasts together for the world’s only archtop-only guitar convention.

The festival is organized by Arvada local Peter Henriksen, the President of Henriksen Ampliﬁers, which manufactures specialized guitar amps. Henriksen said this year’s event outpaced the ﬁrst — and, until last weekend, only — Rocky Mountain Archtop Festival, which was held in “There’s2019.a lot of excitement about

it,” Henriksen said. “There are far more people showing up than I thought. The ﬁrst time, no one was sure people would show up to an archtop-only guitar festival, and it went above and beyond all our expectations, and this year already — in terms of ticket sales, and enthusiasm and all the ancillary events going on — it already blows last time’s event out of the water.

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This coming Sunday, Sept. 18th, I’m the guest speaker, along with Jenn Gomer of CarePatrol, at the Sunday Night Club West meeting at Lakewood’s Clement Center, 1580 Yarrow Street. All are welcome.

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At press time 13 owners who have driven a half-million miles on electricity alone have registered for this event.

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Jenn and I were invited to speak about “Aging in Place vs. 55+ Communities.” As you may know, my wife Rita and I moved into an “active adult” community called Avenida Lakewood, with the help and advice of Jenn Gomer, whose business it is to provide that service for seniors. We told her what we were looking for, and she found it!

John Horst of the National Renewable Energy Lab read last week’s column about the Inflation Reduction Act’s impact on the building sector and provided some valuable additional information.Forstarters, he made me aware of the White House website, which has a listing of tax credits and grants under the IRA which pertain specifically to each state. On www.GoldenREblog.com I have posted the link for the Colorado

If you have an EV — especially one of

benefits. It’s a two-page PDF with paragraphs about those financial incentives plus job creation, manufacturing, cleaner air, rural opportunities and “resilient communities.”Onenewincentive that hasn’t gotten a lot of coverage is the $4,000 upfront discount on the purchase of used electric cars and trucks. In the past, there was no incentive for purchasing a used EV, and the $7,500 incentive for a new EV came only as a tax credit on the following year’s tax return. Making both incen-

the new ones, such as the F-150 Lightning — we want you to show it off at this event! Register at www.DriveElectricWeek.info either as an owner or attendee.

If you’d like to attend our presentation, call Barbara Stannard at 303987-8200. Come for dinner at 6:00, or just show up for our presentation, which starts at 7:00. We look forward to sharing what we know!

John also provided a link to a list of 59 state and federal tax credits (both personal and corporate), loan programs, grant programs, rebate programs, sales tax incentives, regulatory policies, energy standards and more — each with its own link for further information. That link is also posted on our blog mentioned above.

“Conventional wisdom” says that it costs more to build a solar powered, highly sustainable or net zero energy home, and while that may be true, consider the following.

er you build or buy a home with these cost saving features, and whether or not you pay a premium for them, you will likely be financing your home with a Let’smortgage.say,conservatively, that you pay an extra $50,000 or even $100,000 for those features, and it adds that amount to the principal of your mortgage. Your realized monthly savings from those solar panels or that heat pump system or those Alpen windows and extra insulation will be far in excess of the increased monthly payment for yourAndmortgage.ifyoumake those improvements in a home you already own, you can take out a Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC) to pay for them, and the monthly payments will again be less than your monthly savings.

I haven’t purchased gasoline for my electric cars since 2014, during which time I have saved tens of thousands of dollars on gasoline and repairs on components that don’t exist on an EV, such as transmission, engine, fuel pumps, water pumps, timing belts and so much more. And I have never had a catalytic converter stolen — or lost any sleep after reading about the epidemic of such thefts in my Forgettingcity.

You can register for the tour — and see those videos — at the following URL: www.NewEnergyColorado.com

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choice.”Eachcandidate will be given 15 minutes for opening statements, and they then will answer questions from the audience, Rohrer said. Christopher Nims, a Rotary

So, yes, it may cost more to go allelectric, but the return on investment is substantial over a pretty short period of time.

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member, will moderate the forum. Candidate Marinelli is a Colorado native who has pursued a career in law enforcement since middle school. She earned a degree in criminal justice and teaches. Marinelli has served in the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Offi ce for 36 years and supervised every major department. Regina and her husband Bart live in JeffersonCandidateCounty.Brady is a deputy chief with the Arvada Police Department where he has served for 28 years. He has led through the Great Recession, an offi cer death, offi cer-involved shootings, a pandemic and the current public safety crisis. His wife, Cathleen, is a principal in Jeffco Public Schools, and they have four children.

homes whose owners have taken steps to make their homes more energy efficient or even net zero energy. You’ll also visit a home builder who is building net zero energy homes. If you can’t visit some of these homes in person, you can view the narrated video tours which I have created for most of them.

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for the moment that there are indeed EVs which cost no more than their gasoline-powered equivalents, even if you paid $10,000 more for an EV than you might for a gas powered car, the cost of financing that difference is far less than what you’ll save on fuel and repairs.

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And if I have changed your thinking about the cost of buying or owning an electric vehicle, plan on coming to the Electric Vehicle Roundup (mentioned below) which occurs the same day, Oct. 1st, as the Metro Denver Green Homes Tour. If that date doesn’t work for you, there are many other EV roundups in October around Colorado. Find them at www.DriveElectricWeek.org

(You can also — right now — take video tours of 16 homes that were on this tour in previous years!)

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If I have changed your thinking about making your home (or transportation) more sustainable, here’s what you can do. First, attend this year’s Metro Denver Green Homes Tour on October 1st. You’ll be able to visit a dozen or so

You can apply the same reasoning to the purchase of an electric car. You could go with the conventional wisdom that electric cars are more expensive and you should wait until the price comes down, but that thinking substantially misrepresents the cost of ownership

This great townhome at 5514 W. Canyon Trail #D is in great shape and backs to a greenbelt. The price was just reduced to $395,000 Take a narrated video tour, including drone video, at www MillbrookTownhome online, then come to an open house this Saturday, 11-1, or call 303-525-1851 for a showing.

As your surely know, such improvements reduce the operating cost of a home. Solar panels, for example, can virtually eliminate your electrical bill, if your system is sized correctly. They can even provide free fuel for your cars if they are powered by electricity.

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Each year on the first Saturday of October Golden Real Estate hosts an Electric Vehicle Roundup in the parking lot of The Net Zero Store (our former real estate office), at 17695 S. Golden Road. And every year 30 or more different EVs are displayed by their owners who are there to answer questions for prospective EV owners.

Learn about the candidates for Jefferson County sheriff at a candidate forum Sept. 21 at the Buchanan Park Recreation Center. Regina Marinelli and Ed Brady will answer audience questions during the 6-8 p.m. forum sponsored by Mountain Foothills Rotary and Colorado Community Media’s Canyon Courier. Online viewing of the forum will not be available.Theperson elected to the position will replace Sheriff Jeff Shrader, who is term-limited and cannot run again. Election Day is Nov. 8, and mail-in ballots will be sent out in mid-October. Sheriffs serve four-year terms.

Looked at it this way, does it make any sense at all to build a home powered by fossil fuels, that is not solar powered or that has “normal” insulation and have higher monthly cost of ownership, starting from day one? Of course not.

“We feel this is an important transition in Jefferson County,” said Jim Rohrer with Mountain Foothills Rotary. “It’s good for all of the citizens to meet and listen to the two candidates and make a

tives an “upfront discount” will make both incentives much more attractive and useful to car buyers and will accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles.

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Arvada Mayor Marc Williams said the tragedy was especially difﬁcult in light of the Olde Town Arvada shooting on June 21, 2021, just 15 months ago.

With the investigation still in the early stages, Strate said what is known is that initially two officers tried to break up the commotion, but a suspect — later revealed to be Sonny Thomas Almanza — allegedly fired shots and hit a female victim, who was transported to a nearby hospital. Authorities said the female victim is expected to survive.Strate said a shooting between the officers and the suspect followed, and Vakoff was allegedly shot in the exchange.Stratesaid the second officer on the scene tried to administer first aid.Almanza, 31, was shot as well and was transported to the hospital, Strate said. He is expected to survive, and will be transported to the Jefferson County Jail once he is stable enough for transport.

Almanza was charged with first degree murder, two counts of attempted first degree murder, possession of a weapon by a previous offender, two counts of child abuse and two counts of crimes of violence.Vakoff’s body was transported to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office at 5:30 a.m. Sept. 11. He was an Arvada resident and graduate of Ralston Valley High School in Arvada. Vakoff has been with APD since 2018 and was training to be a SWAT officer, according to Strate.

“(Vakoff) was the example of everything that is good about a police ofﬁcer,” Strate said.

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A note with ﬂowers from a community member at the memorial.

Gov. Jared Polis’ ofﬁce released the following statement on Sept. 11:

too-old wounds,” Williams continued. “It’s important to recognize that these ofﬁcers put their lives in danger each and every day and we are so thankful for what they do.”

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“My thoughts are with the family and friends of Arvada ofﬁcer Dillon Michael Vakoff who was tragically killed in the line of duty while responding to a call. We will continue to monitor this situation.”

APD Public Information Ofﬁcer Dave Snelling said that since the investigation is in the early stages, all information is preliminary at this point. No questions were answered at the press conference.

Fallen Arvada Police O cer Dillon Michael Vako , 27. COURTESY ARVADA POLICE

press conference Sept. 11.

“Obviously having two of these tragedies within 15 months is overwhelming,” Williams said. “I am so sorry for (Vakoff’s) family and those who cared about him. The entire Arvada Police Department is reeling and our community is feeling the pain.

Lois Lindstrom, the founder of the Arvada Historical Society and Robert Barton, the last town clerk of Arvada and ﬁrst elected city

Dr. Gail Gilbert, Lois Lindstrom, Robert Barton among historical ﬁgures to be portrayed

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Fall is in the air, perhaps nowhere more so than Olde Town Square. The 26th Annual

The Arvada Historical Society is hosting its annual Cemetery tour on Sept. 24 at the Arvada Cemetery located at 5581 Independence St. Tours will depart every 30 minutes beginning at 11 a.m. and going until 2 p.m.Dr.Gail Gilbert, a former Jeffco R-1 Schools board member;

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Kids parades, a cone maze, hayrides, giant vegetable contest included in festivities

Festival of Scarecrows will ring in the season from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 8 with a scarecrow contest, parades, a cone maze, hay rides and a giant vegetable contest.Scarecrows entered in the contest will be placed around Olde Town Arvada, where festivalgoers will vote on which entry they like best. To enter a scarecrow, visit scarecrow-contest.ralstonhouse.org/

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Arvada Historical Society Cemetery Tour set to return Sept. 24

Cemetery Tour attendees take in Catherine Walter’s portrayal of Ida Wells.

The scarecrowwinningfrom the scarecrow contest: Hope, Community and “Bob.”Connection’s

free to children under the age of 12. historyarvada.orgor at the cemetery

26th Annual Festival of Scarecrows set for Oct. 8

Jefferson County’s benefi ts plan resolution only specifi cally includes facial surgery, which the plan defi nes as “medically necessary gender affi rming facial surgery required for the treatment of genderFGASdysphoria.”isconsidered cosmetic in many states, according to one 2021 study on coverage of FGAS in Medicaid and commercial insurance across the country. Andrew Miller, an educator to doctors and others on equitable treatment

Gender a rming facial surgery to be added to Je erson County insurance beneﬁts

Facial gender-affi rming surgery is set to be covered in the 2023 county employee benefi ts plan. The Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners passed the resolution approving the benefi ts Aug. 30.

Colorado already covers gender-afﬁ rming treatments under Medicaid, as do a few other states, but Colorado is the ﬁ rst state to

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In October of 2021, Colorado announced all health insurers it regulates must cover genderafﬁ rming care by 2023, affecting plans for individuals and small group markets like employers with less than 100 employees.

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Facial gender-a rming surgery will be included in Je erson County’s employee beneﬁts plan.

at Denver Health, considers it a deeply afﬁ rming and necessary procedure, he told NPR at the time.Health Equity and Training Director Marvyn Allen of One Colorado, an advocacy group for LGBTQ equality in Colorado, said similarly that being considered cosmetic causes these genderafﬁ rming surgeries to be unaffordable.

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This does not include employers like Jefferson County, though. FGAS was added to beneﬁ ts because it was required by the county’s insurer, Kaiser, according to Jeffco Human Resources Director Jennifer Fairweather.

we know that gender-afﬁ rming care is vital to the mental health of transgender and nonbinary Coloradans. For too many, genderafﬁ rming care is unaffordable and unattainable,” Allen said in a statement last year.

have federal approval for genderafﬁ rming healthcare coverage to be required in these private insurancePossibleplans.changes to the county’s 2023 beneﬁ ts plan also include coverage for infertility treatment, mental health and substance abuse visits covered completely with no copay, and the county covering all premium increases in general.

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candidates alike, mingled with the crowd before each spoke on a prepared question. For some attendees, this was a chance to hear an official’s thoughts for the first time and start their research ahead of the November elections.“It’shelpful. I’ll still have to do my due diligence, read reports and more, but it’s a good start,” said Lakewood resident Laurae

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Je erson County Commissioner Leslie Dahlkemper, who’s running for reelection this November, spoke at the 22nd Annual Legislative BBQ on Sept. 7.

Ed Brady, candidate for County Sheri , spoke on homelessness at the 22nd Annual Legislative BBQ on Sept. 7.

He said the forum models “American civic responsibility,” where, even if officials and residents have differing perspectives, people can still “sit to have a civil conversation.”

About 30 county officials, whether representative or coroner, and both incumbents and

“I think it’s fantastic,” said County Commissioner Andy Kerr, when asked about this communication. “It gets a lot of the service providers with folks receiving services along with the people representing them.”

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Legislative BBQ brings policy-makers to the people

Davis.Toher, the event was casual. She wasn’t anticipating asking any questions but was there as a “first attempt” to learn about the candidates.Others,like Lakewood resident Valeria Palmer, saw a free annual BBQ event and thought it was “worth checking out.”

“Even with different perspectives, better policy can come from it,” she said.

A candidate for the District Three County Commissioner seat, Donald Rosier spoke on his previous commissioner experience and said his priorities would be the same. BBQ,

Whether it was for the free BBQ or the Jeffco officials, almost 200 county residents attended the 22nd Annual Legislative BBQ at Red Rocks Community College on Sept. 7.

The speaking part of the event allowed two minutes for every candidate to answer a prepared question either on homelessness and domestic violence, elder care, mental health or disabilities. Congressional candi-

Regina Marinelli, candidate for County Sheri , stressed that jail shouldn’t be a solution for homelessness while speaking at the 22nd Annual Legislative BBQ on Sept. 7.

source Center, Family Tree and the Seniors’ Resource Center.

County Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper, who’s running for re-election this November, thought similarly.

No matter the motivation, everyone involved believed the communication was helpful, whether resident, official, or one of the non-profits that put the event“Theon.more we talk about mental health, homeless and domestic violence, disabilities, the more we have important conversations to decrease stigma, and make officials see that,” said CEO and President of the Jefferson Center for Mental Health Kiara Kuenzler. To her, it gives an impact to the voice of the people.TheJefferson Center was one of the four non-profits that put on the event, along with the Developmental Disabilities Re-

“When we don’t know what to do with [the homeless], jail should not be the option,” said Marinelli. She highlighted that “putting someone in jail because they’re homeless is not an option.”Jerry DiTullio, the current county treasurer also spoke, highlighting fiscal savings over the last few years of his tenure, with Faye Griffin running against him this year.

resident Laurae Davis and her husband John Davis at the 22nd Annual Legislative BBQ on Sept. 7. PHOTOS BY ANDREW FRAIELI

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“I’ve seen the incredible things that you all do, day in and day out. And I have to tell you, you do it so much better than government can ever do it,” he said, addressing the non-profits.

Donald Rosier, a Republican candidate running for Dahlkemper’s commissioner seat, highlighted his previous experience of two terms as county commissioner and that his priorities would be the same.

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Ed Brady and Regina Marinelli are both running for county sheriff, and both spoke on home-

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From left to right, Michaela Macasinag, Billy Spence and Alex Duncan came to support the Foothills Animal Shelter at the Pup Up Market with their Pekingese, Jedi.

sheltering pets for people who may be having housing issues.

Alastair Keith-Lucas and Kelsa Warner previously volunteered at Foothills Animal Shelter, coming to the Pup Up Market to keep on supporting with their dog Llewyn.

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Spence, came to support the shelter. Holding their small Pekingese, Jedi, Duncan explained they recently rescued a second, with Macasinag having rescued four others in the past.

“We’re adamant adopters,” said Michaela Macasinag, who is from the foothills area. Macasinag, along with Alex Duncan and Billy

Even as a cold mist ﬁlled the air, the band kept playing and more people arrived, like Alastair KeithLucas and Kelsa Warner and their dogAlsoLlewyn.fromthe foothills, they said they’ve been to “quite a few” similar events in the past and have supported and volunteered at the shelter.

A sudden cold snap dipping into the 40s didn’t stop the pups at the Pup Up Market in Golden from being any less excited on Sept. 10. Put on by the Foothills Animal Shelter, and with almost 400 tickets sold, attendees could eat from food trucks, listen to music from the band Teledonna and shop local vendors like Bloom Bar Flower Truck.

Pups smile at the Pup Up Market rain or shine

According to Marketing and Community Engagement Manager Joan Thielen, the shelter has similar events two or three times a year.

This is the second year of the Pup Up Market, and she pointed out that 100% of the proceeds go to the shelter to help support its programs such as veterinary work, including dental surgeries, orthodontic surgeries and spay and neutering, along with other programs like Better Together, where the shelter works to help keep people and pets together by

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Oh, don’t kid yourselves: by the time you’re reading this, the mercury will probably have ﬂoated back up towards 90. But it’s great to get that reprieve to remind us of the cycles of life. One of those, of course, is the return of the kids to school. And, perhaps for the ﬁrst time in two and a half years, school the way we knew it to JeffersonWell…almost.be.County

Where’d they go? Well, that’s a complex question that I don’t think we fully understand yet. Did some families realize that online learning worked for them and was more efﬁcient, so they stayed home? Did some opt for private schools or home schooling to escape COVID protocols? Were some of them driven to move away by the economic difﬁculties of COVID? Did some realize that “big education” (the intersection of unions, PTAs, and other interest groups) was not necessarily acting in the students’ best interests, and so they pulled away? And did some of them, their eyes opened by the chaos of the pandemic response, reassess their default position of trusting the schools? No doubt, some combination of those factors is at play.

Celeste Young has been a biker all her life and now coaches mountain biking. Her ﬂeet of bicycles has recently grown to include an electric mountain bike.

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Rachel Fussell, program manager of the nonprofit PeopleForBikes, says that more than a battery boost, speed on trails reflects rider skill as well as trail design. She believes that all users observing proper trail etiquette would avert most potential conflicts.

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there. You get an extra boost going up these really hard trails, so it makes a challenging trail fun, rather than demoralizing.”It’sapuzzling notion that someone accused her of cheating. It would be one thing if you secretly put a motor in your bike during a race, but when it’s an amateur rider going out for fun and exercise, how is having an electronic boost cheating?

In 2015, the International Mountain Bike Association studied the environmental impacts of mountain bikes, both electric and self-propelled, and found no appreciable differences between the two in terms of soil displacement on trails. Overall, bike impacts were similar to the impacts of hikers.

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The whole thing reminds me — a skier — of the controversy that erupted after snowboards appeared at ski resorts. They were new and fast, and their rhythm on the slope was different than the rhythm of people onWeskis.didn’t like them, and I doubt they liked us. But we’ve worked it out.

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Two years. A virus, coupled with a set of policies that were, at the very least, controversial, and some of which we’re coming to learn now, completely pointless. And 20 years of progress wiped out, disproportionately impacting our most endangeredHere’sstudents.thething: these two crises are not unrelated. Natural demographic trends were always going to bring Jeffco’s enrollment down. But in the 19 years between 2000 and 2019, JeffCO lost approximately 22,000 students; in the two years of COVID, more than 5,000 students disappeared from JeffCO classrooms.

It’s hard to remember, but regular mountain bikes didn’t become commercially available until the 1980s, and when the early adopters hit trails previously used only by hikers and horseback riders, conﬂicts happened fast.People claimed the bikes increased erosion. They worried about collisions and scaring horses. They theorized that mountain bikes would frighten wildlife. Today, those same arguments are being used against electric mountain bikes.

that ebikes should be considered motorized vehicles, softened its stance. Instead, it proposed that local land managers and user groups should determine — on a case-by-case basis — whether to allow ebikes on naturally surfaced trails. Many members canceled their memberships. Some comments were harsh.

nance. School district buildings have capacity for 96,000 students; current student enrollment is 69,000. Peak enrollment was back in the early 2000s; since then, the drop has been steady, and inexorable, leaving some buildings with an enrollment around 100, and that’s with the daycare facility included. Those closures could save the district around $12 million.But,that’s not all Jeffco is dealing with. In August, the results of last year’s State Assessments came out, and the numbers were grim. In fact, one point you probably didn’t hear is that those numbers were actually skewed upwards, because a signiﬁcant number of students from the “at-risk” population opted out of testing, as was their right while we were dealing with COVID. Statisti-

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Now, JeffCO is dealing with strategizing around recovering all that learning loss. But you gotta wonder if the schools are truly going to focus on “reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic,” or if their focus is going to be on

cally speaking, those students’ scores on such tests tend to be on the low end, bringing the overall averages down.And this is not unique to Jeffco—not by a long shot! One recent headline trumpeted that the learning losses from COVID have undone 20 years’ worth of progress in bringing overall scores up and reducing the endemic disparities that show up on standardized tests.

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hhhhh…. As I’m sitting down to write this, the rain is falling on the end of the ﬁrst day in months that the temperature didn’t (or barely) climbed out of the 50s, the sky was a haze shade of grey the whole day (and not from the ﬁres in Oregon and California), and I was able to walk from the car to the grocery store without slathering sunscreen on my pasty Irish forehead. Fall is here.

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One wrote, “If you’re too old to still ride the trails you love, do as many beforehand, reminisce about the good old days and encourage the young. Don’t throw them and our public land under the bus.” That kind of attitude does not bode well for land managers to ﬁnd an easy compromise.

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Now, public land managers face the knotty problem of how much access to allow ebikes, and where, or whether to segregate them to their own trails. Welcome to the crowded West.

To ﬁnd out, Tahoe National Forest measured the top speeds reached by intermediate and advanced riders using both kinds of bikes. Differences on the downhills were small. On uphills, traditional bikers averaged 5-8 mph, while electric mountain bikes traveled 8-13 mph. This was a difference, but not enough of a difference to cause more accidents, especially if bikers alert others to their presence and ride in control.

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That was probably ﬁve years ago, and since then ebike use has exploded. In 2020, ebike sales in the United States for just the month of June totaled roughly $90 million, up 190 percent from the previous June.

Once again, the controversy seems to stem from the fear of change, perhaps some arrogance and maybe a little jealousy. After all, since I suffered to get to the top of the climb on my own power, shouldn’t you?

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So, what are the impacts of electric mountain bikes. Do they harm trails, or cause more accidents?

Horses, motorcycles and off-road vehicles do much more damage to trails.

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As for problems caused by speed, trafﬁc studies show that accidents and their severity escalate as differences in speed increase. But do electriﬁed bikes go that much faster than traditional bikes?

he ﬁrst time I saw an electric bike — better known as an ebike — I was struggling up a hill. Suddenly, a silver-haired man came whizzing by in regular city clothes. I felt a wave of envy as he left me in the dust.

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He is survived by his daughter, Laura Jane [Andrew] Montz of Ohio; 3 grandchildren, Clara Montz, Zachary Montz, Ellen Montz; and 3 great grandchildren. For those who would like to make a donation in memory of Dale, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital was a favorite charity.

“I cringe,” she said, “when I think that my students will read less than eight novels by the time they graduate from high school. And I think I’m fairly generous with that number—and this is in honors-level classes.”Banning classic works is more sinister than pearl-clutching moral-

Oh, and, just to add to the fun: early budget projections for 2024-25 have the district operating at a $61 *million* deﬁcit. And that’s before the total assessment of the new teacher

Dale would want his friends to--as he always used to say--”try to make one person happy every day of your life.” He went everywhere with a smile, good stories, and often a vase of owers from his garden.

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Dale Raths, 97, of Arvada passed away August 19, 2022. He was born and raised in the tiny farming community of Millersville, Ohio. Upon graduation from high school, Dale enlisted in the Army and was sent to paratroopers training in Georgia. He served with the 187th Airborne in the Philippines and Japan. After WWII Dale took advantage of the GI Bill to further his education. is pursuit was interrupted by marriage to Joyce Schneider and by the birth of a child, Laura Jane. His wife, Joyce, was a teacher and her passion for teaching inspired Dale to return to school so that he, too, could teach. He began his career teaching wood shop in Norwalk, LivingOhio.

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n her memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Professor Azar Nafisi described clandestine sessions she held in her apartment with young women to openly discuss and debate the merits of works the Islamic Republic’s morality squad repressed. Nafisi had been raised during the reign of the ousted Shah who, despite his autocratic rule, allowed the liberal air of the West to permeate Iranian society. After earning her degrees at American universities, she returned to Iran after the 1979 Revolution and faced immediate scrutiny. Despite enormous pressure exerted on her to wear the traditional garb proscribed by the autocratic male rulers and to cease teaching Western literature, Nafisi refused to buckle. Her novel is a paean to true courage.

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simply changes a term or phrase to make the act sound acceptable, even benign, but without lessening its intention. Like “frigging”sayinginlieu of hurling the f-bomb. Both mean copulating, but frigging has a venial-sin tone much like saying “gosh dang it” in lieu of you know what. Regardless, whether a book is banned or removed from the approved list, it has the same arebooksingdroppinganduptight,worksHuckleberryAnneaingonculturaldistricts,towhereCensorshipeffect—CENSORSHIP.knowsnolimitstoitispracticed.FromIranAmericanschoolsandschoolthemoralitypoliceandwarriorsareunceasinglytheprow,forbiddingtheteach-ofclassicworksfrom“ToKillMockingbird,”“TheDiaryofFrank”and“AdventuresofFinn”tomorecurrentthatexploretopicsthatshockpearl-clutchingmoralistsputtheminadither.Ateacherfriendtoldmesheseesbooksfromapprovedread-listsasnefariousasbanningbecausethepowers-that-benotonlydiscouragingstudents

from reading those books, but they are also discouraging teachers from teaching or recommending those novels.She notes too that saying books are dropped from approved reading list is less inﬂammatory than saying certain books are being banned. In so doing, she says, “they and their egregious actreceive less parent awareness of what has been done.”Theharm goes deeper, though, for it has, like so much else done ostensibly for the public good, disturbing and unconscionable unintended consequences. My teacher friend said she is ﬁnding that novel reading is becoming absent from the English classes. She fretted about how her own children used to “gobble up” novels in elementary school but barely read one in its entirety in middle and high school.

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Dale enjoyed a variety of hobbies, many of which involved enjoying and celebrating Colorado’s natural beauty-- y shing, y tying, backpacking, gardening and watercolor painting. He was a gift giver, and his family and friends have his watercolors and handcrafted landing nets as reminders of his love. What Dale always enjoyed most was the company of friends.

An area that often goes unnoticed in Arvada is the amazing work that our local volunteer organizations do behind the scenes. I wanted to give a heartfelt shout-out to the Kiwanis Club of Arvada who has been doing such amazing work over the years that we often never hear about. This past month, over a dozen volunteers made the drive up to the Outdoor

the alphabet soup of non-academic concerns that drive the zeitgeist.

ism. It lessens, even demeans, the importance of not only reading but also of opening the mind. It is about keeping people ignorant, stupid, and easily duped. It is, as Alan Bloom wrote in his 1987 The Closing of the American Mind, the closing of the American mind.

High for a few years before landing at Arvada West High, where he taught drafting to generations of students.

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It is telling to note how some American morality squads in the guise ofcertain school boards, whose main purpose ought to be focused on creating and enhancing an educational structure that maximizes the full learning capacity of every student,hide behind the shibboleth that they are not banning books, but instead “removing them from approved reading lists.” Their explanation is a cowardly euphemism, a distinction without a difference. It

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close to the Rocky Mountains was a dream of Dale’s ever since a childhood church trip, and in 1955 he set o for Colorado with his family. He taught typesetting and mechanical drawing in the Denver Public Schools before he and family moved to Arvada, where both he and his wife taught in the Je erson County schools for over 20 years. Dale taught math at Drake Junior

85, passed away September 4, 2022 in Arvada, Colorado. For Homer’s full obituary visit monarchsociety.com.

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Autocratic rulers and leaders, whether religious or political or whether in Iran or in America, are dependent upon mass ignorance to prop themselves up. And if one does not see something heinous in that, it suggests they are clueless about what ultimate heinousness is. It’s the closing of the mind, which is like killing a mockingbird. A mortal sin.

Talking about death is hard, she said, but knowledge is power. When she works with clients, she aims to help them prepare for what’s to come and design an ending that best ﬁts with the rest of their life, rather than experiencing a “default panic mode” about

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Vanessa Johnston, a death doula of ﬁve years, with her dog at her home in Highlands Ranch on Aug 25.

Crispin Sargent, an a liate member of the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative.

One of her recent clients was Michelle Smith, a 52-year-old veterinary technician and beloved friend who passed away on June 4.

A warm and welcome friend

She’ll be close to the outdoors, able to see the trees she loves. The smell of Nag Champa incense will ﬁll the air, and a Spotify playlist she’s created will be playing. Her friends and family will visit, writing down funny stories or memories to

“I tell my clients, I can’t take away the sorrow and the sadness, but maybe with more knowledge, we can focus less on fear and anxiety and more on love and meaning,” she continued.Asadeath doula, Johnston typically works with people who are in hospice, and she’s usually contacted by the child of the person dying, she said.She offers a variety of services including offering information about the dying process, addressing worries and issues, providing emotional support and planning and helping implement the atmosphere the client would like to have as they are dying.

Rose Barr, a 45-year-old veterinarian at Tender Touch Animal Hospital, met Smith in 2010 through work, and the two became close friends and eventually like family to one another.

Karen Keeran, a death doula based in Golden, at her home o ce on Aug 24.

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endingempoweredanhave…to have a peaceful ending, whatever that looks like for them,” she said.

“Partdeath.ofthe problem of not being willing and able to talk about something scary, like death, is it just promotes more fear and anxiety. And I really wanted to dismantle that, if I could,” she said.

Aboutcontinued.10years ago, Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer, Barr said. She got a mastectomy and understood that the surgery was curative for her at the time, and she was put on oral medications to try and control hormones.

“There are a lot of different names for what I do,” Johnston said, explaining other names include end-of-life doula, death midwife, exit coach and death companion. “The simplest way I can say it is that I provide emotional, spiritual and informational support for people at the end of life, and for their loved ones around them.”

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“She was the one that you could turn to every single time, and she’d be able to do what we needed to do,” Barr

“She was very warm and welcoming. She valued having meaningful relationships with people,” Barr said, her voice ﬁlled with emotion. “She had this beautiful laugh, beautiful eyes.”Aveterinary technician of about 20 years, Smith was great at her job — especially when it came to dealing with naughty cats, Barr said.

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Assembling this plan, which Johnston calls vigil planning, is part of her job as a death doula, a versatile and evolving role.

In the ﬁve years since starting her business, Denver EOL Doula, with EOL standing for “end of life,” she has had about 15 private clients and serves people all throughout the metro Denver area.

Maxine Wagoner, left, and Karen Keeran, right, in August 2016. Wagoner said they have an organization called Earth Citizens, and they adopted a trail they were responsible for cleaning four times a year.

“And I thought, ‘Oh, that’s what I’ve been doing.’ So it kind of gave a name to the role that I had been kind of fulﬁlling intuitively anyway, and really helped me understand what that role was,” she Johnstonsaid.decided to pursue train-

One afﬁliate member is Crispin Sargent, a certiﬁed grief yoga instructor who worked for 30 years as a geriatric care manager, offering services such as advance care planning and acting as power of attorney or conservator for some

“Iover.think that it’s a great thing to help you on that part of the journey, to have a death doula,” Barr said. “I think that it can help with all of the feelings and fears and emotions.”

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“It’s that community that says, nobody can do this work alone,” Sargent said about the nonproﬁt, explaining members of the collaborative can call on one another for assistance. “All of the members of that group have a specialty, have a passion.”

She began connecting with other doulas in the Denver area, and in 2020, they decided to form the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative, a nonproﬁt membership organization. She explained it helped create a support network for the doulas and get the word out about their profession.

“Duringclients.that30-year period of time, clients would come to us because of dysfunctional family, or because they had no family, or where the court made a determination that a disinterested third party was needed to serve in the role of conservator,” she said.

In 2015, she was looking for a different career outside of teaching, and a friend asked if she would be interested in serving as an assistant to a man who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a progressive nervous system disease.

“And I felt like I had really helped him and his wife just go through that last milestone in a way that honored his story. And I thought, ‘Well gosh, I really want to continue to do this if I can,’” she said.

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“You want to do all of your planning at a time where there can be stories that are told,” she said, explaining planning ahead of time allows for more consideration of options and for a person’s loved ones to understand the plan as well.

Originally, Johnston said the idea was to only have a directory of doulas in the nonproﬁt, but then the members saw there was a need to also have a network of other providers, called afﬁliate members, such as people working in funeral homes, grief counselors, notaries and so on.

Having a death doula helped get Smith to a point where she could talk about her death and share her wishes with others, Barr said. Johnston also helped Smith’s family and friends navigate the ﬁnal days, encouraging people to talk about what was happening and to share happy memories of Smith.

Now, there are more than 35 afﬁliate members across Colorado, and the number is growing, she said.

“We ﬁgured that our voices together would be louder than our voices separately, so that was the impetus for just, let’s get together and cultivate a community,” she said. “We want to provide a community not just for the providers who are doing this work, but for people who need these services.”

ing with the International End of Life Doula Association, which she completed in the summer of 2017. She began volunteering in hospice and applied her new skills towards helping care for the man, who passed in October 2017.

Before entering the death doula profession, Johnston worked as a high school English teacher.

Becoming a death doula

“If you try and do all of that at the

The following year, Johnston established her business, which she said was a complicated process. Part of the difﬁculty was convincing people that her services were valuable and something everyone would beneﬁt from.

Barr said it was valuable to have Johnston around, who had been through the process before and would often reassure everyone that they were doing a great job. She said Johnston offered emotional support to people, often explaining what was happening to visitors and helping remove some fear about the situation.

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She has since begun a new company, Chun Hwa LLC, which focuses on offering yoga and grief counseling, she said. However, as an afﬁliate member of the nonproﬁt, she still offers services related to advance care planning and the “business of death,” as she calls it.

Barr said, explaining the nurse came over about three times and the chaplain and social worker each checked in once. “And so just having another support system was huge.”

Johnston also helped get a lawyer and a notary to visit Smith and Barr to complete Smith’s will, something Barr said they were panicked about beforehand.Earlyinthe morning on June 4, Smith passed away in Barr’s home. Upon her passing, Barr asked Johnston to check in with Smith’s parents, as she didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to do so. Johnston also came to Smith’s celebration of life, held at Hudson Gardens.

Death is a life experience, she said, and she knows from personal experience the value of planning and preparing for death before a person is close to it or is in crisis.

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“I feel like Vanessa gave us a lot more support than hospice was able to, and even if it was just talking and checking on us and trying to help facilitate things with visitors,” Barr said.Barr describes death doulas as wonderful people who can guide others through the dying process, whether it be navigating the paperwork, the emotional part or the physical part. She said she’s considering hiring a death doula again to help her get her own affairs in order before this year is

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“And so I said, ‘I’m happy to do that. I have no medical experience whatsoever, but if he’s just looking for a companion, I can do that,’” Johnston said.While caring for the man, she heard about a book called “Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death.” Through reading, she learned “death doula” was the term for a person who serves as a compassionate companion to someone at the end of life.

“We don’t know when we’re going to pass unless we’ve been given that kind of diagnosis. So for me, it was really powerful and … made me feel strong about it,” Wagoner said. “It’s just a very comforting feeling, and empowering yourself to be able to express what you really want, because to family members sometimes, you can’t express that.”

There has been some progress, as Keeran said she remembers a time when death and grief were hardly ever talked about, especially in the 1970s.“Ihave a deep background in

“You have to put yourself in a mindset of, you have three months left to live. And then, in that threemonth time, what practically do you want to accomplish?” Wagoner said. “And it was good to be able to do it without actually being in that situation.”Aspartof the experience, Keeran gave Wagoner a map to write down what Wagoner’s wishes were so her family would know, helping alleviate some of the stress her family would experience following her death.

“I’m very hesitant to get into any kind of a role in the medical care system,” she said, explaining she worries about over-regulation. “If I were to be, like, a Medicare beneﬁt, then I would have this obligation to follow these strict rules, which really hampers my ability to meet families where they are, to serve whatever their needs are.”

Prioritizing education

She had learned about death doulas a few years ago from a friend, she said. Following her retirement in 2021, she began her six-month training with the Conscious Dying Institute, as well as began training to become a certiﬁed nurse aide. In February 2022, she also completed training through the Conscious Dying Institute as a conscious dying educator.“Knowledge and information, I’m a big believer in, reduces fear,” she said. “I want to be able to bring that planning to the fore and have that in place before we reach (the) end of life.”Amain focus for Keeran, she said, is targeting education efforts toward older generations, communicating the value of putting together an end-of-life plan and exploring topics of pain, caregiving and medical aid in dying. She also helps people learn about the variety of body disposition options available to people in Colorado, such as water cremation.

Earlier this year, she began working with her friend, Karen Keeran, who recently became a death doula. Together, they began discussing Sargent’s wishes, such as having a calm and quiet environment when she is close to passing.

deathbed, your brain isn’t functioning, nothing is functioning, nothing is in place, and you don’t have that opportunity,” she said.

death. My childhood was full of death and loss,” Keeran said, explaining she was basically on her own at 19 years old. “Who I want to be now, is that person that I didn’t have, and my family didn’t have when I was growing up.”

Keeran agreed, saying she has seen how hospice nurses and aides are limited in how much time they can serve clients. She said she sees death doulas as offering specialty services, also noting that limiting death doulas to hospice care could reduce the number of people the doulas can

Althoughserve.working as a death doula can take a lot of emotional capacity, it’s a job Keeran and Johnston feel called to.

The death doula profession has also evolved over time, Johnston said, and as an emerging profession, discussions continue about how it may change in the future.

“When she introduced it to me, what she was doing, it was really interesting. I was kind of surprised, but yet, at the same time, I was like, wow, that’s a really unique business and a unique way to help people,” Wagoner said.

One of her ﬁrst clients was her friend, Maxine Wagoner, an owner of a yoga studio in Golden that Keeran is a member of. Wagoner said she had never heard of a death doula until Keeran approached her.

Conscious Dying Institute.

“When somebody says, ‘That must be so depressing,’ I’m like, actually it’s the complete opposite,” Johnston said. “When you deal with death on a daily basis, it really makes you value life.”

Choosing to become a death doula was a spiritual type of decision for Keeran.In2020, a year before she retired from her career in business, Keeran was meditating and asked the universe what she should do next. She said she woke up the next morning and it was like a light switch had been turned on — she should become a death doula.

The future of death doulas

In her current role, Johnston has maximum independence and ﬂexibility, she said. However, being outside the medical care system can hinder people’s willingness to pay for the death doula services since it’s out-of-pocket, she said.

“The tricky thing is, is that people have done what I do for millennia,” Johnston said, explaining she doesn’t want to create further barriers to entering the profession.

Although she said she wants to legitimize the profession, she’s hesitant about the idea of establishing a national certiﬁcation board for death doulas, as there currently is

“We know it’s inevitable, so let’s work on our approach to this inevitable thing,” Johnston said. “A big part of what I do is to normalize this for people, which it seems strange to say that this thing that happens to 100% of us needs to be normalized, but it does because we don’t ever talk about it.”

Although Sargent had previously done the legal parts of planning and preparing for her death, she said she hadn’t thought about the actual time of death and the type of environment she would like.

Rose Barr, left, and Michelle Smith, right, during a trip to Belize in 2019.

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With this goal of educating and helping others, Keeran launched her business, Golden Heart Transition, this spring. She offers a range of services including grief support, doula services, end-of-life planning and coaching using the “best three months” model developed by the

Currently, death doulas are outside of the medical care system, and Johnston said she thinks it should

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“This is me doing my heart’s work now, and it’s just super exciting,” KeeranDespitesaid.what others may think, Johnston embraces life because of her job, she said.

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While Keeran was completing her training last year, she needed people to practice her skills with, Wagoner said. Wagoner volunteered, and they did the “best three months” course.

“It’s this tricky thing of establishing value while providing the service, but I really think that the future of death doulas remains outside the medical care system just because that independence and ﬂexibility, I think, is how we serve our clients the best,” Johnston said.

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As educators about death and dying, both Johnston and Keeran expressed the importance of changing how people discuss death and dying, such as not associating it with giving up or as a failure.

“I have a very signiﬁcant level of gratitude to her because she knows that I can be a different kind of challenge because I know too much,” Sargent said, explaining she looks at situations from every angle. “She keeps me on track.”

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The show is ﬁ nally upon us, with the band playing at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 19. The group will be joined by cult faves Alvvays Get your tickets at www.axs.com.

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We spoke to Lynne Collins, artistic director of theatre and director of the show, about the production, what makes it unique and more.

One of the most exciting aspects of directing is casting — it’s a new adventure each time and I feel so lucky that we have an incredibly talented group working on this production. When working on a piece that has so many familiar characters, the actors have to ﬁ nd the nuances to bring them to life.

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According to provided information, the event will also feature the SB2C Helldiver and SNJ / T6. In addition to ground tours, a limited number of ﬂ ights in these historic craft are available for purchase through the Commemorative Air Force.

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For the last 10-plus years, Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs have been making some of the most ensorcelling indie rock you’re going to ﬁ nd anywhere. So, when I heard they were ﬁ nally going to be playing Red Rocks Amphitheatre , 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in Morrison, this summer, I know the group would absolutely understand the assignment.

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“Into the Woods” is an iconic piece of musical theatre. It’s a tribute to the genius storytelling of Sondheim and James Lapine that these characters we think we know take on a whole new life in relatable moments. Our production takes a new twist on the story and is set in a child’s nursery. We get to see the story unfold through the imagination of a child and the story unfolds as life itself twists and changes.

I think that audiences will see themselves in these characters — we’re all hopeful, ﬂ awed, all wandering in the woods and hoping to ﬁ nd our way home and “Into the Woods” shows us that in a magical and musical way.

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I am looking forward to seeing the whole picture come together for an audience. Coming out of the pandemic and difﬁ cult times, this story can connect to so many different people — whether it’s about having the courage to set

It’s always an exciting challenge to bring a fairy tale to life on stage. I am fortunate to be surrounded by the best artists and artisans — from scenic design and lights to props and costumes, it has been a remarkable collaboration to put magic on stage. Our production is full of stage tricks that lift the audience out of the ordinary and into the fantastical.

Pirate Fest , one of Northglenn’s biggest events of the year, is back to take scallywags and landlubbers alike on a wild ride, with a whole slew of events for the entire family. The annual event kicks off with Pirate Night , from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 16, and continues with the actual festival from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, both at the Northglenn Recreation Center and EB Rains Jr. Memorial Park , 11701 Community Center

will be able to take part in a range of activities, including live music, food, costumes and the Cardboard Regatta boat race. Get the full schedule and information at https://thepiratefest.com.

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-What’s the show about and what makes it special?

here are some names that stand on their own when you’re talking about the theater and Stephen Sondheim is right at the top of that list. So, when the Arvada Center announced it was kicking off its 2022-2023 season with his immortal “Into the Woods,” it was thrilling news.

The production of this witty and powerful take on some classic fairy tales runs at the Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., through Sunday, Oct. 9. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 p.m. on Wednesday and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

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Je co Thriving 2025

Lisa Relou, chief of strategy and communications for the District, presented updated information to the Board of Directors about school consolidations.

During the Sept. 7 meeting, the Jefferson County Board of Education heard an update on the Jeffco Thriving 2025project, which aims to update how the district deﬁnes a “thriving” student and school.

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the planning and property department of Jeffco Public schools, spoke on the projected amount of children that may come from housing developments the District is aware of in the Jeffco public school area. He highlighted each area impacted by the consolidations, expecting about 192 future students from Bear Creek, 752 out of Green Mountain, 122 from Jefferson, 169 in Lakewood, and 84 projected to come from WheatRelouRidge.alsohighlighted that class sizes were expected to stay within the agreement made with Jefferson County Education Association — which represents educators in the district — at 18 to 24 students for kindergarten to third grade, and 22 to 30 for fourth to sixth grade.

The original recommendation from the District on Aug. 25 to the Board was to close 16 elementary schools — including K-2, K-5 and K-6 schools — mainly due to underenrollment and an excess of capacity. On Sept. 7, Relou reiterated that each school will have a community meeting about the consolidations — one in September, one in October — as well as a one-hour public hearing, all before the Board votes on Nov. 10.

materials to help with math proﬁciency.Forother, not purely academic standards, LeBlanc-Esparza explained that “digital citizenship” and “digital equity” would be a large part of fulﬁlling an “extraordinary student experience,” as well as ensuring “all students have access to effective intervention supports andBoardsystems.”member Paula Reed questioned how best to determine actual competency of students and not just stress the importance of credits for students and teachers alike. LeBlanc-Esparz responded that further data like test scores will be used, and she highlighted another point of Reed’s that students must also have input to be able to “own” their goals and data and further motivate them.“Being data-driven as an organization does not mean that it all falls on individual teachers,” pointed out Superintendent Tracy Dorland. “The hope with being data-driven is that the District accepts responsibility building systems and structures that support schools, as they leverage those systems and structures to support students.”

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“We just wanted to assure people that we still will have space in our elementary schools for additional students, should they come,” elaborated Relou. She also highlighted a concern about “bubbles” of students and said, “we’ll certainly have enough room.”

The priorities presented by Deputy Superintendent Kym LeBlanc-Esparza covered high quality instructional materials and practices, students reading on grade level by third grade, each student being proficient at math by fifth and eight grade, on track credit-wise as a ninth grader, and every student having the “knowledge and skills for a post-secondary life” when they graduate.Thespecific grade levels were called “foundational” for those subjects. LeBlanc-Esparza elaborated that being on the correct reading grade level by third grade set students on the right path further along, with math proficiencies at fifth and eighth having similar longterm effects on their future capabilities.She elaborated on how the District intends on fulfilling these priorities, such as expanding universal pre-k and using high dosage tutoring to help with grade level reading, and “high-quality instructional materials for mathematics” along with training for teachers to use these

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‘So the results of this study are alarming, as we know that many Latinos live impacteddisproportionatelyincommunitiesinAdamsCountyandnorthDenver.’

The ﬁ ndings from babies involved in a mother’s milk study in Southern California go straight to the heart of a series of environmental justice and air pollution laws passed in Colorado in recent years. State lawmakers and regulators are targeting pollution concentrated in lower-income and minority neighborhoods, and overhauling permitting and transportation spending to combat what they have called historic injustice.Theresearchers say the study published in the August edition of the science journal “Gut Microbes,” is “the ﬁ rst to show a link between inhaled pollutants … and changes in infant microbial health during this critical window of development.”

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The healthy gut “microbiome” of babies living in high pollution areas is under threat from particulates from vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildﬁ re smoke, leaving them more vulnerable to immune afﬂ ictions like diabetes or allergies, a new University of Colorado study says.

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ter of a human hair. The particles are emitted by car and truck fossil fuel exhaust, coal-ﬁ red power plants or chemical emissions

“This study adds to a growing body of evidence that breathing pollution harms more than just our lungs,” said Laurie Anderson, Colorado ﬁ eld organizer for Moms Clean Air Force. “Babies and children are especially vulnerable. Here in Colorado, where we have persistent air pollution problems, this study increases the urgency of taking swift action to reduce pollution — especially in the most impacted communities.”

Suncor oil reﬁ nery, the Cherokee Generating Station, multiple interstates jammed with truck trafﬁ c, numerous heavy industries and a history of metals smelting.

“So the results of this study are alarming, as we know that many Latinos live in disproportionately impacted communities in Adams County and north Denver,” he said.Antipollution activists often

PM2.5 particle pollution is limited by regulations, and each particle is about 1/70th the diame-

Juan Madrid, a clean air advocate and transportation advocate with Colorado GreenLatinos

vious research about the health impacts of air pollution on adults, said Juan Madrid, a clean air and transportation advocate with Colorado GreenLatinos. Half of Adams County births in 2020-21, and a third of Denver births, were to Latino mothers, Madrid noted.

Air pollution hurts baby gut biome

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The infant gut collection of microbes is largely a blank slate until infl uenced by breast milk, solid food, the environment, any medicine intake, and other factors, according to the CU researchers. Benefi cial microbes work to build appetite, immunity, insulin control and brain functions. But “bad” microbes can infl uence asthma, Type 2 diabetes and other lifelong issues.

Particles slash good bacteria in infants, CU study says

One of the most prevalent causes of poor air quality in Colorado is ground-level ozone.

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‘We’re going to also be considering individual behavioral factors as well as the environment. If there is this association with air pollution and the gut bacteria, how long does that persist? Do we see that over the course of development and the question is what kind of health implications does that have? .’

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In the meantime, the research ers say all families should take the easiest precautions against local air pollution: avoid exer cising near traffic or industrial areas, open windows or use stove vents during home cooking that may create particulates and seek a low-cost air filtration system. As always, they emphasize that moms should continue breast feeding as long as possible, one of the most crucial ways to support a healthy baby biome and brain development.“Whatwedo know is that breastfeeding can act as a very potent beneficial probiotic,” Al derete said.

103 primarily Latino infants in Los Angeles. Alderete learned of the cohort and was able to gain access to the genetic data while she worked on her Ph.D. at the University of Southern Califor nia. The infants’ health data was overlaid with hourly pollution samples in their area that are taken constantly by the EPA. Those exposed to the most PM2.5 lost 60% of a bacterium that decreases inflammation and aids infant brain development. Those exposed to the most PM10, slightly larger particles, had 85% more of a bacterium associated withAlderete’sinflammation.earlier research on air pollution and microbes looked at about 50 young adults, showing

that air pollution exposure from nearby high-traffic roads “was as sociated with bacteria in the gut,” she said. “And those bacteria had been linked with obesity, Type 2 diabetes and insulin sensitivity.”

The research also looked at markers from slightly larger particles, PM10, and nitrogen di oxide, primarily a vehicle-related emission.Theresults speak to a crucial age of development where the en vironment “sticks with you,” the CU researchers say. They talked about the study in a week of record heat in Denver and much of Colorado, and where state officials called another series of Ozone Action Day Alerts caution ing those in urban areas vulnera ble to some forms of air pollution.

The researchers have also received funding and approval to follow the Southern California babies through six years, to check on the long-term impacts of their gut biome findings.

from factories, burning forests and other sources. Colorado is not currently in violation of EPA limits on PM2.5 in the way that it violates ozone caps.

does that persist? Do we see that over the course of development and the question is what kind of health implications does that have?”Thestudy is not able to distin guish the varied influence of the child’s indoor environment on the same intestinal biome issues. Home cooking creates particu lates that can influence personal health, as well as other behavior al or environmental factors such as burning candles or having access to home air filtration.

But decades of regulation are just starting to have an impact, and low-income neighborhoods near reﬁneries, power plants and busy highways are much more exposed than others. Bad wildﬁre seasons like those in 2020 and 2021 wipe out a lot of progress.

“We’re going to also be consid ering individual behavioral fac tors as well as the environment,” Alderete said. “If there is this association with air pollution and the gut bacteria, how long

“I want to be able to arm indi viduals and communities with the information needed to fight for change,” said Tanya Alderete, study co-author and assistant pro fessor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado.

Those results, Alderete said, have since been replicated in a larger sample of young adults.

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The victory improved Denver East to 3-0 on the season, while Ralston Valley dropped to 2-4.

Ralston Valley senior Jackson Ru (10) celebrates with teammates after Ru ’s goal in the 8th minute against Denver East on Sept. 7 at the North Area Athletic Complex. The Mustangs couldn’t hold on to the lead and lost 2-1. PHOTOS BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Despite the loss, Scarcliff liked what she saw with the Mustangs going up against the perennial 5A powerhouse that is always in the mix during the state tournament.

Both teams had some scoring chances in the second part of the ﬁ rst half, but both Sloan and Bierman held strong to keep the game tied going into halftime.

Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

“It was a big improvement on our part,” Ruff said. “We obviously have stuff to work on, but we are moving in the right direction. It’s a loss but we can build fromRalstonit.”

“It is a big win. It was a great game,” Morrison said. “Give credit to Liam Sloan — our goalie — and the whole team. We started out a little rough, but pulled it together to get the win.”

The Class 5A Jeffco League schedule begins for Ralston Valley when it host Lakewood on Sept. 29. The conference looks to be a tight race with No. 3-ranked Valor Christian as the front-runner. The Eagles are actually currently the lone 5A Jeffco team with an above .500 record.

Ralston Valley nearly tied it up in the ﬁ nal minutes. The Mustangs had chances on a couple of corner kicks. Senior Shaun Martinez and sophomore Cooper Hineline both had shots on goals in the ﬁ nal two minutes that were saved by Sloan.

Ruff was able to gather the ball and turn quickly for a shot before Denver East defenders could block his shot that got past Sloan.

The goal was what Denver East — No. 6 in last week’s CHSAANow. com Class 5A boys soccer rankings — needed in the second half to defeat a game Ralston Valley squad on the natural grass ﬁ eld at the North Area Athletic Complex.

“They are a great team,” Ralston Valley coach Jamie Scarcliff said. “I really respect Denver East. Every year that we’ve play them they are fast, physical and technical. I fell like it was a good performance for us to match that and see where weMidwaystand.”through the second half Denver East senior Zeke Lubin served a brilliant corner kick that fellow senior Lee Morrison put into the back of the net to break a 1-1“Itie.went for the header and scored,” Morrison said. “Big credit to Zeke that was a great ball.”

The Mustangs got the board ﬁ rst on a great left-footed kick by senior Jackson Ruff in the 8th minute. Moments earlier Ruff rattled the cross bar, but found the back of the net coming off a Ralston Valley corner kick.

“I saw the ﬂ ick go over me. Inside the 18 (yard box) I just decided to turn and smash it,” Ruff said of his goal in the 8th minute. “I was lucky it got through some people and hit the back of the net.”Denver East would answer four minutes later. Senior Nathan Howard found himself with an open look and powered a shot past Ralston Valley goalie Evan Bierman in the 12th minute to tie things up at 1-1.

end,” Scarcliff said. “It was probably the ﬁ rst game this year that we played from the ﬁ rst whistle through the second half. We still have some things to work on, but I felt our effort and connection as a group was more there today than we’ve seen all season.”

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Valley ﬁ nishes its nonleague schedules with a pair of road games. The Mustangs travel to Colorado Springs on Sept. 15 to face Liberty before heading up north to Fort Collins to square off against Rocky Mountain.

Denver East boys soccer edges Ralston Valley

ARVADA — In a game that featured plenty of scoring chances on both sides, it was a perfectly executed corner kick that gave Denver East a hard-fought 2-1 victory Sept. 7.

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“Their keeper made some good saves and Evan made some good saves,” Scarcliff said.

Denver East senior Gus Sundstrom (14) and Ralston Valley junior Kyle Hearne (16) battle for the ball during the non-league game Sept. 7 at the North Area Athletic Complex. Denver East edged Ralston Valley 2-1.

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“It was a much better performance from us from beginning to

“The girls are all on the same page. We call it climbing the mountain,” Columbine coach Jim Santaniello said after the Rebels improved to 10-0 on the season on the morning of Sept. 9 with a 3-1 victory over Mountain Vista. “Anything besides a state championship is going to be a letdown for this team. That is a tough goal, but we believe we can do it.”Columbine won the 5A state title back in 2019, its ﬁrst state softball title ever. The Rebels were one win away last year before Legend defeated Columbine 8-0 in the state championship game at Aurora Sports Park.

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with a victory against Mountain Vista.Vargas belted a solo home run in the top of the ﬁfth inning to tie things up 1-1. She then delivered again in the top of the seventh inning with a 2-run blast to propel Columbine to a 3-1 come-from-behind victory.“Itwas just something that I naturally like to swing at,” Vargas said of taking a pair of low pitches over the fence against Mountain Vista to knock in all three runs for the Rebels.Vargas is one of two freshmen that got starts for the Rebels. While Vargas got the start and third base, freshman Livi Keiter got the start at shortstop and is hitting near .500 on the season. Keiter is the niece of Kami Keiter, who helped Arvada West to back-to-back state titles a few decades ago.

Columbine junior Liz Phillips ﬁres to the plate during the Rebels’ 3-1 victory over Mountain Vista on Sept. 9 at Aurora Sports Park.

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“We have been excited about this freshman class,” Santaniello said. “We’ve seen them in camps. We forget that they are freshmen because they play at the varsity level already.

The Rebels returned to Aurora Sports Park on Friday for Day 2 of the annual Dave Sanders Memorial Softball Tournament. Columbine freshman Nina Vargas gave all the offense the Rebels needed to escape

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“I think one of the biggest myths and what we see on social media is that people are kidnapped by a

that many victims had a traumatic childhood. “They’re looking for love and inclusion, and a trafﬁcker reaches in and offers that person the thing they need — that love, the bus ticket, the job, the housing — and kind of hooks them that way.”

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stranger and taken into a situation that would be sex trafficking, when in fact that is almost never the case,” she said, adding that most victims are trafficked by someone familiar to them, which sometimes includes parents trafficking children. “Oftentimes it’s someone they know and love. So this ‘Stranger danger, white van marauding the industriestheseandchildcare,rants,landscaping,happensfraudofingvictimsisbecomeanyoneatmillionofreallygonna-snatch-up-your-kids’neighborhoodsmythisjustthat.”AccordingtotheU.S.DepartmentState,thereisanaverageof24.9traffickingvictimsworldwideanygiventime.Statisticsshowthatofanyrace,ageorgendercanavictim.Humantraffickingdefinedasacrimeofexploitation;arepressuredintoprovid-labor—includingsexasaformlabor—throughtheuseofforce,orcoercion.Buttraffickingalsoinmanyindustriessuchashospitalityandrestau-construction,massageparlors,domesticwork,factoriesjanitorialservices.Manyofworkplacesareinlowwagewithhighturnoverrates.

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“Many of the people affected by these crimes are from marginalized communities, so they don’t feel comfortable, they don’t feel safe reporting the crimes,” she said. “They don’t feel like they will be be loved or supported and in many cases they are criminalized because of crimes they were forced to commit as a result of theirPerpetratorstrafficking.”oftrafficking target and manipulate their victims, taking over their lives. If you suspect someone you know is in a trafficking situation, call Colorado’s Human Trafficking Hotline at 866-455-5075, or text 720-999-9724.

Napolitano added that most victims are“Theyrecruited.areidentiﬁed by the perpetrator or trafﬁcker as being vulnerable and people are vulnerable for lots of reasons. They’re experiencing homelessness, they’re using drugs, they’re desperately looking for work,” Napolitano explained, saying

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonproﬁt public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.

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A threat to vulnerable populations

over the last several years.

Denver’s Laboratory to Combat Human Tra cking.

In a laboratory housed in a red brick building near downtown Denver, the workers inside aren’t running scientiﬁc experiments.

Napolitano explained that human trafﬁcking goes beyond what most people see in mainstream media and social media.

The Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking actually functions as a hub for information, data and resources for anti-trafficking efforts across the state, while also taking around-the-clock calls that come in on Colorado’s Human Trafficking hotline. Anywhere from two to five calls come into the hotline on a daily basis.“We provide the resources for the needs of trafficking survivors in Colorado. Survivors call looking for resources themselves, or providers that are working for survivors. Sometimes we get tips that we pass on to law enforcement when requested,” said Kara Napolitano, the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking’s research and training manager.

Katlyn Pryshlak, the hotline and advocacy manager at the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, adds that the hotline is so important because most trafficking victims have a difficult time reaching out.

“There’s a lot of stigma and shame around the experience of being trafficked and losing control over your life,” Pryshlak said, “so when a human trafficking survivor shows up at the hospital or school, they’re not going to be that person who’s saying ‘help!’”Andthat also makes many human trafficking cases difficult to prosecute in court, explained Napolitano, who said that only a few hundred cases have been prosecuted in Colorado

Many low-wage industries around America employ victims

US Department of Housing and Urban De velopment requires local jurisdictions receiving certain grant funds to prepare an Annual Action Plan for Housing and Community Development Programs. The City of Arvada is preparing its proposed 2023 Annual Action Plan and is encour aging citizen participation in the preparation of the 2023 Annual Action Plan. The 2023 Annual Action Plan will outline the proposed use of an estimated $450,000 in 2023 Community Development Block Grant Funds (CDBG). The City invites all citizens and other interested parties who desire to provide comments on City housing and community development needs including priority non-housing community development needs; use of 2023 CDBG; or past program performance; and/or to make comments regarding use of 2023 funding from the Human Services Funding Pool to do so at a public hearing: At 6:15 P.M., September 19, 2022 in City Council Chambers, Arvada Municipal Building, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada, Colorado. If you wish to attend the meeting via Zoom, please contact Kevin Luy at kluy@arvada.org with the meeting date.

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Ogden had a 21-3 record last year with a 2.25 ERA. Her ERA after the win against the Golden Eagles is 0.52.“I’m ready for that mindset of being in stressful situations,” said Ogden, who begins here third year as the Rebels’ No. 1 pitcher.

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WEST POINT METROPOLITAN DISTRICT PARK RIDGE SUBDISTRICT OF WEST METROPOLITANPOINT DISTRICT By: /s/ Michael McCarron Vice AssistantPresident/Secretary/ Treasurer Legal Notice No. 414578 First Publication: September 15, 2022 Last Publication: September 15, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript and the Arvada Press ### Arvada Legals September 15, 2022 * 1 WALK-IN BATHTUB SALE! SAVE $1,50000 Walk-In Tubs ✓ Backed by American Standard’s 150 years of experience ✓ Ultra low ease of entry and exit ✓ Patented Quick Drain® Technology ✓ Lifetime Warranty on the bath AND installation, INCLUDING labor backed by American Standard ✓ 44 Hydrotherapy Jets for an invigorating massage Limited Time O er–Call Today! 855-785-8519&forDesignedpainreliefeasyuse1-844-823-0293FREEDOM.TOBEYOU. MKT-P0253 If you think oxygen therapy means slowing down, it’s time for a welcome breath of fresh air. now.” nings.

“There is a lot of pressure with us chasing another state title again,” Vargas said. “There is a big target on our backs and everyone is coming for us, but we all have a lot of hunger. We all want it.”

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Ogden was thrown into the ﬁre as a sophomore the year after Columbine won the state title and

information is available by contacting the Housing Preservation and Resources Division, Arvada City Hall, 8101 Ralston Road, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5

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“She (Ogden) just gets better and better. She is an elite pitcher,” Santaniello said. “We do need to rely on some other pitchers and Liz did a great job today.”

the season and win the tournament before

Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow.com. Hazard Determinations for the City of Arvada and Unincorporated Areas of

The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and infor mation on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at

Jefferson County, Colorado, Case No. 21-081154P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determi nations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designa tions, or the regulatory floodway. www. fema.gov/plan/prevent/fhm/bfe, or call the FEMA Map Information eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

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bounce back last year going 25-4 that included an 18-game winning steak and state runner-up.

They are going to have their growing pains and make mistakes, but they are ahead of the curve rightWhilenow.”the talented youth is something Columbine is counting on this season, the Rebels are still going to lean on senior Araya Ogden on the mound. Junior Liz Phillips got the start against Mountain Vista and give up just one run on seven hits through 3 and 1/3 innings.Ogden relieved Phillips in the middle of the fourth inning. After walking the ﬁrst batter Ogden faced she preceded to retire the next 11 batters she saw to pick up the“Twovictory.years ago I deﬁnitely wasn’t a dominant pitcher. I wasn’t even ready, but Korbe (Otis) was hurt so I got thrown in there,” Ogden said. “My mentality has always been to be the best that I can be. Do what I can.”

Columbine ﬁnished off the tournament Sept. 10, by winning the Dave Sanders with victories over Brighton and Windsor. The Rebels head into 5A Jeffco League play this week. The Rebels were slated to host Arvada West Sept. 14.

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Legal Notice No. 414693 First Publication: September 15, 2022 Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript and the Arvada Press Public Notice Notice Of Public Hearing And Funding Application Process For The Community Development Block Grant 2023 Proposed Annual Action Plan And The 2023 Human Services Funding Pool

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the Rebels’ ace Korbe Otis didn’t play her senior season due to

injury. The Rebels went 8-8 during the COVID season, but had a big

CDBG and Human Services Funding Pool Ap plication Process All parties who desire to apply for year 2023 CDBG or year 2023 Human Services Funding Pool funding from the City of Arvada must submit an online application by 5:00 PM on September 2, 2022. Please contact the person listed below for further questions. The application form and instructions are available https://arvada.org/residents/city-neighborhoods/at cdgb-funds-at-work-in-arvada For further information: Please contact Carrie Espinosa at: caespinosa@arvada.org or call 720-898-7494, between 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., weekdays. Legal Notice No. 414647 First Publication: September 8, 2022 Last Publication: September15, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Metro Districts Budget Hearings Public Notice NOTICE CONCERNING PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET AMENDMENT (IF NECESSARY) AND PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET OF WEST POINT METROPOLITAN DISTRICT AND PARK RIDGE SUBDISTRICT OF WEST METROPOLITANPOINTDISTRICT NOTICE is hereby given to all interested parties (1) the possible necessity has arisen to amend the 2022 Budgets of the West Point Metropolitan District (the “District”) and the Park Ridge Sub district of West Point Metropolitan District (the “Subdistrict”); (2) that proposed budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors of the District and Subdistrict for the ensuing year of 2023; (3) that copies of such 2022 Amended Bud gets (if necessary) and proposed 2023 Budgets have been filed in the

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Columbine senior Araya Ogden takes a swing during the Dave Sanders Memorial Softball Tournament on at Aurora Sports Park. The Rebels got wins over Golden, Mountain Vista, Grand Junction, Brighton and Windsor to improve on heading into Class 5A Je co League play.

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The LDC will determine the type and amount of truck trafﬁc that is allowed in industrial developments, which will generate the trafﬁc associated with that zoning.

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PROTECTING WHAT IS ALLOWED IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONING WILL PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM INCOMPATIBLE LAND USE AND HEAVY INDUST RIALIZATION

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Over the past year, RVC has been following the process with the proposed LDC Amendments, met with city staff and elected officials and shared our concerns on how th eir proposed changes will affect the community and we thank them for taking the time to hear our concerns. Several amendments such as increasing the notification radius and ‘ call ups’ are positive changes but THE DEFINITION OF A TRUCK AND THE NUMBER OF TRIPS is of utmost concern.

Over the past year, RVC has been following the process with the proposed LDC Amendments, met with city staff and elected ofﬁcials and shared our concerns on how their proposed changes will affect the community and we thank them for taking the time to hear our concerns. Several amendments such as increasing the notiﬁcation radius and ‘call-ups’ are positive changes but THE DEFINITION OF A TRUCK AND THE NUMBER OF TRIPS is of utmost concern.

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