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King’s statement said that Almanza appeared before the Jefferson County Court on Sept. 14 and was advised of the

chief, I love this job.’ To Dillon’s family, we promise to always be by your side and we promise to honor and remember Dillon’s legacy.”

Dunn also took second place for Best News Story for her investigative work on a former political candidate being charged with felony identity theft.

“When multiple gunshots rang out that morning, he placed himself between the gunman and the men women and children being shot at, and he fought,” Strate said. “For his

A local law enforcement family looks on as the police procession passes by.

Less than a week after 27-year-old Arvada Police Ofﬁcer Dillon Vakoff was killed in the line of duty, hundreds of mourners paid their

Colorado Community Media reporters and staff received 19 awards in the Colorado Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest, which honored the state’s best jour-

Members of the Jefferson County Sherrif’s ofﬁce and Arapahoe Sherrif’s Ofﬁce also were present.

respects on Sept. 16 during a funeral service at Flatirons Community Church in Lafayette.

One female victim was shot in the exchange and is expected to survive. Almanza and Vakoff also incurred gunshot wounds.

nalism work for 2021.

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shooting and aftermath, and a ﬁrstplace award in the Best Business/ News Feature category for her work on Namiko’s 30-year history spanning two generations.

Fallen Arvada Police O cer Dillon

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CCM writers, sta net 19 newspaper awards

Officer Vakoff was killed while responding to a large familial disturbance on Sept. 11. Almanza was arrested and transported to a local hospital shortly thereafter, where he was treated for at least one gunshot wound incurred during the incident.

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At a press conference earlier this week, Arvada Police Chief Link Strate said that gunfire had broken out before Vakoff and another APD officer responded and continued once they arrived.

First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King released a statement Sept. 14 on the status of the investigation into Arvada Police Officer Dillon Vakoff’s Sept. 11 murder, stating that suspect Sonny Almanza has been advised of the charges he faces and will be held without bond, and that the First Judicial Critical Incident Response Team is investigating the use of force by Officer Vakoff in the incident.

Vakoff’s family and friends were joined by 85 agencies, encompassing 558 service attendees and 268 vehicles. This does not include the dozens of ofﬁcers and vehicles with the Arvada Police that also took part.“When I would pass Dillon in the hallways, I’d say, ‘How you doin?’” Arvada Police Chief Link Strate said. ”He’d say, ‘I’m doing great

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Leading the honorees named during a Sept. 17 ceremony at Coors Field was Arvada Press reporter Rylee Dunn. Dunn, who primarily covers Arvada, received two ﬁrstplace honors. Dunn received the top prize in the Best Series or Sustained Coverage in the Class 4 division for the work on the Olde Town Arvada

Vako remembered at memorial service

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Douglas County reporter Elliott Wenzler also took home several awards, including ﬁrst place for Best Health/Enterprise Story for an interview with Dr. John Douglas, the head of Tri-County Health Department, after one year of the COVID pandemic.

Arvada Police O cer Dillon Vako ’s hearse is transported to his memorial service.

“We become accustomed to death in this ﬁeld but it’s never easy when it’s one of our own,” Vakoff’s friend and APD counterpart said. ”We’ve lost two ofﬁcers in the last 15 months; two genuinely great human beings.”

Members of a local law enforcement family and a handful of other onlookers showed support for Vakoff and those impacted by his death during the police procession.

Vakoff, who is from Wheat Ridge, is a graduate of Ralston Valley High School. He served in the U.S. Air Force for six years and was training to become a S.W.A.T. ofﬁcer. He joined the Arvada Police Department inWhile2019. serving in the Air Force, Vakoff was stationed at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, in Qatar and in Guam. He enabled air strikes in Iraq against ISIS in Iraq and against Al Queda in Afghanistan, helping liberate two cities under ISIS rule.

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O cers load the casket of fallen Arvada police o cer Dillion Vako after a memorial service held Sept. 16 in Lafayette, Colorado. Vako was fatally shot while responding to a disturbance, early in the morning on Sept. 11.

The police procession for O cer Dillon Vako ’s funeral.

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service, Ofﬁcer Vakoff is being awarded the Medal of Valor.”

To honor his memory, an aircrew from the 96th Bomb Squadron ﬂew over in a B-52, as Vakoff’s casket arrived, tipping its huge wing in a ﬁnal salute.Vakoff served six years and was awarded the Air Force CommendationHeMedal.waskilled while responding to a domestic dispute on Sept. 11.

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released from the hospital — where he was being treated for a gunshot wound incurred during the incident — and faces one count of ﬁrst-degree murder of a peace ofﬁcer, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of child Almanzaabuse.isscheduled to appear in court on Sept. 20.

One suspect, 31-year-old Sonny Almanza, is in custody for Vakoff’s murder. On Sept. 15, Almanza was

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Compare those numbers with the chart at right, created from REcolorado, based on closings within 25 miles of the Capitol.

Broker Associates:

Think of it like a Parade of Homes, but where some of the homes are new but most of them are older homes that have been made

There are more “menu” items, but you will learn about most of them by attending the Oct. 1 tour of green homes, including at its 5-7pm expo. See the article at right.

For example, Inman, the leading real estate news service, reported the following over the weekend: “All-cash home purchases in the U.S. hit 31.4 percent of all transactions in July 2022, up from 27.5 percent the year before, and just shy of an eight-year high reached in February, according to data released Friday by Redfin. Since the beginning of 2021, all-cash purchases have surged thanks to a pandemic-housing rush, reaching an apex in February when 32.1 percent of all transactions were made without financing, according to Redfin.”

O cer Dillon Vako

In a previous column, I pointed out that making your home more energy efficient can save you money immediately if you finance the improvements, because the monthly payments could be less than your monthly savings. The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act has some very generous tax credits and rebates that make such improvements even more practical and affordable. My intention this week is to give you a “roadmap” for doing so.

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murder.King’s statement also said that “to protect the integrity of the investigation and to ensure that the defendant can receive a fair trial,” additional details of the case will not be released at this time.

arrest charges, which include First Degree Murder of a Peace Officer, Attempt to Commit Murder in the First Degree, Possession of a Weapon by a Previous Offender and two counts of Child Abuse. Almanza is being held without bond.

Previous columns are

This home is located on a corner lot in quiet Scenic Heights, west of Carr Street and south of 72nd Avenue, close to the Arvada Center for the Arts. Also nearby are the Indian Tree Golf Course and Majestic View Park, as well as Old Towne Arvada with its light rail station. The seller is only the 2nd owner of this 1961 brick ranch, having lived there since 1987. It has a 4th bedroom and bath in the fully finished basement. There are hardwood floors throughout the main level, although there is carpet over the hardwood in two of the bedrooms. The landscaped yard with large shade trees, peach tree, blueberry bushes and roses is served by an irrigation system installed in 2019. The furnace and water heater were installed in 2017, and the central air conditioning in 2020. The interior was painted in 2017 and the exterior was painted in 2020. You can view a narrated video tour at www.ArvadaHome.info. I’ll hold it open this Saturday, Sept. 24th, 11am to 1pm. Arvada Ranch

Cash Sales Are Up Far Less Here Than Nationally

The logical starting point is to hire a professional to do an energy audit of your home — to identify the “low-hanging fruit,” meaning the quickest and easiest changes you can make or improvements you can install that will give you the most “bang for the

This home at 3740 Tabor Court is in the highly sought after Applewood Village neighborhood. It has a newly renovated interior with all new stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, oak hardwood floors, and custom tiled bathrooms. The main level has a primary bedroom with a 3/4 bath and two other bedrooms with double closets and a full bath in the adjoining hallway. All 4 bedrooms have new carpeting. The new furnace and A/C will keep you comfortable year-round. basement a family room large enough for a game room bathroom. The wood deck

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If you’ve ever wanted to reduce the carbon footprint of your home, you won’t want to miss the October 1st tour of metro area homes which have done just that.

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The statement also said that King will determine and file formal charges against Almanza next week, and Almanza will be advised of those charges on Sept. 20.

Regardless of those fluctuations, the percentages are well below the national percentages reported by Inman.

The

His death is the second line of duty fatality the Arvada Police Department has suffered in the last 15 months, the first being the death of Officer Gordon Beesley in the 2021 Olde Town Arvada Shooting.

$625,000

Thesuper-sustainable.9amto4pmtour starts with registration at the American Mountaineering Center in downtown Golden, 710 10th Street. For $10 per adult, you receive a guidebook and map for your self-guided tour. If you would like to ride in an electric car to the different homes, we have volunteers who will make that happen in their own Teslas or other EVs.

Coming: Metro Denver Green Homes Tour & EV Roundup

There was some confusion about the applicability of Denver’s affordable housing program which caused Chuck Brown’s listing at 2608 Syracuse St. #101 to be withdrawn for awhile, but that has been resolved, and it’s back on the market at $375,000. Learn more about it and take a video tour at www.DenverCondo.online.

Central Park Condo Back on Market

buck.”That low-hanging fruit is typically better insulation, and the energy auditor normally begins by performing a blower door test of your home. That involves installing a computer-calibrated fan in the doorway which sucks air out of your house. By depressurizing your home in this manner while all your other windows and doors

You’ll get a written report from you energy auditor with suggestions of things to do and how much benefit you will get from making those changes, whether it’s blowing insulation into your attic and walls, replacing your old gas furnaces and gas water heaters with heat pump versions, or installing better windows. By the way, most of the improvements your energy auditor recommends will earn you 30% or better tax credits and rebates, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act.

After touring the homes, come to the 35pm EV Roundup happening in the park-

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ing lot of The Net Zero Store, 17695 S. Golden Road, where Helio Home LLC will be holding demos and answering questions about what you can do to make your own home more sustainable or even “net zeroYouenergy.”canalso register online at www. NewEnergyColorado.com and pick up your guide book and map at Golden Real Estate, 1214 Washington Ave. Friday, Sept. 30, 10 to 6. Register for the EV event at www.DriveElectricWeek.info.

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Price Reduced on a Classic

Like you, I’ve read reports from Zillow, Redfin, the National Association of Realtors, and others about the surge in investor purchases and the percentage of transactions that are all cash, but I can rarely confirm those reports when I do statistical searches on REcolorado, Denver’s MLS.

The pandemic took root in April 2020,

The CRIT team investigated that incident as well, and King did not press charges against Arvada Police Officer Kraig Brownlow, who was determined to have shot civilian Johnny Hurley in his response to the incident.

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but there is little indication of an increase in cash transactions — and a modest increase at that — well into year two of the pandemic. A more significant increase can be noted in 2022, but the peak was well before the increase in mortgage interest rates which only showed up in April, and the percentage of cash sales actually dropped a little as those rates increased.

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An investigation by the First Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team into Vakoff’s actions are ongoing, as is standard procedure for cases that involve deadly force used by a law enforcement officer. Arvada Police officers are not involved in the CRIT team investigation but are investigating Vakoff’s

Vakoff was an Arvada resident and graduate of Ralston Valley High School in Arvada. Vakoff had been with APD since 2019 and was training to be a SWAT officer, according to Arvada Police Chief Link Strate.

What Steps Can You Take to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient?

are closed, the auditor can identify all the leaks which allow cold air into your home in the winter. That way you know where to caulk to make your home lessWhen“leaky.”it’s cold outside, the auditor can use an infrared camera pointed at your walls and ceilings to assess where you could improve your in-wall and in-ceiling insulation.

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You’ll learn about new forms of insulation, improved window designs, replacing natural gas with heat pumps, and so much more. There’s an expo of vendors 5-7pm.

or home theater, plus a large bedroom and full

and concrete patio are perfect for entertaining. The yard is fenced and there’s room for an RV. Close to parks, trails, shopping and schools. More details and pictures can be found at www.ApplewoodHome.info. Listed by David Dlugasch, 303-908-4835. Price Reduced on Applewood Village Home $837,000

Members of the Colorado Community Media team attend the Colorado Press Association awards ceremony held at Coors Field on Sept.

Wenzler received two second-place honors for feature (H2O’Brien Pool) and news photography (Homeless issues in Douglas County); in addition, she and former reporter Jessica Gibbs were honored in the breaking news category for their coverage of the STEM school shooting trial.

Former reporter David Gilbert

Designer Ben Wiebesiek won second place in the Lone Tree Voice for Best Page Design.

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South Metro Editor Thelma Grimes took ﬁ rst and second place in the Best Sustained Coverage or Series In the Class 6 division. She won ﬁ rst place a series on the Douglas County mental health program that has set standards at the state and national levels. She took second place for a series on delayed medical care due to COVID.Senior reporter Ellis Arnold took home a second-place honor in the news writring category for his coverage of Xcel Energy’s concerns for health, property values in south metro Denver.

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rate awards, with designer Tina Meltzer winning ﬁ rst- and secondplace awards for print ad design in the Class 4 division. In the Class 6 division, designer Tom Fildey placed second for best print ad.

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Gibbs took second place for Best Education Story on school districts addressing racial equity issues.West metro reporter Olivia Jewell Love was excited to receive her ﬁ rst professional award, taking home second-place honors in the health category for an article on Evergreen-area RNs tackling nurse burnout through healing groups, resources.

decades since the 1999 Columbine High School Washingtonshootings.ParkProﬁ le Editor Christy Steadman won second place for Best Health Enterprise story for her work on Denver Hospice.Inadvertising and design, the CCM team took home four sepa-

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won two ﬁ rst-place honors for his in-depth investigation on the Colorado Center for the Blind’s handling of sexual assault allegations.Inanother ﬁ rst-place honor, former Jeffco Transcript reporter Bob Wooley won for his feature story on the aftermath in the

struck by a Toyota Prius, the impact of which caused fatal injuries.Thedriver of the Toyota, identiﬁ ed only as a “male driver” by Arvada Police, is cooperating with the investigation, according to APD Public Information Ofﬁ cer Dave Snelling. The driver stayed

Arvada-Je erson Kiwanis Club hosts 3rd Annual Toss’n for Tots

James Baker and Jerry Ethridge play cornhole in a semi-ﬁnal game.

the Kiwanis club said this year’s fundraiser raised as much money as previous years; Toss’n for Tots raised $7,000 in 2020.

Event beneﬁtting local children’s charities replaced defunct tournamentbowling raisertournament.in2020

was on the roadway. We’re seeing if there’s any preventable action either parties could have taken.” Snelling said APD has notiﬁ ed the child’s family and was notifying his school district. The scooter the boy was riding was store bought and privately owned, not a ride-sharing vehicle.

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“This is a tragedy and we want to make sure we cover every aspect in the investigation,” Snelling said. “We need to look at positioning, where the young man

The Arvada-Jefferson Kiwanis Club held its 3rd Annual Toss’n for Tots cornhole fundraiser on Sept. 17 at the Allen House Pavilion. The fundraiser beneﬁts local children’s charities and raises money for them through an entry fee to the cornhole tournament.Thecornhole tournament replaced the club’s bowling fundraiser in 2020 after that event had to be shelved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A representative from

10-year-old Arvadan boy riding electric scooter killed in tra c collision

on the scene as ofﬁ cers responded. Snelling added that the investigation is ongoing, and charges have not been pressed yet.

Cornhole players try their hands at the lawn game at the Arvada-Je erson Kiwanis Club’s Toss’n for Tots fundraiser.

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A 10 year-old-boy was killed in a trafﬁ c accident at 7:39 p.m. on Sept. 17 on the 9300 block of Candelas Parkway. The boy — an Arvada resident — was riding an electric scooter when he was

The Je co Sheri ’s O ce plans to install up to 25 license-plate-reading cameras in unincorporated parts of the county to identify stolen vehicles and more. SHUTTERSTOCK

Pocsik described how several law enforcement agencies around the Denver metro area are using these cameras already or will be soon. Golden Police Department, for instance, has had great success with theirs over the last year or so,

Commissioners Lesley Dahlkemper and Andy Kerr wondered whether there were any privacy issues related to the cameras, or whether they could be used to identify vehicles with expired license plates or other minor infractions, as red-light

cameras will be good tools for JCSO. He added that it can also be used to identify suspect vehicles based on a basic description — such as blue Honda Civic with a sticker on the driver’s side — and can be an investigative tool in that

The cameras take a picture of each license plate and then run it against those entered in a national database for stolen vehicles and the like. If there’s a match, JCSO is alerted immediately.

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He also described how JCSO has been using license-platereading cameras in patrol vehicles for 20-plus years without major concerns. The license plate must be entered into the national database for JCSO to receive any alerts, so expired license plates wouldn’t qualify.

Pocsik confirmed the data is housed on a government server only for 30 days and then automatically deleted. JCSO would own the data and might share information with other law enforcement agencies in specific cases, but would never share it with the private sector, he said.

If JCSO wants to continue the program after a year, costs would be factored into future department budgets, Patrol Division Chief Scott Pocsik described during a Sept. 13 brieﬁng with the county commissioners.Thecommissioners gave their approval for JCSO to move forward with the pilot program’s license agreement, which the Board of County Commissioners will need to approve in a future meeting.

Je co Sheri ’s O ce to install cameras to identify stolen vehicles

The Jeffco Sheriff’s Ofﬁce plans to install up to 25 license-platereading cameras in unincorporated parts of the county to identify stolen vehicles and those connected to Amber Alerts and other criminal cases.

This will be part of a free oneyear pilot program with Flock Group Inc., which offers automatic license plate reader technology to law enforcement. These cameras would be installed throughout Jeffco, including in unincorporated South Jeffco, in the West Pleasant View and Applewood areas between Golden and Arvada, and the Genesee and Evergreen areas.

heHomeownerexplained. associations, such as one on Lookout Mountain, have been installing them too.

“Based on that alert, we’d be able to respond to that area in a more tactical way,” Pocsik told the commissioners. “ … The best case would be to stop that vehicle at our advantage. We want to avoid a pursuit.”Considering the massive increase in stolen vehicles in and around Jeffco, Pocsik said these

“If we get a description of a vehicle used in the crime, we can put that information into the system, and it’ll cross (reference) against vehicles that have passed by our cameras,” he continued.

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“Some common themes we saw in some of the drownings this year was the use of alcohol and people swimming from shore, on inner tubes, or paddling,” said Colorado Parks and Wildlife boating safety and registrations program manager Grant Brown, in the release.

der 13 have to wear it at all times.”

stay vigilant when recreating on the water,” Brown said. “Protect yourself from the dangers of cold water immersion and shock by wearing a life jacket and being aware of weather conditions, and water temperatures where you plan to recreate. Boat sober, enjoy the water, but always do so with a life jacket on — they save lives.”

CPW said 22 water fatalities were recorded in 2021, and 24 in 2019.

The previous record year was 2020, when 34 people drowned in Colorado.Alargenumber of this year’s record deaths appear to be related to drinking alcohol, and to paddling or swimming from shore, state ofﬁ cials said. They underlined that life jackets are required even on increasingly popular stand-up paddleboards, and urged people to take them along.

“While it is true that some people don’t know they need a life jacket on a kayak or stand-up paddleboard, many just do not take the risk seriously,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Joseph Livingston said, in an email. “Legally they are required to have one onboard a vessel. Children un-

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Colorado has broken its annual record for deaths from water recreation, with 36 fatalities so far and weeks left to go in the water sports season, Colorado Parks and Wildlife ofﬁ cials said on Sept. 13.

Colorado posts record number of drownings

Water users who think they have done enough by bringing a life jacket along aren’t realizing it can be impossible to get it on once they have fallen in the water, he added.Most people think they are good enough swimmers or don’t understand or take water or weather conditions seriously. Many of the drownings from this year involved people swimming near shore, and alcohol was a factor in many more.

A young boy sits at the very front of the raft known as: riding the bull in the Colorado River during a white water rafting expedition through Glenwood Canyon.

The total of water recreationrelated deaths hit 36 this year including 34 drownings, after recent accidents at Dillon Reservoir and James M. Robb-Colorado River State Park, state ofﬁ cials said. Two of the water recreation-related fatalities were not drownings.

“As we move into fall, please

Cold water shock can always play a part in high country water incidents, but rapidly falling temperatures and high winds can amplify the dangers.

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State minimum wage to increase in 2023

Highest inﬂation in 40 years causing widespread problems

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In the accident at James M. Robb – Colorado River State Park in Clifton, officials said they were called to the scene because someone had fallen off their paddleboard into the lake and had not surfaced. According to reports, the victim was not wear-

partment said the consumer price index rose 8.3% in August compared to last year, dashing hopes that the reading would show inﬂation receding. Food and housing costs were big contributors to the most recent gains.Pegging minimum wage to inﬂation is helpful for workers, but it doesn’t help families recoup the higher costs they’ve already absorbed, according to Paula Cole, a professor of economics at University of Denver.

ing a life jacket, state officials said.Other safety tips from Colorado Parks and Wildlife include checking ice conditions carefully before ice fishing, and remembering that waterfowl hunting with waders adds weight and creates other dangers in an accident.

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

The state’s minimum wage will increase by nearly 9% in 2023. However, inﬂation rates continue to cause families to struggle.

“It doesn’t offset the pain that workers were feeling this year because of prices being higher now,” ColeMoreover,said.

the tight labor market means that a lot of service jobs are already paying above the minimum wage, she said, and the annual increase won’t affect those wages. The increase will likely be felt most in rural areas where pay tends to be lower, she said.

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Colorado’s minimum wage will jump to $13.65 per hour next year — an 8.68% increase — amid persistent inﬂation.Thenew hourly wage will take effect Jan. 1, according to the state’s department of labor and employment. The annual adjustment, based on the consumer price index in Denver, Aurora and Lakewood, is written into the state’s constitution. In Denver, the minimum wage will rise to $17.29 per hour next year, up fromBusinesses$15.87. and consumers are struggling with the highest inﬂation in 40 years. The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates in an effort to slow price gains, but costs for many goods and services are still climbing. On Sept. 13, the U.S. Labor De-

Two bodies were found recently in Dillon Reservoir in about 15 feet of water after the men were apparently drinking, left their clothes on shore and went swimming at night.

The folks who took last week’s Labor Day poll dubbed “Who’s Working?” provided a glimpse into who’s still working, who isn’t and why. This is far from scientiﬁc but even a couple dozen responses shared the gamut of possibilities out there.

means Colorado-based businesses are even more pessimistic about the state of the nation’s economy than their peers coast to coast,” said Chuck Casto, Alignable’s Head ofHowever,Research.the

About half never stopped working during the disruptive year of 2020. And about half are still at the same job today. Overall, 85% have a job (some better, some worse) or are looking for one. The remaining 15% are retired or not looking.

No teenagers took the poll but several people between 65 and 74 years old and someone above 75 shared that they are working —- and they work to live.

We were in between ofﬁcial government economic reports on Colorado last week, but other organizations shared their ﬁndings.

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Some still hiring, including space jobs Companies are also moving to and expanding in Colorado. In Colorado Springs, The Aerospace Corporation, which is one of those nonprof-

He learned new skills and has been a self-employed tax accountant ever

Sharpe got a part-time job at a medical garment factory and as places reopened, she returned to her business, Secret Garden Catering, which serves the Western Slope.

Small businesses are concerned about their future and America’s economy with 63% of small businesses surveyed by smallbusiness network Alignable saying they‚Äôre putting hiring on hold. Colorado small businesses were more optimistic. Only 44% in Colorado felt the same.

There are still more than 120,000 jobs listed on the state’s job board even as new weekly jobless claims are still slightly higher than they were in 2019. Consumer prices, i.e., inﬂation, were up 8.2% in July from a year ago in the Denver metro area.

more optimistic in Colorado than elsewhere.

BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN

As other economists have chimed in in the past, some employers know how hard it was to hire people in the past two years. They’re not about to let them go now.

“Mysince.clients don’t care how old I am,” Mann said, “and I would die of boredom if I retired.”

44% of small businesses stop hiring

A new hiring report from small business network Alignable found that 66% of 307 small businesses surveyed in Colorado believe they’re already in a recession. And 28% would, instead, call it a depression. The survey of more than 5,000 small businesses nationwide was more upbeat, with 57% believing we’re in a recession. (We’re still not ofﬁcially in“Thatone).

Two-thirds surveyed say recession is here

No one needed a caterer when the pandemic hit.

“A lot of companies that were looking for (skilled labor), they’re not in a hurry to lay people off because there’s so much effort and cost to bring them back when the economy starts to rebound,” said Steven Byers, senior economist with Common Sense Institute, a conservative think tank in Greenwood Village. “Right now, I think there’s so many job openings nationwide and in Colorado that I don’t see (hiring) dropping off.”

• 63% of small businesses in the U.S. have put hiring on hold compared to 44% in Colorado.

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of a threat a possible recession will have on operations appears much

“Fortunately, folks still call me for parties and I am still able to work,” she said.

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Colorado gasoline prices are nearly back down to where they were a year ago, but everything else is just not quite the same, is it?

A few others retired early but had to “unretire” as rising costs got in the“Theway.stock market downturn has eaten a big hole in my ‘backup’ so I will continue to work as long as I’m able,” said Sara Sharpe, who lives in GrandSharpeJunction.hadsold her bed and breakfast in Ouray in late 2019 with every intention of retiring and living off Social Security and her part-time catering business.

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“I am 69 years old and plan to work until something happens to make that impossible,” said Mickey Mann, who was laid off in 2007 by IBM and found it impossible to get rehired in technology “because of rampant ageism.”

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“A housing recession would mean more inventory than demand from buyers, so your supply and demand would be out of whack — it would be out of balance. And prices would be going down, not like the 11%

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Still, Colorado isn’t seeing what some in the industry have termed a “housing recession,” Moye said — and it remains to be seen how the market will look on the other side of typical seasonal changes.

The federal government’s move in recent months to raise interest rates — the cost of borrowing money — to combat inﬂation “almost changed our market overnight,” Moye said.

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Collins to Colorado Springs — is 24,000 houses on the market, according to Moye. But that region has about 6,000 houses on the market, she said in mid-September.

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Prices likely won’t ever come back down to that level, said Moye, who has worked as a Realtor for three decades. But home prices in the metro area and statewide have shown some early signs that they may be breaking the pandemic-era trend of steepAugustincreases.wasthe fourth consecutive month of decreases in the median price for single-family homes in the metro area and statewide, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors’ most recent report. The median price was $620,000 in August in the metro area, down from $660,000 inAndApril.while the single-family home prices are still up compared to this time last year, the rate of year-overyear growth in prices has slowed for the last several months in the metro area and statewide.

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Di erent world than in 2008 Colorado’s housing market is in a “totally different place” than it was during the Great Recession, when the market had too much housing inventory, or supply, and people had loans they couldn’t afford, Moye said.“A lot of times, people make the mistake of thinking we are headed right back to where we were in 2008, and that’s not true,” Moye said. A typical amount of supply for the Front Range — roughly from Fort

Instead of a “screeching halt” in the housing market, Colorado is experiencing a slowdown to a more sustainable pace, Moye said.

But Colorado’s housing situation is still dire: This spring, the measure of housing affordability tracked by the association reached its lowest level since at least 2014 for both metro Denver and the state as a whole. While the market remains

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As JeffCo prepares to welcome the new renewable energy industrial park, it’s important to recognize that this was made possible by a public-private partnership. This collaboration among NREL, the state of Colorado, Jefferson County, Jeffco Open Space, Jeffco EDC and other partners will attract thousands of better-paying jobs and ensure our county is a global hub for renewable energy R &D. It will also advance a career-ready workforce through partnerships with our K-12 schools and higher education.During her tenure as county commissioner, Lesley Dahlkemper has been instrumental in advocating for and promoting these partnerships.IsupportLesley in her re-elec-

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The scare tactics aren’t just national. A prominent local realtor recently distributed a litany of societal ills to a number of civic groups and included the oftenrepeated claim that our schools no longer teach history.

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is a part of the Republican right which warns the public of the fall of America because of what is being taught in schools: the scary “critical race theory” that virtually no one can define; or the evil books that are suddenly populating our classrooms; or the frightening and disturbing possibility that a student might suffer some discomfort while learning about our country. Hence, enroll your children at their peril.

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After then sharing numerous figures on the various segments of our population, I had expected him to summarize all of the shifts in family lifestyles caused by COVID that might account for some of the reductions in school attendance. For one: Might more mothers have dropped out of the

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To have a real honest-to-goodness relationship with time you need to get honest with yourself. When you’re forever running to the next meeting, the next soccer game, the grocery store, you’re not fully present for any of it. Your mind is either racing ahead to planning what’s next or you’re worrying about what you wish had turned out differently.The truth is, time is what you make of it. The key to having more time is this simple:Getpresent in this here now moment.

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achieved thus far and honor the current production of “Hair,” Miners Alley is throwing its “Let the Sunshine In” Gala fundraiser at the Colorado School of Mines Green Center (Freidhoff Hall), 924 16th St. in Golden, from 6 to 11 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30.

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or many of us, we don’t exactly know what makes a piece of architecture or interior design appealing. There’s just something about it we respond

If you’ve been paying any attention to the tremendous work Golden’s Miners Alley Playhouse has been doing over the last few years, then you know how innovative and welcoming a real community theater company can be. And that was just act one.

“This year we are exploring the ways in which large institutions have inﬂuenced the architecture and design of Denver,” said Pauline Herrera, president and CEO of the foundation, in a provided statement. “Attendees will get insider access to some incredible spaces and be encouraged to ask big questions about some of our most signiﬁcant educational and cultural campuses.”

It takes only a casual news reader to see that there’s a reason so many people are worried about the state of the climate and environment. Mixed in with all the beauty the world offers are danger and fear about the future of the planet.

I’m of the opinion that if you write a song as good as “These Days,” you should be able to basically coast for the rest of your life. The fact that Jackson Browne wrote that song when he was 16 and went on to have a decadeslong career full of other stunning songs is straight up not fair - I mean, “For A Dancer?” “Running on Empty?” “The Pretender?” Just straight-up bulletproof.

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Attendees will be treated to live entertainment from the cast of “Hair,” dancing, full buffet dinner and cocktail reception, and more. Get all the details at https://minersalley.com/.

Art for a Cause in Golden

Walker Fine Art examines the natural world

Eleven artists will display and sell their paintings, jewelry, fibers, pottery, wood carvings, fused glass and more from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. both days at First Presbyterian Church of Golden, with 10% of sales going to World Vision’s Ukrainian Refugee Fund focusing on children and their families.

In addition to the in-person options, the curious can use eight new virtual free experiences to explore spaces in the metro area and Colorado Springs — including

the Historic Elitch Theatre, Red Rocks and the United States Air Force Academy.Inaddition to the tours, there’s the annual Y/OUR Denver photography Coloradofoundationthewhichcompetition,ishostedbyarchitectureandthePhoto-

It’s a treat that one of rock’s greatest songwriters will be playing at Red Rocks, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in Morrison, at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25. Don’t miss the chance to see one of the best there is - get tickets at axs. com.

Participating are Evergreen artists Tricia Bass, Beth Erlund, Stephanie Foster, Patti Gill and Michelene Berkey, plus Amy Evans from Breckenridge, Judy Madison from Golden, Mary Wickler from Lakewood, and Judi Mitchell and Nancy Wylie fromTheArvada.church is at 17707 W. 16th Ave. in Golden.

The 2022 event features 24 inperson tours that highlight Denver’s cultural and education hubs, including the Denver Zoo (which is being showcased with tours for the ﬁrst time), the University of Denver, the Auraria Higher Education Center and the Denver Center of the Performing Arts complex.

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The event came together when “we just called people whose work we really like and explained what we were doing,” and they wanted to help, according to artist Michelene Berkey of Evergreen. The artists also wanted to have a variety of media for sale, noting that it’s never to early to start thinking of holiday gifts.

graphic Arts Center. It is open to all photographers and participants are invited to submit their photos of architectural spaces in the metro area that capture their imagination. According to provided information, all forms of architectural imagery are welcome: black and white, color, exterior, interiors and detail images. 30 images will be selected from the submissions to be showcased on an online exhibit inNoDecember.matterwhat kind of spaces connects with you, you’re bound to learn something and get a healthy dose of inspiration. For all the necessary information, visit denverarchitecture.org.

“Yellow Iris” by artist Tricia Bass of Evergreen will be one of many pieces of art for sale at Art for a Cause to beneﬁt Ukrainian refugees.

Fortunately,to. there are organizations like the Denver Architecture Foundation and its annual Doors Open Denver event, which provide the opportunity to not only peek into some exclusive spaces, but help to put our ﬁnger on why we like a piece of design so much.

landscape, climate and habitat. The exhibit runs at the gallery through Saturday, Nov. 18. Find all the information at www.walkerﬁneart.com.

Doors Open Denver returns from Monday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Oct. 26, and features both new inperson and virtual tours as well as archives featuring virtual tours from previous years.

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“Environmental Reﬂections,” the latest exhibit at Walker Fine Art, 300 West 11th Ave., No. A, in Denver, gives six artists — Theresa Clowes, Elaine Coombs, George Kozman, Bryan Leister, Heather Patterson and Zelda Zinn — the opportunity to explore their understanding and appreciation of

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Her backyard takes in a lot of heat and sun, making it hard to keep the Kentucky bluegrass alive. Still, she wanted the grass aesthetic and plans to replace a portion with native grasses that don’t require much water and thrive in the sun. She added a patio as well.

Her neighbors took notice of the change and jumped in. Two homes in the cul-de-sac hired the same landscape designer and changed their yard to about 50% native species or xeriscape.A15-minute

“There was water everywhere, but we don’t have that (in Colorado),” she said.So she yanked out the portions of both her lawns, replaced them with less water-intensive plants and created walkways with gravel.

It’s tied to colonization and democracy,“Oftentoo.we ﬁnd moving lockstep with colonization is the fundamental transformation of the landscape, and then over generations, a reimagining of what has happened to ﬁt the conquest narrative,” Makley said.

While Brooks decided to pay for a landscape designer and hire a company to do the dirty work, she realizes not everyone has the ﬁnancial means. Or, they just want to do it themselves.

drive from the Brookses lives Christopher Stimpson with his wife. They replaced almost 75% of their outdoor space with less waterintensive options.

Even though Brooks and Stimpson both began replacing their lawns, they don’t doubt the beneﬁts of lush grass. Brooks noted her dogs enjoy running in the grass and Stimpson enjoys sitting in his chairs that are on the grass. They’re good for recreation, too.

Saving water and investing in their home proved to be their driving force for the change. It wasn’t something they were used to. The two hail from the Midwest and Emily grew up in a Wisconsin home with a half-acre lot.

That viewpoint is changing with her own home in Colorado. She and her husband bought their ﬁrst home in Hudson, Wisconsin with a brook running through their half-acre backyard. After moving to Colorado, water remains an important concern for her.

A xeriscaped section of Emily Brooks’ front yard.

Later during medieval times, Monks brought cuts of turf into their monastery gardens and cultivated them because of the connection between the color green and rebirth.

She did what made sense — the majority of the change took place in her front yard since her dogs use the grass in her backyard. In the particularly sunny spots in the front, she replaced it with gravel since the grass didn’t grow well in the sun. She used gravel on the side of her house and made a utility space for trash bins.

Zoom into one of the cul-de-sacs off Lowell Boulevard, however, and ﬁnd something different. It’s a microcosm of a larger paradigm shift starting to occur across the United States.

However, too much of a good thing isn’t always a good thing.

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but already saw large reductions in water. In July 2020 their household used 35,000 gallons of water. In 2022, they used 22,000 gallons.

“Americanobserved.colonists were desirous, they wanted to establish themselves as wealthy landholders and it was critical for them to do that in a new place. They were planting not just the grasses, but a new social order, a new economic order as well,” he said.

Taking root in the new world

“Bluegrassroot. that we think of today with American lawns is actually indigenous to parts of North Africa and Europe,” Makley said.

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For Stimpson, who originally moved from London to New Jersey and then to Colorado, climate played a role in his decision. Not only was his grass not doing well due to the weather, but he felt a moral responsibility to switch it

In the 1500s and 1600s, lawns began to grow more popular within the wealthy classes of Europe for both recreation and enjoyment. Due to the time and labor required to maintain the lawn, it became a symbol of wealth.

of the beating sun. In the back, a small patch of grass in a shady spot provides room for his dog and chairs to enjoy outside without the need for sunscreen.Nexttoit is a deck with a vine climbing up the side to provide shade for a table. Even farther is a gravel area where his grandson used to enjoy digging and playing with the gravel.

Matthew Makley, a professor of history at Metropolitan State University of Denver, said the popular Kentucky bluegrass isn’t native to the United States at all.

Most historians believe the lawn started in Europe, most likely in France and England. Castles would clear the land around their immediate vicinity to allow for clear visibility in case of foreign advances.

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One of those cul-de-sac homeowners is Emily Brooks, who maintains an 11,598-square-foot yard.

“It’sout. been true for many years that we’ve got a drying planet. The effects of water stress are going to be the chief impact of climate change on a state like Colorado, so anything we did

Seeing the odd crop not just as a support for livestock, there is a status to having a lawn — and the 17th-century American colonies were status-bound. Social classes were clearly articulated and

Drive around Westminster’s Hyland Greens neighborhood and you’ll see that: a typical residential area with single-family homes fronted by wellmanicured, lush, beautiful lawns.

Lawns today

Stimpson decided to get his hands dirty and do it himself. Most of his costs came from buying rocks and gravel.Inhis front, rocks and pebbles lie beneath a tree. Like Emily, the grass proved difﬁcult to maintain because

Then the English began sailing to North America, landing in Jamestown in 1607. Their livestock could not tolerate the native grasses of the new land, and so Kentucky bluegrass began to take

“It was all grass,” she said. “My dad bought himself a riding lawn mower and his weekend project in the summer was taking care of that lawn. Everybody took care of their lawn, that was the culture. The pride of ownership was reﬂected in what your lawn looked like.”

That reimagination may be taking place today.

Emily Brooks showcases the front of her house where she xersicaped over 50% of her outdoor space.

to reduce our personal responsibility for that water stress was a positive move,” he said.

erhaps Americans took the title of Walt Whitman’s book of poems to his beloved country, “Leaves of Grass” too literally when they considered the American“WhateverDream.satisﬁes the soul is truth,” he wrote, and in the 1950s a growing satisfaction came from the American lawn.

Until last year, those yards were two green Kentucky bluegrass lawns. In 2021, she and her husband embarked on a project to replace more than 50% of the lawn with rocks, gravel and native plant species.

“When my grandson was three, the thing he loved best was sitting in the gravel with a spade and a bucket,” he said. “Filling it up, emptying it, ﬁlling it up. He didn’t care about the grass.”

The roots of grass

Lawns are ingrained in American culture and imposed by convention.

In the 1990s and 2000s, she said a bright green, lush lawn was a real sell ing point for single-family homes. Now, people are more environmentally and cost-sensitive — they see lawns as re quiring more money for maintenance and using water where it isn’t needed.

“Lawn care companies who are trying to expand their markets have to really work hard when they go outside the United States to convince people that it’s worth putting the money and the time into having a lawn,” Robbins said. “If they’re going to expand the number of intensive lawn care users, they have to teach people to care about it.”However, lawn social psychology in the U.S. seems to be changing.

However, he learned that most felt ambivalent about lawns. Which led him to ask — why do they exist, then?

In Moye’s experience, attitudes among people are trending more towards sustainability. Moye said buy ers want smaller spaces, smaller car bon footprints and less grassy lawns.

That’s what Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of WisconsinMadison, found in his research for his book “Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds and Chemicals Make Us Who WeHisAre.”research showed lawns in America mostly began to boom in the 1950s, and rarely are lawns peoples’ ﬁrst choice. Homeowners associations enforce their upkeep, construction companies lay out single-family home lots with leftover space and social pres sure for green grass to maintain prop erty values is imposed by neighbors.

Kelly Moye, a realtor in Boulder and Broomﬁeld counties, has been selling

Stimpson has seen that change walking around his neighborhood. Many of his neighbors already have or started to change what their out door spaces look like. Although, he still notes a divide within the com munity.“Thedivide I think is people with the big lawns feel that they worked hard to get this aesthetic addition to their lives and that this is important enough to them,” he said. “They don’t want to let it go and they think of xeri scaping as an inferior alternative.”

noted that the money used for maintaining a lawn could be used to remodel a kitchen or a bathroom, which can increase the value of a home more so than a lawn.

As well, they create miniature habitats in backyards for birds, in sects and pollinators. Planting native species helps native insects because they support each other and the entire ecosystem.“Byincluding native plant species in our gardens, we’re not only ensur ing that those species continue to play their key parts in the Colorado ecosys tem, but we’re providing much-needed resources to insects and to birds and other Colorado wildlife — food, shel ter, materials for rearing their young,” said Ashley White, the Butterﬂy Pavil ion’s Community Habitats Manager.

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Much has to do with the chemical industry that needs to dump agricul tural chemicals somewhere. In other countries around the world, those mar kets topped out and farmers remain efﬁcient in their use of nutrient inputs andScott’s,pesticides.aleading company in the lawn care industry, ﬁgured out push advertising. Robbins believes that’s a reason they’ve been successful.

The decision to have a lawn or a xeri scaped garden doesn’t affect the home value either, she said, as long as it looks wellRobbinskept.

He said replacing grass with native species can be a great alternative, though it may not serve all the func tions a homeowner may want it to serve. For example, walking barefoot on it can be difﬁcult and not maintain ing it properly can turn into a mess.

As well, his research also found chemicals used for lawns end up indoors. In one experiment, analytic chemists walked across chemically treated lawns with white boots and then walked indoors. They measured the amount of chemicals that ended up inside and how long they persisted. Turns out, the chemicals remain in house dust for a long time — chemicals that are known to cause mutations and can cause “There’scancer.noquestion that the health costs outweigh the health beneﬁts of having an intensively managed lawn,” Robbins said.

homes since 1991 and she’s seen a shift away from lawns in buyers’ demands.

However, native species can support pollinator species and reduce the need for

In fact, she said most people prefer a native species or xeriscape garden in the front of their house and grass in the back for dogs, kids and barbecues.

“Theyfertilizer.tend to not need a lot of fertil izer because they’re sort of adapted to our climate and soils,” said Mari John ston, a natural resource extension agent at Colorado State University.

Backing that up, he conducted a national survey that showed the people who use lawn chemicals are more likely to say those chemicals are bad for water quality, children and human health than those who don’t.

“What we replace lawns with is the next most important question,” he said. “I don’t think we got a good answer for that yet.”

“Scott’s learned that you say, ‘Here’s a product that will solve all your prob lems. Go ask for it by name.’ It totally changed the industry because they need people to buy this stuff. There’s an

There are beneﬁts. Lawns provide space for kids to play in, they serve as an aesthetic and cool off the urban heatEvenisland.so,other options can provide those beneﬁts. Parks can socialize the cost of lawns, and native plants can provide another aesthetic while cool ing off urban areas.

Judging alternatives

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Robbins noted it’s important to consider whether alternatives to lawns are actually sustainable. He said artiﬁcial turf is an interesting case. With turf’s growing popularity, questions remain: how much oil does it take to produce the plastic? How will turf affect water runoff? Will water coming off the turf be contaminated with plastic and get into the drinking water?Hedoesn’t know the answer to these questions, but they’re worth asking.

“People who are intensive lawn man agers feel really crappy about it. They feel guilty, but they feel that they have to do it for their neighbors because of the homeowners association, or what ever else,” he said.

He did ﬁnd that there are many people who feel great satisfaction from mowing their lawn, and the smell of fresh-cut grass brings nostalgia.

“The beneﬁts are marginal, whereas the costs are enormous,” he said.

Despite what the future holds, the tide seems to be turning when it comes to lawns in the American West.

economy behind it, it employs a lot of people and it has to keep going. That’s pretty depressing,” Robbins said.

Just as they were hundreds of years ago, lawns today are also seen as a sta tus symbol. Beyond that, Robbins’ re search showed respondents often said “What goes on outside the house tells you what goes on inside the house,” indicating they are also an indicator of morals. That’s tied to social psychology. Many places in the world don’t main tain lawns, so it’s a learned behavior.

“What will change the value of the house is if it doesn’t look nice. If it’s just dirt and it’s kind of scratchy and it’s got weeds and it’s not well kept, that will deter from the price of the home,” Moye said.

“People are unlearning what they learned and learning something very different, which is water is more im portant than that lawn,” Robbins said.

“I believe it goes back to the neigh borhood. Well-groomed landscaping in Cherry Creek will carry more value, I believe, than a well-groomed yard in Boulder,” said Tom Cech, the founding director of One World One Water Center.

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statistics. So it’s possible that twins living in states where marijuana use is illegal were less likely to report their true levels of use.

Lastly,said.the study doesn’t explore potential consequences to the apparent increase in cannabis use. Did people suffer worse health problems? Did they cut back on their use of alcohol or other substances?

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A twin living in a legal state, on average, reports using marijuana more frequently than their co-twin living in a state where recreational marijuana use is illegal, according to the Zellersstudy.said the difference is about 20% — which amounts to consuming cannabis on ﬁve more days per every six months. Twins living in states where recreational cannabis use is illegal, on average, consumed on 13 days in the previous six months, while twins living in legal states consumed on 18 days. (Zellers said she and her coauthors weighted the data for age and other factors to standardize it, which is why the difference between those numbers isn’t

A new study shows that legalization may lead to people using marijuana more frequently.

Beyond the headline result, there are still a lot of unanswered ques-

But a new study, conducted by a former Ph.D. student in Colorado, takes perhaps the most novel approach yet and comes to the conclusion that legalization may, in fact, lead to people using marijuana more frequently.Thestudent, Stephanie Zellers, was studying neuroscience at the University of Colorado before she followed her adviser to ﬁnish up her doctorate at the University of Minnesota. She was interested in studying the effects of substance use on the brain, but a lot of studies on the brain work the same way: you have to crack open the craniums of lab animals. That didn’t sit well with Zellers.

So, the results?

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Zellers said that is the subject of a follow-up study that she hopes will be published by the end of the year.

did and happening to be legal in one state and not in the other,” Zellers said in a video interview from Finland, where she is conducting postdoctoral research on tobacco use. “It’s pretty rare to have this amount of data on this many people going this far back.”

In the decade since Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 legalizing adult use of marijuana in state law, a slew of studies have tried to estimate the They’veimpact.looked broadly and more narrowly, and have concluded — depending on how you might read them — that legalization either did or did not lead to an increase in cannabis use.

The data are longitudinal, meaning they follow the same people over long periods of time. And twins make for intriguing research subjects because they are not only genetically similar but they also generally grow up in the same household, meaning they typically share the same socioeconomic background, education experience and other social factors.

Study sees more pot use after legalization

The study’s ﬁnding is in line with those from a large-scale state report released last year, which found that cannabis use has increased among adults in Colorado since legalization. (The trends around youth use are more muddled, but there is ultimately no conclusive evidence that legalization caused more kids to use cannabis.)Thenovel approach of the research, though, provides it with extra heft, another of the study’s authors said.

So she went looking for a different method, and she found it in a massive dataset on the lives of twins born in Colorado or Minnesota.

There’s also the issue of motivation — if this increase is legit, why did it “Wehappen?don’tknow why someone might have changed their use,” Zellers

can say that the policy does cause more use,” Zellers said.

“This is the ﬁrst study to conﬁrm that the association between legal cannabis and increased use holds within families in genetically identical individuals,” John Hewitt, a professor in CU’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, said in a statement. “This makes it much more likely that legalization does, in itself, result in increased use.”

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A second study conﬁrmed it: the death rate among those in apartments was the same as those living outside.Theinstitute looked at mortality data for 532 people who had moved into supportive housing from 2016-19, then compared that to 529 people who were homeless and receiving community services through nonproﬁt and governmental organizations.

Once found, they are offered a spot in the program, which is funded by government and private investments.Denverexpanded the program in 2018, and in 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department offered the city $6 million in new federal funding

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That’s the grim finding from a new study of Denver’s social impact bond program, which sends outreach workers to find the highest users of taxpayer-funded services including hospitals, detox centers and the jail. Hundreds of people who were chronically homeless have been housed through the program, which began seven years ago.Previous research showed that the first 250 participants had cost the government a total of $7.3 million per year when they lived outside and in shelters and cycled through the health care and criminal justice systems. After they were housed, researchers found a 40% reduction in arrests, a 30% reduction in jail stays, a 65% decrease in detox services and a 40% drop in emergency department visits.

Out of hundreds offered housing, only a few have said no. It’s also a rare look at how intervention programs can help those who didn’t ask for help.

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But they still died at the same rate as those who lived outside.

But as those researchers, from the Urban Institute based in Washington, D.C., worked on the previous study, they noticed high levels of mortality among those who were living in supportive housing, which comes not only with rent assistance but also mental health and addiction treatment.

— 53 people — had died, a number that researchers called “extremely tragic.” Meanwhile, 9% of those who were still homeless had died. This is despite the fact that program participants had a 155% increase in ofﬁce-based medical visits.Theconclusion was that a few years in supportive housing was not enough to reverse the longterm health effects and stress of being homeless, which often include mental health problems and addiction.“Wejust wanted to dig deeper into that number. It’s such a tragic number,” said Sarah Gillespie, the Urban Institute’s associate vice president of metropolitan housing and communities policy. “People were entering the program with very signiﬁcant health challenges.” Not one person who was housed died of exposure, while seven people in the homeless group died of exposure, a cause of death often linked to not having shelter during extreme hot or cold temperatures. It was of some comfort to discover that people who were housed are at least not freezing to death, Gillespie“Dyingsaid.inside with access to services is a lot different, as opposed to dying on the street,” she said.

research found that 86% of people in the program were still housed after one year, and 77% were still housed after three years.

The reductions made up for half of the cost of the program, which was started with $8.6 million from eight private investors as well as local housing resources.

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When people who had been homeless for years moved off the Denver streets and into apartments, they were far less likely to end up in hospital emergency rooms or get locked up in jail.

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“The project succeeded in targeting the most vulnerable residents — not those who walked in the door and asked for it,” she said.

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if the program can show a drop in Medicare and Medicaid billings during the next several years. If the city can keep 125 new people housed, it will not have to pay back thePreviousmoney.

for those in both groups varied. Drug overdoses accounted for 2% of deaths, while injuries, liver disease, circulatory disease and alcohol use disorder each made up 1% of deaths. Smaller fractions of the groups died of homicide, cancer, COVID, diabetes and alcohol overdose.Theaverage life expectancy for someone who is chronically homeless is 54 years old, according to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.The death rate of those housed was so high, researchers concluded, because the program is targeted toward people who have the highest chances of dying on the street. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, the Mental Health Center of Denver and other groups create lists of people who take frequent ambulance rides and regularly spend nights in the hospital and jail. Then outreach workers visit encampments and shelters trying to ﬁnd them.

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The program has provided a wealth of data and potential research on the costs of homelessness. “We’ve been able to shine light on common myths,” Gillespie said. “One of those is that people want to be homeless and they are choosing that.”

As demand changed, prices have been pulled back, too. From 2015 through 2019, homes in the Denver metro area were garnering about 100% of their listing price — or close to that, according to the Realtors’ report. In 2021, that number shot up to about 105%. Earlier this year, it reached above 106%.

“Personally, I don’t think they’ll really be enough to make a dent,” Moye said. But to some extent, prices fall eventually, even though they will likely never come down to where they were decades ago, she added.“Itwill eventually correct itself — at least to a certain degree,” Moye said.The Colorado Association of Realtors deﬁnes the seven-county Denver metro area as Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomﬁeld, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties.

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When looking at housing statistics, “it’s vital that we look at historic perspectives and shift our thinking to pre-pandemic, pre-multiple offers and yes, pre-extreme price increase

madness,” Leprino said in the news release. He added: “The truth is that we have simply returned to more of a 2019 type of pace that’s simply less head spinning.”

the condominium-townhome markets combined, Leprino said.

Now, the percentage of the listing price received on home purchases has dipped below 100% for the ﬁrst time since 2020, according to the report. For single-family homes, the rate was about 99% in August.

“For buyers, there is a lot more inventory to choose from currently — however, that may not be the case for long,” Ecker said in the Sept. 13 newsThoughrelease.prices have dropped in the short term, a “true” price decline in the housing market would occur over an annual or multi-year time period, Cooper Thayer, a Douglas Countyarea Realtor, said in the release.

It’s unclear how long the shortterm downturn in prices will continue, particularly because the time of year — not just interest rates — are likely playing a role in pulling prices

And as families stayed home, they began looking at housing in new ways. “It was their ofﬁce, their home, their gym, their schools for the kids, and suddenly people needed way more space,” Matthew Leprino, a Realtor based in metro Denver, has told Colorado Community Media.

In the long term, housing affordability in Colorado continues to be an issue of staggering proportions. Since the start of 2010 — when the median single-family home price in metro Denver was about $200,000 — the median price has roughly tripled. Statewide, it has tripled as well.

“I see lots of my clients moving to Cheyenne and Idaho and Montana,” said Moye, who noted that with many employees able to work remotely, people are freer to move to places they can afford out of metro Denver.Businesses don’t want to locate in a place where their employees can’t afford to live, Moye said, another factor that could inﬂuence migration

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appreciation we’ve seen so far this year, going up” in the long term, MoyeWhatadded.didshake up the market lately was the interest rate hike taking many buyers out of the running.

(A “seller’s market,” as opposed to a buyer’s market, means there is more demand than supply, so homes sell quickly and the seller has more power to set high prices.)

swing, we are experiencing a normal seasonal slowdown,” Barb Ecker, a Jefferson County-area Realtor, said in a news release from the Realtors’ association.Sheadded: “Sellers should be watching to see if more homes will be coming to the market. If not, we may see another strong seller’s market in January.”

The housing affordability index score in metro Denver this August was 55. Statewide, it was 58.

“Suddenly, they could afford (less) than they thought they could buy, and they ended up renting” or were pushed out of the market, Moye said.

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“The cutoff for it to be affordable is that 100 number,” Leprino told CCM in mid-September. If the score is 100, that means essentially that “the average person could afford the average house,” Leprino said.

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“That’s signiﬁcant — that’s not expected. It is certainly expected over 20 or 30 years for that to happen, but for us, we had so much signiﬁcant (price) appreciation starting in 2013 through 2022,” Moye said, using a term for price increases.

In December 2017, the median home price was $378,000 for metro Denver and $363,000 for the state, taking into account single-family and

The last time Colorado’s market scored above 100 was late 2017, according to Leprino. The last time the Denver metro area hit 100 was October 2017, he said.

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“In just a four-month period, we went from buyers … offering well over the seller’s asking price to having sellers offer them money to help pay down their interest rate payment,” Moye said.

The coronavirus pandemic shook up the housing market partly because, amid the spread of working from home, some people had ﬂexibility in where they chose to live and drove up suburban home prices.

The Realtor association’s report uses a “housing affordability index,” or a measure of how affordable a region’s housing is to its consumers. The index is based on interest rates, median home price and median income by county. The higher the score, the greater affordability is.

Moye pointed to affordable housing programs at the city level as ways to alleviate that issue.

Homebuying demand is likely to continue until the net migration switches, meaning more people leave Colorado than move to Colorado, Moye said.

Homebuyingpatterns. has grown out of reach for many people because the rise in housing prices in recent decades far outstrips the increase in what American families earn.

The committee raised and spent millions earlier this year, much of it from New Approach PAC, a Washington, D.C.-based political nonproﬁt, to collect enough signatures to make the ballot.

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• Healthy School Meals for All Colorado Students, which is backing Proposition FF, raised about $525,000 in August. The measure referred to the ballot by the legislature would reduce state income tax deductions for people with income over $300,000 and use the savings to provide free K-12 school meals for all students.

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• Coloradans for Affordable Housing Now, which is supporting Proposition 123 to divert 0.1% of

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A handful of other committees backing initiatives on the November ballot this year had big fundraising hauls in August.

They say whiskey is for drinking and water is for ﬁghting. But there will be plenty of battling over booze in this year’s election in Colorado.

Path to Zero, which is supporting Proposition 121, a measure that would reduce the state income tax rate to 4.4% from 4.55%, didn’t report any donations or spending for August.

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The group had a whopping $8.35 million in the bank to begin September, giving it one of the largest campaign war chests of any group or candidate in Colorado heading into the home stretch before the Nov. 8 election.Coloradans for Liquor Fairness, which is supporting Proposition 124 to let liquor retailers open more locations, received $400,000 last month from Colorado Fine Wines & Spirits, a subsidiary of Total Wine & Spirits, the national chain that, along with its owners, is bankrolling theRightmeasure.now, liquor retailers are allowed to open only three stores in

• Coloradans for Ballot Transparency, which is supporting Proposi-

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The biggest contributor to the committee was the delivery service Instacart at $2.8 million, bringing its total investment in the group to $3.3 million. Whole Foods gave Wine in Grocery Stores $1.3 million, while Target contributed $1.1 million, Albertsons Safeway gave $1.1 million and Kroger, which owns King Soopers, gave $1 million.

The Community First Foundation and Hunger Free Colorado each contributed $250,000 to the committee, which began September with roughly $600,000 in its bank account.

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A major inﬂux of money — about $8 million — poured last month into the committees backing ballot initiatives that would let grocery stores sell wine and allow third-party delivery services to transport alcohol, as well as an initiative that would open the door for liquor retailers to open as many locations as they’d like in Colorado.Winein Grocery Stores raised most of the cash, at roughly $7.5 million. The group is backing Propositions 125 and 126. The measures would, respectively, let grocery stores sell wine and third-party services deliver alcohol.

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Colorado.Keeping Colorado Local, a group run by independent liquor stores ﬁghting the three ballot measures, has raised a pittance compared to its rivals. The committee raised a little less than $200,000 last month, starting September with about the same amount in its coffers.

Natural Medicine Colorado, which is backing Proposition 122, the measure that would decriminalize and regulate the use of “magic” mushrooms, raised just $15,000 in August and ended the month with about the same amount in the bank.

taxable income from the general fund to the state affordable housing fund, raised $880,000 last month.

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tion GG, a measure referred to the ballot by the legislature, raised $600,000 last month. The measure would require detailed information about how income tax initiatives on the ballot would impact various income brackets to be more prominently displayed to voters.

The national Democratic nonproﬁt Sixteen Thirty Fund accounted for $500,000 of the haul. The Colorado Sun refers to the nonproﬁt as a darkmoney group because it is a political group that does not have to disclose

its that operates a federally funded research and development facility, unveiled its new 90,000-square-foot Space Warﬁghting Center just south of the Colorado Springs airport.

The measure, if approved by voters, is forecast to generate about $270 million in its ﬁrst year and reduce the amount of money available for Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refunds.

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The money came from nonproﬁts, including Fort Collins-based Bohemian Companies, the Arvada-based Community First Foundation and the Denver-based Caring for Colorado Foundation at $250,000 each.

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Now, with omicron’s subvariants — BA.4 and BA.5 — expected to drive infections in the fall and winter, state ofﬁcials say they hope Coloradans will take advantage of the added protection these boosters offer.“It’s particularly important for people that have only had two or three doses of the vaccine,” said Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday, adding that “if you’re medically vulnerable, it’s particularly important. He spoke as he got his shot of the vaccine in front of a state vaccine bus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people who are eligible for these boosters get their shots. The news comes just ahead of the fall, when cases could surge.

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About 150 people had signed up Wednesday to get their vaccine shots at the Ball Arena site. “There’s still a lot of demand,” said the gov-

Deaths, hospitalizations and positive cases have spiked every fall since the pandemic began in 2020, according to state health department data. And the omicron variant fueled a massive spike in cases earlier this year.

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“I just thought it would be a good idea, you know, considering that we’re about to enter ﬂu season and all,” said Fred Bernal, a Denver resident who also got his omicron booster shot. He said he did catch the coronavirus last November, right before he got a booster. “It probably would’ve been a lot more serious had I not received my vaccine,” he said.

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A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine vial is held by Lincoln Community Hospital registered nurse Deanne Kahler of Hugo as she prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccinations to patients at the hospital in Hugo on Wednesday, Feb. 24 2021.

“This is just another very easy step that you can take to protect yourself,” he said. Polis noted that the pandemic has claimed about 13,600 Colorado lives and that COVID-19 “has a much lower hospitalization rate and an extremely low death rate, if you are fully vaccinated.”

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“I’m absolutely convinced, but I’m a biologist, so I know why it’s good for you and why you should do it,” sheWhat’ssaid. the difference between the original booster and the updated booster?DianaHerrero, deputy director of the Division of Disease Control and

ernor.Josh Phillips, a resident of Highlands Ranch, came to the site for his shot, his ﬁfth, since he’d already had the original series, plus two previous“Itboosters.isjust,you know, trying to protect myself and my family as much as possible,” he said, noting he was ﬂying to Pennsylvania soon. “I’m actually traveling next week. So I think it’s important, especially in a congested place, like the airport, to be as protected as possible. And the rest of my family will be doing this as well, as soon as we can.”

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their shots. That included his mother-in-law, Anita Easton, who was in town from Oregon and needed no encouragement to get her booster.

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Vargas went 2-for-3 with a walk. Abraham nearly hit for the cycle in her ﬁrst conference game. She went 3-for-3 from the plate with a single, double and triple. Abraham walked her ﬁnal at-bat needing only a home run to hit for the cycle.

about the Rebels scoring in the bottom half of each inning after A-West had scored. “I attribute it to the team’s mental toughness.”

“I’m glad that we made a good run at it in the end there,” A-West coach Brenna Millikan said. “I’m frustrated because I don’t think it was our best game on either side. I don’t think Columbine saw our best. It’s frustrating to swallow that one.”

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Columbine (14-0, 1-0) responded with a 3-run bottom of the ﬁrst inning and never trailed after taking the lead. Freshmen Nina Vargas and Mason Abraham picked up RBIs that put the Rebels up 3-2 going to the second inning.

“We talk about momentum a lot. We were able to continually regain the momentum,” Santaniello said

Columbine sophomore Ana Lovato (2) and Columbine freshman Nina Vargas (33) celebrate during the Rebels’ 3-run bottom of the ﬁrst inning Sept. 14 at Dave Sanders Memorial Softball Field. Columbine edged rival Arvada West 9-7 in the Class 5A Je co League opener that featured a 1-hour lightning/rain delay.

The Rebels’ other starting freshman — Livi Keiter — went 2-for-3 with a walk. She also made an amazing play in the ﬁeld from her shortstop position in the sixth inning with a backhand stop and getting a force out at second base.

A-West made a late run with a 3-run top of the sixth inning that cut Columbine’s lead to 8-6. Senior Peyton Raley, along with juniors Alexiana Sandoval and Mac Ferguson had RBI hits. Johnson drove in her second run of the game with a long home run over the left ﬁeld fence in the top of the seven inning.

LITTLETON — On a rainy day at Dave Sanders Memorial Field, the sun eventually came out and a rainbow brightened up the Class 5A top-10 showdown.

A-West (12-6, 1-1 in league) took an early 2-0 lead in the top of the ﬁrst inning with an RBI double by junior Kelsie Johnson, along with three walks issued by Columbine senior ace Araya Ogden.

“A-West is probably the toughest team we’ve played all season,” Ogden said. “I knew I wouldn’t be able to strike everyone out and they would probably hit. We knew we had to hit and we were ready.”

The Wildcats are the lone undefeated team left in 5A. In fact, Lutheran (4A) and Strasburg (3A) are the only other two team without a loss in the state.

Columbine — No. 1 in the CHSAANow.com softball rankings — had every answer against No. 7 A-West. The Rebels edged the Wildcats 9-7 just before darkness set in.

“It is really big for me because we are still undefeated,” Ogden said. “Everyone still wants to knock us off. We need to be on the top of our game and it makes us more driven.”

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“Yes,” Abraham said when asked if she was thinking about the cycle in her last at-bat. “I wanted it bad.”

With the rain letting up a little and issues ﬁnding a date that would work for both Arvada West and Columbine, the teams and umpires decided to start around 5 p.m.

Arvada West junior Mac Ferguson fouls o a pitch during the Class 5A Je co League opener against Columbine on Sept. 14. The Wildcats lost 9-7.

Ogden ﬁnished off the win throwing back-to-back ground ball outs after Johnson’s solo shot.

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

“It was pretty tough. My hands were really slippery,” Ogden said of pitching in the tough conditions, especially through the ﬁrst few innings when it was still raining. “I was trying to get my mojo going. My team came back and helped me.”

“We were looking at rescheduling and then there is the umpire shortage,” Columbine coach Jim Santaniello said about the 5A Jeffco League opener Sept. 14 against Arvada West that started but quickly went into an hour long lightning/rain delay. “We thought we would give it a go, but I really didn’t think it would happen.”

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“It’s really impressive,” Santaniello said of the performances of Keiter, Abraham and Vargas. “They don’t seem like there is a stage too big for them. Most of all three are outstanding kids. It starts with that.”Columbine junior Eva Martinez and sophomore Katie Forbes provided the power at the plate in the win. Martinez hit a solo home run in the third inning to extend the Rebels’ lead to 4-2. Forbes went deep in the ﬁfth inning that gave Columbine an 8-3 advantage.

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The round of 65 was the best score in a tournament this season for Rainey, but Valor just came up short on winning the team title, too,

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There was about 10 golfers who were in contention to win the title heading into the sixth and final Jeffco League tournament of the season at West Woods Golf Club. After all the scores were tallied and the two highest 9-holes scores taken out, Ralston Valley sophomore Dimarco Benallo won by the slimmest ofBenallomargins.finished the conference schedule with 357 strokes. Valor Christian junior Ethan Rainey — lowest round of the day at West Woods with a 7-under-par, 65 — finished just a stroke back with a 358.

Evergreen, Ralston Valley claim individual and team Je co League titles

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ARVADA — The race for the Class 5A Jeffco League boys golf individual medalist title couldn’t have been much closer Sept. 13.

The top-6 individuals and ﬁrst team all-conference selections were rounded out by Ralston Valley senior Jordan McCaslin, Valor junior Maxwell Eide and Arvada West senior Yusuke Ogi.

“It wasn’t in my mind. I was just trying to focus on every shot,” Rainey said of the individual and team titles up for grabs. “I didn’t want the moment to get to me. I deﬁntely wanted to shoot a good score for the team. It doesn’t look like we are going to get it done, but it was super fun out there.”

Columbine junior Matai Naqica ﬁnished third with a 359.

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Members of Evergreen’s boys golf team repeated as Class 4A Je co League team champs. Sophomore Tyler Long, second from the right, also successfully defended his 4A Je co individual medalist title at the Je co League tournament ﬁnale Sept. 13 at West Woods GC in Arvada.

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despite the exceptional round by Rainey.“Soputts fell and I got some good breaks,” Rainey said of his round that included four straight birdies in his ﬁrst ﬁve holes.

team all-conference was Dakota Ridge senior Ty White, D’Evelyn junior Taj Kumar, Dakota Ridge senior Jack Libby, Green Mountain senior Jon Lord, Dakota Ridge senior Jack White and Littleton senior Dane Price.

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“After this we’ll get our minds set on regionals and state,” Rainey said. “I’m looking forward to it for sure.”

Valor captured the 5A state title in 2020. The Eagles were edged out by Ralston Valley by nine strokes for the 5A Jeffco team title over the six league tournaments. The Mustangs’ No. 4 golfer — junior Makian Maydew — played a big role Tuesday in allowing Ralston Valley to hang on to win the team title.

The Cougars had a legit shot at contending for the 4A team title at state. All five of Evergreen’s golfers — Long, senior Duncan McIntosh, along with sophomores Luke Sabina, Lincoln Mackay and Liam Houlihan — all finished in the top-12 of the individual standing this season to make first team all-conference.Therestofthe

4A Jeffco ﬁrst

All of the 4A Jeffco teams played in the 4A Region 2 tournament Monday, Sept. 19, at Country Club of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

sophomore Tyler Long

The 5A state tournament will be held at City Park Golf Course in Denver.Valorwill head to the Southern Regional held at South Suburban Golf Course on Thursday, Sept. 22.

repeated as the 4A medalist champion. Long ﬁnished out his regular season in style with a 2-under-par 70. He is halfway to becoming a 4-time league medalist champion.

Ralston Valley’s boys golf team proudly shows o the Class 5A Je co League team title Sept. 13 at West Woods GC in Arvada. The Mustangs edged out Valor Christian for the team title.

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

On the 4A side, it was a runaway race. Evergreen repeated as 4A Jeffco team champs. The Cougars defeated second-place Dakota Ridge by 118 strokes over the six tournaments.Evergreen

As the No. 1 team out of Jeffco, the Mustangs are slated to head to the Western Slope to play in the 5A Western Regional at Adobe Creek National Golf Course in Fruita on Monday, Sept. 19.

“We have a lot of talent on the team this year,” Maydew said. “I feel very conﬁdent about our chances at regionals and state.”

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“I think the main focus was on the team title,” Maydew said after ﬁnishing second with a great round of 68. “We all really came together this season. That was our one main goal this season was to bring home the team Maydewtitle.”had his own birdie run on his front-nine (Sleeping Indian). The junior birdied 5, 6, 7 and 8 to help him secure a 32 during his ﬁrst nine holes.“Itwas awesome for me to be able to contribute today,” Maydew said. “Putts were falling. It felt great.”

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updated Pﬁzer-BioNTech booster or 18 years or older for the updated Moderna booster

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The CDC said in a press release last week that it “expects to recommend updated COVID-19 boosters for other pediatric groups” in the coming weeks.

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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 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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September 22, 202232 Arvada Press Come shop for unique gifts and special items during the Colorado Community Media Holiday Craft Show and Mini-Market; With more than 200 exhibitors filling the Douglas County Fairgrounds, this is the best place to find that special, personal gift for friends and family. The show will feature handmade crafts in all areas from metal and leather, to flowers, baskets, ceramics, and so much more. In it’s third year - expanding into two buildings. In 2021, 3,000 customers attended Interested in selling your handmade crafts? Interested in hosting classes? Contact Event Producer Thelma Grimes at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com All applications must be approved to participate Admission is free to the public PRESENTS 2022 Holiday Craft Show& Mini-Market 10amSaturdayNov.26-6pm 10amSundayNov.27-2pm Douglas 500FairgroundsCountyFairgroundsDv.CastleRock,CO. Visit Santa at the show on NovemberSaturday,26