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Arvada gets festive for Halloween
VOLUME 18 | ISSUE 21
Pain behind the name: renaming Mount Evans Why the name Mount Evans is hurtful to generations of Native Americans BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A long line of trick-or-treaters waits patiently for candy at the Klein-Sramek house.
Community comes together around weird, spectacular Halloween traditions BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
For Amber Klein, Halloween decor started out small; a few decorations, a handful of inflatables. Now, Klein and husband Bob Sramek’s sprawling Halloween display has become a neighborhood tradition, bringing in folks old and young from near and far. Klein said she adds new pieces to the display every year, which has become a talking point in their neighborhood; near Harlan Street and 76th Avenue. She added that her neighbors have joined in on the festivities, making the streets around their house a hot spot for trick-ortreaters. “It’s funny because there’s always kids and adults who are like, ‘What did you add this year?’” Klein said. “Our neighbor across the street always had a few decorations up; he started it and we both started adding. In the past, it’s only been SEE FESTIVE, P2
A potato in a candy bowl.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF AMBER KLEIN
When members of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes look west from Denver to the distant peak of Mount Evans, they see a horrific reminder of the past. “Anytime you have to hear of or speak of an individual who wanted to decimate your family or your tribe, it’s really hard,” said Gov. Reggie Wassana of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. Since 1895, the mountain has been named for Colorado territorial Gov. John Evans. Settlers lobbied the legislature to honor his legacy, which it did through a measure that dubbed the more than 14,000-foothigh peak Mount Evans. But American Indian groups say Evans’ legacy is forever disgraced by his role in enabling the Sand Creek Massacre. They are among the strongest advocates in a process that could change the mountain’s name to Mount Blue Sky. On a cold November morning in 1864, U.S. Army Col. John Chivington and elements of the Colorado Infantry Regiment of Volunteers and Regiment of Colorado Cavalry Volunteers launched an attack on Arapaho and Cheyenne civilians where they camped about 180 miles southeast of Denver. Over the course of eight hours, the troops slaughtered some 230 people, many of them women, children and elderly. The following day, many soldiers wandered the area, committing atrocities on the dead, according to the National Park Service, which maintains a national historic site in the area where the events occurred. SEE RENAMING, P6
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three or four of us that really decorated and then last year we saw quite a bit more.” After a slight dip in trick-ortreaters — and maybe holiday spirit — due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Klein and Sramek said they saw over 1,000 people stopping by their house this year, up from about 700 last year. In their neighborhood, the merrymaking seems to be contagious. “This year my husband and I went for a walk and it was just incredible, the number of houses that have started decorating,” Klein said. “All up and down Harlan, almost every single house had not one, not two, but multiple decorations. All up and down 76th, so many houses are decorating. “I love it; I think it’s just so much fun, and it’s really cool seeing everyone get into the spirit,” Klein continued. “Maybe they just saw how much fun we were having.” Lawn — and, in Klein’s case, roof — displays aren’t the only way to get in on the festivities. Anne Bulan and her husband usually don scary costumes to surprise trick-or-treaters, but Bulan opted to go to a Lizzo concert this year and still wanted to get in on the festivities. The solution: potatoes. “I belong to this Phish fan group, and someone posted in there that they were handing
Amber Klein and husband Bob Sramek’s sprawling Halloween decorations.
out potatoes,” Bulan said. “And I thought it was hilarious. My husband and I made bets — the first kid that came up totally picked a potato. We put the bowl out, and heard lots of ‘Oh my gosh! There’s a potato!” Bulan said that although she wouldn’t be able to participate in Halloween like she usually does
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costumes!” Green said. “It brings me so much joy. After COVID had taken the events away for two years, it was relieving to see kids and their families having fun.” For Amber Klein, who moved to Arvada 12 years ago, Halloween offers an opportunity to meet neighbors and recoup the city’s small-town feel. “I fell in love with (Arvada) the moment I came here,” Klein said. “I felt unsafe the last couple of years… crime has really gone up. For me, to be involved in the community I think is a sense of, if you’re meeting someone faceto-face when you know the people who live around you, it provides a sense of safety, at least for me. “Arvada always had that smalltown feel to it and as we grow, I think you can still keep that feeling within your own neighborhood; it doesn’t have to be all of Arvada,” Klein continued. “Our neighborhood is our own little community. We all watch out for each other, know each other. I think a lot of us want that feeling back.” Klein added that she hoped her family’s sprawling decorations would set an example for the community that could be passed down for future generations. “I hope the kids that come to our house year after year are doing this for my grandkids,” Klein said.
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this year, “I think it’s super important that people meet their neighbors,” Bulan said. “We moved here 12 years ago; it’s nice to see neighborhood kids come back year after year. There’s a number of kids who come back and say, ‘That’s the scary house.’ Hopefully next year we’ll be the potato house.” Another Arvada resident, Alex McDowell-Engebretson, said her house saw between 200-300 trickor-treaters this year, an increase from previous years. “This was the busiest year we have had in seven years,” McDowell-Engebretson said. “My husband likes trying to scare the older kids and I just love seeing all the kids out having a good time and dressed up in their costumes. I feel like (Halloween) is a good morale booster and a great way for the community to bond; you talk to people that you normally maybe wouldn’t.” Other parts of Arvada proved to be less fruitful on the candy distribution front. Kristen Green said that while she usually gets over 20 trickor-treaters, this year brought a smaller crowd; one group comprised of three kids. Nevertheless, Green said she was thrilled to see any number of kids out celebrating the holiday. “My favorite part of Halloween is the cute kids and animals in
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Arvada Elks Lodge taking donations to help feed Jeffco families Elks holiday food drive to benefit 150 Jefferson County Public School District families BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Arvada Elks Lodge is accepting donations to provide holiday meals for 150 Jefferson County Public School District until Nov. 26. The food drive replaces the Thanksgiving basket drive that took place in previous years due to concerns about the accessibility of making some of the food contained in the baskets. This year, the Elks are giving out
$100 King Sooper’s gift card to families from 15 Jeffco schools. Liaisons from the schools helped determine which families were facing food insecurity; the family’s identities are confidential. Elks Member Rick Assmus said the organization wanted to make sure that folks could choose foods that work for their needs, as opposed to previous years where traditional holiday fare — a turkey, stuffing, potatoes — was given to families. “Sometimes families who have been hit with hard times don’t have the utilities to cook turkeys,” Assmus said. “Families who are struggling to put food on the table might not be able to take the time to stuff a turkey or a ham. They just want to put food on the table, whether that be a pot pie, a TV dinner or hamburgers.”
Assmus said the Elks are working with King Soopers so that the gift cards can be used for any grocery store products besides alcohol or tobacco. The Elks are volunteer-run and have no administrative fees for fundraisers. If the organization raises more than $15,000, Assmus said, the funding will be donated to local groups that help combat food insecurity including Community Table and Laradon Hall. “We always take in donations,” Assmus said. “We like to emphasize that we don’t have any administrative fees. Everything we do is voluntary. We’re not going to charge people to process their donation; it gets deposited directly into our charity account.” To make a donation, folks can contact Christy Bettis at Christybettis. elks@gmail.com.
Exterior of the Arvada Elks Lodge in Olde Town. Courtesy Rick Assmus. PHOTO BY RYLEE DUNN
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Here’s How Denver’s Real Estate Market Has Performed Since Start of Pandemic
The charts at right will not surprise any of us who have been witnessing the Denver real estate market over the past 2½ years. They do, however, document the death rattle of the seller’s market, which was killed by the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee, whose dramatic increases in the Federal Funds Rate were reflected in the amazingly quick increases in mortgage interest rates. Back in January, when the 30year fixed mortgage rate was just above 3%, it was hard to imagine that before year’s end, the rate would be over 7%. The rates starting rising in January, but they didn’t break above 4% until about the time that the FOMC started its aggressive rate increases. (As a non-economist, I’ve never quite understood how inflating the cost of money is the best strategy for reducing inflation generally… And haven’t we noticed that that strategy hasn’t actually worked yet? Food for thought….) Looking now at the three MLS charts,
you can see that the number of sold listings exceeded the number of active listings throughout most the pandemic but sharply diverged starting around the time the FOMC rate increases began in mid-April. The number of new listings saw no dramatic changes over previous years, but the number of listings that expired without selling was 3.24 times as high in October as it was in April of this year. But many of those new listings have sat on the MLS, as shown in the median days in MLS which quadrupled from 4 to 16 days from April to October. What may surprise observers is that the median sold price fell as little as it did from April to October. It is still higher than it was in January of this year when that 30-year fixed interest rate was just above 3%. What lies ahead? Homes are still selling, and buyers still need to buy, leading me to believe that we’ll see a “normal” market soon.
KB Is Building All-Electric Homes — But Not Here I have expressed dismay in the past that builders of new homes in our area are not getting “with it” when it comes to incorporating the latest thinking and technology regarding energy efficiency. Builders boast their Energy Star appliances and lower HERS scores, but they are still, for example, installing high efficiency gas forced-air furnaces instead of heat pumps, gas water heaters instead of heat pump water heaters, and gas cooktops or ranges instead of induction cooktops. The Geos Community in Arvada provided proof of concept for the all-electric solar-powered, net zero energy home, and homes in that small, privately developed neighborhood have been featured for several years on the annual tour of “green homes.” But no production builder here has picked up on that concept, and when another builder acquired the undeveloped parcels at Geos last year, the first thing they did was bring a natural gas pipeline into the community to serve their new homes, greatly upsetting the happy homeowners of the original net zero energy Geos homes. Above is one of KB Home’s allelectric homes in Menifee CA, a smaller
city south of Riverside. Not only is every home in that subdivision “net zero energy ready,” but they are tied together in an electric “microgrid,” designed to power itself cooperatively should there be an outage in the larger electric grid. In the garage you can see both an EV charger and a wall-mounted battery backup system. The small type on the sign reads: “This all-electric, solarpowered home is equipped with smart technologies and a backup battery, plus community microgrid connectivity designed to help maximize home energy efficiency and comfort.” Meanwhile, here in Colorado, neither KB nor any other builder is even offering upgrades to heat pump HVAC units or heat pump water heaters. Sad to say…
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Streaming Has Made Cable & Satellite TV Obsolete I’m old enough to remember the days before “pay TV.” Gradually, cable TV made its inroads and more and more people starting paying for it because of better reception and the increasing number of non -broadcast channel offerings. Eventually, satellite TV came along, dominated now by Dish Network and DirecTV. Rita and I went back and forth between the two as their introductory offers expired and we found ourselves with TV costing us over $100 per month. The rates for cable were just as high. But then something interesting happened. The coaxial cable used by cable TV companies like Comcast and the fiber optic cable used by phone companies like CenturyLink created the opening for a wide range of video streaming services which can make subscribing to cable or satellite TV totally unnecessary. (You also don’t need a landline with CenturyLink internet.) So, here we are at a crossroads (actually past it) where the cable TV companies will only be providing internet service and not TV service, because customers (like Rita and me) will use that cable internet service
to stream our favorite TV channels (and Netflix, of course) from other providers, in addition to having internet service for our home computers and internet-connected devices such as doorbells and cameras, monitored security services, and other smart-phone-connected appliances. Rita and I quickly abandoned Comcast for TV when we moved into our Avenida apartment, partly because their DVR allowed fewer hours of recorded shows than we had on our Dish Network DVR. What we ended up doing was using Comcast only for their high-speed internet service, and we now stream all the TV shows we were used to getting from Dish Network plus Netflix. We pay $65 for that internet service (which I needed anyway for our computers), and we pay about the same amount for YouTube TV, which is distinct from YouTube. Here’s what makes streaming a supersmart alternative — it’s portable. I can duplicate my home service at a second home, while camping, at work or anywhere else within the U.S. without having separate TV service at that location.
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Jeffco Interfaith Partners pumpkin patches raise $110,000 for charities Proceeds from 8,000 pumpkins sold by volunteers in Arvada and Lakewood to benefit Habitat for Humanity, Pumpkins USA BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Volunteer Becca Rehme and her son stand among the pumpkins. COURTESY PHOTOS
Local civic groups and churches in Jefferson County raised $110,000 for charity through pumpkin patches in Lakewood and Arvada this year. Jeffco Interfaith Partners sold 8,000 pumpkins at two volunteer-run pumpkin patches, the proceeds of which will benefit Pumpkins USA and Habitat for Humanity Metro Denver. This year marked the 23rd year Jeffco Interfaith Partners hosted its pumpkin patch, which began in Lakewood but expanded to the second location in Arvada over a decade ago. Sixty percent of the pumpkin patch proceeds will go to Pumpkins USA, a non-profit grower on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico; the remaining 40% will go to Habitat for Humanity Metro Denver. Jeffco Interfaith Partners is made up of a number of commu-
we could help out with. It became something so much bigger.” Williams also said the community feel of the pumpkin patch keeps her coming back since folks go with the intention of supporting a good cause. “Everyone is so generous and wonderful about supporting Habitat,” Williams said. “Many people tell us they come every year. Kids bring their friends. It’s a tradition for a lot of people, but we get a lot of new people every year and they seem pleased. “People are willing to pay a premium above grocery store prices because they know what they’re doing and why,” Williams continued. Jeffco Interfaith Partners has been working to support housing in Jefferson County for over 25 years.
Volunteers unload pumpkins at the Jeffco Interfaith Partner’s Arvada Pumpkin Patch.
nity and church groups including the Arvada-Jefferson Kiwanis Club, Arvada and Green Mountain United Methodist Churches, Jefferson Unitarian Church, St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, Arvada and Front Range Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other religious organizations. The pumpkin patches are entirely volunteer-run. Carolyn Williams and her husband Alan have vol-
unteered at the Arvada pumpkin patch for the last 15 years and ran that site this year. Williams said she initially got involved after her youngest child went off to college and she wanted to be a part of a good cause. “Our youngest child was going off to college,” Williams said. “It was an empty nest project. Band parents are pretty active in the fall; we knew there would be a big gap and it felt like a good thing
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Settlement reached in use-of-force incident Michael Clark was awarded $7 million by the City of Idaho Springs BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The City of Idaho Springs has reached a multi-million dollar settlement with Michael Clark, an Idaho Springs resident who filed a federal lawsuit against the city and members of the Idaho Springs Police Department for events that took place on May 30, 2021. Clark was met by officers at his apartment after a call from a neighbor regarding an altercation. Officer Nicholas Hanning fired a TASER weapon at Clark, causing him to fall and sustain a head injury. Clark filed a suit alleging injuries from the incident, and Hanning was placed on leave and later terminated after a review process. Another officer involved in the incident was disciplined and no longer works for the city. The settlement announced on Nov. 2 is in the amount of $7 million. The claims against individual members of ISPD were dismissed and the agreement does not represent an admission of liability from the city. Clark’s attorney, Sarah Schielke,
The adult children of Michael Clark gave remarks along with their family attorney on PHOTO BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE Nov. 2.
held a press conference on Nov. 2 where her office and Clark’s adult children gave statements about the settlement. Schielke said the settlement is the largest in state history for a civil rights case that does not involve wrongful death. She went on to describe the event with ISPD as
part of a “cultural phenomenon with police in this area.” Clark could not be present at the press conference due to medical concerns, but Schielke read a statement on his behalf where he said he hoped the settlement would be able to spur change to help other victims, and lamented
the loss of his previous life. “In the end, I will never get back what they took,” Clark’s statement said. The road to accountability has been a winding one, exacerbated by other counts of police violence within Clear Creek County. Clark’s daughter, Cynthia Flageolle, felt mixed emotions for her family at the settlement with the city. “Most people would expect us to say we are happy and excited about this,” she said. “We would be most happy if he could have his old life back.” Flageolle said the settlement has provided relief in that the family will be able to take care of Clark’s medical needs, and the stress of the case can be off her father’s mind. The settlement can’t, however, bring back the quality of life Clark had before the incident, Flageolle said. Flageolle said her father now requires 24-hour supervision and care, uses a wheelchair and doctors say he has reached maximum recovery. “He’s not able to drive, he’s not even able to transfer from his bed to a wheelchair without assistance,” she said. Flageolle, a business owner and mom, has had her own life uprooted by the incident in 2021. She is now the primary caregiver for her father, and many of her other responsibilities are on hold.
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Mount Evans, seen here in Dec. 2020 from Fire Tower Trail along Highway 103, was named for John Evans, Colorado’s second territorial governor. Evans is believed to have authoFILE PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN rized the Sand Creek Massacre.
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“It’s hard and it’s tragic because those generations would have lived and would have grown,” Wassana said. The first meeting of the body considering the name change, the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, took place on Oct. 11. More than 100 people attended,
including Wassana and other native representatives. “Mount Blue Sky” is a name the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes like. “It was something that fit both tribes perfectly,” Wassana said “It fit the mountain as well.” Others have suggested a name in the language of the Cheyennes or Arapahos, but Wassana said those advocates could disrupt the unity the tribes are working to advance.
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“Since we’re Cheyenne and Arapaho, we have two languages,” he said. “We wanted everyone to agree.” Since 2020, the tribes have formally petitioned for Mount Blue Sky, an effort joined by The Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group. There are others who have lobbied to keep the name Mount Evans, but with a twist, naming it for descendants of Evans’ family. Others have suggested Mount Rosalie, an unofficial name of the mountain before it bore Evans’ name. Both names are steeped in settler culture. Tink Tinker, a professor emeritus at Denver’s Iliff School of Theology, is a member of the Osage tribe. He has dedicated much of his career to teaching the cultures, history and religious traditions of American Indians. Settlers, Tinker said, were colonizers in American Indian homelands. When they came, they renamed everything. “It’s not unusual for the colonizer to name things after themselves,” he said. “The impetus was to name things so they belonged to the colonizer.” The Arapaho, Cheyenne and Wilderness Society petition to change the name includes a statement signed by Evans in 1864: “I, John Evans, governor of Colorado Territory, do issue this my proclamation, authorizing all citizens of Colorado, either individually or in such parties as they may organize, to go in pursuit of all hostile Indians on the plains… to kill and destroy, as enemies of the country, wherever they may be found, all such hostile Indians.” Historians say that statement helped set the tone for the events that eventually led up to the massacre. Andrew Masich is the president and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center, a Smithsonian Institute affiliate in Pennsylvania. He said the massacre began when many men from the tribe were out hunting. This left the most vulnerable at risk of
being attacked by Chivington’s troops near a bend in Big Sandy Creek on Colorado’s plains. “The women and children began to run up the dry creek bed,” Masich said. Many tried to dig themselves holes into the sand to escape the violence. “It was a slaughter, probably one of the most horrific massacres in the history of the United States,” Masich said. Afterward, Congress’ Joint Committee on the Conduct of War wrote this of Chivington’s conduct toward the peaceful tribes: “Having full knowledge of their friendly character, having himself been instrumental to some extent in placing them in their position of fancied security, he took advantage of their inapprehension and defenseless condition to gratify the worst passions that ever cursed the heart of man.” The committee in Washington also rebuked Evans for his “prevarication and shuffling” in his testimony of Sand Creek events and his failure to acknowledge that what transpired was a massacre. Secretary of State William Seward subsequently forced Evans to resign as governor. But when Evans returned to Colorado, residents cheered his arrival, according to History Colorado. “Throughout the rest of his life,” the organization writes, Evans “never chastised Chivington or the soldiers involved in the massacre, and he continued to maintain that it had been necessary for the development of Colorado and the west.” The organization quotes Evans’ words in an interview that came 20 years after the massacre. “The benefit to Colorado of that massacre, as they call it, was very great for it ridded the plains of the Indians,” Evans said. The naming board next meets on Nov. 17 over Zoom and the conversation about the name change will continue. The link to the meeting can be found on the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board’s website.
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Putting his talents to use in the Army ing bags that were much warmer than those the Army had and mittens with openings for a soldier’s trigger finger. “One of our jobs was to create newer, better equipment,” he noted. Gorman doesn’t have any photos or memorabilia of his time in the Army or of rock climbing, skiing or flying. “I just never took any pictures,” he said.
Evergreen veteran Jim Gorman was part of Camp Hale’s second chapter BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Jim Gorman was an avid skier and rock climber in his youth. Those talents came in handy when he served in the Army from 1952-1955, teaching soldiers to ski and climb rocks, and about coldweather survival skills in the Korean War and beyond. He was stationed at Fort Carson in the summers where he taught rock climbing in the canyons behind the Broadmoor Hotel and at Camp Hale near Leadville in the winters where he taught skiing and cold-weather survival skills. Gorman, 91, an Evergreen resident since 1973, calls himself part of the second generation of soldiers trained at Camp Hale, those who came after the famous 10th Mountain Division that was trained there in 1943-1944 before serving during World War II in Italy. He is proud that he was part of the Mountain & Cold Weather Training Command. “We taught survival and how to
Army veteran Jim Gorman sits on the deck with his dog, Kenai. Gorman served at Camp Hale in the Mountain & Cold Weather Training Command in the early 1950s. PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST
save lives,” Gorman explained. “Every six weeks, we taught soldiers mountain climbing, transporting materials with mules, how to survive in the mountains, how to ski. We had to teach how to survive in Korea and in the future.” For Gorman, his time serving the country is special. “I would do it all over again,” Gorman said. “It was the greatest period of my life, and I grew up a lot. I was exposed to so many people from so many different places.”
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Early life Originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gorman’s family traveled to Estes Park often in the summers. Young people who didn’t play traditional sports such as basketball and football became rock climbers, he said. After high school, he moved to Estes Park, working in restaurants, tending bars and driving sightseeing buses. One day, Gorman stopped to pick up his mail and put it in his backpack before going climbing with a friend. When they stopped for lunch, he checked his mail, finding his draft notice. He told his friend he considered jumping from the cliff rather than being drafted, and his friend suggested he untie the rope that attached the two first, Gorman said, laughing at the memory. Instead of waiting for his draft date, he enlisted, so he could better control his military destiny, and he was assigned to the Mountain & Cold Weather Training Command — where he belonged. Life in the Army Gorman said he was blown up, broke his back and was in a plane crash during his Army stint, and he lived to tell others the tales. He was firing mortar rounds at Camp Hale, when one exploded early, putting eight pieces of shrapnel into his lower body. At Fort Carson, one of the teams he was teaching on a rope bridge played a trick on him that backfired, breaking his back. And finally, he flew a plane – six takeoffs and five landings as he puts it — thanks to wind sheer, and while he was virtually uninjured, he was discharged three months early. He noted that sometimes the weather at Camp Hale was miserable, and soldiers learned to make snow caves and sled trenches. Some of the greatest skiers in the United States served in the Mountain & Cold Weather Training Command, Gorman said, including some of the U.S. Olympic ski team and some from college ski teams across the country. His roommate was James Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount Everest. Gorman and others went heli-skiing near Vail, and they created sleep-
Life after the military After serving in the Army, Gorman moved to Estes Park, where he saved up enough money to buy a twobedroom kit house that he assembled – “my pride and joy” — that he sold years later. He began college at the University of Colorado, finishing a business degree at the University of Denver in 1959. He had a long career working in sales. He met Helen, an interior designer for the Denver Dry stores, while on a sales call, and she didn’t buy the merchandise he was selling. “You turned me down on those (items), would you turn me down for a date, too?” he said he asked Helen. They went on a date and married in 1968. Gorman has been a mainstay at veterans events in the foothills, and he helped Evergreen Memorial Park in Marshdale create a veterans cemetery. Now he is hoping to get donations to put pine trees around the veterans area. Gorman says he and some of his friends who served in the Mountain & Cold Weather Training Command feel they have been overshadowed by the 10th Mountain Division’s notoriety, and he has fought to make sure the command’s contributions haven’t been overlooked. Camp Hale was deactivated in 1965, and on Oct. 12, 2022, President Biden designated the Camp Hale Continental Divide National Monument. The monument consists of 53,804 acres, which are managed by the White River National Forest unit of the U.S. Forest Service. Gorman says he’s lived a full life, and he hasn’t skied or climbed rocks in years. He is known for sitting in a chair along Highway 73 on Veterans Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July waving an American flag to remind others of patriotism, love of country and remembering those who have served. Mountain climbing is a metaphor for how he’s lived life for 91 years. “Summiting mountains wasn’t important,” he said. “It was facing the challenge of the climb.”
DONATIONS FOR TREES Veteran Jim Gorman wants to plant Colorado blue spruce trees around the new veterans cemetery at Evergreen Memorial Park, and he’s asking for donations for this cause. He needs about $2,300 to purchase 10 4-foot-tall trees. Anyone wishing to donate can send checks to Evergreen Memorial Park, 26624 N. Turkey Creek Road, Evergreen, CO 80439, and put “Peace Memorial donation” in the memo line.
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Colorado to follow Q3 national growth The politics of inflation BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN
Feeling more productive lately? You aren’t alone. The nation had an increase in production of goods and services over the summer that offset declines from earlier in the year. It swung into positive economic territory, according to the federal agency that measures the nation’s economic growth. Gross domestic product grew 0.6% in the third quarter or an annualized 2.6%, according to the estimate from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. That’s thanks to the U.S. upping trade by increasing oil exports while consumers spent more on health care and other services though at a slower pace than before. The federal government raised defense spending. Wages were up. But you may not have even noticed that growth, which was adjusted for inflation. Economic sentiment was mixed because not everything grew. Residential investment fell 26.4%, with investment in nonresidential buildings declining 15.3%. The Associated Builders and Contractors calls it “the calm before the storm.” While there is still plenty of uncertainty, Colorado is likely to see a similar growth in GDP, said Brian Lewandowski, executive director of the Business Research Division at the Leeds School of Business,
University of Colorado. They’ve been tracking Colorado’s GDP since 2005, and Colorado’s economic change has been very similar to the nation’s. “Colorado directionally moved with the U.S. 86% of the quarters (up or down),” Lewandowski said in an email. “I do expect Colorado’s GDP to be up in Q3, and I expected the growth to exceed the nation.” He also charted 17 years of GDP data for The Colorado Sun, comparing quarterly changes by the state and U.S.: “Our job growth and income growth has been outperforming,” he added. As What’s Working readers may recall from last week’s report, Colorado continues to add jobs, even if it’s at a slower rate than earlier in the year. Historically, the state’s labor force is one of the largest it has ever been. Income continues to rise, according to monthly estimates from the U.S. Census Business Establishment Survey and state labor department. Colorado’s average hourly pay has increased 10.9% since January 2021 to $34.43 in September. In the same period, U.S. wages have grown 8.4% to $32.46. Area economists however have already said job growth will continue to slow in Colorado. “The annual employment totals for 2022 will be deceptively stellar,” said Gary Horvath, a Denver-based economist at Cbre.co in his monthly
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decided to end its foray into plant protein. The layoffs are expected to be completed in December, according to its WARN letter. Colorado inflation gets political Inflation has become a political issue, which I tackled in a story earlier this week. It investigated the data behind one candidate’s claim that Colorado has the nation’s highest inflation rate, at 16%. The number came from a Republican committee report that looked at the 21 months since President Joe Biden took office. It also put Colorado in an eight-way tie with Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming for the highest inflation over that period. But the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks inflation via the consumer price index, does not track the rate by each state. It doesn’t have the budget to be that detailed, apparently. Instead, BLS tracks inflation by subregion — and that includes splitting up the U.S. into nine census divisions or by 23 metro areas. The Republican report used the nine census divisions. In checking with area economists on how they calculate the Colorado rate, they lean toward the DenverAurora-Lakewood rate, which is one of the 23 metro areas where more detail is provided. “In Colorado we can rely on the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood CPI, but SEE GROWTH, P16
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A new chapter: Coming to terms with a gruesome legacy BY ALEXIS KIKOEN, JEREMY MOORE, MARK HARDEN ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS
A book once revered by white people and put on proud display at a Denver seminary later became an object of such shame and bitterness that it has taken its custodians decades to come to terms with it. The book is a history of Christianity in Latin, published in 1752. At some point, the volume acquired a grotesque cover — the flayed, tanned skin of a murdered Native American. For 129 years, the book has been kept at the Iliff School of Theology, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, a school that describes itself as being “recognized nationally and internationally for its emphasis on peace, justice, and ethics.” Its alumni include ministers, chaplains, scholars and political leaders across the country. In 1893, a Methodist minister presented the book as a gift to the then-new school on the University of Denver campus. For decades, the book was displayed in a glass case at the entrance to Iliff’s library. “It’s deeply ironic that they would cover that book of Christian history with human skin taken from a murder victim, … an Indian,” George “Tink” Tinker, professor emeritus of American Indian cultures at Iliff and a citizen of the Osage Nation (Wazhazhe), told Rocky Mountain PBS. Tinker has written extensively
George “Tink” Tinker, professor emeritus of American Indian cultures at Iliff School of Theology, has written extensively about a book once put on proud display at the Denver seminary. It later became an object of such shame and bitterness that it has taken its COURTESY PHOTO custodians decades to come to terms with it.
about the book, its origins and its significance. He said it was long regarded as “a trophy, as a sacred relic of triumph over Indians.” Nearly 50 years ago, facing pressure from students and finally seeing the book as an embarrassment rather than a treasure, Iliff officials had the cover of human skin removed and took the book off display. School leaders at the time wanted to
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silence the controversy, and swore to secrecy those with knowledge of the situation. Decades later, Iliff began to see things differently. “It was time for us to tell the truth about this book,” said Thomas Wolfe, the current school president and CEO. Now the book and its gruesome history have spawned a gathering of cultures to share perspectives and search for a path forward. It’s a journey that participants hope will lead to accountability and understanding. Across the country, other colleges as well as museums and federal agencies are coming to terms with Native American remains and cultural artifacts they have long possessed, recently including Yale University, the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Kansas. A 1990 law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), lays out a process for the return of Native American remains and objects taken from tribal lands. The National Park Service estimates that the remains of at least 108,000 native people are in the hands of non-tribal institutions, including colleges and museums. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which has a large collection of Native American artifacts in its anthropology collections, says it “has returned numerous cultural items through NAGPRA. … The museum has consulted on all known Native American human remains in its collections and only curates human remains for which informed consent has been given by the individual or her/his family, kin, or community.” A murder and a defiled body Different stories about the Iliff book cover’s origins have been told over the centuries. According to Tinker and Loring Abeyta, an Iliff adjunct lecturer who is Tinker’s wife, the cover came from the defiled body of a member of the Lenape people, original inhabitants of parts of what is now the northeast United
States. In 1779, they wrote recently, a white farmer who was occupying Lenape land in western Virginia killed two native men “for the crime of walking across what he considered his own property.” They refute early accounts that described the killing as the result of a heroic fight with a “warrior.” One of the Lenape men “had his skin flayed so that it could be some sort of a trophy or a treasure,” Abeyta told Rocky Mountain PBS. “And then … there was some decision made that it was a great idea to bind the book in the skin of this Lenape victim.” Held by the farmer’s family, the book “evidently was enough of a treasure that it was … shown around and bragged about,” she said. Eventually the book wound up in the hands of a Methodist minister, R.M. Barns, who had moved to Colorado. Barns donated the book to Iliff in 1893, then in its second year. For the next eight decades, Iliff had the book on display in a glass case. A 1934 article about the book in the Rocky Mountain News described its cover as “finer than the finest vellum” and praised the skin’s “smoothness and texture equal [to] the finest parchment.” The article called the volume “one of the most treasured relics in the library of the Iliff School of Theology” and a “priceless vestment for the teachings of brotherly love.” In 1974, the book drew another kind of attention from some Iliff students, who protested the display. They also reached out to local American Indian Movement representatives. Jerry Campbell, then an assistant librarian at Iliff and later president of Claremont School of Theology and Claremont-Lincoln University, said he was given the task of severing the cover from the book with a blade so the skin could be turned over to the American Indian Movement (AIM) for burial on native land. “I remember thinking, ‘Good grief, this is the skin of a human being,’” SEE LEGACY, P16
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Often the only man in the room Nurse-midwife student pushes back against stereotypes
women. Alvarez ultimately hopes to change that and care for people, which is at the core of his motivations. “At the end of the day, I came into this profession knowing that I want to help women and help my sisters of color,” he said. “I want to do some good and do right by people.”
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According to the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB), of the more than 13,000 AMCBcertified nurse-midwives across the United States, 85% of them are white and only 39 (0.3%) are men. Alvarez hopes to change that. He said that as the population of pregnant people becomes more diverse, so should those who provide their health care. “I have had and seen [pregnant] patients who did not identify as women. They are non-binary, or they identify as men,” Alvarez added, saying that nurse-midwives are part of the community, not outsiders telling patients what to do. “Nurse midwives do more than just see you at the time of your visit. They know you outside the hospital and inside the home. They are concerned about your health and, do you have child care? Do you have access to healthy food and transportation? It’s knowing more than just what you are in that moment.” One of the main reasons Alvarez chose this profession is its history. “In the antebellum South, many of the enslaved women were the
This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org. Eric Alvarez is one of the few men at University of Colorado College of Nursing pursuing ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS a career in nurse-midwifery.
primary caretakers of the women in their communities. They were the ones delivering the babies, even those of their enslavers. But then the white male physician comes along and says, ‘That Black woman is uneducated, she is dirty and you should not get care from her.’ OBGYNs [obstetrician gynecologists] have been delivering babies for 100 to 200 years; midwives have been doing it for millennia,” he explained. Alvarez also pointed out that he sees dads getting more involved in caregiving for their newborn babies after watching him help their partners. “They’re like, ‘Wait, this guy is supporting my wife? Let me go in there and let me do something, or
maybe I can change my baby’s diaper too!’” Alvarez said. “They don’t feel the need to be on the opposite side of the curtain while their wife is having a baby.” Alvarez told Rocky Mountain PBS that sometimes, his patients are so over the moon to have someone who looks or speaks like them. “I’ve had patients who were so excited because, ‘Oh my god, my nurse is Black! How amazing is that?’ Or when I speak Spanish to my Spanish-speaking patients they are just like, ‘Thank goodness.’” Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white
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or some, the county budget may seem like nothing more than a thick pile of indecipherable numbers, detailed charts and spreadsheets. For us, it captures the community’s funding priorities and how we best leverage taxpayer dollars to deliver county services. Like you, we must balance our budget every year while funding essential county services such as public safety, roads, bridges and other county operations. Your voice is a critical part of building a county budget. We’ve increased ways for you to share your best thinking with us with the help of community meetings, an online budget survey, community budget forums, telephone town halls and our October budget hearing. County Commissioners gather community feedback and work closely with other elected and appointed officials to develop a budget that prioritizes funding for critical services. The proposed 2023 general fund budget totals $794 million.For example, it identifies $155 million for public safety services provided by the sheriff, district attorney and coroner as well as $83 million for maintenance and repair of county roads and bridges. Our budget team will present the final budget at 8 a.m. Nov. 15 in the Board of County Commissioners Hearing Room at 100 Jefferson County Parkway in Golden. We encourage you to attend the hearing in person or virtually to provide feedback. To learn more, visit www. jeffco.us/meetings. We were prepared to make up to $20 million in potential budget cuts in the General Fund. The shortfall
represents the difference between the growth allowed under TABOR and the increased cost to provide those services. But, thanks to COVID recovery dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act – or ARPA funding – we temporarily avoided those cuts. APRA funding is only one-time money. We won’t have this option in 2024. When Jefferson County was awarded $113 million in ARPA funds, the Jeffco ARPA Team began working with community members and elected officials to determine what is needed most to help the Jefferson County community and local economy recover from COVID. After collecting extensive input, commissioners approved eight priority areas for ARPA funds. We created a task force for each priority area, then paired each task force with county subject matter experts. Based on this feedback, Jefferson County will invest ARPA dollars in these one-time investment to: Offset economic impacts of the pandemic, including $1.7 million for a food grant program addressing food insecurity and disruption to local food supply. Provides equitable access to locally produced food, while meeting nutritional and cultural needs. Address needs for public health: Behavioral Health Vouchers expands the continuum of care for behavioral health services in Jefferson County through providing $1 million in funding for a voucher program, allowing eligible residents
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to access services through private providers as well as Jefferson Center for Mental Health. Work with partners to enhance broadband infrastructure: commissioned a study to determine broadband needs in the county. To increase the impact of ARPA funding at the county level, applications will be submitted for IIJA and state grants once priorities have been determined. Fund increased staffing in the county jail: Improve deputies’ retirement package to help with better recruitment and retention. Repair and replace critical infrastructure such as roads and culverts: Keep our community safe from wildfire threat, including increasing defensible space, improving forest health, hardening homes, and creating two new year-round slash collection sites. Develop a 15-year housing master plan for Jefferson County with funds from the DOLA Innovative Housing Opportunities Program, combined with with county direct ARPA funding: The focus of the master plan is to determine housing needs in the county. In addition, as we mentioned earlier, Jefferson County will leverage the one-time use of ARPA funds to cover a $20 million revenue shortfall in the General Fund. However,ARPA is only a temporary fix. Visit our ARPA web page at www. jeffco.us/ARPA to find a new interactive dashboard that has more information about approved projects. TABOR Refund Checks: The Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) requires governments in Colorado to refund revenue collected
above the TABOR limit each year or seek voter approval to retain the revenue. For the second year in a row, property taxpayers in Jefferson County received TABOR refund checks in the mail. Taxpayers received these checks because the county garnered more revenue in 2021 than the TABOR revenue limits allowed. One of the reasons Jefferson County is in its second year of refunding revenue is the unexpected impact of the COVID pandemic. In 2020, when the economy shut down, the county received much less revenue than normal and this caused the calculation of the TABOR revenue limit to automatically reduce by $14.5 million. Once that revenue limit is reset, the lower calculation sets the base for any allotted new growth. The county must refund by law any revenue over this now lower threshold. Last year’s total refund was about $1.5 million. This year’s refund is quite a bit more – $17.3 million. Property taxpayers in the county received a check proportionate to the amount of property taxes paid in 2021. To learn more about TABOR and this year’s refund, visit www.jeffco. us/tabor. We value your input as we prioritize funding decisions – thanks to everyone who has participated in our budget process and we look forward to hearing more from you on Nov. 15! Visit www.jeffco.us/663, contact us directly at commish@jeffco.us or individually at tktharp@jeffco.us, akerr@ jeffco.us and ldahkem@jeffco.us. The Jeffco Board of County Commissioners’ public hearings are held at 8 a.m. on most Tuesdays. Visit our meetings and agendas page at www.jeffco.us/ meetings.
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he idea of traveling to another planet seems closer than ever in recent years — no longer is it an idea solely left to the science fiction writers among us. And the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum is embracing this fact with the unveiling of the new Planet Pioneers Exhibition. “We’re always trying to bring in something new. Sometimes we do it ourselves and sometimes we get traveling exhibits like this one,” said Stewart Bailey, collections manager at the museum. “This exhibit
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focuses on space flight and what it’s like to travel to another planet and set up a colony there.” Created by Scitech in Perth, Australia, and produced by Imagine Exhibitions, Planet Pioneers runs at Wings Over the Clarke Reader Rockies Lowry, 7711 East Academy Blvd. in Denver, through Sunday, Jan. 8. The museum is open from 10
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Arvada Judicial Systems Are Not Working Well Many believe that misdemeanors, petty theft and shoplifting are the birthplace of criminals. There are nearly 1,800 outstanding arrest warrants just in Arvada. How many of these thefts have happened to your family and friends? Animals, appliances, bikes, cars, cash, catalytic converters, cell phones (including ID theft), Christmas displays, cigarettes, computers (including ID theft), construction site equipment, copper, credit cards, designer clothing, groceries, guns, jewelry, keys, laptops (including ID theft), lawn ornaments, liquor, medications, motorcycles, motor vehicles, musical instruments, porch pirates, purses (including ID theft), scrap metal, shoplifting, tablets (including ID theft) , tools, traffic tickets and wallets (including ID theft…) Here are my suggested changes in crime ordinance for your local magistrates to tollow. What they are doing now isn’t working. Raise the court costs to $125 Raise bond minimums to $2,500 Prosecute illegal drug paraphernalia No personal recognize bonds on second arrest Raise the penalty to $250 for each court no shows Allow surety bonds to help the lowincome individuals For first time theft convictions, maximize the penalties Mandatory sentencing for missed probation appointments Mandatory jail time or ankle bracelets for repeat offenders Inform people and HOA’s to illuminate the outside of homes Add more license plate readers to catch more stolen vehicles Do not reduce the penalties or points for speeders over 15 mph Maximize and mandate penalties on crimes that were once a felony Magistrate mandates jail or ankle bracelet on second arrest warrant Budget police salaries and benefits to be in the top three municipalities For second convictions, including juveniles, mandate maximum penalties Do not dismiss or reduce charges on second convictions. Either add to the sentencing or make them run concurrently What caused a $1 million one-year reduction in Arvada court revenue? Police understaffing does not account for all of it Mandate maximum penalties on catalytic converters and those thefts that reduce one’s ability to make a living like tools, laptops cars, etc. Allow Magistrates to order house arrest ankle bracelets, send to Correctional Facility for mental or addiction issues, or penetentary when appropriate Track reductions, dismissals, types of crime, sentencing, etc. in prosecutors’ office and the court to better understand and deal with crime so the public, staff, city council, and police know if the city is lenient or serous about crime. Reduce any anger. Go online and review your community’s crime ordinance. Most City Councils are liberal but will take crime sentencing seriously with just a few voices. Thankfully, I am invited to meet with Arvada’s Magistrate, City
Manager and Chief of Police on these suggestions. Will let you know how it goes. Please help to reduce the number of criminals roaming our neighborhoods. Ed Tomlinson, Arvada We need to address clean air and the climate crisis for our childrens’ futures With back-to-school time parents like me have been busy getting all the necessary school supplies, getting to know our kids’ teachers, signing our kids up for extracurriculars and making sure they are set up for success. It also often means that most of us are temporarily distracted from other things that will affect their future. But it still creeps in during quiet moments. And I know I worry. I worried about the fact that temperatures were still so high when school started in August. Classrooms were hot. Just after Labor Day, over 30 schools in the Denver area closed or ended early because of excessive heat. It’s hard to concentrate in hot classrooms and playgrounds can get dangerously hot. As a result, I was glad to see that President Biden just signed a bill, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, that will address clean air and the climate crisis. Through incentives it will build American clean energy supply chains using clean energy sources like solar and wind. It will also lower energy costs for families by hundreds of dollars per year through rebates and tax credits for efficient appliances and home upgrades. For us, it means we can finally get a more efficient cooling system for our house. We’ve also been thinking about getting an electric vehicle (EV) so I can do more to protect my kids and their future. Soon we’ll be able to transfer our EV tax credit to a dealer so that we can get the credit in the form of an instant rebate. Because that brings down the upfront cost of buying an electric vehicle my family will be able to get one sooner. In addition to feeling better about polluting significantly less, we’re looking forward to the benefits of lower maintenance and fuel costs. The measures in the legislation are expected to bring down total annual greenhouse gas emissions - about 40% below 2005 levels by the year 2030. That means not only addressing climate, but also cleaner, healthier air, so healthcare costs will be lowered in a couple different ways. A study last year calculated that each American is paying $2500 in additional healthcare costs per year due to air pollution. If we can cut pollution, we not only have healthier kids but save money as well. They’ll also miss fewer school days. Drug prices will come down too. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has several measures that will significantly help families like mine. It means cost savings with more money going back into the family budget, healthier air and a brighter future for our kids. As a mom, I am grateful that my legislators are looking out for my family. Paige Singer, Arvada Cleaner school buses I read recently about the funding that Congress and the Biden Administration has approved to help schools transition to cleaner school buses. This is a win-win! The school gets help buying buses so that more
dollars can go where they are needed most- into the classroom. Schools will also save money on maintenance and fuel. Everyone, from the kids on the bus to the neighborhoods the buses wind their way through, gets cleaner healthier air. As a mom, I’m so excited that the transition is under way. My son will start kindergarten next year and will need to ride a bus. I’ve watched as diesel school buses idle next to the school’s playground and am concerned about the impacts to my child’s health. I’m torn between wanting to use the school bus for my own child and my concern about the fumes on the bus. The air on school buses is up to 10 more toxic due to the diesel fumes from the bus. Our kids’ delicate lungs can be damaged by the toxic pollution causing problems that last a lifetime. Several school districts around Colorado have just been awarded funding for electric school buses from the EPA. Our school district, Jeffco Public Schools, didn’t apply for funding this go around but I hope they will next round. This transition can’t happen fast enough. Sara Kuntzler, Arvada Why are we still building when water’s running out? In 1960, the population of Arvada
was 19,000 and Colorado 1.8M, according to census numbers. Today, Colorado has grown about three times to 5.8M, while Arvada has swollen six times to 124k plus. City growth plans are for 200k plus. In the last century, droughts have occurred along the front range in the 1930s, 1950s, mid 1970s, 1980-81, 2002 and for the last two years. Aurora started sucking west slope water since it hadn’t been needed. The Colorado river basin is at historic lows, 1922 Colorado River Compact negotiations have failed and CA, AZ, NV and UT aren’t backing down their own water demands, so the Feds are sending whatever’s left of west slope water downstream. Yet, for some insane reason, every other community along the front range is still building out…including Arvada. So my question: Are the fine folks of the Arvada city council, planning and zoning facing facts and setting a maximum Arvada population that’s actually based upon Colorado’s water reality, or are they just a bunch of realtors and developers with their heads firmly planted in their sand who plan on a population that exceeds water availability, taxes infrastructure and imposes hardship on everyone else living here? Dave Knutson, Arvada
OBITUARIES TODESCO
Linda Mead Todesco
November 14, 1960 - October 19, 2022
Linda Mead Todesco of Arvada, Colorado passed away on October 19, 2022, at the age of 61. Linda was born to Oliver “Wendell” Mead and Donna Pope on November 14, 1960, in Ogden, Utah. In her youth Linda loved to hike and spend time outdoors while growing up in Ogden Canyon. She graduated from Weber High School in 1979. On September 7, 1984, Linda married John Mottes Todesco in Ogden, UT. After spending the first 24 years of her life in Ogden, she and her husband John moved to Denver, Colorado in 1985. Together, Linda and John grew their family and raised their two boys, Stephen and Michael, in Denver, CO. Linda worked as a technician and office manager in optometry practices for many years. Later, she became a caregiver for seniors, a job that she considered her true passion as she loved being with her many clients and patients. Linda lived a life of compassion for others and always thought about what she could do for them and not for herself. Linda was a member of the Colorado Mineral Society, and she was a rockhound and collected rocks and minerals from different states including Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. She loved collecting rocks with smiley faces; they brought great joy to her and the family, and
they will always be treasured. She loved hiking in the Colorado Mountains and the deserts of southern Utah to see arches and petroglyphs and pictographs and she especially loved the Temple of the Sun and Moon in Capitol Reef National Park. Linda greatly enjoyed traveling, camping, and festivals. She was a nurturer and had a soft spot for cats, having loved many during her lifetime, and she loved tending to her plants with an impressive green thumb. But more than anything else, Linda loved her boys. Family was very important to Linda, and she was the glue that held it all together. Linda is preceded in death by her mother Donna and father Wendell. She is survived by her husband of 38 years, John, and their two sons Stephen (Kristina) and Michael (Tina), brother Douglas (Tami) Mead, cousin Tammy, niece Shellie, nephew Kevin and many more beloved cousins, nieces and nephews. A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, November 13th at 2:00pm at The Church Ranch Event Center at 10200 Wadsworth Blvd, Westminster, CO. Please RSVP via text to (303)834-0923 if you plan to attend. In lieu of flowers, the family asks those interested to please donate to The Alzheimer’s Research Association in honor of Linda’s mom, Donna.
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Celebrating Native American Indian Heritage Month in November is a pathway to honoring Indigenous people year-round BY ELICIA HESSELGRAVE SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
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he Denver area today is a hub for Native Americans. It was approximately between 1945 and 1965 when Native Americans found Denver to be a desirable place to find work, said Cheryl Crazy Bull, president of the Denver-based American Indian College Fund. This time period is known as the Relocation and Termination period, when Native Americans were removed from reservations and relocated to urban areas, Crazy Bull said. Awareness of the plight of Native American communities rose in the 1960s and `70s, and this included concern for the lack of representation and visibility of tribal members in every corner of American life, Crazy Bull said. “We saw a desire in Native American communities to create pathways for more people in public to see us,” Crazy Bull said. “Native American Heritage Month and Indigenous Peoples’ Day emerged out of a desire for that kind of visibility.” In 1990, President George H. W. Bush established Native American Indian Heritage Month, which is celebrated every November. “Native American Indian Heritage Month is a focused educational time,” Crazy Bull said. ‘Our own way of knowing the world’ Crazy Bull grew up in South Dakota and takes pride in being a citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, part of the Seven Council Fires. Each of the Council Fires is made up of individual tribal bands, based on kinship, dialect and geographic proximity. “Indigenous people have our own way of knowing the world and our own knowledge system focusing on kinship and relationships,” Crazy Bull said. “We believe in generosity and industriousness, and being responsible in our actions and the gifts that people bring to us in their talent.” How to celebrate Native American — Heritage Month The American Indian College Fund offers a number of ways to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. It begins with IndigeBration, an exclusive virtual concert. The celebration continues with a month-long Facebook challenge that includes a Walk and Learn event, an instructional SEE HERE, P15
A Native American dancer performs during the American Indian College Fund’s Indigenous culinary event on June 15.
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social dance video, book clubs, watch parties and panels. Crazy Bull will cap the celebration month with a live discussion. Recognizing Native Americans during Thanksgiving “A lot of people have come to learn that the history behind Thanksgiving dinner (and) the stories we learned in school, are not exactly correct,” said NancyJo Houk, chief marketing and development officer for the American Indian College Fund. “I think it’s wonderful that people are starting to hear and understand that the truth behind the story of Thanksgiving isn’t what we all thought that it was.” Houk said there are ways to celebrate the holiday while also honoring Native Americans. She suggests reciting a land recognition or incorporating a traditional native dish to the meal. The college fund also provides resources of accurate history to share and discuss during the meal. Beyond Native American Heritage Month The idea is that Indigenous people will be honored beyond the month of November. That starts with research and self-education, Crazy Bull said. Her suggestions include taking advantage of opportunities to meet people of different cultures at social gatherings, work or club meetings. She said to also pay close attention to how Native American people are represented in schools, and take note of historical references in coursework
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hits people on all different levels. It’s a really well-designed exhibit,” Bailey said. “It’s particularly timely with all the renewed interest in space exploration.” The exhibit’s arrival at Wings Over the Rockies couldn’t be more perfectly timed and will be a great way to spend a day during the holidays. And while it will undoubtedly entertain all visitors, the hope is it also inspires the next generation of travelers. “We want people to understand that space exploration is open to everybody and that everyone has something to contribute to the future of space flight,” Bailey said. “It’s exciting, because the generation coming through the exhibit today are the ones who may be going to places like Mars.” Tickets and more information are
to ensure there is representation of Indigenous peoples, Crazy Bull said. Additionally, the Front Range boasts many nonprofits that serve Indigenous communities across the U.S. that people can learn more about. For example, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society on the University of ColoradoDenver campus and the American Indian Academy of Denver. And, there’s the Native American Rights Fund based in Boulder and Longmont’s First Nations Development Institute. There’s also the American Indian Academy of Denver, a free charter school focused on student-driven STEAM curriculum that was established to support Native American and Latinx students. It provides a “learning in an environment where children get a lot of opportunity to honor their Indigenious community,” Crazy Bull said. Also in Denver, the city and county’s Commission of Indian Affairs “strives to support visibility of Native people in Denver, and also legislation,” Crazy Bull said, adding that “Colorado itself has passed some laws that were really important, like banning mascots, (and) legislation supporting tuition support of members of tribes.” For the arts, Crazy Bull points to the North American Indian Cultures exhibition hall at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Denver Art Museum’s Indigenous Arts of North America gallery. Both offer opportunities to experience Native American culture any time of the year. Another resource is the NativeLands app, which helps people disavailable at wingsmuseum.org. Peace at all costs in Wheat Ridge’s ‘Lysistrata’ Do you ever just stop and think how astounding it is that many of the works we have from ancient Greek times still hold meaning millennia after they were originally written? Those universal truths are just what will be explored in Mellisa Taylor’s production of Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata.” The classic play runs at the Wheat Ridge Theatre Company Playhouse, 5455 W. 38th. Ave., through Sunday, Nov. 20. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. For those unfamiliar, the show focuses on the Greek women’s efforts to stop their husbands constantly going off to fight in some war by refusing to sleep with them until peace talks are held. Visit https://wheatridgetheatre. com/ for information and tickets.
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Cheryl Crazy Bull is a citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation and serves as the president COURTESY PHOTO and CEO of the American Indian College Fund.
cover what lands were the traditional homes of specific Indengous peoples. Other suggestions to celebrate and honor Native Americans include learning how to cook traditional native foods and supporting Native American-owned businesses, such as Denver’s own Tocabe, an American Indian eatery. There are also volunteer opportunities with organizations such as the Denver Indian Resource Center, the Denver Indian Center or Spirit of the Sun. “In the U.S., there’s this practice of trying to celebrate diversity in
framed ways, so Native American Heritage Month is an example of that social practice of drawing attention to groups of people by setting aside time for them to be recognized,” Crazy Bull said. “But we are here everyday. And we view Native American Heritage Month as just an opportunity to showcase the different accomplishments and different challenges Native Americans face.”
A new perspective on creative mapmaking PlatteForum — an arts, youth development, and artist-in-residence program — is hosting a new fall exhibit by Jennifer Maravillas-Bell, who has been in residence at the gallery’s ArtLab since early September. Collected Perspectives: Cartography, Belonging, Place and Identity will be on display at the PlatteForum Annex Gallery, 3575 Ringsby Court, Unit 103 in Denver, through Saturday, Nov. 26. According to provided information, Collected Perspectives explores map-making through a social justice lens. Maravillas-Bell is from Brooklyn, New York, but is now based in Denver and as part of the work’s creative process has been walking the streets in the area, collecting debris and putting it into concrete shapes that match each block. Information on the exhibit and gallery can be found at https://platteforum.org/.
Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Son Little at the Bluebird Theater One of the many great things about R&B music is how eclectic the genre is — there’s an approach to soul music that will appeal to practically any listener. Take the music made by Philadelphia’s Son Little, who since 2014 has been releasing music that owes as much to classic Motown sounds as it does to electronica. It’s easy to see why he has recorded with artists ranging from Mavis Staples and RJD2. In support of his latest album, this year’s “Like Neptune,” Son Little will be performing at the Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver, at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12. He’ll be joined by openers Moorea Masa & The Mood. Get tickets at www.axs.com.
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Campbell told United Methodist News in an October 2020 article. “I just remember thinking this is a terrible thing to have here and be kind of celebrating it.” At the time, Iliff leaders decided to maintain silence about the book and its cover, asking AIM and others with knowledge of the situation to sign a non-disclosure agreement “in order to protect Iliff in terms of its fundraising potential,” Tinker said. “That’s immoral and unethical,” Tinker said of the secrecy. “… Christians have two words for it that we don’t have in any Indian language. It was evil, and it was sinful.” The school has stored the coverless book out of public view ever since. ‘Nobody will talk to you about this’ Tinker said he learned of the book in 1986, shortly after joining the Iliff faculty. “One of my colleagues pulled me aside, and said, ‘Nobody will talk to you about this, but you need to know that this happened at Iliff’,” he said. Tinker said he “almost left” Iliff after hearing about the book, “because it is so disturbing to an American Indian.” Instead of leaving, he said, “I waited until everybody was in church on Sunday, ... and I went back in the building, and I smudged every nook and cranny I could.” The school’s policy of secrecy about the book and its sordid past changed after Wolfe, a United Methodist pastor and elder, arrived as Iliff president in 2013. Wolfe said he had learned about the book years before coming to Iliff, hearing talk about it at a 1996 United
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November 10, 2022 Methodist conference in Denver. “Just the idea of a book covered with the skin of a Native American person was profoundly disturbing,” Wolfe told Rocky Mountain PBS. “You don’t have to be affiliated with the school to feel that. It’s part of a long history of violation of native peoples in this country.” He said the book represents “not just one institution’s lack of understanding but [also] the whole nature of Christian domination that misplaced and murdered millions of native people.” The cover may be gone, Tinker said, but that “doesn’t remove entirely the spirit of that Lenape murder victim from the book itself. Something needs to happen to that book. But Iliff shouldn’t do anything without talking to Lenape people.” Tinker also advocated that Iliff look beyond the disposition of the book itself. “I really wanted to change the behavior of my white relatives,” he said. ‘Making things right for our ancestor’ And so Tinker and Wolfe asked Lenape elders to come to Denver and offer guidance. That led to two days of meetings in April that Rocky Mountain PBS was invited to observe. The elders also examined the book. “Our big question is, what do we do with the book?” Wolfe said, “and the understanding was, we are preparing ourselves to be guided.” Among those on hand for the meetings was Curtis Zunigha, co-founder of the Lenape Center, an arts and culture organization, and cultural director and a former chief of the Delaware Tribe. (Delaware is another name for the Lenape people.) “It’s important that the Iliff School at least listen to us and try to take steps in a new and better direction,” Zunigha told Rocky Mountain PBS.
He said Iliff must recognize that by accepting the book in 1893 and knowing its origins, “they became complicit in the colonial domination and the racism” against natives. Zunigha said that the spiritual force of the murdered Lenape man whose skin covered Iliff’s book remains centuries after his death. “The Lenape way of life was one of understanding that not only do we as humans have a living spirit, but that all of creation has a living spirit,” Zunigha said. “… The spirit endures beyond just the physical life.” Another elder at the meetings was Patricia Noah, who said she reacted with “disgust and sadness and heartache” when Zunigha told her about the Iliff book. “I think that [murdered] man’s spirit got caught between this physical world and the spiritual world,” she said. “He couldn’t get to the spiritual world because part of [him] was put on that book. Part of his spirit stayed there and was stuck there.” Out of their Denver meetings, the Lenape delegation presented a “statement of guidance and direction” calling on Iliff to take a number of steps. Those steps include creating a display or memorial about the book, establishing “an Interpretive Center to educate Indians and non-Indians [on] the truths of American history as it pertains to the Indigenous nations,” funding an endowed professorship “filled by an American Indian activist scholar,” and enhancing curriculum. “At such time as it is requested by the Lenape, the Elders will take possession of the book,” the statement says. Iliff leaders formally accepted the Lenape delegation’s recommendations and offered their own document outlining “active steps”
the school will take to meet them. Another in-person meeting with the Lenape elders is scheduled for April 2023 to review progress on the recommendations. “The Board of Trustees and the leadership of Iliff School of Theology and their successors support and commit to a permanent relationship with the Lenape Elders and their successors toward building a new history and relationship in full recognition of Iliff’s history of possession of the book of Christian history covered in the skin of a Lenape man,” the Iliff document says. For now, the book will stay at Iliff. Said Zunigha: “The sense of response and commitment from Iliff will … inform and frame our attitude about taking possession of this book and making things right by that ancestor.” Until the book is turned over, it “will remain in a secure and respectful place within the President’s Office,” the Iliff response document said. It’s clear that the process discussed in the talks will not be concluded overnight, and will need to be carried forward by future Iliff administrations. “This is going to be a commitment that this generation is making for this institution going forward in time,” Wolfe said. F“Changing a worldview … happens over a lifetime, but it doesn’t happen until people start thinking a different way,” Tinker said. “That’s what I want, for Iliff and for all of my Euro-Christian relatives.”
Employment. “To the best of my knowledge, there are no real substitutes for state-level measures of inflation.” By using the Denver inflation rates since January 2021 and calculating the index change through September 2022, area inflation came in at 13.25%. That put the region near the middle of
the pack of 23. It was also slightly higher than the U.S. inflation rate of 13.18%. Ultimately, though, prices are higher now than a year ago. The BLS calculated that the Denver area’s inflation rate had slowed to 7.7% in September, which is still up from a year ago. Nabbing that statewide rate will always prove to be tricky. Lewandowski, with CU’s Leeds Business School, said he, too, uses the Denver rate for projections. However, he added, “What is difficult, though, is (that) many of our mountain resort communities are likely experiencing higher prices and price changes, but they aren’t reflected in the Denver estimates.”
everyone has a unique inflation rate because we buy different things. Some people traveled less this year because of higher gas prices, but others may not have driven anyway. Some stopped eating meat to save money at the grocery store, but vegetarians didn’t. The New York Times built a personal inflation calculator last spring. While it hasn’t been updated, it provides users a sense of how your inflation rate differs from a neighbor’s.
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Invasive mussels have ‘infested’ Colorado lake Other waters can be contaminated by destructive species first found on Sept. 14 BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN
Invasive zebra mussels have “infested” the water at Colorado’s Highline Lake — a reservoir north of Loma, near Utah — despite a 15-year effort by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to keep the state free of the harmful species, the agency said this week. CPW staff have discovered at least 10 zebra mussels in Highline Lake. After the first adult zebra mussel was found in the reservoir Sept. 14, Parks and Wildlife staff found almost a dozen more of the mussels in the same body of water on Oct. 21 and 22. Soon after, the department changed the status of the lake from “suspect” to “infested,” according to a news release sent Oct. 25. The new infestation could lead to millions of dollars in damage to water-based infrastructure, and threatens to impact water quality and limit recreational opportunity. A single mussel can produce up to 1 million babies in a single year, officials said, making it challenging to contain the species, and nearly impossible to eradicate them once
Invasive mussels are infecting Colorado waterways. The mussels are spread from lake SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE to lake by boats not being cleaned and dried out correctly.
they’re introduced. The aquatic nuisances attach to solid or semi-solid surfaces and clog up boat engines or distribution pipes at water treatment facilities. If knocked off, the mussels can drop into and infest a body of water. The mussels can live outside of water for 27 days under the right conditions, and can pass almost a liter of water through their shells each day, consuming nutrients needed by other fish and plants in the ecosystem. Their high levels of filter feeding can also alter food sources in lakes and reservoirs. And when mussels
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defecate or dry out on shorelines, they can cause a rancid smell, making it less desirable for people to recreate in these areas, said Robert Walters, CPW’s invasive species program manager. Now, the agency will have increased sampling and monitoring efforts at Highline Lake to help contain the infestation. They also have implemented a special program where they will inspect and decontaminate every boat that leaves the lake to stop the species from spreading to other bodies of water, he said. “This is incredibly concerning,” Walters said Wednesday. CPW’s invasive species leaders are evaluating other steps to contain the mussels, he said. There currently are no boats on Highline Lake, since the boating season ended Sept. 30, and so it is unlikely that the zebra mussels will be shuffled around by recreation, at this point, Walters said. Highline Lake, which is northwest of Grand Junction and just a few miles east of the Utah border, is considered “high risk” for the spreading of mussels from boats. Many boats pass through the lake from out of state, particularly from Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border, a popular destination for Colorado boaters. Lake Powell has been infested with invasive mussels since 2012. Now that Highline Lake is considered infested, it must go five years
without further detections to be listed as free of mussels. Colorado Parks and Wildlife leaders have been concerned for years about the possibility of zebra and quagga mussels popping up across the state. The department conducted an awareness campaign ahead of Memorial Day, when the boating season generally kicks off in Colorado, to encourage people to get their boats inspected each time they enter and exit Colorado’s waterways. The department stepped up enforcement of its 15-year-old Aquatic Nuisance Species Program, a statewide decontamination program, where inspectors at 73 locations decontaminate people’s boats. Since the program’s inception in 2008, almost 500,000 boats have been inspected annually. Parks and Wildlife staff deploy instruments into high risk reservoirs for the purpose of detecting invasive species. Staff found the first zebra mussel in mid-September during this kind of water sampling. Colorado is not free of all invasive aquatic nuisance species. Some bodies of water in Colorado contain Eurasian watermilfoil, for example, which grows quickly and blocks sunlight, and can kill off native aquatic plants that fish and other underwater species rely on for food and shelter. Now, after the new detection, CPW staff are asking people to help stem the spread of zebra mussels by ensuring that any boating equipment that enters Highline Lake, and any other body of water in the state, is clean, drained and dried, in between each use. Mussel infestations are increasing across the nation each year, Walters said. “As more and more people use our water resources for boating, we must continue to work tirelessly to prevent the spread of these harmful invasive species,” said Heather Dugan, acting director for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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When the pandemic first sent Colorado students home from school, Rachael Sheetz worried about the chaos of remote learning, but as the caretaker for her elderly grandmother, she also worried about COVID. In her search for options for her two teenagers, she landed on Colorado Connections Academy, an online school. She figured they’d been doing online learning for a while and would be better prepared than traditional schools had been. Today, 2 1/2 years later, her son has returned to brick-and-mortar schooling at a popular local charter with high vaccination rates. But her daughter has stayed online, where she’s getting lots of teacher support and doing work that to Sheetz seems several grade levels ahead. “I found that kids excel better when they can achieve academics at a pace that is comfortable for them,” Sheetz said. “My daughter has always been a decent student, but giving her more flexibility has helped her excel even more.” Enrollment in online schools in Colorado grew steadily before the pandemic, then surged as schools shut down in spring 2020, despite overall enrollment in public schools dropping. In fall 2021, the most recent complete data available, Colorado enrolled 30,803 students in online schools, 50% more than the 20,603 enrolled in fall 2018. Online students now represent about 3.5% of public school enrollment. Although online enrollment declined slightly from 2020-21 to 2021-22, officials expect more steady growth over time. School districts, aware of families’ interest, are opening their own new online schools to meet the demand. Yet much remains unknown about how online schools perform and how they’re managed. One small district, Byers 32J, has increased its enrollment tenfold in the last decade by opening online charters. It now runs eight of them.
That has increased its budget because the district keeps a portion of the state’s per student funds. Some of Byers’ schools posted the state’s biggest surges in enrollment and are the least transparent in data. Statewide, seven in 10 online schools did not have enough data for the state to issue them a 2022 performance rating. “It absolutely should be a concern,” said Van Schoales, senior policy director for the Keystone Policy Center. “The unfortunate irony is that online schools claim to be more connected to folks and yet a measure of connectedness is test participation and so it would suggest and reinforce a lot of the national research that online schools aren’t living up to advertising around personalizing instruction for kids.” Schools meeting the demand This fall, online school leaders say preliminary enrollment figures seem to show a slight dip again, but numbers still will be well above prepandemic levels. Jeffco set up an online program last school year for families who weren’t ready to return to in-person classrooms, creating flexibility so that students could switch back and forth between remote learning during the year. This year, that program has converted into its own online school, here to stay. Unlike the district’s Jeffco Virtual Academy, which has long existed, the new Jeffco Remote Learning Program school serves elementary age students too, and requires students to log in to receive live, real-time instruction from about 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. At its peak last school year, the remote school had more than 1,300 students. This year, Principal Kala Munguia expects to have around 700 students. She said last year approximately 60% of students were enrolled because of pandemic health concerns, but this year students are more likely to prefer the learning model. Students who choose her school still want the live interactions every day. “Our students tend to need or want that collaboration amongst other students,” Munguia said. She thinks more families will be SEE ENROLLMENT, P20
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interested in the model, once they learn it’s an option. Adams 12 also set up a districtwide online program during the pandemic that now has turned into a new school, Five Star Online Academy. Principal Adria Moersen said that the school was started in real time, or what’s called synchronous, but has since shifted to have more flexibility. Students can choose to be fully synchronous just for the mornings, or for certain days of the week, and now have more in-person opportunities for tutoring and other activities. The school has about 520 students in grades 2 to 12, down from about 700 last year. “This year these are students who are choosing online because it works for them,” Moersen said. The district’s other online option is through Pathways, an alternative education school for older students off track to graduate. Before the pandemic, Pathways was a blended learning program that required most students to attend a few hours in person. During the pandemic, the school tried allowing all students to be fully online, but found that it didn’t work for most students. “Ours are students who really need that extra support,” said Principal Matt Schmidt. Still, this year, about 15% of students have been allowed to choose to stay fully
online. The school’s model of sixweek courses allows the students to opt to be online or in person for each six-week period. District staff tout that flexibility as they try to reengage students who have left school. Moersen and Schmidt said that for some of their students, having to work or take care of family members means the online options work best. When Sheetz chose an online school for her kids, she wasn’t sure it was going to work, but being a stay-at-home mom, she knew she’d be around to help them. Sheetz was thrilled at the flexibility of being able to let her kids wake up later or take a break in the middle of the day to spend time together or run an errand. Still, she encouraged them to participate in some live classes at least once a week. These are some of the same reasons families for years have chosen online learning. Bernie Zercher’s daughter’s social anxiety made it hard for her to participate in even the limited in-person programming that her siblings used as part of their home-schooling course. The biggest draw from GOAL Academy was more flexibility for her to participate live only as much as she wanted to, and that counselors and other available services could help her through her anxiety. In four years in high school at GOAL, she’s become more comfortable with in-person activities and interactions, and now takes concurrent college classes in person, has an internship at the school’s multimedia department, and participates
in a school music group. “The GOAL setting was just so much more accommodating for her,” Zercher said. “I don’t know that that’s typical of online schools. I think it’s kind of unique to GOAL. They really were meant as a safety net for a lot of kids that had experienced childhood traumas or other issues.” Growth makes accountability more important National data shows that online schools in general have lower student outcomes, including test scores and graduation rates, than do traditional in-person models. Studies of online learning during the pandemic also show students falling behind when they were learning virtually. Of Colorado schools that tested enough students to report composite SAT scores publicly this year, online schools tested on average 25 points lower than brick-and-mortar schools, out of a 1,600-point maximum. Of schools that tested enough students to report state CMAS scores publicly this year, online schools tested on average 5 points lower than brick-and-mortar schools on English and 21 points lower on mathematics, out of a 850-point maximum. Advocates for online schools say that many students who seek an online education weren’t doing well in traditional settings, and may already be starting behind or facing other challenges. But there also have been questions about the quality of education and how engaged online students are.
Back in 2016, an Education Week investigation of GOAL Academy, which at the time was the largest online school in the state, cited internal school data that nearly half of students didn’t log in at all during a typical week. Zercher isn’t just a parent. As a local business owner, he was tapped to serve on the board of GOAL as the school made much-needed reforms. He agrees with the need for more oversight. “The whole charter school world is the wild, Wild West of education,” Zercher said. “I have seen some crazy stuff, and crazy disregard for regulations.” Renee Martinez, supervisor for the state Education Department’s office of online and blended learning, says the state does its best to provide oversight, but has been limited by multiple changes in the law. Some issues are just relayed back to authorizers. As it does for all schools, the Education Department audits student course loads and credits to ensure districts receive the right amount of money for students, and to ensure that students aren’t being counted as enrolled in more than one school. There’s never been reason to believe that any school is falsely inflating their enrollment counts, she said. But, “of course we operate on best intentions, thinking they wouldn’t do that,” she said. Martinez said her department was also disappointed in how little data on performance there was for online SEE ENROLLMENT, P31
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A non-binary pastor and hospital chaplain hopes to open minds BY ALISON BERG, JEREMY MOORE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS
Ben Mann doesn’t fit the typical mold of a Protestant pastor. Mann, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, wears high-heeled shoes and makeup. Their altar sits beneath a transgender Pride flag and they’re surrounded by rainbows. For many, being both non-binary and a pastor could conflict. But for Mann, the two identities complete each other. “As queer people, I think we have a unique view of the world and the ability to question and wonder and hold strength within ourselves when we offer that power to one another,” Mann said. “I think that makes us an interesting element to society.” Mann is the associate pastor at Mayflower Congregational Church in Englewood and a chaplain at UCHealth on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Their role at the church is typical for a pastor — deliver sermons from the Bible with context for modern life. At the hospital, Mann works with patients of various faiths to bring comfort to them during what are often traumatic circumstances. “People come to the hospital and are instantly vulnerable,” Mann said. “We strip them down, we tell them where to lay and what to do. We instantly start poking and prod-
ding them and that can be a really inhumane experience.” “I find, as a chaplain, I get to inject a lot of humanity into a person and a family’s experience,” Mann added. Mann grew up in a conservative, religious household in Oklahoma. Though they often struggled to see their place as a queer person in the Christian church, Mann never lost their faith. Lessons from Jesus Christ’s teachings are still a core part of their belief system, but Mann no longer identifies with the word “Christian,” as they do not like the rise of alt-right Christianity in recent years and the way the religion has been weaponized. “I find the term ‘Christian,’ to be highly problematic, only because of the brand in my country that it’s taken on,” Mann explained. “I think it’s almost an understatement to say that we see the repercussions of an Evangelical Christianity that are so pervasive, and I think that speaks to the underlying tensions where we see Christianity being used as a weapon to hurt people.” In its purest form, Mann believes Christianity can serve the most marginalized people and bring communities together, but the faith has lost sight of its roots, they said. “The loudest voices get to claim what they believe that term to mean,” Mann said of the word ‘Christian.’ “I think there’s a correction of the narrative. Being
smart and savvy with our narrative, breaking out of traditions that no longer serve people.” Little data exists on how many LGBTQ+ community members are represented in the clergy, but a Pew Research Center study from 2014 found more churches are accepting LGBTQ+ people and moving away from teachings about homosexuality being a sin that were once a staple of many Christian sects. As progressive churches continue to put themselves on the map, Mann hopes LGBTQ+ people who were once harmed by Christianity can find a place for the good parts of religion in their hearts. “There’s a deep hunger in our culture to understand spirit and to understand self,” Mann said. “There are answers, there are opportunities to grow, and I hope the trauma from their past won’t prevent them from growing.” Mann also believes LGBTQ+ people have a unique outlook of the world due to the difficulties they often face. “I think queer people have a wonderful opportunity to be leaders in so many different facets of culture, including inside and outside of faith communities and other places,” Mann said. “I think we have a unique view of the world and the ability to question and wonder and hold strength within ourselves when we offer that power to one another.”
As the associate pastor of a church in Englewood and a chaplain at UCHealth, Ben Mann — who is non-binary — is working to make religion more accepting to the LGBTQ+ community. COURTESY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS
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ENGLEWOOD — If there was an election this week for mayor of Ralston Valley High School … Evan Bierman would likely win in a landslide. “Evan Bierman is a hero,” Ralston Valley junior captain Cole Creasey said after the No. 8-seeded Mustangs upset top-seeded Legacy 1-0 in a Class 5A boys soccer state quarterfinal Nov. 5 at Randy Penn Stadium at Englewood High School. With the Mustangs (13-5 record) clinging to a 1-0 lead in the final minutes, the junior goalie made a series of four saves from pointblank range to complete the shutout victory in Ralston Valley’s first-ever trip to the state quarterfinals. “Four huge, huge saves late to keep it where it was,” Ralston Valley coach Jamie Scarcliff said of Bierman’s saves in the final minutes including stopping a penalty shot by Legacy senior Tate Hansen in the 79th minute. “He came up huge. Those saves helped us finish off that little bit.” A foul was called inside Ralston Valley’s goalie box with 1:14 left in regulation-time. It seemed likely that the Lightning (16-2) would likely finally get on the scoreboard and send the game into overtime. Bierman had other plans. “Being up 1-0 most of the game and having to go overtime would have been the worst scenario for us,” Bierman said. “We’ve done a lot of PKs in practice. I’ve been kind of on and off on PKs. I had made some big saves before that to give me some confidence.” Hansen fired a low shot to Bierman’s right. The junior who missed last season due to injury made the save, but gave up the rebound to
Hansen who had a second chance to put it into the back of the net. “You just get a gut feeling from the shooter from where he looks,” Bierman said of his strategy facing a PK. “You just guess. I guessed the right way. On the rebound shot I just tried to get big and made that second save.” Just over a minute later the Mustangs were able to celebrate the historic playoff win. Ralston Valley will face No. 12 Fairview in the semifinals at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Randy Penn Stadium. The Knights (12-5-1) upset No. 4 Broomfield 2-1 in overtime in the first of four state quarterfinal games last Saturday. “I’m so, so proud of them,” Scarcliff as the Mustangs’ longest postseason run in the program’s history continues. “I was a little worried in the second half because it looked like we were retreating a little bit, but they battled hard and worked to the end.” The lone goal of the game came off the head to Creasey in the 20 minute in the first half. With a ton of bodies in front of Legacy senior goalie Wesley Hempelmann, Creasey managed to get a head on a loose ball. “It was a mosh pit,” Creasey said of play. “I saw Cooper Hineline head it backwards. I saw it above my head and thought if I jumped I could get my head on it. I felt it hit off my head, but didn’t see anything. As soon as I turned around I saw it in the back of the net.” Creasy and his backline teammates were instrumental in keeping Legacy scoreless for the first time all season. “The game plan going into the game was me, Ryan Mann and Nathan Coggins to keep a clean sheet in this game,” Creasey said of the
Ralston Valley sophomore Cooper Hineline (19) and Legacy senior Mateo Becerra Garcia (16) collide during the Class 5A state quarterfinal game Nov. 5 at Randy Penn Stadium at Englewood High School. Ralston Valley made history with a 1-0 victory in PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS its first-ever trip to the state quarterfinals.
job ahead of the Mustang defenders facing a Lightning squad that was on a 10-game winning streak and hadn’t been shutout since Legacy’s state semifinal loss to Grandview nearly a year ago. “We did just that.” The other 5A semifinal Wednesday (after press deadline) features No. 3 Valor Christian and No. 2 Denver East. Ralston Valley suffered 2-1 loss to both the Eagles and Angels earlier this season. “We proved today that we are a strong contender for the state championship,” Bierman said.
“Now we have momentum going into the semifinals to make more history.” Ralston Valley will take a 5-game winning streak into the semifinals. “No one would have told us at the beginning of the season that we would be in the state semifinals,” Creasey said. “Obviously, we aren’t finished. We want to go to the finals and win it all.”
Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.
Lakewood’s Lauren Burt dominates at 5A state gymnastics meet BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
THORNTON — An out-of-bounds stumble and a fall wasn’t going to keep Lakewood junior Lauren Burt from her mission to win the Class 5A gymnastics individual all-around title Nov. 3. “Lauren has just worked so hard,” Lakewood coach Christine Kamin said. “She showed up this season having worked the nine months during the off-season just ready. Ready to be the best in the state.” Burt outshined the rest of the competition with an all-around score of 38.325 on the first night of state gymnastics meet at Thornton High School. Chatfield’s Adia Friesen was runner-up with a 37.6 and Arvada West’s Kayla Powell placed third with a 37.2. “I had a couple of mistakes, but it was really my team and coaches that supported me and kept me going,” Burt said. “It was really
great having them support me no matter what.” The meet started out rough with Burt stepping out-of-bounds attempting a double-back during her floor routine on the Tigers’ first rotation. “We put that double-back in on floor because that is how you are the best of the best. Doing skills that no one else can due,” Kamin said of the degree of difficulty Burt had in her floor routine that scored a 9.525. “She wanted to come out and do the biggest skills she can.” Burt rebounded with the best vault of the night on her next rotation. The junior nailed a score of 9.95 on the vault. The next best score was 9.55 by Broomfield’s Kaya Duncan that helped the Eagles to the 5A team title. “Vault was super exciting,” Burt said. “It has been one of my goals to get a 10 on vault. It wasn’t quite SEE MEET, P25
Lakewood senior Izzy Gee, right, hugs Burt during the Class 5A state gymnastics meet Nov. 3 at Thornton High School. Gee won the 5A all-round title in 2021. Burt won the all-around title this year to give the Tigers back-to-back individual all-around titles. PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Lakewood junior Lauren Burt performs her floor routine during the team and individual all-round competition during the Class 5A state gymnastics meet Nov. 3 at Thornton High School. Burt won the individual all-around, floor, vault and bar titles during the state meet. PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
“I think it is really important because it shows we are just one team,” Burt said of Jeffco’s dominance over the past decade in the 5A all-around. “We are all supportive no matter what.” Burt continued to dominate at the individual finals Nov. 5. The junior captured the floor, vault and bars individual titles. Friesen from Chatfield completed the Jeffco sweep of the individual titles by winning the beam title Saturday. On the 4A side, Standley Lake’s Tessa Grudle won the all-around title Nov. 4. She followed that up with the individual floor title the next day. Evergreen’s Lola Visci won the bars title for the Cougars. Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.
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that, but I was really happy with the score.” Burt said she hoped to score a 10 during the event finals on Saturday. Lakewood graduate and 2018 all-around state champion Amber Boll had a perfect 10 on the vault the year she swept the all-around and four individual event finals. The beam was another setback for Burt that she had to overcome. She fell off the beam and scored a 9.05 to put her 17th in the beam standings. “I knew if she hit it would be very hard for anyone to beat her,” Kamin said of Burt. “With the fall on beam it opened things up a little bit. I didn’t know if it would happen, but I knew her start values were so high she could fall and still win.” The most frightening moment of the night came when Burt’s teammate and defending all-round champion — Lakewood senior Izzy Gee — peeled off the low bar during first part of her routine and landed on the back of her neck. Gee was on the mat being attended by trainers for several minutes before getting up and being consoled by teammates and coaches after the hard fall. “It’s tough,” Kamin said of Gee not making Saturday’s individual event finals in the bars where she has won two titles during her impressive prep career. “She is one of the best bar workers in the state and does skills that no one else does and executes them well. It’s really a bummer.” Burt followed Gee on the bars after the fall. “It was hard seeing that,” Burt admitted. “I was really disappointed for her (Gee) because I know she has worked so hard and deserved to have a great senior year.” Burt was impressive with a score of 9.8 on the bars to finish out her night and lock up the individual state title. It is the ninth time in 10 years that a Jeffco gymnast has captured the 5A allaround.
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When the Outdoor Retailer trade show pulled out of Denver this year to return to its longtime home in Utah, Colorado’s outdoor industry leaders promised the departure would be a good thing. The loss of the twice-a-year trade shows — which irked brands that have been battling with Utah politicians over the state’s opposition to expansions of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments — was an opportunity to create a new type of event for the outdoor industry. Conor Hall, the director of Colorado’s outdoor recreation office, suggested maybe the state could host a business trade show that also worked as a consumer-friendly festival; a “South by Southwest” for the outdoor industry and its passionate fans. The seed of that new event was planted this week as the nascent Big Gear Show announced plans to move from Park City, Utah, to downtown Denver alongside the first-ever (e)revolution e-bike trade show. The June 8-11 event at the Colorado Convention Center next year will host not just brands, manufacturers and retailers with
The inaugural Big Gear Show took place in the parking lot of Deer Valley ski area in Park City, Utah in August 2021. The event is movPHOTO BY STEVEPETERSON ing to Denver in 2023.
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Plans are underway for ancillary events around the convention center to help feed the festival-like vibe. It’s the first “business-to-business-to-consumer” event for the outdoor industry. “This is bigger than just the concept of trying to replace the Outdoor Retailer show,” Hall said.
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broader push to create that South by Southwest feeling for the industry.” This may not be the event that becomes the international festival that cements Colorado as the epicenter of the outdoor recreation world, Hall said, “but it’s going to be a really exciting piece of our larger vision.” The Big Gear Show and the (e) revolution e-bike trade show are owned by the same company, Lost Paddle Events, which is a collection of longtime outdoor industry executives and small-shop retailers. Kenji Haroutunian, who launched the hardgoods-focused Big Gear Show in 2021, always envisioned an urban trade show but settled into a slopeside, outdoor venue in Park City for 2021 and 2022 to accommodate the angst of
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the pandemic. “This is really the original vision,” said Haroutunian, a 35-year outdoor industry veteran who spent 15 years guiding the Outdoor Retailer trade show for four different owners. In August he hosted about 1,800 manufacturers, brands, retailers and journalists in Park City, as he adjusted the Big Gear Show’s focus toward hardgoods, like bikes, paddle boards, kayaks, climbing gear and camping stuff. The Big Gear Show mission has been a lower cost of entry for businesses, so the display booths are modest by comparison to the sprawling minimansions that populate the Outdoor Retailer show floor. That will remain for Denver, with many exhibitors using Sprinter vans or customized camping trailers to display wares on the show floor. Haroutunian is making even bigger adjustments for year three: moving indoors to the big city,
shifting the dates from August to June, joining another trade show and welcoming consumers. The biggest change will be welcoming the public. The final two days of the fourday trade show will be open to consumers. Folks will have to pay, but it will be “very affordable,” Haroutunian said. “We want this to be accessible. Being in the center of the city location is about access. One of the most important things this industry needs is going to where the people are and bringing them into the industry,” he said. “We need to introduce the outdoors to new people and more diverse communities closer to their own communities. That is mission critical.” Haroutunian is working out the technical challenges for gear-makers and brands converting booths from highlighting next year’s gear for order-writing retailers into booths showcasing this year’s gear for shoppers. An added twist:
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at the meeting of the Arvada City Council to be held on MONDAY, December 5, 2022, at 6:15 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada CO, City Council will hold a public hearing on the following proposed ordinances and thereafter will consider them for final passage and adoption. For the full text version in electronic form go to www.arvada. org/legalnotices, click on Current Legal Notices, then click on the title of the ordinance you wish
to view. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office. Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions. CB22-079, An Ordinance Amending Article I, in General, and Article II, Civil Emergency, Emergency, or Local Disaster Regulations, of Chapter 26, Civil Emergency, Emergency, or Local Disaster of the Arvada City Code. CB22-080, An Ordinance Authorizing an Additional Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2022. CB22-081, An Ordinance Repealing and Reenacting Article V, Cross-Connection Control Program of Chapter 102, Utilities, of the Arvada City Code. CB22-082, An Ordinance Repealing, Retitling, and Reenacting Section 58-1, Powers of Judge, of Article I, In General, of Chapter 58, Municipal Court, of the Arvada City Code, and Repealing Certain Other Provisions of Article I of Chapter 58.
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CB22-083, An Ordinance Amending Section 9870, Exempt Sales and Repealing and Reenacting Section 98-78, Exemptions of Article III, Sales and Use Tax, of Chapter 98, Taxation, of the Arvada City Code. CB22-084, An Ordinance Amending Subsection 102-34(c) of Section 102-34, Application for Service and Payment of Fees, of Article II, Chapter 102, Utilities, of the Arvada City Code Legal Notice No. 415122 First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 10, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE The following ordinances were adopted by the City Council of the City of Arvada on second reading following the public hearing held on November 7, 2022:
Ordinance #4823 An Ordinance Annexing Certain Land into the City of Arvada for Union Estates Property, a 2.11- Acre Parcel of Land Approximately Located at 12016 West 82nd Avenue. Ordinance #4824 An Ordinance Rezoning Certain Land Within the City of Arvada, Union Estates Property, from Jefferson County A-2 (Agricultural 2) to City of Arvada RN-7.5 (Residential Neighborhood 7.5) and Amending the Official Zoning Maps of the City of Arvada, Colorado, Generally Located at 12016 W 82nd Avenue. Legal Notice No. 415124 First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 10, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE The following ordinance was adopted by the City Council of the City of Arvada on second reading following the public hearing held at 6:15 p.m. on
November 7, 2022. For the full text version in electronic form go to www.arvada.org/legalnotices, click on Current Legal Notices, then click on the title of the ordinance you wish to view. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office. Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions. Ordinance #4825 An Ordinance Authorizing the Issuance of the City of Arvada, Colorado, Water Enterprise Revenue Bonds, Series 2022. Ordinance #4826 An Ordinance Authorizing the Issuance of the City of Arvada, Colorado, Wastewater Enterprise Revenue Bonds, Series 2022. Legal Notice No. 415123 First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 10, 2022 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript
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