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Week of April 28, 2022
ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
Northglenn-ThorntonSentinel.com
TOUGH KINDNESS
Riverdale Ridge’s Meriah Gonzales, left and Severance’s Lauren Mahugh are in a serious tussle for the loose ball during the teams’ 4A/3A Longs Peak League game in Thornton April 19. RRHS scored three goals on its first three shots and won the match 9-0. It also was the Ravens’ annual kindness night. Players put pen to paper and explained what kindness means to them. Their thoughts were posted on a fence behind the team’s bench during the game. More on each facet of the game is PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH available online at www.northglenn-thorntonsentinel.com.
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VOLUME 58 | ISSUE 38
Colorado’s 1st youth TEDx event to be held April 30 BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A Shark Tank contestant. An entrepreneur. A 16-yearold junior in high school. These all describe Jack Bonneau, but most recently he is the organizer of the TEDxYouth@CherryCreek event Bonneau that will take place on April 30 at Legacy High School in Broomfield. “I really wanted to give you the opportunity to share their ideas just like I had,” he said. Bonneau has presented two Ted Talks in the past. One was about how kids can be their own role models and another on the importance of youth entrepreneurship in today’s education.
He dipped his toes into the business world at age eight when he started Jack’s Stands and Marketplaces sold lemonade, ice tea and other young entrepreneur’s products. The motivation was a LEGO Star Wars Death Star his father told him he had to buy with his own money. His latest business is called Teen Hustl, which is a last-mile delivery service delivering packages, restaurant food, groceries and more all on electric scooters and bikes. Now, he’s organizing the first youth TEDx event in Colorado with 17 students presenting on a wide variety of subjects, including happiness as a service, pronouns, the future of artificial intelligence and more. SEE TEDX, P3
County clerks reassure voters while watching for cyber attacks Officials push back against fraud claims, stay alert BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
While local counties’ clerks and recorders say they are still taking steps to unravel false claims of widespread election fraud two years after the 2020 presidential election and ahead of the June
primaries, they are also on the lookout for potential cyberattacks after warnings from President Joe Biden that such attacks are increasingly likely. “It’s definitely nervewracking, but something that we are starting to get used to,” Adams County Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum said. “It’s the world we live in now, and we do everything we can to protect the system and to protect ourselves and our SEE ELECTION, P5
HEARTY HISTORY OF ORCHIDS
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