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Week of June 23, 2022
ADAMS & JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
WestminsterWindow.com
VOLUME 77 | ISSUE 35
PRIDE IN THE AIR
Primary elections run through June 28 Ballots have been mailed to households BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Megi Campbell got creative with her Minecraft necklace and hair pieces. Adams County celebrated its first Pride event ever PHOTO BY BELEN WARD June 18 at Riverdale Regional Park. For more photos, see page 7.
Westminster water demand declines, staff reports BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Westminster’s water utility demand use has declined over the past ten years, despite increased growth, according to city officials. Drew Beckwith detailed this statistic at a June 6 study session. “We are using less total water today than we were a decade ago in spite of the fact we’ve added 15,000 residents to our community and 150 new commercial business
accounts,” he said. He attributes that decline to conservation programs, the price of water, state legislation, social norms and other factors. Indoor water use is also declining, he said, and technology affects a large portion of that. As an example, he talked about newer high-efficiency toilets that use less water than older ones. Whether outdoor use is increasing or decreasing is unclear. “I would hope over the next
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couple of years we would start to see a decline in our outdoor water use as a result of some of the recent investments we’ve made in increasing our outdoor conservation programs,” he said. He said that since Westminster is so close to build-out, the choices made by current residents will affect conservation in the future the most.
While the main drama this election season comes later this fall, there is plenty of drama wrapping up later this month in the Colorado state primaries. Primary voting continues through June 28, and Adams County voters can return their ballots by mail or by handdelivering them to one of the 28 24-hour ballot drop boxes scattered around the county. Most Adams County races are uncontested, but the race for sheriff will be worth watching. In the race for Adams County Sheriff Democratic nomination, incumbent Rick Reigenborn faces challenger Gene Claps, a former Division Chief when Reigenborn was first voted in as sheriff in 2018. You can read their candidate profiles beginning on page 9 and online. The winner will face former sheriff Mike McIntosh, the sole Republican contender for the seat and the one Reigenborn ousted as part of 2018’s Democratic wave. The rest of the Adams County races are mostly place settings for November’s general election. Incumbent Democrat Emma Pinter is unopposed for a second term in her District 3 County Commissioner seat. Across the aisle, Sean Forest is unopposed on the Republican ballot to face Pinter in November. Incumbent County Commission
SEE WATER, P8
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SEE ELECTIONS, P9
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